The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET over the 3 months to 17 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 Bradford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET
Rank 15 25 24
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -1
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 10 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 6.329% 1.887% 0.813%
As % of the Application Development category 27.03% 10.34% 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £325 £150 £188
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.06% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £24.44 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+43.22% -24.80%
All Application Development
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
37 29 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 23.42% 18.24% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 10
Average daily rate £325 £160 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.12% -41.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £384 £300 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP.NET
West Yorkshire

ASP.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford ASP.NET Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bradford ASP.NET Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bradford ASP.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing ASP.NET 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.NET.

1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (83.33%) C#
3 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (50.00%) CSS
4 6 (50.00%) jQuery
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (41.67%) MVC
6 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 4 (33.33%) HTML
6 4 (33.33%) EPiServer
6 4 (33.33%) CMS
7 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
7 3 (25.00%) EPiServer CMS
7 3 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
8 2 (16.67%) Web Application Development
8 2 (16.67%) Web Services
8 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (16.67%) XHTML
8 2 (16.67%) WCF
8 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
9 1 (8.333%) MCITP
9 1 (8.333%) VMware
9 1 (8.333%) QA
9 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (8.333%) TDD
9 1 (8.333%) Content Management

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing ASP.NET 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.NET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (50.00%) CSS
2 6 (50.00%) jQuery
3 4 (33.33%) HTML
4 3 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (16.67%) WCF
5 2 (16.67%) XHTML
5 2 (16.67%) Web Services
6 1 (8.333%) XML
6 1 (8.333%) Ajax
6 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (8.333%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) CMS
2 3 (25.00%) EPiServer CMS
2 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.333%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) SAN
1 1 (8.333%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
1 10 (83.33%) .NET Developer
2 3 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 3 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 3 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Web Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) UNIX
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) MVC
2 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) Web Application Development
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C#
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) VBScript
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
4 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) MCSE
1 1 (8.333%) MCSA
1 1 (8.333%) ISEB
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (8.333%) MCTS
1 1 (8.333%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.333%) XenApp
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) EPiServer
2 1 (8.333%) SolarWinds
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco
2 1 (8.333%) HP
2 1 (8.333%) Citrix
2 1 (8.333%) VMware