Aberdeen ASP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Aberdeen region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Haywards Heath Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Hull Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	28
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	18.75 %	4.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£276	£290
% change on same period last year	-4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.13	£29.41
% change on same period last year	-17.95 %
Application Development Aberdeen
Matching contract IT job ads	16	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.026 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£180
Average daily rate	£200	£246
% change on same period last year	-18.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.33	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£24.56	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-29.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.78	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.09	£32.07
% change on same period last year	-3.03 %
ASP Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ASP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP across the Aberdeen region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ASP across the Aberdeen region.

ASP
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing ASP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ASP.

1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Development 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 3 1 (33.33 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) IIS

3 1 (33.33 %) C#

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing ASP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ASP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) IIS 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 1 1 (33.33 %) ColdFusion
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C# 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) VB
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle