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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 548 572
Rank change year-on-year -103 +24 +88
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 16 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.018% 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.056% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile £340 £463 £541
25th Percentile £400 £468 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £481 £576
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -16.42% -17.79%
75th Percentile £638 £489 £630
90th Percentile - £491 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - £574
% change year-on-year - - -18.00%

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 14,032 10,758 12,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 32.85% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,117 7,162 8,420
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 299 357
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.00 £30.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £36.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.53 £79.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +4.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActionScript over the 6 months to 1 September 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 7 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 1 September 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 -106 15 £555 +18.09% 57
Work from Home - 10 £555 - 74
North of England -60 9 £400 - 28
UK excluding London -88 9 £400 - 68
Yorkshire -29 8 - - 3
London -72 6 £625 - 15
North West - 1 £400 - 13

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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) GitHub
2 10 (62.50%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) BIG-IP
1 10 (62.50%) DNS
1 10 (62.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 10 (62.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) SSL
2 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) VLAN
3 2 (12.50%) FTP
3 2 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 10 (62.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Network Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) webMethods Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) IP Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Logic Apps Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Design Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) EDI
2 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 3 (18.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) SOAP
2 3 (18.75%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.25%) Django
3 1 (6.25%) EDIFACT
3 1 (6.25%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (6.25%) LAMP
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 7 (43.75%) Onboarding
3 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) API Management
5 3 (18.75%) B2B
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Discovery
6 2 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (12.50%) ITSM
6 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Service Management
6 2 (12.50%) SOA
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) F5
2 2 (12.50%) Axway
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Software AG
2 2 (12.50%) webMethods
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase