Berkshire ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Berkshire 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak Home Counties Horsham Hove Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Pagnell Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stockport Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	64
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	56	102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.072 %	0.115 %
As % of the category below	7.273 %	9.677 %
Daily rates quoted	13	18
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£276
Average daily rate	£292	£297
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£290
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.29	£33.27
Average hourly rate	£35.34	£34.10
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.38	£34.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.06	£27.11
% change on same period last year	+7.18 %
Application Development Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	770	1054
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.988 %	1.184 %
Daily rates quoted	191	231
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£311
Average daily rate	£358	£329
% change on same period last year	+8.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	80	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.27	£38.79
Average hourly rate	£36.81	£39.68
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.35	£40.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
ASP South East

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Berkshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Berkshire region.

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

ASP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Slough	-9	15	£258	-0.96 %
2	Reading	-4	9	£255	-1.92 %
3	Newbury	+21	7	-	-
3	Maidenhead	+15	7	-	-
4	Windsor	-	1	£225	-

ASP South East

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP.

1 75 (55.56 %) .NET 2 68 (50.37 %) SQL Server 3 64 (47.41 %) SQL 4 48 (35.56 %) HTML 5 42 (31.11 %) VB 6 40 (29.63 %) ASP.NET 7 39 (28.89 %) JavaScript 8 37 (27.41 %) C# 9 36 (26.67 %) Java 10 29 (21.48 %) CSS 11 28 (20.74 %) Oracle 11 28 (20.74 %) Windows 12 26 (19.26 %) XML 12 26 (19.26 %) SQL Server 2000 13 25 (18.52 %) Transact-SQL

14 24 (17.78 %) SQL Server 2005 15 20 (14.81 %) VB6 16 19 (14.07 %) IIS 17 18 (13.33 %) COM+ 17 18 (13.33 %) Flash 18 17 (12.59 %) Windows Server 2003 18 17 (12.59 %) Microsoft 19 16 (11.85 %) JSP 19 16 (11.85 %) Photoshop 19 16 (11.85 %) VB.NET 20 15 (11.11 %) Dreamweaver 21 14 (10.37 %) COBOL 21 14 (10.37 %) VSS/SourceSafe 21 14 (10.37 %) Compaq 22 13 (9.630 %) IBM

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 75 (55.56 %) .NET 2 48 (35.56 %) HTML 3 40 (29.63 %) ASP.NET 4 29 (21.48 %) CSS 5 26 (19.26 %) XML 6 18 (13.33 %) COM+ 7 16 (11.85 %) JSP 8 10 (7.407 %) XSL 9 8 (5.926 %) WebServices 9 8 (5.926 %) .NET Framework 10 5 (3.704 %) XSLT 10 5 (3.704 %) XHTML 11 4 (2.963 %) WSH 11 4 (2.963 %) WMI 11 4 (2.963 %) WinForms 12 1 (0.741 %) AJAX 12 1 (0.741 %) LAMP 12 1 (0.741 %) J2EE 12 1 (0.741 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 19 (14.07 %) IIS 2 11 (8.148 %) SharePoint 3 10 (7.407 %) BizTalk Server 4 5 (3.704 %) MQSeries 5 4 (2.963 %) Lotus Notes 5 4 (2.963 %) ArcIMS 5 4 (2.963 %) ArcSDE 6 2 (1.481 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 2 (1.481 %) CMS 7 1 (0.741 %) Apache 7 1 (0.741 %) WebLogic 7 1 (0.741 %) Commerce Server 7 1 (0.741 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 16 (11.85 %) Photoshop 2 3 (2.222 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.481 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.741 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 3 (2.222 %) Summit 2 2 (1.481 %) Great Plains
Communications & Networking 1 12 (8.889 %) Extranet 2 9 (6.667 %) Internet 3 4 (2.963 %) Intranet 3 4 (2.963 %) SMS 4 1 (0.741 %) HTTP 4 1 (0.741 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 68 (50.37 %) SQL Server 2 26 (19.26 %) SQL Server 2000 3 24 (17.78 %) SQL Server 2005 4 13 (9.630 %) DB2 UDB 4 13 (9.630 %) DB2 5 6 (4.444 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 5 (3.704 %) MySQL 7 3 (2.222 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 3 (2.222 %) PostgreSQL 8 2 (1.481 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 2 (1.481 %) GIS 8 2 (1.481 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (0.741 %) Datawarehouse 9 1 (0.741 %) TOAD 9 1 (0.741 %) BusinessObjects 9 1 (0.741 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (0.741 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 18 (13.33 %) Flash 2 15 (11.11 %) Dreamweaver 3 14 (10.37 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 9 (6.667 %) InterDev 5 4 (2.963 %) MSI 5 4 (2.963 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (0.741 %) WinRunner	General 1 8 (5.926 %) Multimedia 2 7 (5.185 %) Telecoms 3 4 (2.963 %) Finance 3 4 (2.963 %) Marketing 4 3 (2.222 %) Education 5 2 (1.481 %) Electronics 6 1 (0.741 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 98 (72.59 %) Developer 2 29 (21.48 %) .NET Developer 3 25 (18.52 %) ASP Developer 4 22 (16.30 %) Web Developer 5 18 (13.33 %) SQL Developer 6 16 (11.85 %) C# Developer 7 15 (11.11 %) SQL Server Developer 8 13 (9.630 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 9 (6.667 %) Software Developer 10 8 (5.926 %) Analyst 10 8 (5.926 %) Applications Developer 10 8 (5.926 %) VB Developer 10 8 (5.926 %) Microsoft Developer 11 5 (3.704 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 5 (3.704 %) VB.NET Developer 11 5 (3.704 %) Analyst Programmer 11 5 (3.704 %) Programmer 12 4 (2.963 %) 3rd Line Support 12 4 (2.963 %) CSharp Software Developer 13 3 (2.222 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (6.667 %) N-Tier 2 1 (0.741 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 28 (20.74 %) Windows 2 17 (12.59 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (3.704 %) Linux 4 4 (2.963 %) Windows Vista 4 4 (2.963 %) Windows XP 5 2 (1.481 %) Unix 6 1 (0.741 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.741 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.741 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (5.926 %) Release Management 2 7 (5.185 %) Web Development 3 5 (3.704 %) System Testing 3 5 (3.704 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 5 (3.704 %) Business Analysis 3 5 (3.704 %) RAD 4 4 (2.963 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (2.222 %) CRM 6 2 (1.481 %) Project Management 6 2 (1.481 %) Migration 6 2 (1.481 %) Content Management 7 1 (0.741 %) Scrum 7 1 (0.741 %) TDD 7 1 (0.741 %) RUP 7 1 (0.741 %) UML 7 1 (0.741 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 64 (47.41 %) SQL 2 42 (31.11 %) VB 3 39 (28.89 %) JavaScript 4 37 (27.41 %) C# 5 36 (26.67 %) Java 6 25 (18.52 %) Transact-SQL 7 20 (14.81 %) VB6 8 16 (11.85 %) VB.NET 9 14 (10.37 %) COBOL 10 12 (8.889 %) DHTML 11 11 (8.148 %) ActionScript 12 9 (6.667 %) VBScript 13 7 (5.185 %) PL/SQL 14 5 (3.704 %) Perl 15 4 (2.963 %) C++ 15 4 (2.963 %) VBA 16 3 (2.222 %) PHP 16 3 (2.222 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (2.222 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (2.963 %) QA 2 1 (0.741 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (2.963 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (2.963 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 28 (20.74 %) Oracle 2 17 (12.59 %) Microsoft 3 14 (10.37 %) Compaq 4 13 (9.630 %) IBM 5 10 (7.407 %) HP 6 4 (2.963 %) Lotus 6 4 (2.963 %) Perforce 7 1 (0.741 %) Onyx 7 1 (0.741 %) salesforce.com 7 1 (0.741 %) Business Objects 7 1 (0.741 %) Cognos