The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP 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 Essex 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 Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 44 46 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing ASP 7 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.639% 0.450% -
As % of the Application Development category 5.072% 2.469% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -37.77%
All Application Development
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
138 81 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 32.32% 18.24% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 31 50
Average daily rate £265 £240 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.41% -33.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 10
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +30.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £31.95 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
ASP
East of England

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex 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
Chelmsford - 1 £200 -
Colchester - 1 £325 -
ASP
East of England

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 5 (50.00%) IIS
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
3 3 (30.00%) MooTools
3 3 (30.00%) Dojo
3 3 (30.00%) HTML5
3 3 (30.00%) CSS3
3 3 (30.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (30.00%) CMS
3 3 (30.00%) FatWire
3 3 (30.00%) Web Design
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (30.00%) Content Management
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) Adobe
3 3 (30.00%) JSP
3 3 (30.00%) XML
3 3 (30.00%) XSLT
3 3 (30.00%) XHTML
3 3 (30.00%) VBScript
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) J2EE
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 4 (40.00%) CSS
1 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 3 (30.00%) MooTools
2 3 (30.00%) Dojo
2 3 (30.00%) HTML5
2 3 (30.00%) CSS3
2 3 (30.00%) JSP
2 3 (30.00%) XML
2 3 (30.00%) XSLT
2 3 (30.00%) XHTML
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) J2EE
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) Ajax
3 2 (20.00%) Sass
3 2 (20.00%) LESS
3 2 (20.00%) WCF
4 1 (10.00%) WebCenter
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) IIS
2 3 (30.00%) CMS
3 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (10.00%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (10.00%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (10.00%) MS Project
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) DTS
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Law
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Support
3 2 (20.00%) UI Developer
4 1 (10.00%) UI Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Web Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 3 (30.00%) Web Design
1 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (30.00%) Content Management
1 3 (30.00%) OO
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (20.00%) MVC
2 2 (20.00%) SEO
2 2 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Image Processing
2 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Progressive Enhancement
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) VBScript
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) VB
4 1 (10.00%) PL/1
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) FatWire
1 3 (30.00%) Adobe
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Omniture
2 2 (20.00%) Google
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: 22 May 2013
Essex
You will have experience working on large scale web applications and CMS’s such as FatWire, Oracle Webcenter or Adobe CQ and have experience in Responsive web design/...
Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Rate: From £375 to £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013