The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 23 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 East of England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 109 103 82
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -21
Contract jobs citing ASP 7 31 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.330% 1.051% 1.531%
As % of the Application Development category 1.171% 3.713% 5.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 20
Average daily rate £325 £250 £203
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% +23.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £150 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £470 £278
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £323 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.20% +17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £36.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +73.49%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £21.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year
+53.57% -41.25%
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
598 835 781
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 28.21% 28.31% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 431 358
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 58 60
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.40 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP
England

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England ASP Jobs Demand Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England ASP Daily Rate Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East of England ASP Daily Rate Histogram

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England ASP Hourly Rate Trend

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex +4 4 £363 -
Suffolk +9 2 £300 +50.00%
Hertfordshire +4 1 £275 -
ASP
England

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 20 (66.67%) .NET
2 17 (56.67%) ASP.NET
3 15 (50.00%) C#
4 14 (46.67%) VB
4 14 (46.67%) WCF
5 13 (43.33%) SQL
6 12 (40.00%) jQuery
7 11 (36.67%) HTML
7 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
8 10 (33.33%) Oracle
8 10 (33.33%) Windows
9 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
9 9 (30.00%) CSS
10 8 (26.67%) DHTML
10 8 (26.67%) VB6
11 7 (23.33%) MVC
11 7 (23.33%) Finance
11 7 (23.33%) LINQ
11 7 (23.33%) NHibernate
11 7 (23.33%) XML
12 6 (20.00%) COM+
12 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
12 6 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
13 5 (16.67%) Ajax
13 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
13 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
13 5 (16.67%) IIS
13 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
13 5 (16.67%) Java
13 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 20 (66.67%) .NET
2 17 (56.67%) ASP.NET
3 14 (46.67%) WCF
4 12 (40.00%) jQuery
5 11 (36.67%) HTML
6 9 (30.00%) CSS
7 8 (26.67%) DHTML
8 7 (23.33%) LINQ
8 7 (23.33%) NHibernate
8 7 (23.33%) XML
9 6 (20.00%) COM+
10 5 (16.67%) Ajax
10 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (13.33%) KnockoutJS
11 4 (13.33%) XSLT
11 4 (13.33%) Web Services
12 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
12 3 (10.00%) ADO.NET
13 2 (6.667%) Sass
13 2 (6.667%) LESS
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) IIS
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.667%) CMS
4 1 (3.333%) ColdFusion
4 1 (3.333%) Apache
4 1 (3.333%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Office
1 3 (10.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.333%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (3.333%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) MS Project
2 1 (3.333%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Sage 200
2 2 (6.667%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) HTTP
1 2 (6.667%) TCP/IP
1 2 (6.667%) DNS
2 1 (3.333%) Firewall
2 1 (3.333%) Internet
2 1 (3.333%) LAN
2 1 (3.333%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (3.333%) DTS
5 1 (3.333%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.333%) MS Access
5 1 (3.333%) DB2
5 1 (3.333%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JSUnit
2 2 (6.667%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.333%) FrontPage
3 1 (3.333%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Banking
3 1 (3.333%) Law
3 1 (3.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Developer
2 11 (36.67%) .NET Developer
3 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Classic ASP Developer
4 4 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) ASP Developer
4 4 (13.33%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.333%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.333%) Graphic Designer
6 1 (3.333%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Web Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.333%) Mathematics
1 1 (3.333%) Computer Science
1 1 (3.333%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.667%) Linux
3 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) MVC
2 6 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
4 4 (13.33%) Investment Management
4 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (10.00%) OOD
5 3 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
6 2 (6.667%) Image Processing
6 2 (6.667%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (6.667%) Analytics
6 2 (6.667%) ITIL
6 2 (6.667%) OO
6 2 (6.667%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (6.667%) SEO
6 2 (6.667%) Content Management
6 2 (6.667%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) C#
2 14 (46.67%) VB
3 13 (43.33%) SQL
4 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (26.67%) VB6
6 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 5 (16.67%) Java
7 4 (13.33%) PHP
8 3 (10.00%) VBA
9 2 (6.667%) VBScript
10 1 (3.333%) Ruby
10 1 (3.333%) PL/1
10 1 (3.333%) Python
10 1 (3.333%) PL/SQL
10 1 (3.333%) Perl
10 1 (3.333%) C++
10 1 (3.333%) F#
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.333%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) Sage
4 2 (6.667%) Adobe
4 2 (6.667%) Omniture
4 2 (6.667%) Google
4 2 (6.667%) FatWire
4 2 (6.667%) VMware
5 1 (3.333%) Sybase
Norwich, East Anglia
Net/MVC 4/ASP/Design/Responsive Design.Net Developer - A large consultancy i am working with is looking for a .Net developer to work on an initial 6...
Salt
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
Witham, South East
To be successful in this role you will need to have experience with Classic ASP, VBScript, Windows Server 2000 - 2003, MS SQL Server 8, DTS and IIS 6.
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £125 - £175 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Chelmsford, Essex
It is because of this that this opportunity has arisen for a Web Systems Support professional with good Classic ASP, VB Script and IIS 5 & 6 skills... Skills...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £175 - 200 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Essex
I am looking for a candidate to carry out a Web Systems Support role with Classic ASP, VBScript and IIS 5 & 6 experience to join a Healthcare company...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £150 - £200 per day + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013