South West ActionScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe ActionScript
Location Amersham Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Farnham Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	128
Rank change on same period last year	+48
Matching contract IT job ads	56	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.088 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	4.133 %	1.918 %
Daily rates quoted	15	11
Average minimum daily rate	£221	£286
Average daily rate	£247	£311
% change on same period last year	-20.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£261	£273
% change on same period last year	-4.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£29.50	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-30.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.05	£31.54
% change on same period last year	-14.21 %
Programming Languages South West
Matching contract IT job ads	1355	1825
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.134 %	1.956 %
Daily rates quoted	290	375
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£317
Average daily rate	£325	£336
% change on same period last year	-3.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	279	276
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.95	£32.44
Average hourly rate	£31.74	£35.11
% change on same period last year	-9.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.54	£37.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
ActionScript England

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 West 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 West region.

ActionScript
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActionScript across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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 West region.

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActionScript across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

ActionScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActionScript within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Bristol	+10	19	£238	-40.52 %
Dorset	-	9	£275	-
Gloucestershire	+7	5	£300	-
Wiltshire	-2	3	-	-
Somerset	-10	3	£185	-7.50 %
Devon	+20	2	£265	-

ActionScript England

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 79 (91.86 %) Flash 2 31 (36.05 %) JavaScript 3 26 (30.23 %) CSS 4 18 (20.93 %) XML 5 17 (19.77 %) HTML 6 15 (17.44 %) E-Learning 7 13 (15.12 %) Games 8 10 (11.63 %) C# 8 10 (11.63 %) OOP 9 9 (10.47 %) PHP 9 9 (10.47 %) Macromedia 9 9 (10.47 %) Adobe Flex 10 8 (9.302 %) XHTML 10 8 (9.302 %) Eclipse 11 7 (8.140 %) Adobe

11 7 (8.140 %) Photoshop 11 7 (8.140 %) .NET 12 6 (6.977 %) ASP 12 6 (6.977 %) Internet 12 6 (6.977 %) Agile Software Development 12 6 (6.977 %) Adobe Illustrator 12 6 (6.977 %) SCORM 13 5 (5.814 %) OO 13 5 (5.814 %) Online Games 14 4 (4.651 %) RIA 14 4 (4.651 %) Web Development 14 4 (4.651 %) DHTML 14 4 (4.651 %) SQL Server 14 4 (4.651 %) SQL 14 4 (4.651 %) AJAX

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 26 (30.23 %) CSS 2 18 (20.93 %) XML 3 17 (19.77 %) HTML 4 9 (10.47 %) Adobe Flex 5 8 (9.302 %) XHTML 6 7 (8.140 %) .NET 7 6 (6.977 %) ASP 8 4 (4.651 %) MVC 8 4 (4.651 %) AJAX 9 3 (3.488 %) XSLT 10 2 (2.326 %) LAMP 10 2 (2.326 %) ASP.NET 10 2 (2.326 %) JSP 11 1 (1.163 %) WebServices 11 1 (1.163 %) DOM 11 1 (1.163 %) XSL 11 1 (1.163 %) WML 11 1 (1.163 %) WAP	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.326 %) TeamSite 2 1 (1.163 %) Apache
Applications 1 7 (8.140 %) Photoshop 2 6 (6.977 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 2 (2.326 %) ImageReady 3 2 (2.326 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.977 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2 3 (3.488 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 79 (91.86 %) Flash 2 8 (9.302 %) Eclipse 3 3 (3.488 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 13 (15.12 %) Games 2 5 (5.814 %) Online Games 3 4 (4.651 %) Multimedia 3 4 (4.651 %) Pharmaceutical 3 4 (4.651 %) Finance 3 4 (4.651 %) Health 4 2 (2.326 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (2.326 %) Marketing 4 2 (2.326 %) Animation 5 1 (1.163 %) Flash Games 5 1 (1.163 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 78 (90.70 %) Developer 2 51 (59.30 %) Flash Developer 3 28 (32.56 %) ActionScript Developer 4 13 (15.12 %) Web Developer 5 5 (5.814 %) E-Learning Developer 5 5 (5.814 %) Flex Developer 6 2 (2.326 %) Flash Designer 6 2 (2.326 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (1.163 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (1.163 %) Senior Web Developer 7 1 (1.163 %) Multimedia Developer 7 1 (1.163 %) Graduate 7 1 (1.163 %) Software Developer 7 1 (1.163 %) UI Developer 7 1 (1.163 %) Web Manager
Miscellaneous 1 15 (17.44 %) E-Learning 2 6 (6.977 %) SCORM 3 4 (4.651 %) Web 2.0 3 4 (4.651 %) RIA 4 2 (2.326 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 3 (3.488 %) Windows 2 1 (1.163 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (11.63 %) OOP 2 6 (6.977 %) Agile Software Development 3 5 (5.814 %) OO 4 4 (4.651 %) Web Development 5 2 (2.326 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (2.326 %) Content Management 5 2 (2.326 %) Web Analytics	Programming Languages 1 31 (36.05 %) JavaScript 2 10 (11.63 %) C# 3 9 (10.47 %) PHP 4 4 (4.651 %) SQL 4 4 (4.651 %) DHTML 5 3 (3.488 %) Java 6 2 (2.326 %) C++ 6 2 (2.326 %) Python 6 2 (2.326 %) Ruby 7 1 (1.163 %) XPath 7 1 (1.163 %) Lingo
Qualifications 1 3 (3.488 %) Degree	Vendors 1 9 (10.47 %) Macromedia 2 7 (8.140 %) Adobe 3 2 (2.326 %) IBM 3 2 (2.326 %) Interwoven