ActionScript Contracts

Adobe ActionScript
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ActionScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ActionScript over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 581 680
Rank change year-on-year +65 +99 +179
Contract jobs citing ActionScript 20 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.023% 0.004%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.076% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £362 £546 £541
25th Percentile £410 £553 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £573 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% -8.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £496 £612 £678
90th Percentile £520 £630 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £573 £700
% change year-on-year -21.40% -18.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 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 10,380 13,183 18,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.69% 30.54% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,005 9,251 13,424
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 540 447
10th Percentile £26.32 £31.25 £28.84
25th Percentile £34.62 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £79.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% +18.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ActionScript in the UK

ActionScript
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActionScript over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ActionScript in the UK

ActionScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ActionScript in the UK

ActionScript
Top 7 Contract 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 July 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 +68 17 £460 -19.65% 63
London - 11 £445 - 30
Work from Home +41 7 £420 -26.64% 21
UK excluding London +35 5 £450 -21.40% 40
North of England +9 3 £400 -35.85% 13
Yorkshire 0 3 £400 -35.85% 6
South East +51 2 £550 -2.87% 11

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) SaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Stack
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) HTTPS
2 10 (50.00%) SSL
3 7 (35.00%) SSH
4 2 (10.00%) FTP
4 2 (10.00%) HTTP
4 2 (10.00%) X.509
5 1 (5.00%) Firewall
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Aviation
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Automation Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Test Automation Developer
4 1 (5.00%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
1 4 (20.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) Middleware
2 3 (15.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) EDI
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) MSMQ
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) WCF
4 1 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Unix
2 10 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) AIX
4 1 (5.00%) Solaris
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (45.00%) Cryptography
2 9 (45.00%) Data Security
3 8 (40.00%) B2B
3 8 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (35.00%) Key Management
4 7 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (30.00%) Problem Management
6 5 (25.00%) Agile
6 5 (25.00%) High Availability
6 5 (25.00%) ITIL
6 5 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 5 (25.00%) Service Management
7 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (20.00%) Time Management
8 3 (15.00%) DevOps
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Project Management
8 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 7 (35.00%) C
3 5 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Korn
6 1 (5.00%) Perl
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Nagios
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
2 1 (5.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) vRealize
2 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) IBM
2 10 (50.00%) IBM Sterling
3 3 (15.00%) Infor
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.00%) EMC
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) Globalscape
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) ScienceLogic
5 1 (5.00%) VMware