The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 24 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank - 75 61
Permanent jobs citing ActionScript 0 7 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 1.040% 0.864%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 1.651% 1.633%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 4
Average salary - £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £32,500 £30,750
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +5.69%
All Programming Languages
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
274 424 245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 61.30% 63.00% 52.92%
Number of salaries quoted 237 379 203
Average salary £32,764 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.63% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £28,800 £27,050
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ActionScript
North West

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside ActionScript Jobs Demand Trend

ActionScript
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ActionScript across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside ActionScript Salary Trend

ActionScript
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) EDI
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) EDI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft