The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET over the 3 months to 20 May 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 Ipswich 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET
Rank 3 12 8
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -4
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 17 13 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Ipswich 23.29% 10.57% 18.69%
As % of the Application Development category 80.95% 31.71% 40.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 4
Average daily rate £350 £306 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.36% -2.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £288 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £414 £354
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.06% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £24.44 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+43.22% -24.80%
All Application Development
Ipswich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
21 41 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Ipswich 28.77% 33.33% 45.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 27
Average daily rate £351 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.08% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP.NET
Suffolk

ASP.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich ASP.NET Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET across the Ipswich region.

Ipswich ASP.NET Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Ipswich ASP.NET Daily Rate Histogram

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET across the Ipswich region.

Ipswich ASP.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Ipswich 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 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 16 (84.21%) C#
3 15 (78.95%) WCF
4 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
5 10 (52.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (47.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (47.37%) SQL
7 8 (42.11%) CSS
7 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
8 7 (36.84%) Web Services
8 7 (36.84%) HTML
8 7 (36.84%) N-Tier
9 5 (26.32%) LINQ
9 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (26.32%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (26.32%) MVC
10 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
10 4 (21.05%) Validation
10 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
10 4 (21.05%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (21.05%) Windows
10 4 (21.05%) jQuery
10 4 (21.05%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
11 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
12 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
12 2 (10.53%) VB.NET
12 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Ipswich 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 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (78.95%) WCF
3 8 (42.11%) CSS
4 7 (36.84%) Web Services
4 7 (36.84%) HTML
4 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
5 5 (26.32%) LINQ
6 4 (21.05%) jQuery
6 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
7 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (10.53%) Ajax
9 1 (5.263%) WPF
9 1 (5.263%) WF
9 1 (5.263%) Silverlight
9 1 (5.263%) XML
9 1 (5.263%) XSLT
9 1 (5.263%) XHTML
9 1 (5.263%) SOAP
9 1 (5.263%) ASP
9 1 (5.263%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
1 4 (21.05%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 10 (52.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (47.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (42.11%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (63.16%) .NET Developer
3 11 (57.89%) C# Developer
4 10 (52.63%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (36.84%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (10.53%) SQL Developer
7 2 (10.53%) HTML Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
7 2 (10.53%) CSS Developer
8 1 (5.263%) Agile .NET Developer
8 1 (5.263%) Senior Web Developer
8 1 (5.263%) .NET Programmer
8 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Developer
8 1 (5.263%) Web Developer
8 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
8 1 (5.263%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) MVC
2 4 (21.05%) Validation
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) TDD
4 1 (5.263%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) C#
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.263%) VBA
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft