Surrey ActionScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the Surrey 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe ActionScript
Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gloucestershire 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 Plymouth Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	104
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	16	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.556 %	0.638 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£350
Average daily rate	£281	£375
% change on same period last year	-25.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£261
% change on same period last year	-5.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£28.75	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-11.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.26	£30.93
% change on same period last year	-15.10 %
Programming Languages Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	626	940
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.892 %	0.972 %
Daily rates quoted	197	317
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£314
Average daily rate	£320	£331
% change on same period last year	-3.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	118
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.09	£28.22
Average hourly rate	£34.66	£31.31
% change on same period last year	+10.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.23	£34.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.07	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
ActionScript South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

ActionScript
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActionScript across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 15 October 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 Surrey region.

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Woking	-	3	-	-
Staines	-	2	£288	-
Camberley	-	1	-	-
Farnham	-	1	£500	-

ActionScript South East

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 30 (93.75 %) Flash 2 23 (71.88 %) XML 3 15 (46.88 %) Games 4 11 (34.38 %) JavaScript 5 8 (25.00 %) HTML 5 8 (25.00 %) CSS 6 7 (21.88 %) W3C 6 7 (21.88 %) OO 6 7 (21.88 %) Flash Games 6 7 (21.88 %) Adobe Flex 7 6 (18.75 %) XHTML 8 5 (15.63 %) Adobe 8 5 (15.63 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 5 (15.63 %) Photoshop 8 5 (15.63 %) PHP

8 5 (15.63 %) DHTML 8 5 (15.63 %) MySQL 9 4 (12.50 %) SQL 9 4 (12.50 %) .NET 9 4 (12.50 %) Fireworks 10 3 (9.375 %) Motorola 10 3 (9.375 %) OOP 10 3 (9.375 %) RIA 10 3 (9.375 %) Online Games 10 3 (9.375 %) Web Development 10 3 (9.375 %) Sony 11 2 (6.250 %) Animation 11 2 (6.250 %) AJAX 11 2 (6.250 %) Marketing 11 2 (6.250 %) Adobe AIR

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 23 (71.88 %) XML 2 8 (25.00 %) HTML 2 8 (25.00 %) CSS 3 7 (21.88 %) Adobe Flex 4 6 (18.75 %) XHTML 5 4 (12.50 %) .NET 6 2 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 6 2 (6.250 %) AJAX 6 2 (6.250 %) Adobe AIR 7 1 (3.125 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.250 %) Apache
Applications 1 5 (15.63 %) Photoshop 1 5 (15.63 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 4 (12.50 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.125 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (15.63 %) MySQL 2 2 (6.250 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 30 (93.75 %) Flash 2 1 (3.125 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 15 (46.88 %) Games 2 7 (21.88 %) Flash Games 3 3 (9.375 %) Online Games 4 2 (6.250 %) Marketing 4 2 (6.250 %) Animation 5 1 (3.125 %) Online Gambling 5 1 (3.125 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 27 (84.38 %) Developer 2 19 (59.38 %) Flash Developer 3 17 (53.13 %) ActionScript Developer 4 3 (9.375 %) Flash Designer 4 3 (9.375 %) Games Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) C# Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) Web Designer 5 2 (6.250 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) Web Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) Flash Programmer 5 2 (6.250 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) Flash Games Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) Programmer 6 1 (3.125 %) Senior ActionScript Developer 6 1 (3.125 %) Flex Developer 6 1 (3.125 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (3.125 %) Senior Games Developer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (21.88 %) W3C 2 3 (9.375 %) RIA 3 2 (6.250 %) Client/Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (21.88 %) OO 2 3 (9.375 %) OOP 2 3 (9.375 %) Web Development 3 1 (3.125 %) SEO
Programming Languages 1 11 (34.38 %) JavaScript 2 5 (15.63 %) PHP 2 5 (15.63 %) DHTML 3 4 (12.50 %) SQL 4 2 (6.250 %) C#	Vendors 1 5 (15.63 %) Adobe 2 3 (9.375 %) Motorola 2 3 (9.375 %) Sony