Cambridge ASP.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Cambridge 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.NET over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rochester Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	22
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	23	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	17.16 %	25.36 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£264
Average daily rate	£328	£280
% change on same period last year	+17.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£296
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£317
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£33.02
% change on same period last year	-1.64 %
Application Development Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	134	138
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.179 %	0.140 %
Daily rates quoted	25	29
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£271
Average daily rate	£340	£278
% change on same period last year	+22.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.48	£32.07
Average hourly rate	£29.08	£32.57
% change on same period last year	-10.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.68	£33.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
ASP.NET Cambridgeshire

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.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 80 (100.00 %) .NET 2 65 (81.25 %) C# 3 55 (68.75 %) SQL Server 4 39 (48.75 %) XML 5 26 (32.50 %) Windows 6 23 (28.75 %) ADO.NET 7 22 (27.50 %) WebServices 8 20 (25.00 %) SQL 9 15 (18.75 %) Microsoft 9 15 (18.75 %) Agile Software Development 10 14 (17.50 %) BizTalk Server 11 13 (16.25 %) Active Directory 12 12 (15.00 %) Visual Studio 13 11 (13.75 %) OOD 13 11 (13.75 %) SQL Server 2005

14 10 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 14 10 (12.50 %) OO 15 9 (11.25 %) SharePoint 15 9 (11.25 %) CSS 15 9 (11.25 %) VB.NET 15 9 (11.25 %) JavaScript 16 8 (10.00 %) WCF 17 7 (8.750 %) AJAX 17 7 (8.750 %) WinForms 18 6 (7.500 %) MSI 18 6 (7.500 %) InstallShield 18 6 (7.500 %) C 18 6 (7.500 %) COM+ 18 6 (7.500 %) WF 18 6 (7.500 %) PowerShell

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 80 (100.00 %) .NET 2 39 (48.75 %) XML 3 23 (28.75 %) ADO.NET 4 22 (27.50 %) WebServices 5 9 (11.25 %) CSS 6 8 (10.00 %) WCF 7 7 (8.750 %) WinForms 7 7 (8.750 %) AJAX 8 6 (7.500 %) COM+ 8 6 (7.500 %) WF 9 5 (6.250 %) HTML 9 5 (6.250 %) XSD 10 4 (5.000 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (5.000 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 3 (3.750 %) WPF 12 2 (2.500 %) Silverlight 13 1 (1.250 %) SOAP 13 1 (1.250 %) ArcObjects 13 1 (1.250 %) XSLT 13 1 (1.250 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 14 (17.50 %) BizTalk Server 2 9 (11.25 %) SharePoint 3 2 (2.500 %) IIS 4 1 (1.250 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 3 (3.750 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.500 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.750 %) Internet 2 1 (1.250 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 55 (68.75 %) SQL Server 2 11 (13.75 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (3.750 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (2.500 %) GIS 5 2 (2.500 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (2.500 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (1.250 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (1.250 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (1.250 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 12 (15.00 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (7.500 %) MSI 2 6 (7.500 %) InstallShield
General 1 4 (5.000 %) Telecoms 2 2 (2.500 %) Construction 2 2 (2.500 %) Government 2 2 (2.500 %) Banking 2 2 (2.500 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.250 %) Music 3 1 (1.250 %) Finance 3 1 (1.250 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 66 (82.50 %) Developer 2 38 (47.50 %) .NET Developer 3 32 (40.00 %) C# Developer 4 26 (32.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 25 (31.25 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 13 (16.25 %) SQL Developer 7 8 (10.00 %) SQL Server Developer 8 7 (8.750 %) Web Developer 9 6 (7.500 %) Installations Engineer 9 6 (7.500 %) Software Engineer 10 5 (6.250 %) Applications Packager 10 5 (6.250 %) Software Developer 11 4 (5.000 %) .NET Web Developer 12 3 (3.750 %) C Developer 12 3 (3.750 %) C# Software Engineer 13 2 (2.500 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 13 2 (2.500 %) CSharp Software Developer 13 2 (2.500 %) .NET Software Engineer 13 2 (2.500 %) Senior C# Developer 13 2 (2.500 %) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.500 %) Client/Server 1 2 (2.500 %) Arabic Language 2 1 (1.250 %) Multithreading 2 1 (1.250 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.250 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.250 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 26 (32.50 %) Windows 2 2 (2.500 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.250 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (18.75 %) Agile Software Development 2 11 (13.75 %) OOD 3 10 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 3 10 (12.50 %) OO 4 5 (6.250 %) Workflow 5 3 (3.750 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (3.750 %) OOP 5 3 (3.750 %) Web Development 6 2 (2.500 %) Identity Management 6 2 (2.500 %) Data Protection 7 1 (1.250 %) Load Balancing 7 1 (1.250 %) Continuous Integration 7 1 (1.250 %) Performance Management 7 1 (1.250 %) Data Management 7 1 (1.250 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (1.250 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (1.250 %) UML 7 1 (1.250 %) Web Design 7 1 (1.250 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 65 (81.25 %) C# 2 20 (25.00 %) SQL 3 9 (11.25 %) JavaScript 3 9 (11.25 %) VB.NET 4 6 (7.500 %) C 4 6 (7.500 %) PowerShell 5 2 (2.500 %) Python 6 1 (1.250 %) PowerHouse 6 1 (1.250 %) VB6 6 1 (1.250 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (1.250 %) C++ 6 1 (1.250 %) Delphi 6 1 (1.250 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (1.250 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (1.250 %) PhD	System Software 1 13 (16.25 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.250 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 15 (18.75 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.500 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.250 %) ION Trading