Kent ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Kent 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Aberdeen Avon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Haywards Heath Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hove Hull Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	27
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	28	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	28.87 %	16.97 %
Daily rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£221
Average daily rate	£306	£228
% change on same period last year	+34.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£235
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£281
% change on same period last year	+2.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.33	£31.00
Average hourly rate	£32.79	£34.19
% change on same period last year	-4.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.25	£37.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.72	£30.22
% change on same period last year	-8.27 %
Application Development Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	97	165
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.129 %	0.165 %
Daily rates quoted	22	34
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£260
Average daily rate	£307	£269
% change on same period last year	+14.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£278
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.02	£40.20
Average hourly rate	£32.59	£46.83
% change on same period last year	-30.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.15	£53.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
ASP South East

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 Kent 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 Kent region.

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Kent region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Kent region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Kent region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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 Kent region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Maidstone	-1	8	£300	+20.00 %
Tonbridge	-	1	-	-

ASP South East

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 29 (90.63 %) .NET 2 28 (87.50 %) AJAX 3 27 (84.38 %) HTML 4 23 (71.88 %) XML 5 17 (53.13 %) ASP.NET 5 17 (53.13 %) C# 6 16 (50.00 %) JavaScript 6 16 (50.00 %) GIS 6 16 (50.00 %) ESRI 7 14 (43.75 %) ArcIMS 8 13 (40.63 %) VB 9 12 (37.50 %) UNIX 9 12 (37.50 %) Windows 9 12 (37.50 %) ArcObjects 10 10 (31.25 %) Internet

10 10 (31.25 %) Oracle 11 9 (28.13 %) WebServices 12 7 (21.88 %) MS Excel 12 7 (21.88 %) Microsoft 12 7 (21.88 %) MS PowerPoint 12 7 (21.88 %) Intranet 12 7 (21.88 %) Publishing 13 6 (18.75 %) ArcSDE 14 5 (15.63 %) Degree 15 4 (12.50 %) Government 15 4 (12.50 %) XHTML 15 4 (12.50 %) CSS 16 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 16 3 (9.375 %) MySQL 16 3 (9.375 %) PHP

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 29 (90.63 %) .NET 2 28 (87.50 %) AJAX 3 27 (84.38 %) HTML 4 23 (71.88 %) XML 5 17 (53.13 %) ASP.NET 6 12 (37.50 %) ArcObjects 7 9 (28.13 %) WebServices 8 4 (12.50 %) XHTML 8 4 (12.50 %) CSS 9 1 (3.125 %) JSP 9 1 (3.125 %) XSL 9 1 (3.125 %) XSLT 9 1 (3.125 %) Dojo 9 1 (3.125 %) GWT 9 1 (3.125 %) YUI 9 1 (3.125 %) jQuery	Application Platforms 1 14 (43.75 %) ArcIMS 2 6 (18.75 %) ArcSDE 3 1 (3.125 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 7 (21.88 %) MS Excel 1 7 (21.88 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (3.125 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 10 (31.25 %) Internet 2 7 (21.88 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (50.00 %) GIS 2 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2 3 (9.375 %) MySQL 3 1 (3.125 %) Oracle 8/8i
General 1 7 (21.88 %) Publishing 2 4 (12.50 %) Government 3 3 (9.375 %) Local Government 4 2 (6.250 %) Marketing 4 2 (6.250 %) Finance 5 1 (3.125 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 28 (87.50 %) Developer 2 13 (40.63 %) Web Developer 3 12 (37.50 %) GIS Developer 4 7 (21.88 %) Junior 4 7 (21.88 %) Junior Web Developer 4 7 (21.88 %) Junior Developer 5 5 (15.63 %) Applications Developer 6 2 (6.250 %) PHP Web Developer 6 2 (6.250 %) PHP Developer 6 2 (6.250 %) Web Applications Developer 6 2 (6.250 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (6.250 %) ASP Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Consultant 7 1 (3.125 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Website Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.125 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 12 (37.50 %) UNIX 1 12 (37.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.250 %) Web Development 2 1 (3.125 %) UML 2 1 (3.125 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 17 (53.13 %) C# 2 16 (50.00 %) JavaScript 3 13 (40.63 %) VB 4 3 (9.375 %) PHP 5 2 (6.250 %) SQL 6 1 (3.125 %) VBScript 6 1 (3.125 %) DHTML 6 1 (3.125 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (3.125 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 5 (15.63 %) Degree	Vendors 1 16 (50.00 %) ESRI 2 10 (31.25 %) Oracle 3 7 (21.88 %) Microsoft