Essex ASP.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET 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.NET over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rochester Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	14
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	33	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	17.46 %	31.58 %
Daily rates quoted	12	34
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£394
Average daily rate	£305	£412
% change on same period last year	-26.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£317
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£28.43
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£29.14
% change on same period last year	+2.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£29.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£33.02
% change on same period last year	-1.64 %
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.NET 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.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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 Essex region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Essex region.

ASP.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET 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
Colchester	+2	12	£175	-
Southend-on-Sea	-	4	-	-
Basildon	+8	2	-	-
Brentwood	-	1	-	-
Chelmsford	-7	1	£350	-4.63 %

ASP.NET East of England

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 96 (98.97 %) .NET 2 77 (79.38 %) C# 3 61 (62.89 %) SQL Server 4 46 (47.42 %) SQL 5 36 (37.11 %) HTML 6 30 (30.93 %) Transact-SQL 7 27 (27.84 %) CSS 8 25 (25.77 %) AJAX 8 25 (25.77 %) SQL Server 2005 9 24 (24.74 %) Visual Studio 10 23 (23.71 %) UML 10 23 (23.71 %) SharePoint 11 21 (21.65 %) XML 12 20 (20.62 %) ADO.NET 12 20 (20.62 %) VB.NET

13 18 (18.56 %) JavaScript 14 15 (15.46 %) Microsoft 14 15 (15.46 %) WebServices 15 10 (10.31 %) CMS 15 10 (10.31 %) Scrum 15 10 (10.31 %) N-Tier 15 10 (10.31 %) ASP 15 10 (10.31 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 9 (9.278 %) Marketing 17 8 (8.247 %) Web Development 17 8 (8.247 %) InfoPath 17 8 (8.247 %) DHTML 17 8 (8.247 %) BPMN 18 7 (7.216 %) VB 18 7 (7.216 %) XSLT

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 96 (98.97 %) .NET 2 36 (37.11 %) HTML 3 27 (27.84 %) CSS 4 25 (25.77 %) AJAX 5 21 (21.65 %) XML 6 20 (20.62 %) ADO.NET 7 15 (15.46 %) WebServices 8 10 (10.31 %) ASP 8 10 (10.31 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 7 (7.216 %) XSLT 9 7 (7.216 %) XHTML 10 6 (6.186 %) .NET Framework 11 5 (5.155 %) JRules 11 5 (5.155 %) JavaBeans 11 5 (5.155 %) J2EE 11 5 (5.155 %) JSP 11 5 (5.155 %) Servlets 12 4 (4.124 %) DOM 13 3 (3.093 %) LAMP 13 3 (3.093 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 23 (23.71 %) SharePoint 2 10 (10.31 %) CMS 3 7 (7.216 %) BizTalk Server 4 6 (6.186 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 4 (4.124 %) IBM HTTP Server 5 4 (4.124 %) Oracle HTTP Server 5 4 (4.124 %) IIS 6 2 (2.062 %) DotNetNuke 7 1 (1.031 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (1.031 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 1 (1.031 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 8 (8.247 %) InfoPath 2 5 (5.155 %) MS Excel 3 4 (4.124 %) Photoshop 4 1 (1.031 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.124 %) HTTP 2 2 (2.062 %) LAN 2 2 (2.062 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 61 (62.89 %) SQL Server 2 25 (25.77 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (7.216 %) SQL Server 7 4 5 (5.155 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (5.155 %) Oracle 9i 4 5 (5.155 %) Oracle 10g 4 5 (5.155 %) Crystal Reports 4 5 (5.155 %) Oracle Reports 5 4 (4.124 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 4 (4.124 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 24 (24.74 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (4.124 %) Flash 3 1 (1.031 %) NUnit
General 1 9 (9.278 %) Marketing 2 5 (5.155 %) Finance 3 4 (4.124 %) Government 4 3 (3.093 %) Publishing 5 2 (2.062 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.062 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.031 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.031 %) Education 6 1 (1.031 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 75 (77.32 %) Developer 2 40 (41.24 %) .NET Developer 3 29 (29.90 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 27 (27.84 %) C# Developer 5 20 (20.62 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 19 (19.59 %) Web Developer 7 11 (11.34 %) SQL Developer 8 10 (10.31 %) .NET Web Developer 9 9 (9.278 %) Senior Developer 10 8 (8.247 %) Analyst 10 8 (8.247 %) Architect 11 7 (7.216 %) Senior C# Developer 11 7 (7.216 %) Systems Architect 12 6 (6.186 %) Business Analyst 13 5 (5.155 %) Team Leader 13 5 (5.155 %) VB.NET Developer 13 5 (5.155 %) ASP Developer 13 5 (5.155 %) SQL Server Developer 13 5 (5.155 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 14 4 (4.124 %) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (10.31 %) N-Tier 2 2 (2.062 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (2.062 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 6 (6.186 %) Windows 1 6 (6.186 %) Windows NT 2 5 (5.155 %) Windows Server 2003 2 5 (5.155 %) Linux 3 3 (3.093 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (23.71 %) UML 2 10 (10.31 %) Scrum 3 8 (8.247 %) Web Development 3 8 (8.247 %) BPMN 4 7 (7.216 %) Extreme Programming 5 6 (6.186 %) OO 5 6 (6.186 %) RUP 6 5 (5.155 %) RAD 6 5 (5.155 %) Use Case 7 3 (3.093 %) Internet Marketing 8 2 (2.062 %) OOP 9 1 (1.031 %) DSDM 9 1 (1.031 %) E-Commerce 9 1 (1.031 %) OOD 9 1 (1.031 %) BPR 9 1 (1.031 %) Change Management 9 1 (1.031 %) Workflow 9 1 (1.031 %) Performance Management 9 1 (1.031 %) Business Development 9 1 (1.031 %) Creative Marketing	Programming Languages 1 77 (79.38 %) C# 2 46 (47.42 %) SQL 3 30 (30.93 %) Transact-SQL 4 20 (20.62 %) VB.NET 5 18 (18.56 %) JavaScript 6 8 (8.247 %) DHTML 7 7 (7.216 %) VB 8 6 (6.186 %) VB6 9 5 (5.155 %) Java 9 5 (5.155 %) PHP 10 4 (4.124 %) ActionScript 10 4 (4.124 %) VBA 10 4 (4.124 %) ECMAScript 11 3 (3.093 %) C
Qualifications 1 5 (5.155 %) MCAD 1 5 (5.155 %) MCSD 1 5 (5.155 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.062 %) Degree 2 2 (2.062 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.093 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 15 (15.46 %) Microsoft 2 7 (7.216 %) Cisco 3 5 (5.155 %) Oracle 3 5 (5.155 %) ILOG 4 4 (4.124 %) Adobe 4 4 (4.124 %) IBM 5 2 (2.062 %) SAP 6 1 (1.031 %) Lotus