Cheshire ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Basingstoke Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hertfordshire Hitchin Hove Hull Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	31
Rank change on same period last year	-32
Matching contract IT job ads	16	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	4.819 %	14.87 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£216
Average daily rate	-	£216
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£216
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£283
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£33.00
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-16.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	332	195
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.441 %	0.200 %
Daily rates quoted	98	36
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£334
Average daily rate	£382	£360
% change on same period last year	+6.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.22	£26.86
Average hourly rate	£36.74	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+30.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.25	£29.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.60	£33.11
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
ASP North West

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP across the Cheshire 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 IT contract jobs citing ASP across the Cheshire region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing ASP within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Warrington	-3	3	-	-

ASP North West

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 19 (65.52 %) .NET 2 16 (55.17 %) C# 3 15 (51.72 %) HTML 4 14 (48.28 %) CSS 5 13 (44.83 %) SQL Server 5 13 (44.83 %) XML 6 11 (37.93 %) ASP.NET 7 10 (34.48 %) JavaScript 8 9 (31.03 %) SQL 8 9 (31.03 %) VB 9 7 (24.14 %) VB.NET 10 6 (20.69 %) Oracle 10 6 (20.69 %) PHP 10 6 (20.69 %) Java 10 6 (20.69 %) Microsoft

10 6 (20.69 %) Intranet 10 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server 2000 10 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server 2005 11 5 (17.24 %) WebServices 11 5 (17.24 %) JSP 12 4 (13.79 %) MS Excel 12 4 (13.79 %) SharePoint 12 4 (13.79 %) AJAX 13 3 (10.34 %) XHTML 13 3 (10.34 %) Windows 13 3 (10.34 %) Uniface 13 3 (10.34 %) Finance 13 3 (10.34 %) Hibernate 13 3 (10.34 %) Content Management 13 3 (10.34 %) Spring

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 19 (65.52 %) .NET 2 15 (51.72 %) HTML 3 14 (48.28 %) CSS 4 13 (44.83 %) XML 5 11 (37.93 %) ASP.NET 6 5 (17.24 %) JSP 6 5 (17.24 %) WebServices 7 4 (13.79 %) AJAX 8 3 (10.34 %) XSLT 8 3 (10.34 %) XHTML 8 3 (10.34 %) Hibernate 8 3 (10.34 %) Spring 9 2 (6.897 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 2 (6.897 %) WebSphere 9 2 (6.897 %) Servlets 9 2 (6.897 %) J2EE 10 1 (3.448 %) Struts 10 1 (3.448 %) Velocity 10 1 (3.448 %) FreeMarker 10 1 (3.448 %) SiteMesh	Application Platforms 1 4 (13.79 %) SharePoint 2 3 (10.34 %) Apache 3 2 (6.897 %) IIS 4 1 (3.448 %) ArcIMS
Applications 1 4 (13.79 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.897 %) Doxygen	Communications & Networking 1 6 (20.69 %) Intranet 2 2 (6.897 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (44.83 %) SQL Server 2 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server 2000 2 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (10.34 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (6.897 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (3.448 %) MS Access 5 1 (3.448 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (3.448 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (6.897 %) NUnit 2 2 (6.897 %) Selenium 3 1 (3.448 %) Flash 3 1 (3.448 %) Eclipse 3 1 (3.448 %) Visual Studio
General 1 3 (10.34 %) Finance 2 2 (6.897 %) Banking 2 2 (6.897 %) Online Banking 3 1 (3.448 %) Construction 3 1 (3.448 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 24 (82.76 %) Developer 2 8 (27.59 %) Web Developer 3 5 (17.24 %) Analyst 4 4 (13.79 %) Programmer 5 3 (10.34 %) Analyst Programmer 5 3 (10.34 %) Analyst Developer 5 3 (10.34 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) C# Analyst Programmer 6 2 (6.897 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 6 2 (6.897 %) Server Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) .NET Programmer 6 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) Web Designer 6 2 (6.897 %) Systems Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) Database Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) Java Developer 6 2 (6.897 %) Software Developer 7 1 (3.448 %) Coordinator 7 1 (3.448 %) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) N-Tier 1 2 (6.897 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 3 (10.34 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.34 %) Content Management 2 2 (6.897 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (6.897 %) UML 2 2 (6.897 %) CRM 2 2 (6.897 %) Risk Analysis 2 2 (6.897 %) System Testing 3 1 (3.448 %) ITIL 3 1 (3.448 %) OO 3 1 (3.448 %) Web Development 3 1 (3.448 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 16 (55.17 %) C# 2 10 (34.48 %) JavaScript 3 9 (31.03 %) SQL 3 9 (31.03 %) VB 4 7 (24.14 %) VB.NET 5 6 (20.69 %) Java 5 6 (20.69 %) PHP 6 3 (10.34 %) DHTML 6 3 (10.34 %) VBScript 6 3 (10.34 %) VBA 6 3 (10.34 %) Uniface 7 2 (6.897 %) VB6 7 2 (6.897 %) COBOL 8 1 (3.448 %) C++ 8 1 (3.448 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (3.448 %) PHP5
Vendors 1 6 (20.69 %) Oracle 1 6 (20.69 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.448 %) Citrix 2 1 (3.448 %) Tridion