ActionScript 3.0 Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript 3.0 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript 3.0 over the 3 months to 22 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.

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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript 3.0 (AS3)
Rank 482 507 378
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -129
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 52 79 217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.110% 0.133% 0.361%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.297% 0.385% 0.962%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 169
Average daily rate £375 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £204 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £493 £605
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £278 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 17528 20495 22548
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.19% 34.57% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10822 12098 13078
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £563 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 734 915
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%

ActionScript 3.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

ActionScript 3.0 Jobs Demand Trend

ActionScript 3.0
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 within the UK.

ActionScript 3.0 Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript 3.0
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

ActionScript 3.0 Daily Rate Histogram

ActionScript 3.0
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 within the UK.

ActionScript 3.0 Hourly Rate Trend

ActionScript 3.0
Top 21 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +28 41 £400 +18.51%
London +29 33 £400 -
Scotland -15 10 £256 -7.65%
City of London +11 9 £413 +94.11%
Stirling - 6 £256 -
Yorkshire +3 4 £293 +37.64%
South Yorkshire - 4 £293 -
South East +10 3 - -
Sheffield - 3 £310 -
Glasgow -16 2 - -
Canary Wharf - 2 £500 -
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
Berkshire +11 1 - -
Manchester +10 1 - -
North West +4 1 - -
Edinburgh -1 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 £240 -
Reading - 1 - -
Oxford - 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 £400 -
Dundee - 1 - -

ActionScript 3.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ActionScript 3.0 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 3.0.

1 101 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 87 (86.14%) Flash
3 58 (57.43%) JavaScript
4 56 (55.45%) CSS
5 54 (53.47%) HTML
6 46 (45.54%) HTML5
7 33 (32.67%) Adobe
8 28 (27.72%) ActionScript 2.0
9 25 (24.75%) Photoshop
9 25 (24.75%) OOP
10 24 (23.76%) Games
10 24 (23.76%) Apache Flex
11 22 (21.78%) Java
12 19 (18.81%) Web Services
12 19 (18.81%) OO
13 18 (17.82%) Scrum
14 16 (15.84%) TDD
14 16 (15.84%) PHP
15 15 (14.85%) Apple iOS
16 14 (13.86%) XML
16 14 (13.86%) Adobe Illustrator
17 13 (12.87%) Agile Software Development
17 13 (12.87%) jQuery
18 12 (11.88%) Android
18 12 (11.88%) Flash Builder
18 12 (11.88%) SQL
19 10 (9.901%) Internet
19 10 (9.901%) Mobile App
20 9 (8.911%) Graphic Design
21 8 (7.921%) Finance

