Scotland ActionScript Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the Scotland 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 20 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 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 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	124
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	33	56
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	1.817 %	2.097 %
Salaries quoted	26	41
Average minimum salary	£27,037	£23,805
Average salary	£29,926	£27,671
% change on same period last year	+8.15 %
Average maximum salary	£32,815	£31,537
UK excluding London average salary	£30,307	£29,678
% change on same period last year	+2.12 %
Programming Languages Scotland
Matching permanent IT job ads	1816	2671
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.978 %	1.113 %
Salaries quoted	1254	1698
Average minimum salary	£31,030	£30,725
Average salary	£34,440	£33,445
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
Average maximum salary	£37,849	£36,165
UK excluding London average salary	£35,245	£35,645
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
ActionScript UK

ActionScript
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing ActionScript across the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

ActionScript
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ActionScript across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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
Glasgow	+8	18	£29,423	-3.43 %
Aberdeen	-	8	£28,571	-
Edinburgh	+4	5	£33,250	+28.87 %
Falkirk	-	1	£22,500	-

ActionScript UK

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 51 (82.26 %) Flash 2 25 (40.32 %) CSS 3 23 (37.10 %) XML 4 22 (35.48 %) HTML 5 19 (30.65 %) JavaScript 5 19 (30.65 %) SQL 6 14 (22.58 %) XHTML 6 14 (22.58 %) .NET 6 14 (22.58 %) Java 7 13 (20.97 %) Multimedia 8 12 (19.35 %) PHP 8 12 (19.35 %) ASP 9 11 (17.74 %) ASP.NET 9 11 (17.74 %) Adobe 10 10 (16.13 %) Internet

10 10 (16.13 %) OO 10 10 (16.13 %) WebServices 10 10 (16.13 %) Web Development 11 9 (14.52 %) Photoshop 11 9 (14.52 %) Adobe Flex 12 8 (12.90 %) Macromedia 13 7 (11.29 %) Windows 13 7 (11.29 %) Linux 13 7 (11.29 %) C# 13 7 (11.29 %) J2EE 13 7 (11.29 %) Degree 13 7 (11.29 %) Marketing 13 7 (11.29 %) Spring 13 7 (11.29 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 6 (9.677 %) Web Design

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (40.32 %) CSS 2 23 (37.10 %) XML 3 22 (35.48 %) HTML 4 14 (22.58 %) .NET 4 14 (22.58 %) XHTML 5 12 (19.35 %) ASP 6 11 (17.74 %) ASP.NET 7 10 (16.13 %) WebServices 8 9 (14.52 %) Adobe Flex 9 7 (11.29 %) Spring 9 7 (11.29 %) J2EE 10 6 (9.677 %) AJAX 11 5 (8.065 %) Ruby on Rails 12 4 (6.452 %) Hibernate 13 3 (4.839 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 3 (4.839 %) XSLT 13 3 (4.839 %) JSP 14 2 (3.226 %) ODBC 14 2 (3.226 %) LAMP 14 2 (3.226 %) Adobe AIR	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.839 %) IIS 2 2 (3.226 %) Apache 3 1 (1.613 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 9 (14.52 %) Photoshop 2 7 (11.29 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 5 (8.065 %) Authorware 4 2 (3.226 %) Adobe Director 5 1 (1.613 %) FreeHand	Communications & Networking 1 10 (16.13 %) Internet 2 5 (8.065 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (3.226 %) Firewall 4 1 (1.613 %) DNS 4 1 (1.613 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.613 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (8.065 %) MySQL 1 5 (8.065 %) SQL Server 2 3 (4.839 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (4.839 %) Oracle 11g 2 3 (4.839 %) Oracle 9i 2 3 (4.839 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (4.839 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (3.226 %) PostgreSQL 3 2 (3.226 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 51 (82.26 %) Flash 2 5 (8.065 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (4.839 %) Subversion 4 1 (1.613 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 13 (20.97 %) Multimedia 2 7 (11.29 %) Marketing 3 6 (9.677 %) Animation 4 4 (6.452 %) Graphic Design 4 4 (6.452 %) Education 5 2 (3.226 %) Finance 5 2 (3.226 %) Billing 5 2 (3.226 %) Games 5 2 (3.226 %) Pensions 6 1 (1.613 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.613 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.613 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.613 %) Video Editing	Job Titles 1 41 (66.13 %) Developer 2 15 (24.19 %) Web Developer 3 12 (19.35 %) Flash Developer 4 7 (11.29 %) Web Designer 5 5 (8.065 %) Senior Developer 6 4 (6.452 %) Programmer 6 4 (6.452 %) Graduate 6 4 (6.452 %) .NET Developer 6 4 (6.452 %) .NET Web Developer 6 4 (6.452 %) ActionScript Developer 6 4 (6.452 %) Flash Designer 7 3 (4.839 %) SQL Developer 7 3 (4.839 %) PL/SQL Developer 7 3 (4.839 %) Lead Developer 7 3 (4.839 %) Applications Developer 7 3 (4.839 %) Oracle Developer 7 3 (4.839 %) Software Developer 8 2 (3.226 %) Java Developer 8 2 (3.226 %) Test Engineer 8 2 (3.226 %) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (8.065 %) E-Learning 2 4 (6.452 %) Client/Server 2 4 (6.452 %) RIA 3 2 (3.226 %) BBC 3 2 (3.226 %) Computer Science 3 2 (3.226 %) Social Network 4 1 (1.613 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.613 %) Streaming Video 4 1 (1.613 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 7 (11.29 %) Windows 1 7 (11.29 %) Linux 2 2 (3.226 %) Windows CE 2 2 (3.226 %) Palm OS 2 2 (3.226 %) Embedded Linux 3 1 (1.613 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (1.613 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.613 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (16.13 %) OO 1 10 (16.13 %) Web Development 2 6 (9.677 %) Web Design 3 3 (4.839 %) Digital Marketing 3 3 (4.839 %) UML 3 3 (4.839 %) OOP 3 3 (4.839 %) OOD 4 2 (3.226 %) Project Management 4 2 (3.226 %) Load Balancing 4 2 (3.226 %) Creative Marketing 4 2 (3.226 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (1.613 %) Web Testing 5 1 (1.613 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (1.613 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.613 %) Project Planning 5 1 (1.613 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.613 %) SEO 5 1 (1.613 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 19 (30.65 %) JavaScript 1 19 (30.65 %) SQL 2 14 (22.58 %) Java 3 12 (19.35 %) PHP 4 7 (11.29 %) C# 5 6 (9.677 %) C++ 5 6 (9.677 %) C 6 5 (8.065 %) Ruby 7 3 (4.839 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (4.839 %) PL/SQL 7 3 (4.839 %) Perl 8 2 (3.226 %) VB 8 2 (3.226 %) Python 9 1 (1.613 %) VB.NET 9 1 (1.613 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 7 (11.29 %) Degree 2 1 (1.613 %) HND	System Software 1 1 (1.613 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (17.74 %) Adobe 2 8 (12.90 %) Macromedia 3 3 (4.839 %) Oracle 4 2 (3.226 %) Symbian 4 2 (3.226 %) Microsoft