Essex ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Essex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Avon Basingstoke Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hove Hull Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	33
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	11	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	5.820 %	12.92 %
Daily rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£369
Average daily rate	£256	£390
% change on same period last year	-34.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£271	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£283
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£39.17
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-18.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.88	£30.44
% change on same period last year	-5.14 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	189	209
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.252 %	0.211 %
Daily rates quoted	68	73
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£406
Average daily rate	£379	£436
% change on same period last year	-13.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£465
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.92	£32.51
Average hourly rate	£36.36	£32.98
% change on same period last year	+10.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.80	£33.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
ASP East of England

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 Essex 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 Essex region.

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Essex region.

ASP
Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 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
Southend-on-Sea	-4	4	-	-
Colchester	-9	2	-	-

ASP East of England

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 25 (73.53 %) CSS 2 19 (55.88 %) HTML 2 19 (55.88 %) JavaScript 3 16 (47.06 %) IIS 4 14 (41.18 %) XML 4 14 (41.18 %) SQL 4 14 (41.18 %) .NET 5 13 (38.24 %) VBScript 6 12 (35.29 %) SQL Server 6 12 (35.29 %) Microsoft 7 10 (29.41 %) ASP.NET 8 9 (26.47 %) PHP 9 8 (23.53 %) C# 9 8 (23.53 %) Photoshop 9 8 (23.53 %) ActionScript

9 8 (23.53 %) Graphic Design 10 7 (20.59 %) Intranet 10 7 (20.59 %) Internet 10 7 (20.59 %) Flash 10 7 (20.59 %) MS Access 11 6 (17.65 %) Extranet 12 5 (14.71 %) VB.NET 12 5 (14.71 %) Web Development 12 5 (14.71 %) AJAX 13 4 (11.76 %) MySQL 13 4 (11.76 %) DHTML 13 4 (11.76 %) VB 13 4 (11.76 %) MS Office 13 4 (11.76 %) Dreamweaver 13 4 (11.76 %) Adobe

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 25 (73.53 %) CSS 2 19 (55.88 %) HTML 3 14 (41.18 %) .NET 3 14 (41.18 %) XML 4 10 (29.41 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (14.71 %) AJAX 6 3 (8.824 %) LAMP 7 1 (2.941 %) WMI 7 1 (2.941 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (2.941 %) ADO 7 1 (2.941 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 16 (47.06 %) IIS 2 4 (11.76 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (2.941 %) SharePoint 3 1 (2.941 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 8 (23.53 %) Photoshop 2 4 (11.76 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (20.59 %) Intranet 1 7 (20.59 %) Internet 2 6 (17.65 %) Extranet 3 2 (5.882 %) Firewall 3 2 (5.882 %) DHCP 3 2 (5.882 %) DNS 4 1 (2.941 %) SSL 4 1 (2.941 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (35.29 %) SQL Server 2 7 (20.59 %) MS Access 3 4 (11.76 %) MySQL 4 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (2.941 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 7 (20.59 %) Flash 2 4 (11.76 %) Dreamweaver 3 2 (5.882 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (2.941 %) InstallShield
General 1 8 (23.53 %) Graphic Design 2 3 (8.824 %) Publishing 3 2 (5.882 %) Telecoms 3 2 (5.882 %) Finance 4 1 (2.941 %) Government 4 1 (2.941 %) Retail 4 1 (2.941 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 30 (88.24 %) Developer 2 23 (67.65 %) Web Developer 3 5 (14.71 %) ASP Developer 4 4 (11.76 %) PHP Developer 4 4 (11.76 %) PHP Web Developer 5 2 (5.882 %) Server Engineer 6 1 (2.941 %) ActionScript Developer 6 1 (2.941 %) Report Developer 6 1 (2.941 %) Flash Developer 6 1 (2.941 %) Server Support Engineer 6 1 (2.941 %) Database Developer 6 1 (2.941 %) Team Leader 6 1 (2.941 %) Server Support 6 1 (2.941 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (2.941 %) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.941 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 3 (8.824 %) Windows 1 3 (8.824 %) Linux 2 1 (2.941 %) Windows NT 2 1 (2.941 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (14.71 %) Web Development 2 3 (8.824 %) Content Management 3 2 (5.882 %) Web Design 4 1 (2.941 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.941 %) UML 4 1 (2.941 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (2.941 %) System Testing 4 1 (2.941 %) Performance Management	Programming Languages 1 19 (55.88 %) JavaScript 2 14 (41.18 %) SQL 3 13 (38.24 %) VBScript 4 9 (26.47 %) PHP 5 8 (23.53 %) C# 5 8 (23.53 %) ActionScript 6 5 (14.71 %) VB.NET 7 4 (11.76 %) VB 7 4 (11.76 %) DHTML 8 1 (2.941 %) Java 8 1 (2.941 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (2.941 %) MCP 1 1 (2.941 %) MCSE 1 1 (2.941 %) MCSA 1 1 (2.941 %) CCA 1 1 (2.941 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.941 %) Degree	System Software 1 3 (8.824 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (2.941 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 12 (35.29 %) Microsoft 2 4 (11.76 %) Adobe 3 1 (2.941 %) Citrix 3 1 (2.941 %) Novell 3 1 (2.941 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.941 %) Sybase