Somerset ActionScript Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the Somerset 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe ActionScript
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carshalton Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edenbridge Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hove Huddersfield Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Macclesfield Manchester Mansfield Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Studley Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tamworth Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warminster Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	73
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	12
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.505 %	1.796 %
Salaries quoted	11	9
Average minimum salary	£25,273	£25,667
Average salary	£29,000	£28,111
% change on same period last year	+3.16 %
Average maximum salary	£32,727	£30,556
UK excluding London average salary	£29,969	£29,454
% change on same period last year	+1.74 %
Programming Languages Somerset
Matching permanent IT job ads	731	668
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.386 %	0.274 %
Salaries quoted	653	605
Average minimum salary	£29,335	£30,125
Average salary	£33,351	£33,230
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Average maximum salary	£37,367	£36,335
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
ActionScript South West

ActionScript
Demand Trend

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

ActionScript
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ActionScript across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Bath	-15	10	£29,000	+3.16 %
Street	-	1	£29,000	-

ActionScript South West

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 32 (100.00 %) Flash 2 15 (46.88 %) XML 3 10 (31.25 %) HTML 3 10 (31.25 %) JavaScript 4 7 (21.88 %) CSS 5 5 (15.63 %) .NET 5 5 (15.63 %) OOP 6 4 (12.50 %) C# 6 4 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 6 4 (12.50 %) XHTML 6 4 (12.50 %) Internet 6 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 6 4 (12.50 %) Electric 6 4 (12.50 %) AJAX 6 4 (12.50 %) Web 2.0

6 4 (12.50 %) Music 6 4 (12.50 %) Silverlight 6 4 (12.50 %) Social Network 7 3 (9.375 %) E-Learning 7 3 (9.375 %) Adobe 7 3 (9.375 %) Photoshop 7 3 (9.375 %) PHP 8 2 (6.250 %) MySQL 8 2 (6.250 %) Macromedia 8 2 (6.250 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 2 (6.250 %) Animation 8 2 (6.250 %) Adobe Flex 9 1 (3.125 %) Marketing 9 1 (3.125 %) Degree 9 1 (3.125 %) Advertising

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 15 (46.88 %) XML 2 10 (31.25 %) HTML 3 7 (21.88 %) CSS 4 5 (15.63 %) .NET 5 4 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (12.50 %) XHTML 5 4 (12.50 %) AJAX 5 4 (12.50 %) Silverlight 6 2 (6.250 %) Adobe Flex 7 1 (3.125 %) RSS 7 1 (3.125 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.125 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) Photoshop 2 2 (6.250 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (3.125 %) MS Office 3 1 (3.125 %) ImageReady 3 1 (3.125 %) FreeHand 3 1 (3.125 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.50 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.250 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 32 (100.00 %) Flash 2 1 (3.125 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 4 (12.50 %) Electric 1 4 (12.50 %) Music 2 2 (6.250 %) Animation 3 1 (3.125 %) Marketing 3 1 (3.125 %) Advertising 3 1 (3.125 %) Games 3 1 (3.125 %) Education	Job Titles 1 30 (93.75 %) Developer 2 24 (75.00 %) Flash Developer 3 15 (46.88 %) Flash Designer 4 6 (18.75 %) Web Developer 5 4 (12.50 %) Senior Developer 6 3 (9.375 %) Senior Web Developer 6 3 (9.375 %) ActionScript Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Senior Flash Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Lead Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Web Designer 7 1 (3.125 %) Flex Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.50 %) Web 2.0 1 4 (12.50 %) Social Network 2 3 (9.375 %) E-Learning	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (15.63 %) OOP 2 1 (3.125 %) OO 2 1 (3.125 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (31.25 %) JavaScript 2 4 (12.50 %) C# 3 3 (9.375 %) PHP 4 1 (3.125 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (3.125 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (9.375 %) Adobe 2 2 (6.250 %) Macromedia 3 1 (3.125 %) Microsoft