The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 17 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 Salford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank 7 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 3 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 12.00% 10.00% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.27% 26.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £350 £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £277 £300
% change year-on-year
+17.38% -7.70%
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
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
11 15 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 44.00% 37.50% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 0
Average daily rate £323 £313 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.20% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
ActionScript
Manchester

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford ActionScript Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 7 (100.00%) Flash
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) ActionScript 2.0
3 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 5 (71.43%) Internet
3 5 (71.43%) Java
4 4 (57.14%) C++
4 4 (57.14%) Web Services
4 4 (57.14%) OOP
4 4 (57.14%) OO
4 4 (57.14%) Subversion
4 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 4 (57.14%) Memory Management
4 4 (57.14%) MTASC
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (14.29%) Content Management
5 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) XSLT
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) PHP
5 1 (14.29%) CSS

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 7 (100.00%) Flash
2 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Subversion
1 4 (57.14%) MTASC
General
1 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Flash Developer
2 3 (42.86%) ActionScript Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Flash ActionScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Memory Management
3 4 (57.14%) OOP
3 4 (57.14%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) ActionScript 2.0
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PHP