Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the England region.

 Microsoft ASP.NET
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank313324
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-9
Matching contract IT job ads199514243704
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England4.451 %3.896 %4.826 %
As % of the Application Development category16.32 %17.43 %19.66 %
Daily rates quoted10195541110
Average daily rate£325£341£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.760 %-2.500 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£213£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£475£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£270£323
% change year-on-year
+1.850 %-16.27 %
Hourly rates quoted89100267
Average hourly rate£28.50£29.10£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.060 %-3.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£18.25£17.50£22.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£35.50£42.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£26.90£30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.240 %-10.35 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12224817218836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England27.28 %22.36 %24.54 %
Daily rates quoted634629246226
Average daily rate£385£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4074591222
Average hourly rate£30.00£28.50£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-10.93 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.25£15.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
ASP.NET UKASP.NET
UK

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.

ASP.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

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 England region.

England ASP.NET Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 March 2010.

England ASP.NET Daily Rate Histogram

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 England region.

England ASP.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The 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 March 2010.

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 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-11078£383-4.37 %
South EastUp+15315£300+20.00 %
North WestDown-6133£244-20.73 %
South WestUp+3115£245-10.90 %
YorkshireUp+6104£275-8.33 %
East of EnglandUp+2299£290+5.45 %
West MidlandsUp+589£263+5.00 %
East MidlandsDown-1128£275+22.22 %
MidlandsUp+417£275-21.42 %
North EastUp+514£185-43.07 %
ASP.NET UKASP.NET
UK

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

13622 (99.61 %).NET
22785 (76.60 %)C#
32150 (59.13 %)SQL Server
41137 (31.27 %)SQL
51000 (27.50 %)JavaScript
6998 (27.45 %)SQL Server 2005
7893 (24.56 %)CSS
8843 (23.18 %)HTML
9807 (22.19 %)XML
10691 (19.00 %)Microsoft
11670 (18.43 %)Web Services
12650 (17.88 %)Visual Studio
13636 (17.49 %)AJAX
14602 (16.56 %)SharePoint
15581 (15.98 %)VB.NET
16488 (13.42 %).NET Framework
17439 (12.07 %)OO
18430 (11.83 %)Windows
19428 (11.77 %)WCF
20408 (11.22 %)T-SQL
21398 (10.95 %)Agile Software Development
21398 (10.95 %)SQL Server 2008
22390 (10.73 %)Banking
23382 (10.51 %)Finance
24351 (9.653 %)TDD
25330 (9.076 %)MVC
26327 (8.993 %)Web Development
27323 (8.883 %)SharePoint Server 2007
28312 (8.581 %)SQL Server 2000
29306 (8.416 %)XHTML

