The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ActionScript over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank 134 126 104
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -22
Permanent jobs citing ActionScript 1 9 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.046% 0.387% 1.069%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.125% 0.741% 2.114%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 20
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £32,500 £30,500
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +6.55%
All Programming Languages
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
799 1215 946
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.96% 52.28% 50.56%
Number of salaries quoted 708 1097 792
Average salary £42,500 £38,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.84% -0.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ActionScript
Berkshire

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading ActionScript Salary Trend

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 4 (100.00%) Flash
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (50.00%) Adobe
3 2 (50.00%) Fireworks
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) STB
3 2 (50.00%) Flash Lite
4 1 (25.00%) Drupal
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) ActionScript 3.0
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) Marketing
4 1 (25.00%) Project Planning

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 4 (100.00%) Flash
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) LAMP
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (50.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Log4j
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Ant
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Flash Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) STB
1 2 (50.00%) Flash Lite
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Blog
2 1 (25.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (25.00%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Sun