Kent ASP.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ASP.NET over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury 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 Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne 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 Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Louth Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Ringwood Rochester Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield 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 Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	20
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	22	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	21.78 %	25.69 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£307
Average daily rate	£300	£328
% change on same period last year	-8.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£322
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.63	£35.50
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£40.54
% change on same period last year	-32.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.38	£45.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.87	£33.22
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
Application Development Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	101	144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.133 %	0.151 %
Daily rates quoted	17	35
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£239
Average daily rate	£333	£248
% change on same period last year	+34.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.38	£42.32
Average hourly rate	£30.30	£49.75
% change on same period last year	-39.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.22	£57.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
ASP.NET 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.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET across the Kent 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 Kent region.

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 Kent region.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Kent region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

ASP.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing ASP.NET within the Kent region over the 3 months to 8 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
Tunbridge Wells	+3	4	-	-
Sittingbourne	+1	2	-	-
Maidstone	-8	2	£300	-11.76 %
Greenhithe	-	1	-	-
Sevenoaks	-	1	-	-
Rochester	-	1	-	-

ASP.NET South East

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 51 (100.00 %) .NET 2 35 (68.63 %) C# 3 28 (54.90 %) SQL Server 4 23 (45.10 %) HTML 5 22 (43.14 %) ASP 6 21 (41.18 %) JavaScript 7 20 (39.22 %) AJAX 8 19 (37.25 %) XML 9 15 (29.41 %) CSS 10 13 (25.49 %) XHTML 11 12 (23.53 %) SQL 12 9 (17.65 %) SQL Server 2005 13 8 (15.69 %) VB 14 7 (13.73 %) Microsoft 15 5 (9.804 %) CMS

16 4 (7.843 %) GIS 16 4 (7.843 %) ESRI 16 4 (7.843 %) ArcIMS 16 4 (7.843 %) ADSI 16 4 (7.843 %) SQL Server 7 16 4 (7.843 %) SQL Server 2000 16 4 (7.843 %) WebServices 16 4 (7.843 %) DHTML 16 4 (7.843 %) Visual Studio 16 4 (7.843 %) Web Development 16 4 (7.843 %) DotNetNuke 17 3 (5.882 %) Degree 17 3 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 3 (5.882 %) MySQL 17 3 (5.882 %) Java

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 51 (100.00 %) .NET 2 23 (45.10 %) HTML 3 22 (43.14 %) ASP 4 20 (39.22 %) AJAX 5 19 (37.25 %) XML 6 15 (29.41 %) CSS 7 13 (25.49 %) XHTML 8 4 (7.843 %) ADSI 8 4 (7.843 %) WebServices 9 3 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (3.922 %) ADO 11 1 (1.961 %) .NET Framework 11 1 (1.961 %) jQuery 11 1 (1.961 %) ArcObjects 11 1 (1.961 %) Silverlight 11 1 (1.961 %) LINQ 11 1 (1.961 %) J2EE 11 1 (1.961 %) ADO.NET 11 1 (1.961 %) SOAP 11 1 (1.961 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 5 (9.804 %) CMS 2 4 (7.843 %) ArcIMS 2 4 (7.843 %) DotNetNuke 3 3 (5.882 %) IIS 4 2 (3.922 %) ArcSDE 5 1 (1.961 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 1 (1.961 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.922 %) Internet 2 1 (1.961 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (54.90 %) SQL Server 2 9 (17.65 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (7.843 %) GIS 3 4 (7.843 %) SQL Server 7 3 4 (7.843 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (5.882 %) MySQL 5 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 4 (7.843 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.961 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (1.961 %) Flash 2 1 (1.961 %) WebLogic Workshop
General 1 3 (5.882 %) Government 2 2 (3.922 %) Finance 2 2 (3.922 %) Insurance 2 2 (3.922 %) Publishing 2 2 (3.922 %) Marketing 2 2 (3.922 %) Local Government 3 1 (1.961 %) Banking 3 1 (1.961 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 47 (92.16 %) Developer 2 18 (35.29 %) .NET Developer 3 16 (31.37 %) Web Developer 4 8 (15.69 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 8 (15.69 %) C# Developer 5 6 (11.76 %) Junior 5 6 (11.76 %) Junior Developer 5 6 (11.76 %) Junior Web Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) GIS Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) DotNetNuke Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (5.882 %) C# Web Developer 7 3 (5.882 %) Applications Developer 8 2 (3.922 %) VB.NET Developer 8 2 (3.922 %) Consultant 8 2 (3.922 %) PHP Web Developer 8 2 (3.922 %) PHP Developer 8 2 (3.922 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 1 (1.961 %) C# Application Developer 9 1 (1.961 %) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.961 %) Asset Management 1 1 (1.961 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 3 (5.882 %) Windows 2 2 (3.922 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (7.843 %) Web Development 2 2 (3.922 %) Identity Management 2 2 (3.922 %) OO 2 2 (3.922 %) Content Management 3 1 (1.961 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (1.961 %) Performance Management 3 1 (1.961 %) OOP 3 1 (1.961 %) E-business	Programming Languages 1 35 (68.63 %) C# 2 21 (41.18 %) JavaScript 3 12 (23.53 %) SQL 4 8 (15.69 %) VB 5 4 (7.843 %) DHTML 6 3 (5.882 %) Java 6 3 (5.882 %) VB.NET 6 3 (5.882 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 3 (5.882 %) Degree 2 1 (1.961 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 7 (13.73 %) Microsoft 2 4 (7.843 %) ESRI 3 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.961 %) BEA 4 1 (1.961 %) Infragistics