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13622 (99.61 %).NET
2893 (24.56 %)CSS
3843 (23.18 %)HTML
4807 (22.19 %)XML
5670 (18.43 %)Web Services
6636 (17.49 %)AJAX
7488 (13.42 %).NET Framework
8428 (11.77 %)WCF
9306 (8.416 %)XHTML
10304 (8.361 %)ASP
11303 (8.333 %)jQuery
12270 (7.426 %)XSLT
13237 (6.518 %)WPF
14225 (6.188 %)WinForms
15209 (5.748 %)ASP.NET 2.0
16206 (5.666 %)Silverlight
17189 (5.198 %)NHibernate
18150 (4.125 %)ASP.NET MVC
19145 (3.988 %)LINQ
20136 (3.740 %)WF
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1602 (16.56 %)SharePoint
2323 (8.883 %)SharePoint Server 2007
3269 (7.398 %)IIS
4171 (4.703 %)CMS
595 (2.613 %)BizTalk Server
664 (1.760 %)EPiServer
747 (1.293 %)SharePoint Portal Server
834 (0.935 %)Apache
927 (0.743 %)Sitecore CMS
1025 (0.688 %)Umbraco
1123 (0.633 %)Tomcat
1221 (0.578 %)DotNetNuke
1319 (0.523 %)MS Exchange
1415 (0.413 %)Rendezvous
1513 (0.358 %)ColdFusion
1513 (0.358 %)Content Management Server
1513 (0.358 %)Lotus Notes
1612 (0.330 %)Oracle Workflow
1711 (0.303 %)MQSeries
188 (0.220 %)MTS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1192 (5.281 %)MS Excel
296 (2.640 %)InfoPath
389 (2.448 %)MS Office
462 (1.705 %)Photoshop
519 (0.523 %)MS Visio
618 (0.495 %)Adobe Illustrator
716 (0.440 %)Fireworks
87 (0.193 %)MS Project
96 (0.165 %)Spreadsheet
104 (0.110 %)MS PowerPoint
113 (0.083 %)Acrobat
121 (0.028 %)ArcInfo
121 (0.028 %)RoboHelp
121 (0.028 %)CA Clarity
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
155 (1.513 %)Dynamics CRM
227 (0.743 %)Microsoft CRM
36 (0.165 %)BusinessWorks
45 (0.138 %)Oracle iStore
52 (0.055 %)WebTrends
52 (0.055 %)Pivotal CRM
61 (0.028 %)Summit
61 (0.028 %)Navision
61 (0.028 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
61 (0.028 %)Line 50
61 (0.028 %)AWD
61 (0.028 %)Dynamics NAV
61 (0.028 %)SalesLogix
61 (0.028 %)Dynamics AX
61 (0.028 %)Oracle BPM
61 (0.028 %)Google Analytics
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1121 (3.328 %)Intranet
2109 (2.998 %)Internet
348 (1.320 %)HTTP
419 (0.523 %)FTP
518 (0.495 %)SSL
616 (0.440 %)LDAP
616 (0.440 %)Firewall
714 (0.385 %)Extranet
714 (0.385 %)TCP/IP
810 (0.275 %)DNS
98 (0.220 %)WAN
98 (0.220 %)LAN
106 (0.165 %)SSH
115 (0.138 %)DHCP
124 (0.110 %)NAS
124 (0.110 %)BSS
124 (0.110 %)SMTP
124 (0.110 %)SAN
133 (0.083 %)BIG-IP
142 (0.055 %)3G
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12150 (59.13 %)SQL Server
2998 (27.45 %)SQL Server 2005
3398 (10.95 %)SQL Server 2008
4312 (8.581 %)SQL Server 2000
5239 (6.573 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6220 (6.051 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7138 (3.795 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
889 (2.448 %)MySQL
984 (2.310 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1070 (1.925 %)Oracle 10g
1165 (1.788 %)ETL
1165 (1.788 %)Datawarehouse
1257 (1.568 %)Crystal Reports
1354 (1.485 %)OLAP
1439 (1.073 %)DTS
1532 (0.880 %)Oracle 8/8i
1625 (0.688 %)MS Access
1625 (0.688 %)RDBMS
1721 (0.578 %)BusinessObjects
1820 (0.550 %)Oracle 9i
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1650 (17.88 %)Visual Studio
2200 (5.501 %)NUnit
3139 (3.823 %)Team Foundation Server
492 (2.530 %)Subversion
587 (2.393 %)TeamCity
686 (2.365 %)VSS/SourceSafe
773 (2.008 %)ReSharper
861 (1.678 %)FitNesse
959 (1.623 %)Selenium
1054 (1.485 %)WatiN
1152 (1.430 %)NCover
1249 (1.348 %)WATIR
1338 (1.045 %)csUnit
1435 (0.963 %)ClearCase
1526 (0.715 %)NDepend
1625 (0.688 %)Dreamweaver
1723 (0.633 %)CruiseControl
1818 (0.495 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
1917 (0.468 %)Eclipse
2015 (0.413 %)Visual Studio Team System
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1390 (10.73 %)Banking
2382 (10.51 %)Finance
3249 (6.848 %)Investment Banking
4150 (4.125 %)Front Office
5126 (3.465 %)Government
688 (2.420 %)Insurance
771 (1.953 %)Marketing
771 (1.953 %)Publishing
867 (1.843 %)Health
949 (1.348 %)Retail
1037 (1.018 %)Education
1136 (0.990 %)Back Office
1235 (0.963 %)Telecoms
1326 (0.715 %)Financial Institution
1422 (0.605 %)Legal
1520 (0.550 %)Advertising
1619 (0.523 %)Games
1619 (0.523 %)Law
1718 (0.495 %)Manufacturing
1811 (0.303 %)Automotive
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13038 (83.55 %)Developer
21492 (41.03 %).NET Developer
3903 (24.83 %)C# Developer
4766 (21.07 %)ASP.NET Developer
5454 (12.49 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
6445 (12.24 %)Web Developer
7280 (7.701 %)SharePoint Developer
8279 (7.673 %)Senior Developer
9192 (5.281 %)Analyst
10159 (4.373 %)SQL Developer
