The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript 3.0 skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript 3.0 over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript 3.0 (AS3)
Rank - 108 80
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 3.0 0 1 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - 0.045% 0.752%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.132% 2.284%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 14
Average daily rate - £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £278 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -14.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 -
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
519 757 613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 30.87% 33.69% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 385 317
Average daily rate £325 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 28
Average hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.28% +47.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.10 £12.50 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.50 £30.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
ActionScript 3.0
England

ActionScript 3.0
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands ActionScript 3.0 Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript 3.0
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
1 9 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 9 (100.00%) Flash
2 8 (88.89%) HTML5
3 5 (55.56%) Flash Builder
3 5 (55.56%) Photoshop
3 5 (55.56%) Adobe
4 4 (44.44%) OOD
4 4 (44.44%) XML
4 4 (44.44%) OOP
4 4 (44.44%) OO
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Java
4 4 (44.44%) Games
4 4 (44.44%) Objective-C
4 4 (44.44%) Graphic Design
5 1 (11.11%) Publishing

ActionScript 3.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
1 9 (100.00%) Flash
2 8 (88.89%) HTML5
3 4 (44.44%) XML
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Flash Builder
General
1 4 (44.44%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Flash ActionScript Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Flash Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Programmer
2 4 (44.44%) Designer
2 4 (44.44%) ActionScript Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Flash Designer
2 4 (44.44%) Flash Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) OOD
1 4 (44.44%) OOP
1 4 (44.44%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Objective-C
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Adobe