ActionScript 2.0 Contracts

Adobe ActionScript 2.0 (AS2)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ActionScript 2.0 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ActionScript 2.0 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 - 707
Rank change year-on-year - - +144
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 2.0 16 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% - 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile £374 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £494 - £575
90th Percentile £515 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

ActionScript 2.0 falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

ActionScript 2.0
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ActionScript 2.0 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ActionScript 2.0 in the UK

ActionScript 2.0
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ActionScript 2.0.

Daily rate trend for ActionScript 2.0 in the UK

ActionScript 2.0
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActionScript 2.0 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ActionScript 2.0 in the UK

ActionScript 2.0
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ActionScript 2.0.

Hourly rate trend for ActionScript 2.0 in the UK

ActionScript 2.0
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActionScript 2.0 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 15 £450 - 24
Work from Home - 8 £390 -
London - 8 £445 - 1
UK excluding London - 6 £413 - 23
North of England - 5 £375 - 7
Yorkshire - 4 £400 - 3
North West - 1 £375 - 3
South East - 1 £550 - 6

ActionScript 2.0
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) HTTPS
2 10 (62.50%) SSL
3 8 (50.00%) SSH
4 2 (12.50%) FTP
4 2 (12.50%) HTTP
5 1 (6.25%) Firewall
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (12.50%) Architect
1 2 (12.50%) Developer
1 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Administrator
2 1 (6.25%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Consultant
2 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) EDI
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) XSLT
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) MSMQ
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.25%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Unix
2 11 (68.75%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) AIX
4 1 (6.25%) Solaris
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cryptography
1 10 (62.50%) Data Security
1 10 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (56.25%) B2B
3 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (50.00%) Key Management
4 7 (43.75%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (37.50%) Problem Management
6 5 (31.25%) Agile
6 5 (31.25%) Process Improvement
6 5 (31.25%) Service Management
7 4 (25.00%) High Availability
7 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Time Management
8 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
8 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
8 3 (18.75%) DevOps
9 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) ActionScript
2 8 (50.00%) C
3 4 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Korn
4 1 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) IBM Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Nagios
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) SCOM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) vRealize
2 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) IBM
2 11 (68.75%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) EMC
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) ScienceLogic
4 1 (6.25%) SEEBURGER
4 1 (6.25%) VMware