11154 (4.235 %).NET Web Developer
12135 (3.713 %)Senior .NET Developer
13113 (3.108 %)Applications Developer
1495 (2.613 %)C# Web Developer
1586 (2.365 %)SQL Server Developer
1685 (2.338 %)Consultant
1779 (2.173 %)VB.NET Developer
1877 (2.118 %)Software Developer
1972 (1.980 %)Silverlight Developer
2069 (1.898 %)Programmer
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1117 (3.218 %)NHS
2100 (2.750 %)N-Tier
387 (2.393 %)Fixed Income
463 (1.733 %)Derivative
548 (1.320 %)Multithreading
641 (1.128 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
740 (1.100 %)W3C
837 (1.018 %)Web 2.0
936 (0.990 %)Credit Risk
1034 (0.935 %)Computer Science
1133 (0.908 %)Client/Server
1226 (0.715 %)Equities
1324 (0.660 %)Market Risk
1423 (0.633 %)Dependency Injection
1522 (0.605 %)Open Source
1617 (0.468 %)Credit Derivative
1714 (0.385 %)Contract for Difference
1714 (0.385 %)Management Information System
1813 (0.358 %)Thin Client
1813 (0.358 %)Fat Client
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1430 (11.83 %)Windows
273 (2.008 %)Windows Server 2003
371 (1.953 %)UNIX
444 (1.210 %)Linux
526 (0.715 %)Windows Server 2008
618 (0.495 %)Windows XP
618 (0.495 %)Solaris
713 (0.358 %)Windows 2000
713 (0.358 %)Windows Vista
89 (0.248 %)Windows Mobile
98 (0.220 %)AIX
105 (0.138 %)VMS
105 (0.138 %)Windows 7
114 (0.110 %)Windows 2000 Server
114 (0.110 %)Red Hat Linux
114 (0.110 %)HPUX
123 (0.083 %)Android
131 (0.028 %)Windows NT
131 (0.028 %)OpenVMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1439 (12.07 %)OO
2398 (10.95 %)Agile Software Development
3351 (9.653 %)TDD
4330 (9.076 %)MVC
5327 (8.993 %)Web Development
6220 (6.051 %)E-Commerce
7215 (5.913 %)Unit Testing
8188 (5.171 %)Scrum
9164 (4.510 %)UML
10142 (3.905 %)CRM
11128 (3.520 %)Workflow
11128 (3.520 %)Content Management
12126 (3.465 %)Continuous Integration
12126 (3.465 %)OOD
13110 (3.025 %)SOA
1493 (2.558 %)Business Intelligence
1578 (2.145 %)Pair Programming
1677 (2.118 %)Migration
1677 (2.118 %)OOP
1775 (2.063 %)Refactoring
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12785 (76.60 %)C#
21137 (31.27 %)SQL
31000 (27.50 %)JavaScript
4581 (15.98 %)VB.NET
5408 (11.22 %)T-SQL
6217 (5.968 %)VB
7214 (5.886 %)Java
8128 (3.520 %)C
9119 (3.273 %)PL/SQL
10104 (2.860 %)VBA
1183 (2.283 %)C++
1275 (2.063 %)VBScript
1372 (1.980 %)PHP
1468 (1.870 %)VB6
1549 (1.348 %)Perl
1639 (1.073 %)ActionScript
1727 (0.743 %)XPath
1822 (0.605 %)PowerShell
1920 (0.550 %)Shell Script
2014 (0.385 %)ActionScript 3.0
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1183 (5.033 %)Security Cleared
2109 (2.998 %)Degree
3107 (2.943 %)SC Cleared
454 (1.485 %)Microsoft Certification
527 (0.743 %)MCAD
626 (0.715 %)MCTS
626 (0.715 %)MCSD
723 (0.633 %)CTC Cleared
818 (0.495 %)MCP
911 (0.303 %)MCPD
105 (0.138 %)ISEB
113 (0.083 %)DV Cleared
113 (0.083 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
122 (0.055 %)PRINCE2 Certification
122 (0.055 %)MCSE
122 (0.055 %)MCDBA
131 (0.028 %)HNC
131 (0.028 %)ITIL Certification
131 (0.028 %)ISEB Practitioner
131 (0.028 %)MOS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
127 (0.743 %)QA
226 (0.715 %)WCAG
320 (0.550 %)WAI
42 (0.055 %)HL7
42 (0.055 %)ISO9001
51 (0.028 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
51 (0.028 %)DICOM
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
147 (1.293 %)Active Directory
224 (0.660 %)MSMQ
34 (0.110 %)Oracle RAC
34 (0.110 %)ISA Server
43 (0.083 %)VMware Infrastructure
43 (0.083 %)Citrix Presentation Server
52 (0.055 %)Novell eDirectory
52 (0.055 %)Terminal Server
61 (0.028 %)Oracle RMAN
61 (0.028 %)Terminal Services
61 (0.028 %)Squid
61 (0.028 %)vSphere
61 (0.028 %)Shibboleth
61 (0.028 %)XenApp
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
111 (0.303 %)Data Guard
27 (0.193 %)AutoSys
36 (0.165 %)Oracle Statspack
45 (0.138 %)MSI
45 (0.138 %)OpenView
54 (0.110 %)Legato
54 (0.110 %)NetBackup
54 (0.110 %)Backup Exec
63 (0.083 %)SCCM
72 (0.055 %)SCOM
72 (0.055 %)Tivoli
72 (0.055 %)CONTROL-M
72 (0.055 %)MIIS
81 (0.028 %)Nagios
81 (0.028 %)Plesk
81 (0.028 %)EMC NetWorker
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1691 (19.00 %)Microsoft
2302 (8.306 %)Oracle
353 (1.458 %)Adobe
438 (1.045 %)Sitecore
536 (0.990 %)DevExpress
634 (0.935 %)Sybase
730 (0.825 %)TIBCO
827 (0.743 %)Perforce
922 (0.605 %)SAP
1021 (0.578 %)Business Objects
1119 (0.523 %)Reuters
1218 (0.495 %)Bloomberg
1218 (0.495 %)ESRI
1316 (0.440 %)Lotus
1415 (0.413 %)Open Text
1415 (0.413 %)HP
1415 (0.413 %)Google
1512 (0.330 %)telerik
1512 (0.330 %)IBM
1611 (0.303 %)RedDot