South Wales ActionScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe ActionScript
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Braintree Brentford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Devon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newbury Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Worcestershire Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	48
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	8	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	4.000 %	0.709 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£270	£223
% change on same period last year	+21.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.08	£24.26
% change on same period last year	+3.37 %
Programming Languages South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	200	141
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.264 %	0.150 %
Daily rates quoted	46	22
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£254
Average daily rate	£355	£286
% change on same period last year	+24.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.37	£30.10
Average hourly rate	£29.94	£33.55
% change on same period last year	-10.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.50	£37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
ActionScript Wales

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ActionScript
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

ActionScript
Daily Rate Trend

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

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ActionScript
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing ActionScript within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cardiff	-	5	-	-

ActionScript Wales

ActionScript
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 12 (92.31 %) Flash 2 5 (38.46 %) Games 3 4 (30.77 %) Online Games 4 3 (23.08 %) LAMP 5 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint 5 2 (15.38 %) Streaming Video 5 2 (15.38 %) C# 5 2 (15.38 %) HTML 5 2 (15.38 %) JavaScript 5 2 (15.38 %) SQL 5 2 (15.38 %) .NET 5 2 (15.38 %) CSS 5 2 (15.38 %) XML 5 2 (15.38 %) XSLT 5 2 (15.38 %) Web Development

5 2 (15.38 %) Adobe Flex

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 3 (23.08 %) LAMP 2 2 (15.38 %) Adobe Flex 2 2 (15.38 %) HTML 2 2 (15.38 %) .NET 2 2 (15.38 %) CSS 2 2 (15.38 %) XML 2 2 (15.38 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint
Development Applications 1 12 (92.31 %) Flash	General 1 5 (38.46 %) Games 2 4 (30.77 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 12 (92.31 %) Developer 2 9 (69.23 %) Flash Developer 3 3 (23.08 %) Web Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) ActionScript Developer 5 1 (7.692 %) Junior 5 1 (7.692 %) Junior Web Developer 5 1 (7.692 %) Programmer 5 1 (7.692 %) Junior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (15.38 %) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (15.38 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 2 (15.38 %) C# 1 2 (15.38 %) JavaScript 1 2 (15.38 %) SQL