The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET
Rank 41 39 39
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 1806 2092 2493
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 4.174% 3.950% 4.354%
As % of the Application Development category 14.90% 14.93% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1156 1331 1577
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 49 49
Average hourly rate £39.51 £25.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.02% -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.40 £15.32 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £91.50 £40.80 £37.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -10.71%
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12120 14009 16221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 28.01% 26.45% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7804 8578 9744
Average daily rate £375 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 357 519
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
ASP.NET
UK

ASP.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England ASP.NET Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

England ASP.NET Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England ASP.NET Daily Rate Histogram

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England ASP.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England ASP.NET Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +2 783 £400 +6.66% 404
South East -9 298 £340 +4.61% 276
North West +11 164 £300 +9.09% 260
East of England +4 145 £285 -0.86% 147
West Midlands +3 113 £286 -4.58% 147
South West +5 109 £300 -8.39% 98
Yorkshire -4 109 £290 -3.33% 87
East Midlands -6 70 £300 +9.09% 66
North East +10 11 £283 -22.60% 25
Midlands +1 3 £450 +20.00%
South Coast - - - -
ASP.NET
UK

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 3718 (99.97%) .NET
2 3012 (80.99%) C#
3 2056 (55.28%) SQL Server
4 1537 (41.33%) MVC
5 1501 (40.36%) JavaScript
6 1397 (37.56%) SQL
7 1203 (32.35%) CSS
8 1178 (31.68%) HTML
9 1140 (30.65%) jQuery
10 1135 (30.52%) ASP.NET MVC
11 954 (25.65%) Microsoft
12 862 (23.18%) WCF
13 832 (22.37%) .NET Framework
14 740 (19.90%) XML
15 724 (19.47%) Web Services
16 722 (19.41%) TDD
17 685 (18.42%) Visual Studio
18 671 (18.04%) SQL Server 2008
19 640 (17.21%) Agile Software Development
20 594 (15.97%) Ajax
21 585 (15.73%) SharePoint
22 533 (14.33%) Scrum
23 532 (14.30%) Finance
24 519 (13.96%) Windows
25 452 (12.15%) VB.NET
26 433 (11.64%) T-SQL
27 395 (10.62%) OO
28 372 (10.00%) E-Commerce
29 363 (9.761%) HTML5
30 361 (9.707%) SQL Server 2005

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 3718 (99.97%) .NET
2 1203 (32.35%) CSS
3 1178 (31.68%) HTML
4 1140 (30.65%) jQuery
5 1135 (30.52%) ASP.NET MVC
6 862 (23.18%) WCF
7 832 (22.37%) .NET Framework
8 740 (19.90%) XML
9 724 (19.47%) Web Services
10 594 (15.97%) Ajax
11 363 (9.761%) HTML5
12 347 (9.330%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 340 (9.142%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 259 (6.964%) XSLT
15 249 (6.695%) LINQ
16 228 (6.131%) WPF
17 196 (5.270%) ASP
18 194 (5.216%) Silverlight
19 193 (5.190%) ASP.NET MVC 4
20 190 (5.109%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 585 (15.73%) SharePoint
2 289 (7.771%) CMS
3 268 (7.206%) IIS
4 233 (6.265%) SharePoint 2010
5 134 (3.603%) Umbraco
6 111 (2.985%) BizTalk Server
7 109 (2.931%) Windows Azure
8 81 (2.178%) SharePoint Server
9 80 (2.151%) Sitecore CMS
10 51 (1.371%) SharePoint 2013
11 39 (1.049%) ESB
12 38 (1.022%) Kentico
13 28 (0.753%) EPiServer CMS
14 25 (0.672%) DotNetNuke
14 25 (0.672%) Apache
15 23 (0.618%) OpenROAD
16 20 (0.538%) MS Project Server
16 20 (0.538%) Sitefinity
17 14 (0.376%) WordPress
18 12 (0.323%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 322 (8.658%) MS Excel
2 102 (2.743%) MS Office
3 63 (1.694%) InfoPath
4 55 (1.479%) Photoshop
5 18 (0.484%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.457%) MS Project
7 8 (0.215%) MS PowerPoint
7 8 (0.215%) PowerPivot
8 5 (0.134%) Fireworks
9 4 (0.108%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.108%) Office 365
10 3 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.027%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.027%) PaintShop Pro
Business Applications
1 145 (3.899%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.296%) Visualfiles
2 11 (0.296%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.269%) RMDS
4 9 (0.242%) Adaptiv
5 8 (0.215%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.161%) 3000 Xtra
6 6 (0.161%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.161%) Google Analytics
7 5 (0.134%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.134%) Tridion
8 4 (0.108%) Maximo
8 4 (0.108%) SiteCatalyst
9 3 (0.081%) Bond Adapt
9 3 (0.081%) Agresso
9 3 (0.081%) WebTrends
9 3 (0.081%) LatentZero
10 2 (0.054%) Capstone
10 2 (0.054%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 1 (0.027%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 108 (2.904%) Internet
2 65 (1.748%) Intranet
2 65 (1.748%) HTTP
3 29 (0.780%) TCP/IP
4 27 (0.726%) FTP
5 22 (0.592%) DNS
6 19 (0.511%) Extranet
7 15 (0.403%) LDAP
8 14 (0.376%) SAN
9 11 (0.296%) HTTPS
9 11 (0.296%) Firewall
10 10 (0.269%) SSL
10 10 (0.269%) NAS
11 9 (0.242%) 3G
12 8 (0.215%) 2G
12 8 (0.215%) ATM
12 8 (0.215%) IPv4
12 8 (0.215%) LTE
12 8 (0.215%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.188%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2056 (55.28%) SQL Server
2 671 (18.04%) SQL Server 2008
3 361 (9.707%) SQL Server 2005
4 297 (7.986%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 269 (7.233%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 121 (3.254%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 96 (2.581%) SQL Server 2012
8 65 (1.748%) SQL Server 2000
9 53 (1.425%) DTS
10 52 (1.398%) Data Warehouse
11 51 (1.371%) MySQL
12 40 (1.076%) OLAP
13 33 (0.887%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 33 (0.887%) MS Access
13 33 (0.887%) Oracle 8/8i
13 33 (0.887%) Oracle 10g
14 27 (0.726%) Ingres
15 26 (0.699%) Oracle 11g
16 25 (0.672%) Crystal Reports
17 23 (0.618%) GIS
Development Applications
1 685 (18.42%) Visual Studio
2 297 (7.986%) Team Foundation Server
3 186 (5.001%) Subversion
4 139 (3.738%) NUnit
5 83 (2.232%) SpecFlow
6 70 (1.882%) JIRA
7 66 (1.775%) Git (software)
8 61 (1.640%) Selenium
9 53 (1.425%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 44 (1.183%) TeamCity
11 38 (1.022%) MSTest
12 37 (0.995%) Rhino Mocks
13 32 (0.860%) Moq
14 28 (0.753%) ReSharper
15 26 (0.699%) CruiseControl
15 26 (0.699%) MSBuild
15 26 (0.699%) Jenkins
16 20 (0.538%) Visual Studio Team System
17 15 (0.403%) Mercurial
18 14 (0.376%) Cucumber
General
1 532 (14.30%) Finance
2 284 (7.636%) Banking
3 148 (3.980%) Investment Banking
4 117 (3.146%) Retail
5 77 (2.070%) Back Office
6 72 (1.936%) Telecoms
7 48 (1.291%) Marketing
8 43 (1.156%) Publishing
9 39 (1.049%) Front Office
10 38 (1.022%) Financial Institution
11 26 (0.699%) Law
12 24 (0.645%) Advertising
13 19 (0.511%) Legal
14 18 (0.484%) Games
15 12 (0.323%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.296%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.161%) Multimedia
18 5 (0.134%) French Language
18 5 (0.134%) Automotive
19 4 (0.108%) Military
Job Titles
1 3115 (83.76%) Developer
2 1647 (44.29%) .NET Developer
3 867 (23.31%) C# Developer
4 710 (19.09%) ASP.NET Developer
5 616 (16.56%) C# .NET Developer
6 463 (12.45%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 363 (9.761%) Web Developer
8 238 (6.400%) Senior Developer
9 216 (5.808%) SharePoint Developer
10 188 (5.055%) Analyst
11 130 (3.496%) Software Developer
12 125 (3.361%) .NET Web Developer
13 117 (3.146%) Senior .NET Developer
14 114 (3.065%) SQL Developer
15 95 (2.554%) Programmer
16 91 (2.447%) Architect
17 90 (2.420%) VB.NET Developer
18 89 (2.393%) Agile C# Developer
19 86 (2.312%) Consultant
20 84 (2.259%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 183 (4.921%) N-Tier
2 65 (1.748%) Computer Science
3 64 (1.721%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 55 (1.479%) W3C
5 54 (1.452%) Fixed Income
6 42 (1.129%) NHS
7 41 (1.102%) Mobile App
8 39 (1.049%) Inversion of Control
8 39 (1.049%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (0.914%) SaaS
10 32 (0.860%) Management Information System
11 31 (0.834%) Derivative
12 26 (0.699%) Open Source
13 25 (0.672%) Client/Server
14 19 (0.511%) Social Media
14 19 (0.511%) iPad
14 19 (0.511%) Market Risk
15 17 (0.457%) Hedge funds
15 17 (0.457%) Clustering
16 15 (0.403%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 519 (13.96%) Windows
2 93 (2.501%) Windows Server 2003
3 86 (2.312%) Windows Server 2008
4 60 (1.613%) UNIX
5 54 (1.452%) Linux
6 39 (1.049%) Android
7 33 (0.887%) Windows XP
7 33 (0.887%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.753%) Windows Mobile
9 20 (0.538%) Windows 2000
10 18 (0.484%) Windows 7
11 10 (0.269%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.242%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.242%) Windows NT
13 8 (0.215%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.108%) Windows 2000 Server
14 4 (0.108%) Windows Phone 7
14 4 (0.108%) Windows Phone
14 4 (0.108%) Windows Phone 8
15 3 (0.081%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1537 (41.33%) MVC
2 722 (19.41%) TDD
3 640 (17.21%) Agile Software Development
4 533 (14.33%) Scrum
5 395 (10.62%) OO
6 372 (10.00%) E-Commerce
7 360 (9.680%) Web Development
8 267 (7.179%) BDD
9 237 (6.373%) Unit Testing
10 201 (5.405%) CRM
11 175 (4.706%) UML
12 166 (4.464%) Continuous Integration
13 163 (4.383%) SOA
14 140 (3.764%) Workflow
15 110 (2.958%) OOP
16 108 (2.904%) Business Intelligence
17 106 (2.850%) Kanban
18 104 (2.796%) Migration
19 86 (2.312%) Project Management
20 82 (2.205%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 3012 (80.99%) C#
2 1501 (40.36%) JavaScript
3 1397 (37.56%) SQL
4 452 (12.15%) VB.NET
5 433 (11.64%) T-SQL
6 230 (6.184%) VB
7 189 (5.082%) Java
8 81 (2.178%) VBA
9 75 (2.017%) VB6
9 75 (2.017%) C++
10 73 (1.963%) VBScript
11 67 (1.802%) PHP
12 57 (1.533%) PL/SQL
13 56 (1.506%) PowerShell
14 46 (1.237%) C
15 33 (0.887%) Ruby
16 31 (0.834%) XPath
16 31 (0.834%) XAML
17 29 (0.780%) Perl
18 22 (0.592%) Python
Qualifications
1 191 (5.136%) Degree
2 135 (3.630%) Security Cleared
3 99 (2.662%) Microsoft Certification
4 93 (2.501%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.102%) MCSD
6 40 (1.076%) ISEB
6 40 (1.076%) MCTS
7 27 (0.726%) MCAD
8 25 (0.672%) MCP
9 24 (0.645%) MCPD
10 22 (0.592%) ISTQB
11 19 (0.511%) DV Cleared
12 14 (0.376%) PhD
13 11 (0.296%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.215%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.161%) MCITP
16 5 (0.134%) PMP
17 4 (0.108%) MCSE
18 3 (0.081%) BC Cleared
19 2 (0.054%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (2.151%) QA
2 21 (0.565%) SLA
3 15 (0.403%) WCAG
4 11 (0.296%) ISO 9001
5 10 (0.269%) HL7
6 8 (0.215%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.188%) TickIT
8 3 (0.081%) Section 508
9 2 (0.054%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.054%) Dublin Core
9 2 (0.054%) WAI
9 2 (0.054%) Basel III
10 1 (0.027%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.027%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 61 (1.640%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.565%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.350%) VMware ESX
4 10 (0.269%) XenApp
5 9 (0.242%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.215%) vSphere
6 8 (0.215%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 5 (0.134%) ProxySG
