Gloucestershire ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Gloucestershire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Fife Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	42
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	24	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	24.00 %	15.58 %
Daily rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum daily rate	£422	£200
Average daily rate	£460	£200
% change on same period last year	+129.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£497	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£312
% change on same period last year	-0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£15.63
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£16.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.78	£32.17
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
Application Development Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	100	77
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.141 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	30	18
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£284
Average daily rate	£396	£303
% change on same period last year	+30.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£26.92
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£27.82
% change on same period last year	-60.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£28.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
ASP.NET South West

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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Gloucestershire region.

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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Cheltenham	+1	10	£512	-
Gloucester	+2	6	£330	-

ASP.NET South West

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 45 (100.00 %) .NET 2 40 (88.89 %) C# 3 30 (66.67 %) SQL Server 4 14 (31.11 %) SQL Server 2005 5 11 (24.44 %) SQL 5 11 (24.44 %) ASP 6 10 (22.22 %) VB.NET 7 9 (20.00 %) Finance 7 9 (20.00 %) VB 8 8 (17.78 %) JavaScript 8 8 (17.78 %) HTML 9 7 (15.56 %) AJAX 9 7 (15.56 %) Security Cleared 10 6 (13.33 %) DV Cleared 10 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2000

10 6 (13.33 %) NUnit 10 6 (13.33 %) Windows 10 6 (13.33 %) SharePoint 10 6 (13.33 %) Client/Server 11 5 (11.11 %) CSS 11 5 (11.11 %) WebServices 11 5 (11.11 %) XML 11 5 (11.11 %) VB6 12 4 (8.889 %) Java 12 4 (8.889 %) DHTML 12 4 (8.889 %) Transact-SQL 12 4 (8.889 %) Microsoft 12 4 (8.889 %) E-Commerce 12 4 (8.889 %) XHTML 13 3 (6.667 %) Visual Studio

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 45 (100.00 %) .NET 2 11 (24.44 %) ASP 3 8 (17.78 %) HTML 4 7 (15.56 %) AJAX 5 5 (11.11 %) CSS 5 5 (11.11 %) WebServices 5 5 (11.11 %) XML 6 4 (8.889 %) XHTML 7 3 (6.667 %) WCF 7 3 (6.667 %) Silverlight 7 3 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 1 (2.222 %) .NET Framework 8 1 (2.222 %) ADO.NET 8 1 (2.222 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 6 (13.33 %) SharePoint 2 2 (4.444 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (4.444 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.222 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.444 %) Intranet 1 2 (4.444 %) Extranet 2 1 (2.222 %) LDAP 2 1 (2.222 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 14 (31.11 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (4.444 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 6 (13.33 %) NUnit 2 3 (6.667 %) Visual Studio
General 1 9 (20.00 %) Finance 2 3 (6.667 %) Government 3 1 (2.222 %) Law 3 1 (2.222 %) Retail 3 1 (2.222 %) Multimedia 3 1 (2.222 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 36 (80.00 %) Developer 2 23 (51.11 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (33.33 %) C# Developer 4 11 (24.44 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 8 (17.78 %) Web Developer 5 8 (17.78 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 5 (11.11 %) .NET Web Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) C# Web Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) SQL Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) SQL Server Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) VB Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) ASP Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) Consultant 9 1 (2.222 %) Analyst Programmer 9 1 (2.222 %) Programmer 9 1 (2.222 %) Analyst 9 1 (2.222 %) Software Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) Software Engineer 9 1 (2.222 %) VB.NET Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.33 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.222 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 6 (13.33 %) Windows 2 1 (2.222 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (15.56 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (13.33 %) DV Cleared 3 4 (8.889 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (4.444 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (4.444 %) Migration 6 1 (2.222 %) Web Design 6 1 (2.222 %) Business Development 6 1 (2.222 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (2.222 %) SEO 6 1 (2.222 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 40 (88.89 %) C# 2 11 (24.44 %) SQL 3 10 (22.22 %) VB.NET 4 9 (20.00 %) VB 5 8 (17.78 %) JavaScript 6 5 (11.11 %) VB6 7 4 (8.889 %) DHTML 7 4 (8.889 %) Java 7 4 (8.889 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (2.222 %) C 8 1 (2.222 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) MCP 1 1 (2.222 %) MCAD 1 1 (2.222 %) MCSD 1 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.222 %) MCTS 1 1 (2.222 %) MCPD	System Software 1 2 (4.444 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (8.889 %) Microsoft