The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 42 48 39
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -9
Contract jobs citing ASP 1 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.226% 0.949% 0.994%
As % of the Application Development category 0.990% 3.448% 3.906%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
Average daily rate £250 £263 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -0.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £323 £281
% change year-on-year
-3.87% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £23.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year
+40.21% -35.66%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
101 174 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.80% 27.53% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 107 73
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% -8.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP
West Midlands

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ASP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Birmingham ASP Jobs Demand Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham ASP Daily Rate Trend

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham ASP Hourly Rate Trend

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (80.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) Web Development
3 3 (60.00%) Release Management
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) XSLT
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 2 (40.00%) DHTML
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (20.00%) VBScript
5 1 (20.00%) VB
5 1 (20.00%) OO
5 1 (20.00%) IIS
5 1 (20.00%) MS Office
5 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
5 1 (20.00%) Intranet
5 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (20.00%) DTS

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
3 2 (40.00%) DHTML
4 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) DTS
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Web Developer
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Web Development
2 3 (60.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (80.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (20.00%) VBScript
4 1 (20.00%) VB
4 1 (20.00%) VB6
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft