East of England ActionScript Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe ActionScript
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carshalton Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edenbridge Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Llanelli London Lutterworth Macclesfield Manchester Mansfield Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Redhill Ringwood Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Studley Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tamworth Teddington Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	205	207
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	65	85
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	0.937 %	1.197 %
Salaries quoted	48	69
Average minimum salary	£32,725	£35,743
Average salary	£34,853	£37,650
% change on same period last year	-7.42 %
Average maximum salary	£36,980	£39,557
UK excluding London average salary	£30,326	£29,662
% change on same period last year	+2.23 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	6940	7102
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.735 %	2.961 %
Salaries quoted	5943	6054
Average minimum salary	£33,428	£33,263
Average salary	£36,634	£36,491
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Average maximum salary	£39,839	£39,720
UK excluding London average salary	£35,268	£35,641
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
ActionScript England

ActionScript
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing ActionScript across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

ActionScript
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ActionScript across the East of England region.

ActionScript
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ActionScript across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

ActionScript
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ActionScript within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+7	28	£37,533	-6.74 %
Cambridgeshire	-1	19	£31,705	+3.52 %
Essex	+8	13	£37,462	+28.49 %
Norfolk	+8	4	£30,000	+3.44 %
Bedfordshire	-25	1	-	-

ActionScript England

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ActionScript.

1 113 (73.38 %) HTML 2 101 (65.58 %) Flash 3 100 (64.94 %) CSS 4 91 (59.09 %) XML 5 74 (48.05 %) JavaScript 6 61 (39.61 %) XHTML 7 54 (35.06 %) Internet 8 48 (31.17 %) Photoshop 9 45 (29.22 %) Marketing 10 43 (27.92 %) PHP 11 29 (18.83 %) ASP 12 28 (18.18 %) Adobe 13 27 (17.53 %) iDTV 13 27 (17.53 %) DHTML 13 27 (17.53 %) Adobe Illustrator

13 27 (17.53 %) Web Design 14 26 (16.88 %) Animation 15 25 (16.23 %) WML 15 25 (16.23 %) JSP 16 23 (14.94 %) SQL 16 23 (14.94 %) Multimedia 17 22 (14.29 %) AJAX 17 22 (14.29 %) Dreamweaver 18 20 (12.99 %) SEO 19 17 (11.04 %) SQL Server 19 17 (11.04 %) Interactive Media 20 16 (10.39 %) Web Development 20 16 (10.39 %) Games 20 16 (10.39 %) Microsoft 21 15 (9.740 %) MS Excel

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ActionScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 113 (73.38 %) HTML 2 100 (64.94 %) CSS 3 91 (59.09 %) XML 4 61 (39.61 %) XHTML 5 29 (18.83 %) ASP 6 25 (16.23 %) JSP 6 25 (16.23 %) WML 7 22 (14.29 %) AJAX 8 14 (9.091 %) .NET 8 14 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 9 6 (3.896 %) XSLT 10 5 (3.247 %) LAMP 10 5 (3.247 %) jQuery 10 5 (3.247 %) ADO.NET 11 2 (1.299 %) WebServices 11 2 (1.299 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 2 (1.299 %) Adobe Flex 12 1 (0.649 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 14 (9.091 %) CMS 2 7 (4.545 %) Apache 3 1 (0.649 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (0.649 %) DotNetNuke 3 1 (0.649 %) IIS
Applications 1 48 (31.17 %) Photoshop 2 27 (17.53 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 15 (9.740 %) MS Excel 4 11 (7.143 %) FreeHand 5 10 (6.494 %) Fireworks 6 5 (3.247 %) Spreadsheet 7 3 (1.948 %) 3ds Max 8 2 (1.299 %) ImageReady 9 1 (0.649 %) MS Office 9 1 (0.649 %) Adobe Premiere	Communications & Networking 1 54 (35.06 %) Internet 2 8 (5.195 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.649 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (11.04 %) SQL Server 2 13 (8.442 %) MySQL 3 1 (0.649 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 101 (65.58 %) Flash 2 22 (14.29 %) Dreamweaver 3 9 (5.844 %) Visual Studio 4 5 (3.247 %) Subversion
General 1 45 (29.22 %) Marketing 2 26 (16.88 %) Animation 3 23 (14.94 %) Multimedia 4 17 (11.04 %) Interactive Media 5 16 (10.39 %) Games 6 12 (7.792 %) Advertising 7 4 (2.597 %) Pharmaceutical 7 4 (2.597 %) Graphic Design 8 1 (0.649 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.649 %) Pensions 8 1 (0.649 %) Automotive 8 1 (0.649 %) Publishing 8 1 (0.649 %) 3D Graphics 8 1 (0.649 %) Online Games	Job Titles 1 99 (64.29 %) Developer 2 35 (22.73 %) Web Developer 3 25 (16.23 %) Web Designer 3 25 (16.23 %) Flash Developer 4 8 (5.195 %) PHP Developer 4 8 (5.195 %) Interactive Developer 5 6 (3.896 %) Flash Animator 5 6 (3.896 %) Test Engineer 5 6 (3.896 %) Senior Web Designer 5 6 (3.896 %) Graphic Designer 5 6 (3.896 %) Animator 5 6 (3.896 %) Senior Developer 6 5 (3.247 %) .NET Developer 6 5 (3.247 %) C# Developer 6 5 (3.247 %) Senior Web Developer 6 5 (3.247 %) ASP Developer 6 5 (3.247 %) C# Web Developer 6 5 (3.247 %) JavaScript Developer 7 4 (2.597 %) ActionScript Developer 7 4 (2.597 %) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 27 (17.53 %) iDTV 2 13 (8.442 %) Flash Lite 3 10 (6.494 %) W3C 3 10 (6.494 %) Interactive TV 4 5 (3.247 %) Data Protection Act 4 5 (3.247 %) Social Network 5 2 (1.299 %) Web 2.0 5 2 (1.299 %) RIA 6 1 (0.649 %) MPEG 6 1 (0.649 %) Mathematics	Operating Systems 1 4 (2.597 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (17.53 %) Web Design 2 20 (12.99 %) SEO 3 16 (10.39 %) Web Development 4 13 (8.442 %) E-Commerce 5 9 (5.844 %) Product Marketing 6 7 (4.545 %) Agile Software Development 7 6 (3.896 %) Digital Marketing 8 5 (3.247 %) B2B 8 5 (3.247 %) B2C 8 5 (3.247 %) Data Protection 9 4 (2.597 %) OO 10 3 (1.948 %) Email Marketing 10 3 (1.948 %) Internet Marketing 11 2 (1.299 %) Time Management 11 2 (1.299 %) SOA 12 1 (0.649 %) Web Analytics 12 1 (0.649 %) Scrum 12 1 (0.649 %) Test Scripting 12 1 (0.649 %) Creative Marketing	Programming Languages 1 74 (48.05 %) JavaScript 2 43 (27.92 %) PHP 3 27 (17.53 %) DHTML 4 23 (14.94 %) SQL 5 11 (7.143 %) C# 6 10 (6.494 %) Python 7 7 (4.545 %) Java 8 4 (2.597 %) PHP5 8 4 (2.597 %) PHP4 8 4 (2.597 %) C 9 1 (0.649 %) C++ 9 1 (0.649 %) Jython 9 1 (0.649 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 11 (7.143 %) Degree 2 8 (5.195 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.649 %) QA
Vendors 1 28 (18.18 %) Adobe 2 16 (10.39 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.299 %) Macromedia