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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 540 616
Rank change year-on-year -32 +76 +217
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 5 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.019% 0.021%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.044% 0.060% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - £561 -
25th Percentile - £594 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £624 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +34.81% -26.00%
75th Percentile - £638 £538
90th Percentile - - £616
UK excluding London median daily rate - £622 £463
% change year-on-year - +34.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.78

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 11,301 11,753 14,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 32.12% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,439 7,592 10,502
10th Percentile £345 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £660
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 282 442
10th Percentile £29.00 £22.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £42.81 £38.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.92
Median % change year-on-year - +0.94% +0.68%
75th Percentile £67.44 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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
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 3 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 8 November 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
London +11 3 - -
England -22 3 - -
Work from Home +8 2 - -

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (40.00%) X.509
2 1 (20.00%) FTP
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aviation
1 1 (20.00%) Military
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) EDI
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
1 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Globalscape