8 4 (0.108%) LiteSpeed
9 3 (0.081%) Nmap
9 3 (0.081%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.054%) UAG
11 1 (0.027%) Cygwin
11 1 (0.027%) Snort
11 1 (0.027%) NDS
11 1 (0.027%) Samba
Systems Management
1 31 (0.834%) HP Quality Center
2 16 (0.430%) SCOM
3 8 (0.215%) NetBackup
3 8 (0.215%) Backup Exec
3 8 (0.215%) Legato
3 8 (0.215%) SCCM
4 7 (0.188%) Control-M
5 6 (0.161%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (0.134%) WMI
7 4 (0.108%) SCVMM
7 4 (0.108%) Puppet
8 3 (0.081%) OpenView
8 3 (0.081%) Nagios
9 1 (0.027%) Nessus
9 1 (0.027%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.027%) MIIS
Vendors
1 954 (25.65%) Microsoft
2 299 (8.040%) Oracle
3 94 (2.528%) Sitecore
4 71 (1.909%) EPiServer
5 63 (1.694%) Telerik
6 41 (1.102%) Google
7 40 (1.076%) HP
8 37 (0.995%) VMware
9 32 (0.860%) Adobe
9 32 (0.860%) Citrix
10 31 (0.834%) Twitter
11 26 (0.699%) DevExpress
12 25 (0.672%) IBM
13 23 (0.618%) Business Objects
14 20 (0.538%) SAP
15 17 (0.457%) Sybase
16 15 (0.403%) RedDot
16 15 (0.403%) Infragistics
16 15 (0.403%) Reuters
17 14 (0.376%) Facebook
London
Location: Central London Day rate: £300 - £400 per day DOE Start date: ASAP Duration: 3 - 6 Months + future extensions Developer - C# / .NET - CONTRACT - London .NET (C#) Software developer...
Verticality Ltd
Rate: £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Billingham, North East
Computer Futures are currently looking for a .Net developer for a 6 month period in the North East of England... The successful candidate will be working on developing...
Computer Futures
Posted: 5 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
They require a Web Developer with Umbraco experience for an initial 3 month contract. This is an Umbraco development role across all layers, strong experience with SQL Server,...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted: 13 June 2013
Manchester, North West
They require a Web Developer with Umbraco experience for an initial 3 month contract. This is an Umbraco development role across all layers, strong experience with SQL Server,...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted: 13 June 2013
Preston, North West
I am recruiting for an ASP.NET Developer for a 3 month contract to be based partly from Preston, partly from home... Key skills for this role include; -...
Computer Futures
Rate: £150 - £160 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Wiltshire
Sanderson
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Witham, South East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £150.00 - £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 3 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 2 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £200 - £250 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Leicester, East Midlands
Computer Futures
Posted: 31 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Smart Sourcing
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Computer Futures
Posted: 12 June 2013
West Midlands
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 17 June 2013
West London
Mint
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West London
MINT Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Slough, Thames Valley
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £240 - £280 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Witham, South East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £180 - £250 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
North West England
Amoria Bond
Posted: 4 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Amoria Bond
Posted: 13 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £330.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Norfolk
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
Understanding Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013