ActionScript Contract Job Trends

Adobe ActionScript
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ActionScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 561 649
Rank change year-on-year +8 +88 +191
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 5 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.021% 0.004%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.046% 0.065% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £463 £547 -
25th Percentile £468 £561 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £622 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% -11.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £489 £638 £713
90th Percentile £491 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £599 £700
% change year-on-year - -14.46% -
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 10,803 12,309 16,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.82% 31.94% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,151 8,379 11,572
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 347 456
10th Percentile £29.00 £27.00 £32.31
25th Percentile £36.69 £46.18 £48.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +12.66%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £79.50 £78.75 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +14.04%

ActionScript
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ActionScript 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 2 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 13 September 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 +14 2 £470 -24.62% 5
London +35 1 - - 4

ActionScript
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (60.00%) SSL
3 2 (40.00%) SSH
3 2 (40.00%) X.509
4 1 (20.00%) FTP
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Aviation
3 1 (20.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (40.00%) Data Security
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Key Management
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (40.00%) Time Management
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 2 (40.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (20.00%) Globalscape