Devon ASP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Devon 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 over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dudley Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Romford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witney Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	38
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching contract IT job ads	23	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	41.82 %	1.316 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£367	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£383	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£252	£293
% change on same period last year	-14.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.64	-
Average hourly rate	£20.57	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.56	£30.01
% change on same period last year	-24.85 %
Application Development Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	55	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.090 %	0.083 %
Daily rates quoted	11	32
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£350
Average daily rate	£311	£354
% change on same period last year	-12.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.16	£19.93
Average hourly rate	£20.39	£22.81
% change on same period last year	-10.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.63	£25.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£31.31
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
ASP South 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 Devon 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 Devon region.

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

ASP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the Devon 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
Exeter	-	12	-	-
Plymouth	-	2	£375	-

ASP South West

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 16 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 14 (58.33 %) VB 2 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server 3 13 (54.17 %) HTML 4 12 (50.00 %) Web Development 5 11 (45.83 %) VB6 5 11 (45.83 %) MS Access 6 10 (41.67 %) Visual Studio 7 9 (37.50 %) ODBC 8 7 (29.17 %) Client/Server 8 7 (29.17 %) Broadband 8 7 (29.17 %) VoIP 8 7 (29.17 %) TCP/IP 8 7 (29.17 %) RDBMS 8 7 (29.17 %) UNIX

8 7 (29.17 %) IPTV 8 7 (29.17 %) Wireless 8 7 (29.17 %) Telecoms 9 5 (20.83 %) C 9 5 (20.83 %) AIX 9 5 (20.83 %) Sun 10 3 (12.50 %) VBScript 10 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 10 3 (12.50 %) .NET 11 2 (8.333 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 2 (8.333 %) AJAX 11 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 11 2 (8.333 %) XML 11 2 (8.333 %) Windows

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 13 (54.17 %) HTML 2 9 (37.50 %) ODBC 3 3 (12.50 %) .NET 3 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (8.333 %) XML 4 2 (8.333 %) AJAX 4 2 (8.333 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 1 (4.167 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 1 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (29.17 %) Broadband 1 7 (29.17 %) VoIP 1 7 (29.17 %) TCP/IP 1 7 (29.17 %) Wireless 2 2 (8.333 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server 2 11 (45.83 %) MS Access 3 7 (29.17 %) RDBMS 4 1 (4.167 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 10 (41.67 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (4.167 %) Flash
General 1 7 (29.17 %) Telecoms 2 1 (4.167 %) Criminal Justice	Job Titles 1 19 (79.17 %) Developer 2 9 (37.50 %) Software Developer 3 6 (25.00 %) SQL Developer 3 6 (25.00 %) SQL Server Developer 4 5 (20.83 %) Applications Support 4 5 (20.83 %) Field Engineer 4 5 (20.83 %) VB Developer 5 3 (12.50 %) Analyst 5 3 (12.50 %) Developer Analyst 5 3 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 5 3 (12.50 %) Programmer 6 2 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Software Programmer 6 2 (8.333 %) Software Support Engineer 6 2 (8.333 %) Software Engineer 6 2 (8.333 %) ASP Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Web Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Server Analyst 7 1 (4.167 %) VB Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (29.17 %) Client/Server 1 7 (29.17 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 7 (29.17 %) UNIX 2 5 (20.83 %) AIX 3 2 (8.333 %) Solaris 3 2 (8.333 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (50.00 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 16 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 14 (58.33 %) VB 3 11 (45.83 %) VB6 4 5 (20.83 %) C 5 3 (12.50 %) VBScript 6 2 (8.333 %) VB.NET 6 2 (8.333 %) C# 7 1 (4.167 %) Perl 7 1 (4.167 %) PHP
Vendors 1 5 (20.83 %) Sun 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft