Yorkshire ActionScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the Yorkshire 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 3 December 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 Cornwall Coventry Derbyshire Devon Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	115
Rank change on same period last year	+35
Matching contract IT job ads	26	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	3.596 %	2.019 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£153
Average daily rate	£183	£170
% change on same period last year	+7.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£215	£187
UK excluding London average daily rate	£259	£269
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.86	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£21.64	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-27.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.31	£29.77
% change on same period last year	-11.62 %
Programming Languages Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	723	1238
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.167 %	1.350 %
Daily rates quoted	126	250
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£309
Average daily rate	£307	£327
% change on same period last year	-6.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£330
% change on same period last year	-4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	88	90
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.02	£24.28
Average hourly rate	£27.80	£26.06
% change on same period last year	+6.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.57	£27.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.95	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ActionScript across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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
West Yorkshire	+21	12	£183	-
North Yorkshire	-	4	-	-
South Yorkshire	+11	3	-	-
East Yorkshire	+2	2	-	-

ActionScript England

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 54 (91.53 %) Flash 2 33 (55.93 %) CSS 3 30 (50.85 %) HTML 4 20 (33.90 %) Photoshop 5 19 (32.20 %) JavaScript 6 17 (28.81 %) XHTML 7 15 (25.42 %) PHP 8 10 (16.95 %) MySQL 9 8 (13.56 %) XML 10 7 (11.86 %) OO 10 7 (11.86 %) Marketing 11 6 (10.17 %) Adobe Flex 11 6 (10.17 %) Web Design 12 5 (8.475 %) CMS 12 5 (8.475 %) Adobe

12 5 (8.475 %) Dreamweaver 12 5 (8.475 %) Web Development 12 5 (8.475 %) Graphic Design 13 4 (6.780 %) SEO 14 3 (5.085 %) Content Management 14 3 (5.085 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 3 (5.085 %) 3ds Max 14 3 (5.085 %) Macromedia 14 3 (5.085 %) Linux 14 3 (5.085 %) E-Commerce 14 3 (5.085 %) SQL 14 3 (5.085 %) jQuery 15 2 (3.390 %) Drupal 15 2 (3.390 %) PHP5 15 2 (3.390 %) Mathematics

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 33 (55.93 %) CSS 2 30 (50.85 %) HTML 3 17 (28.81 %) XHTML 4 8 (13.56 %) XML 5 6 (10.17 %) Adobe Flex 6 3 (5.085 %) jQuery 7 2 (3.390 %) Drupal 7 2 (3.390 %) LAMP 7 2 (3.390 %) AJAX 7 2 (3.390 %) ASP.NET 7 2 (3.390 %) .NET 8 1 (1.695 %) ASP 8 1 (1.695 %) JSP 8 1 (1.695 %) SOAP 8 1 (1.695 %) WebServices 8 1 (1.695 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (1.695 %) WAP 8 1 (1.695 %) Fusebox	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.475 %) CMS 2 2 (3.390 %) Apache 3 1 (1.695 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 20 (33.90 %) Photoshop 2 3 (5.085 %) 3ds Max 2 3 (5.085 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 2 (3.390 %) Fireworks 4 1 (1.695 %) Maya 4 1 (1.695 %) ImageReady 4 1 (1.695 %) FreeHand	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.390 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (16.95 %) MySQL 2 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.695 %) MS Access 3 1 (1.695 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 54 (91.53 %) Flash 2 5 (8.475 %) Dreamweaver 3 2 (3.390 %) Eclipse 3 2 (3.390 %) Subversion 3 2 (3.390 %) MTASC 4 1 (1.695 %) ProC
General 1 7 (11.86 %) Marketing 2 5 (8.475 %) Graphic Design 3 2 (3.390 %) Multimedia 3 2 (3.390 %) Video Editing 4 1 (1.695 %) Animation	Job Titles 1 36 (61.02 %) Developer 2 15 (25.42 %) Flash Developer 3 13 (22.03 %) Web Developer 4 10 (16.95 %) Flash Designer 5 8 (13.56 %) ActionScript Developer 6 7 (11.86 %) Web Designer 7 6 (10.17 %) Programmer 8 4 (6.780 %) Photoshop Designer 8 4 (6.780 %) Flash Programmer 9 3 (5.085 %) PHP Developer 10 2 (3.390 %) Flex Developer 10 2 (3.390 %) Graduate 10 2 (3.390 %) Senior Developer 10 2 (3.390 %) HTML Developer 10 2 (3.390 %) Graphic Designer 11 1 (1.695 %) Senior Flash Developer 11 1 (1.695 %) LAMP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.390 %) W3C 1 2 (3.390 %) Mathematics 1 2 (3.390 %) Copywriting 2 1 (1.695 %) RIA 2 1 (1.695 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 3 (5.085 %) Linux 2 1 (1.695 %) Debian 2 1 (1.695 %) Ubuntu 2 1 (1.695 %) CentOS 2 1 (1.695 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (11.86 %) OO 2 6 (10.17 %) Web Design 3 5 (8.475 %) Web Development 4 4 (6.780 %) SEO 5 3 (5.085 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (5.085 %) Content Management 6 2 (3.390 %) OOP 7 1 (1.695 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 19 (32.20 %) JavaScript 2 15 (25.42 %) PHP 3 3 (5.085 %) SQL 4 2 (3.390 %) Perl 4 2 (3.390 %) PHP5 4 2 (3.390 %) Java 5 1 (1.695 %) PHP4 5 1 (1.695 %) C 5 1 (1.695 %) C++ 5 1 (1.695 %) DHTML 5 1 (1.695 %) Python 5 1 (1.695 %) MAXScript 5 1 (1.695 %) Lingo 5 1 (1.695 %) Ruby
Vendors 1 5 (8.475 %) Adobe 2 3 (5.085 %) Macromedia 3 1 (1.695 %) Red Hat 3 1 (1.695 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.695 %) Microsoft