ActionScript Contract Job Trends

Adobe ActionScript
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ActionScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 508 578
Rank change year-on-year -120 +70 +152
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 12 17 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.058% 0.025%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.093% 0.17% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile - £360 £469
25th Percentile - £371 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £420 £555
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -24.32% +0.91%
75th Percentile £480 £488 £582
90th Percentile £507 £525 £584
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £413 £555
% change year-on-year +17.58% -25.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.19 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £77.19 -

All Programming Languages
UK

ActionScript 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 12,905 9,946 12,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 28.19% 34.03% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,586 6,706 9,126
10th Percentile £354 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £714 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £478 £488
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.05% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 243 480
10th Percentile £41.94 £22.60 £30.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.63 £67.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.92% -2.40%

ActionScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ActionScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ActionScript job vacancy trend in the UK

ActionScript
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ActionScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ActionScript

ActionScript
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActionScript over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ActionScript in the UK

ActionScript
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ActionScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ActionScript

ActionScript
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActionScript within the UK over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. 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 -132 8 £480 +14.29% 2
UK excluding London -99 4 £485 +17.58% 1
London -64 3 - - 1
North of England -73 3 £480 +28.00% 1
Yorkshire -57 2 £415 +3.75% 1
North West -31 1 £490 +30.67%
Work from Home -40 1 £350 -10.26% 2
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £575 -

ActionScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (16.67%) SNMP
2 1 (8.33%) BIG-IP
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) FTP
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) ABAP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Integration Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior ABAP Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) EDI
1 6 (50.00%) EDIFACT
2 1 (8.33%) IDoc
2 1 (8.33%) JDBC
2 1 (8.33%) JMS
2 1 (8.33%) SAP XI
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (16.67%) AI
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (8.33%) API Management
4 1 (8.33%) BPMN
4 1 (8.33%) Build Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Cash Management
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) OWASP
4 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) ActionScript 2.0
2 6 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) ABAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) F5
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (8.33%) SEEBURGER