ActionScript 3.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ActionScript 3.0 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 3.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 87 (86.14%) Flash
2 56 (55.45%) CSS
3 54 (53.47%) HTML
4 46 (45.54%) HTML5
5 24 (23.76%) Apache Flex
6 19 (18.81%) Web Services
7 14 (13.86%) XML
8 13 (12.87%) jQuery
9 7 (6.931%) CSS3
10 5 (4.950%) Java SE
11 4 (3.960%) Ajax
12 3 (2.970%) RESTful
12 3 (2.970%) Adobe AIR
12 3 (2.970%) Middleware
12 3 (2.970%) JSON
13 2 (1.980%) LAMP
13 2 (1.980%) XHTML
13 2 (1.980%) SOAP
13 2 (1.980%) JMS
13 2 (1.980%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (5.941%) CMS
2 2 (1.980%) Lightstreamer
2 2 (1.980%) MODX
3 1 (0.990%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (0.990%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 25 (24.75%) Photoshop
2 14 (13.86%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (3.960%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.990%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.901%) Internet
2 5 (4.950%) Firewall
3 1 (0.990%) NFC
3 1 (0.990%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.931%) MySQL
2 4 (3.960%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Flash Builder
2 6 (5.941%) Dreamweaver
3 5 (4.950%) Subversion
4 4 (3.960%) Maven
4 4 (3.960%) Git (software)
5 3 (2.970%) Selenium
6 2 (1.980%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.980%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.990%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.990%) GitHub
7 1 (0.990%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.990%) FlexUnit
7 1 (0.990%) Flex Builder
7 1 (0.990%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.990%) Xcode
7 1 (0.990%) JIRA
General
1 24 (23.76%) Games
2 8 (7.921%) Finance
3 5 (4.950%) Marketing
4 2 (1.980%) Investment Banking
4 2 (1.980%) Banking
4 2 (1.980%) Multimedia
4 2 (1.980%) Front Office
4 2 (1.980%) Advertising
5 1 (0.990%) Publishing
5 1 (0.990%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.990%) Music
Job Titles
1 71 (70.30%) Developer
2 36 (35.64%) Flash Developer
3 14 (13.86%) Designer
4 13 (12.87%) Flash ActionScript Developer
5 11 (10.89%) ActionScript Developer
6 9 (8.911%) Flex Developer
6 9 (8.911%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.931%) Flash Designer
8 5 (4.950%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.950%) Programmer
8 5 (4.950%) Flash Programmer
9 4 (3.960%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (3.960%) Web Designer
9 4 (3.960%) Web Developer
10 3 (2.970%) Front-End Developer
11 2 (1.980%) E-Learning Developer
11 2 (1.980%) PHP Developer
11 2 (1.980%) PHP MySQL Developer
12 1 (0.990%) Mobile Tester
12 1 (0.990%) Lead Tester
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.901%) Mobile App
2 9 (8.911%) Graphic Design
3 7 (6.931%) RIA
3 7 (6.931%) Animation
3 7 (6.931%) SCORM
3 7 (6.931%) E-Learning
4 6 (5.941%) Digital Media
5 5 (4.950%) New Media
5 5 (4.950%) W3C
6 4 (3.960%) IPTV
6 4 (3.960%) Interactive TV
6 4 (3.960%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.970%) Social Media
7 3 (2.970%) iPad
7 3 (2.970%) MHEG
7 3 (2.970%) Flash Lite
7 3 (2.970%) Mathematics
8 2 (1.980%) Computer Science
8 2 (1.980%) Social Network
8 2 (1.980%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.85%) Apple iOS
2 12 (11.88%) Android
3 5 (4.950%) UNIX
4 2 (1.980%) Windows
4 2 (1.980%) Linux
4 2 (1.980%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.990%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.75%) OOP
2 19 (18.81%) OO
3 18 (17.82%) Scrum
4 16 (15.84%) TDD
5 13 (12.87%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (7.921%) BDD
7 7 (6.931%) OOD
7 7 (6.931%) Content Management
8 6 (5.941%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (4.950%) Integration Testing
9 5 (4.950%) MVC
10 4 (3.960%) Software Testing
10 4 (3.960%) Software Engineering
10 4 (3.960%) E-Commerce
10 4 (3.960%) Workflow
10 4 (3.960%) Mobile Application Development
10 4 (3.960%) Unit Testing
10 4 (3.960%) Enterprise Content Management
11 3 (2.970%) Service Delivery
11 3 (2.970%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 58 (57.43%) JavaScript
3 28 (27.72%) ActionScript 2.0
4 22 (21.78%) Java
5 16 (15.84%) PHP
6 12 (11.88%) SQL
7 8 (7.921%) C#
8 7 (6.931%) Ruby
9 6 (5.941%) Objective-C
9 6 (5.941%) Perl
10 5 (4.950%) C++
11 2 (1.980%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.980%) Python
12 1 (0.990%) Scala
12 1 (0.990%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.990%) Groovy
12 1 (0.990%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 4 (3.960%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.980%) QA
Vendors
1 33 (32.67%) Adobe
2 5 (4.950%) Twitter
2 5 (4.950%) Google
3 4 (3.960%) Facebook
4 3 (2.970%) OpenTV
5 1 (0.990%) Demandware
5 1 (0.990%) IBM
5 1 (0.990%) ATG
5 1 (0.990%) Interwoven
5 1 (0.990%) Apple
5 1 (0.990%) Zend
5 1 (0.990%) Omniture
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