The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank 66 - 83
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 4 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.479% - 0.192%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.695% - 0.552%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £188 - £150
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £285 £300
% change year-on-year
+14.03% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- +50.00%
All Programming Languages
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
236 266 362
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 28.26% 23.86% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 105 163
Average daily rate £363 £370 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.02% +9.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £226 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 16
Average hourly rate £16.86 £44.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.68% +114.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.20 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £44.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
ActionScript
Berkshire

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Reading ActionScript Jobs Demand Trend

ActionScript
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActionScript across the Reading region.

Reading ActionScript Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript across the Reading region.

Reading ActionScript Hourly Rate Trend

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing ActionScript also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ActionScript.

1 5 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 5 (100.00%) Flash
2 4 (80.00%) Adobe
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 3 (60.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (40.00%) InDesign
4 2 (40.00%) ActionScript 3.0
4 2 (40.00%) Flash Lite
4 2 (40.00%) Apache Flex
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) Fireworks
4 2 (40.00%) FTP
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) MS Office
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) Perl
5 1 (20.00%) PHP
5 1 (20.00%) UNIX
5 1 (20.00%) UML
5 1 (20.00%) Lua
5 1 (20.00%) Interactive Advertising
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
5 1 (20.00%) HTML5
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
5 1 (20.00%) New Media
5 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (20.00%) STB

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing ActionScript also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ActionScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Flash
2 3 (60.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Flex
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (60.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (40.00%) InDesign
3 2 (40.00%) Fireworks
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) FTP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Music
1 1 (20.00%) Advertising
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
1 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Flash Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (40.00%) Coordinator
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Graduate
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Flash Lite
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (20.00%) New Media
2 1 (20.00%) STB
2 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (20.00%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) UML
1 1 (20.00%) Interactive Advertising
1 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 2 (40.00%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Adobe
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
Reading, Thames Valley
The successful candidate will have experience developing flash applications using AS3 (actionscript 3). You will have experience of working with Adobe Creative Studio including Flash Pro, Photoshop and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013