The first table below looks at the demand for ActionScript skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales 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 South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe ActionScript
Rank 79 87 82
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Permanent jobs citing ActionScript 8 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.765% 0.304% 0.439%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.365% 0.568% 0.784%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 4
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +44.23%
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £32,500 £30,750
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +5.69%
All Programming Languages
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
586 528 510
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 56.02% 53.44% 55.98%
Number of salaries quoted 540 461 476
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ActionScript
Wales

ActionScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales ActionScript Salary Trend

ActionScript
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ActionScript within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cardiff -11 4 £35,000 -5.40%
Torfaen - 4 £30,000 -
ActionScript
Wales

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 19 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 19 (100.00%) CSS
1 19 (100.00%) Flash
2 18 (94.74%) HTML
2 18 (94.74%) Internet
3 15 (78.95%) HTML5
4 14 (73.68%) Ajax
4 14 (73.68%) TCP/IP
4 14 (73.68%) Electronics
4 14 (73.68%) Windows
4 14 (73.68%) Linux
5 4 (21.05%) Finance
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (21.05%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
5 4 (21.05%) C#
5 4 (21.05%) Kanban
5 4 (21.05%) Open Source
6 3 (15.79%) jQuery
6 3 (15.79%) OO
7 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
7 2 (10.53%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) SQL
7 2 (10.53%) .NET
7 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
7 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (10.53%) User Experience Design
7 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (10.53%) WCF

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 19 (100.00%) CSS
1 19 (100.00%) Flash
2 18 (94.74%) HTML
3 15 (78.95%) HTML5
4 14 (73.68%) Ajax
5 3 (15.79%) jQuery
6 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
6 2 (10.53%) Web Services
6 2 (10.53%) .NET
6 2 (10.53%) WCF
6 2 (10.53%) NHibernate
6 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.263%) Apache Flex
7 1 (5.263%) PureMVC
7 1 (5.263%) CSS3
7 1 (5.263%) Backbone.js
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) Internet
2 14 (73.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 14 (73.68%) Electronics
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
3 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (5.263%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (5.263%) ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Open Source
2 1 (5.263%) E-Learning
2 1 (5.263%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Scrum
1 4 (21.05%) Kanban
2 3 (15.79%) OO
3 2 (10.53%) User Experience Design
4 1 (5.263%) MVC
4 1 (5.263%) Migration
4 1 (5.263%) Content Management
4 1 (5.263%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.263%) ActionScript 3.0
4 1 (5.263%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (5.263%) PHP
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) Twitter