West Midlands ActionScript Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Adobe ActionScript skills within the West Midlands 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.

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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	102	217
Rank change on same period last year	+115
Matching permanent IT job ads	147	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.079 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	3.681 %	0.477 %
Salaries quoted	110	17
Average minimum salary	£23,813	£23,889
Average salary	£26,156	£26,528
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Average maximum salary	£28,500	£29,167
UK excluding London average salary	£30,307	£29,678
% change on same period last year	+2.12 %
Programming Languages West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	3993	3565
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.150 %	1.486 %
Salaries quoted	3508	3194
Average minimum salary	£29,868	£30,866
Average salary	£32,578	£33,211
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Average maximum salary	£35,288	£35,557
UK excluding London average salary	£35,245	£35,645
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
ActionScript England

ActionScript
Demand Trend

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

ActionScript
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ActionScript across the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire	-	42	£24,581	-
Staffordshire	+21	33	£22,962	-15.73 %
Coventry	-	25	£25,060	-
Birmingham	+10	21	£28,675	+55.00 %
Wolverhampton	-	14	£29,786	-
Worcestershire	-1	7	£29,714	+40.65 %
Herefordshire	-6	7	-	-
Sutton Coldfield	-	5	£25,100	-
Walsall	-	3	£28,000	-
Dudley	-	2	£28,500	-
Shropshire	-	1	-	-

ActionScript England

ActionScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 232 (94.31 %) Flash 2 118 (47.97 %) Photoshop 3 117 (47.56 %) CSS 4 114 (46.34 %) HTML 5 97 (39.43 %) JavaScript 6 81 (32.93 %) XHTML 7 69 (28.05 %) Dreamweaver 8 60 (24.39 %) Adobe 9 53 (21.54 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 53 (21.54 %) Adobe Flex 10 47 (19.11 %) SQL 10 47 (19.11 %) XML 11 43 (17.48 %) PHP 12 42 (17.07 %) Web Development 13 41 (16.67 %) C#

14 39 (15.85 %) .NET 15 36 (14.63 %) MySQL 16 33 (13.41 %) ASP.NET 16 33 (13.41 %) Internet 17 32 (13.01 %) Macromedia 18 29 (11.79 %) AJAX 18 29 (11.79 %) E-Commerce 19 28 (11.38 %) Games 20 27 (10.98 %) OO 20 27 (10.98 %) Degree 21 26 (10.57 %) Graphic Design 22 24 (9.756 %) Fireworks 23 22 (8.943 %) ASP 23 22 (8.943 %) C++ 24 20 (8.130 %) Retail

ActionScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 117 (47.56 %) CSS 2 114 (46.34 %) HTML 3 81 (32.93 %) XHTML 4 53 (21.54 %) Adobe Flex 5 47 (19.11 %) XML 6 39 (15.85 %) .NET 7 33 (13.41 %) ASP.NET 8 29 (11.79 %) AJAX 9 22 (8.943 %) ASP 10 17 (6.911 %) WebServices 11 5 (2.033 %) MVC 12 2 (0.813 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 1 (0.407 %) Silverlight 13 1 (0.407 %) Spring 13 1 (0.407 %) WebSphere 13 1 (0.407 %) J2EE 13 1 (0.407 %) XSL 13 1 (0.407 %) JSP 13 1 (0.407 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 12 (4.878 %) IIS 2 5 (2.033 %) Apache 3 3 (1.220 %) CMS 4 1 (0.407 %) WebLogic 4 1 (0.407 %) Tomcat 4 1 (0.407 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (0.407 %) JBoss
Applications 1 118 (47.97 %) Photoshop 2 53 (21.54 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 24 (9.756 %) Fireworks 4 15 (6.098 %) 3ds Max 5 2 (0.813 %) Adobe Director 5 2 (0.813 %) MS Excel 5 2 (0.813 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.407 %) FreeHand	Business Applications 1 3 (1.220 %) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 33 (13.41 %) Internet 2 3 (1.220 %) DNS 3 1 (0.407 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (14.63 %) MySQL 2 17 (6.911 %) SQL Server 3 8 (3.252 %) GIS 4 3 (1.220 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (1.220 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 232 (94.31 %) Flash 2 69 (28.05 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 28 (11.38 %) Games 2 26 (10.57 %) Graphic Design 3 20 (8.130 %) Retail 4 14 (5.691 %) Multimedia 5 12 (4.878 %) Marketing 6 11 (4.472 %) Government 7 10 (4.065 %) 3D Graphics 8 9 (3.659 %) Finance 9 7 (2.846 %) Back Office 10 5 (2.033 %) Animation 10 5 (2.033 %) Video Editing 10 5 (2.033 %) Health 10 5 (2.033 %) Pensions 11 3 (1.220 %) Education 12 2 (0.813 %) Advertising 13 1 (0.407 %) Music
Job Titles 1 165 (67.07 %) Developer 2 72 (29.27 %) Web Developer 3 67 (27.24 %) Flash Developer 4 31 (12.60 %) ActionScript Developer 5 30 (12.20 %) Web Designer 6 19 (7.724 %) PHP Developer 7 18 (7.317 %) Flash Designer 8 12 (4.878 %) Flex Developer 9 9 (3.659 %) Graphic Designer 10 8 (3.252 %) C# Developer 10 8 (3.252 %) Programmer 11 5 (2.033 %) .NET Developer 11 5 (2.033 %) Applications Developer 11 5 (2.033 %) Graduate 11 5 (2.033 %) Junior 11 5 (2.033 %) Web Applications Developer 11 5 (2.033 %) Graduate Developer 12 4 (1.626 %) Junior Developer 12 4 (1.626 %) PHP Web Developer 12 4 (1.626 %) C# Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 14 (5.691 %) Computer Science 2 10 (4.065 %) Social Network 3 8 (3.252 %) Web 2.0 4 4 (1.626 %) PDA 5 3 (1.220 %) Streaming Video 6 2 (0.813 %) E-Learning 6 2 (0.813 %) SCORM 6 2 (0.813 %) N-Tier 6 2 (0.813 %) W3C 6 2 (0.813 %) RIA 7 1 (0.407 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 18 (7.317 %) Windows 2 6 (2.439 %) Linux 3 2 (0.813 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (17.07 %) Web Development 2 29 (11.79 %) E-Commerce 3 27 (10.98 %) OO 4 15 (6.098 %) Web Design 5 13 (5.285 %) Software Engineering 6 12 (4.878 %) Project Management 7 11 (4.472 %) ERP 7 11 (4.472 %) CAD 7 11 (4.472 %) CRM 8 8 (3.252 %) Content Management 9 6 (2.439 %) SEO 10 4 (1.626 %) UML 11 2 (0.813 %) OOP 11 2 (0.813 %) Direct Marketing 11 2 (0.813 %) System Testing 12 1 (0.407 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 97 (39.43 %) JavaScript 2 47 (19.11 %) SQL 3 43 (17.48 %) PHP 4 41 (16.67 %) C# 5 22 (8.943 %) C++ 6 15 (6.098 %) Lingo 7 7 (2.846 %) DHTML 8 6 (2.439 %) VB.NET 9 5 (2.033 %) Java 10 4 (1.626 %) C 11 2 (0.813 %) PHP4 11 2 (0.813 %) VB 12 1 (0.407 %) Perl 12 1 (0.407 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 27 (10.98 %) Degree 2 3 (1.220 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.033 %) WAI	Vendors 1 60 (24.39 %) Adobe 2 32 (13.01 %) Macromedia 3 3 (1.220 %) Google 4 2 (0.813 %) Oracle 5 1 (0.407 %) Microsoft