The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank - 93 69
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 0 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.062% 0.446%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.195% 1.433%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £253
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £277 £300
% change year-on-year
+17.38% -7.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- +50.00%
All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
444 513 349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 34.99% 31.71% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 306 177
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £203 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £386 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 13
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -30.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.94 £12.00 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £37.00 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
ActionScript
Yorkshire

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire ActionScript Jobs Demand Trend

ActionScript
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ActionScript across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire ActionScript Daily Rate Trend

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ActionScript across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire ActionScript Hourly Rate Trend

ActionScript
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) Flash
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (20.00%) Flash Builder
3 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Flex
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) Backbone.js
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (20.00%) OOD
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe
3 1 (20.00%) Fireworks
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Games
3 1 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (20.00%) SCORM
3 1 (20.00%) Subversion

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) Flash
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) Backbone.js
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Flex
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (20.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (20.00%) Flash Builder
General
1 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) ActionScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Flash ActionScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Flash Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile Games
1 1 (20.00%) SCORM
1 1 (20.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) OOP
1 1 (20.00%) OO
1 1 (20.00%) OOD
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe