Birmingham ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Birmingham 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	43	40
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	11	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	6.790 %	10.44 %
Daily rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£340
Average daily rate	£250	£356
% change on same period last year	-29.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£290
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.33	£18.51
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£23.17
% change on same period last year	+7.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.67	£27.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.06	£27.11
% change on same period last year	+7.18 %
Application Development Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	162	182
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.208 %	0.204 %
Daily rates quoted	36	41
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£319
Average daily rate	£308	£346
% change on same period last year	-11.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.84	£23.72
Average hourly rate	£23.40	£27.51
% change on same period last year	-14.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.97	£31.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
ASP West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 12 (50.00 %) HTML 2 11 (45.83 %) .NET 3 10 (41.67 %) JavaScript 4 8 (33.33 %) SQL 4 8 (33.33 %) C# 4 8 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 5 7 (29.17 %) CSS 5 7 (29.17 %) SharePoint 5 7 (29.17 %) XML 5 7 (29.17 %) VB 6 6 (25.00 %) SQL Server 6 6 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 7 4 (16.67 %) Interwoven 7 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 7 4 (16.67 %) CMS

7 4 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 7 4 (16.67 %) VBScript 8 3 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 8 3 (12.50 %) Photoshop 8 3 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 8 3 (12.50 %) ADO.NET 8 3 (12.50 %) DTS 8 3 (12.50 %) UML 8 3 (12.50 %) Open Text 8 3 (12.50 %) Finance 8 3 (12.50 %) OOD 8 3 (12.50 %) Dreamweaver 9 2 (8.333 %) Fireworks 9 2 (8.333 %) Windows NT

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 12 (50.00 %) HTML 2 11 (45.83 %) .NET 3 8 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 4 7 (29.17 %) CSS 4 7 (29.17 %) XML 5 3 (12.50 %) ADO.NET 6 2 (8.333 %) JSP 6 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 6 2 (8.333 %) WinForms 6 2 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (4.167 %) WCF 7 1 (4.167 %) LINQ 7 1 (4.167 %) AJAX 7 1 (4.167 %) XHTML 7 1 (4.167 %) XUL	Application Platforms 1 7 (29.17 %) SharePoint 2 4 (16.67 %) CMS 3 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Workflow 3 1 (4.167 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) Photoshop 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 2 (8.333 %) Fireworks	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 4 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (12.50 %) DTS 4 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (8.333 %) MySQL 5 1 (4.167 %) BusinessObjects XI 5 1 (4.167 %) RDBMS 5 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (4.167 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 6 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (12.50 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (4.167 %) Flash	General 1 3 (12.50 %) Finance 2 2 (8.333 %) Retail 2 2 (8.333 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.167 %) Marketing 3 1 (4.167 %) Construction 3 1 (4.167 %) Law 3 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 14 (58.33 %) Developer 2 7 (29.17 %) Web Developer 3 5 (20.83 %) Analyst 4 4 (16.67 %) ASP Developer 5 3 (12.50 %) C# Developer 5 3 (12.50 %) HTML Developer 5 3 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 5 3 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 6 1 (4.167 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) .NET Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Consultant 6 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Programmer 6 1 (4.167 %) Programmer 6 1 (4.167 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Applications Support 6 1 (4.167 %) BizTalk Consultant 6 1 (4.167 %) Applications Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Web Designer 6 1 (4.167 %) PHP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) N-Tier 1 2 (8.333 %) Equities 2 1 (4.167 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (4.167 %) Statistics 2 1 (4.167 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 2 (8.333 %) Windows NT 2 1 (4.167 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) OOD 1 3 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 1 3 (12.50 %) UML 2 2 (8.333 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (8.333 %) Migration 2 2 (8.333 %) Web Design 3 1 (4.167 %) Content Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (4.167 %) SOA 3 1 (4.167 %) Risk Management 3 1 (4.167 %) SEO 3 1 (4.167 %) Workflow 3 1 (4.167 %) WFM 3 1 (4.167 %) Use Case 3 1 (4.167 %) Internet Marketing 3 1 (4.167 %) Data Migration 3 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (4.167 %) ERP 3 1 (4.167 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 10 (41.67 %) JavaScript 2 8 (33.33 %) C# 2 8 (33.33 %) SQL 3 7 (29.17 %) VB 4 4 (16.67 %) VBScript 5 3 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (8.333 %) C++ 7 1 (4.167 %) Java 7 1 (4.167 %) Perl 7 1 (4.167 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) Degree
Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 1 4 (16.67 %) Interwoven 2 3 (12.50 %) Open Text 3 2 (8.333 %) Adobe 3 2 (8.333 %) Macromedia 3 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 4 1 (4.167 %) Business Objects 4 1 (4.167 %) SAP