Cheshire ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Cheshire 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Gwynedd Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	36
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	67	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.109 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	30.59 %	13.84 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£192	£300
Average daily rate	£197	£340
% change on same period last year	-42.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£202	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£322
% change on same period last year	-10.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£26.25
Average hourly rate	£25.25	£29.38
% change on same period last year	-14.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.50	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.39	£31.57
% change on same period last year	-16.40 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	219	159
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.357 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	36	28
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£316
Average daily rate	£300	£326
% change on same period last year	-7.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.76	£25.43
Average hourly rate	£29.72	£27.90
% change on same period last year	+6.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.69	£30.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£31.31
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
ASP.NET 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.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 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 Cheshire region.

ASP.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 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
Chester	+5	15	£171	-
Knutsford	-	13	-	-
Warrington	0	7	-	-
Crewe	-	2	£300	-

ASP.NET North West

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 114 (100.00 %) .NET 2 80 (70.18 %) C# 3 46 (40.35 %) JavaScript 4 44 (38.60 %) SQL Server 5 39 (34.21 %) SQL 5 39 (34.21 %) HTML 6 37 (32.46 %) CSS 7 29 (25.44 %) WebServices 8 27 (23.68 %) Visual Studio 9 26 (22.81 %) SQL Server 2005 10 24 (21.05 %) XML 11 23 (20.18 %) ASP 12 19 (16.67 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 18 (15.79 %) Microsoft 13 18 (15.79 %) ArcIMS

14 17 (14.91 %) Health 14 17 (14.91 %) Dreamweaver 14 17 (14.91 %) Photoshop 15 16 (14.04 %) VB.NET 15 16 (14.04 %) GIS 16 14 (12.28 %) ArcGIS 16 14 (12.28 %) SOAP 16 14 (12.28 %) OO 17 13 (11.40 %) AJAX 18 11 (9.649 %) OOP 19 10 (8.772 %) OOD 19 10 (8.772 %) Windows 19 10 (8.772 %) ArcObjects 20 9 (7.895 %) German Language 20 9 (7.895 %) OOA/OOD

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 114 (100.00 %) .NET 2 39 (34.21 %) HTML 3 37 (32.46 %) CSS 4 29 (25.44 %) WebServices 5 24 (21.05 %) XML 6 23 (20.18 %) ASP 7 19 (16.67 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 14 (12.28 %) SOAP 9 13 (11.40 %) AJAX 10 10 (8.772 %) ArcObjects 11 4 (3.509 %) WCF 11 4 (3.509 %) WF 11 4 (3.509 %) ActiveX 12 3 (2.632 %) J2EE 13 2 (1.754 %) ADO.NET 13 2 (1.754 %) XSD 13 2 (1.754 %) XSL 13 2 (1.754 %) XSLT 13 2 (1.754 %) XHTML 13 2 (1.754 %) J2ME	Application Platforms 1 18 (15.79 %) ArcIMS 2 14 (12.28 %) ArcGIS 3 7 (6.140 %) ArcSDE 4 6 (5.263 %) IIS 5 5 (4.386 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 5 (4.386 %) CMS 6 3 (2.632 %) SharePoint 7 2 (1.754 %) ColdFusion 7 2 (1.754 %) BizTalk Server 8 1 (0.877 %) Apache 8 1 (0.877 %) Immediacy CMS
Applications 1 17 (14.91 %) Photoshop 2 3 (2.632 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.754 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (0.877 %) Doxygen 4 1 (0.877 %) InfoPath 4 1 (0.877 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.877 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (1.754 %) Navision 1 2 (1.754 %) Dynamics CRM 2 1 (0.877 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.877 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 7 (6.140 %) Internet 2 4 (3.509 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.877 %) SSL 3 1 (0.877 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 44 (38.60 %) SQL Server 2 26 (22.81 %) SQL Server 2005 3 16 (14.04 %) GIS 4 9 (7.895 %) SQL Server 2000 5 8 (7.018 %) MySQL 6 2 (1.754 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 27 (23.68 %) Visual Studio 2 17 (14.91 %) Dreamweaver 3 5 (4.386 %) Flash 4 2 (1.754 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.877 %) NUnit 5 1 (0.877 %) Selenium	General 1 17 (14.91 %) Health 2 3 (2.632 %) Finance 3 2 (1.754 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (1.754 %) Retail 3 2 (1.754 %) Marketing 3 2 (1.754 %) Telecoms 4 1 (0.877 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (0.877 %) Chemicals 4 1 (0.877 %) Government
Job Titles 1 92 (80.70 %) Developer 2 48 (42.11 %) .NET Developer 3 28 (24.56 %) C# Developer 4 27 (23.68 %) Web Developer 5 26 (22.81 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 22 (19.30 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 7 (6.140 %) GIS Developer 7 7 (6.140 %) .NET Web Developer 7 7 (6.140 %) C# Web Developer 8 6 (5.263 %) SQL Developer 9 4 (3.509 %) Analyst 9 4 (3.509 %) Software Developer 9 4 (3.509 %) Systems Support 10 3 (2.632 %) Programmer 10 3 (2.632 %) Applications Support 10 3 (2.632 %) Analyst Programmer 10 3 (2.632 %) SQL Server Developer 11 2 (1.754 %) PHP Developer 11 2 (1.754 %) VB.NET Developer 11 2 (1.754 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (7.895 %) German Language 2 5 (4.386 %) Dutch Language 3 4 (3.509 %) N-Tier 4 3 (2.632 %) NHS 4 3 (2.632 %) W3C 5 1 (0.877 %) Replication 5 1 (0.877 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 10 (8.772 %) Windows 2 2 (1.754 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (1.754 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (0.877 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (12.28 %) OO 2 11 (9.649 %) OOP 3 10 (8.772 %) OOD 4 9 (7.895 %) OOA/OOD 5 7 (6.140 %) PRINCE2 5 7 (6.140 %) Web Development 6 6 (5.263 %) Project Management 7 5 (4.386 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (3.509 %) Network Load Balancing 9 3 (2.632 %) Content Management 9 3 (2.632 %) Workflow 10 2 (1.754 %) Scrum 10 2 (1.754 %) Risk Management 10 2 (1.754 %) B2B 10 2 (1.754 %) CRM 10 2 (1.754 %) Systems Analysis 11 1 (0.877 %) UML 11 1 (0.877 %) Change Management 11 1 (0.877 %) Web Design 11 1 (0.877 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 80 (70.18 %) C# 2 46 (40.35 %) JavaScript 3 39 (34.21 %) SQL 4 16 (14.04 %) VB.NET 5 7 (6.140 %) Transact-SQL 5 7 (6.140 %) PHP 6 4 (3.509 %) ActionScript 6 4 (3.509 %) VB 7 3 (2.632 %) VB6 7 3 (2.632 %) C++ 8 2 (1.754 %) DHTML 9 1 (0.877 %) Java 9 1 (0.877 %) VBScript 9 1 (0.877 %) PHP5 9 1 (0.877 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (2.632 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (1.754 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.754 %) SLA 2 1 (0.877 %) WAI 2 1 (0.877 %) QA	Vendors 1 18 (15.79 %) Microsoft 2 4 (3.509 %) ESRI 3 3 (2.632 %) Oracle 4 2 (1.754 %) Tridion 5 1 (0.877 %) Adobe 5 1 (0.877 %) Macromedia 5 1 (0.877 %) Sitecore