Basingstoke ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Basingstoke 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Avon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haywards Heath Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hove Hull Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Preston Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	35
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	7	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	7.216 %	16.28 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£316
Average daily rate	£408	£316
% change on same period last year	+29.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£438	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£284
% change on same period last year	+3.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.61	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-8.98 %
Application Development Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	97	86
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.128 %	0.086 %
Daily rates quoted	20	26
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£345
Average daily rate	£343	£355
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.08	£38.33
Average hourly rate	£40.30	£39.33
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.52	£40.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.72	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
ASP Hampshire

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 Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 11 (84.62 %) C# 1 11 (84.62 %) .NET 2 8 (61.54 %) SQL Server 2 8 (61.54 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (53.85 %) VB6 3 7 (53.85 %) VB 3 7 (53.85 %) WebServices 4 6 (46.15 %) Insurance 4 6 (46.15 %) NUnit 5 4 (30.77 %) SQL 6 3 (23.08 %) XML 6 3 (23.08 %) Windows 6 3 (23.08 %) IIS 6 3 (23.08 %) Visual Studio 6 3 (23.08 %) ASP.NET

6 3 (23.08 %) Configuration Management 6 3 (23.08 %) MSI 6 3 (23.08 %) E-Commerce 6 3 (23.08 %) Bugzilla 6 3 (23.08 %) VMware 6 3 (23.08 %) WinForms 6 3 (23.08 %) Unit Testing 6 3 (23.08 %) Continuous Integration 7 2 (15.38 %) Pensions 7 2 (15.38 %) Finance 8 1 (7.692 %) Clustering 8 1 (7.692 %) WebSphere 8 1 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (7.692 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (7.692 %) Test Scripting

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 11 (84.62 %) .NET 2 7 (53.85 %) WebServices 3 3 (23.08 %) XML 3 3 (23.08 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (23.08 %) WinForms 4 1 (7.692 %) WebSphere 4 1 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (7.692 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 3 (23.08 %) IIS 2 1 (7.692 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (61.54 %) SQL Server 1 8 (61.54 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (7.692 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 6 (46.15 %) NUnit 2 3 (23.08 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (23.08 %) MSI 2 3 (23.08 %) Bugzilla	General 1 6 (46.15 %) Insurance 2 2 (15.38 %) Pensions 2 2 (15.38 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 11 (84.62 %) Developer 2 8 (61.54 %) C# Developer 3 4 (30.77 %) VB6 Developer 3 4 (30.77 %) VB Developer 3 4 (30.77 %) .NET Developer 4 3 (23.08 %) Build Manager 5 1 (7.692 %) Systems Test Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Test Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 3 (23.08 %) Windows 2 1 (7.692 %) AIX 2 1 (7.692 %) Solaris 2 1 (7.692 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (23.08 %) Configuration Management 1 3 (23.08 %) E-Commerce 1 3 (23.08 %) Unit Testing 1 3 (23.08 %) Continuous Integration 2 1 (7.692 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (7.692 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (7.692 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 11 (84.62 %) C# 2 7 (53.85 %) VB6 2 7 (53.85 %) VB 3 4 (30.77 %) SQL 4 1 (7.692 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) ISEB 1 1 (7.692 %) Sun Certification 1 1 (7.692 %) IBM AIX Certification
Systems Management 1 1 (7.692 %) Tivoli 1 1 (7.692 %) CONTROL-M	Vendors 1 3 (23.08 %) VMware 2 1 (7.692 %) Sun