Lancashire ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Lancashire 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak Home Counties Horsham Hove Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Pagnell Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	27
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	17	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	18.09 %	15.15 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£240
Average daily rate	-	£258
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£290
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.33	-
Average hourly rate	£19.33	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.91	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Application Development Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	94	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.074 %
Daily rates quoted	25	9
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£295
Average daily rate	£338	£321
% change on same period last year	+5.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.84	£10.75
Average hourly rate	£24.91	£11.75
% change on same period last year	+112.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.99	£12.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
ASP North 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Lancashire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Lancashire region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Lancashire region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Lancashire region over the past 3 months.

ASP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the Lancashire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Preston	-3	13	-	-

ASP North West

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP.

1 22 (91.67 %) .NET 2 18 (75.00 %) JavaScript 3 17 (70.83 %) CSS 4 15 (62.50 %) VBScript 5 14 (58.33 %) ASP.NET 6 12 (50.00 %) SQL Server 6 12 (50.00 %) SQL 7 10 (41.67 %) VB 8 9 (37.50 %) VB.NET 8 9 (37.50 %) Oracle 9 8 (33.33 %) VB6 9 8 (33.33 %) Oracle Reports 9 8 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports 9 8 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 10 7 (29.17 %) Visual Studio

10 7 (29.17 %) XML 11 6 (25.00 %) Government 11 6 (25.00 %) SOAP 11 6 (25.00 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 6 (25.00 %) DTS 11 6 (25.00 %) e-GIF 11 6 (25.00 %) DHTML 11 6 (25.00 %) IIS 12 5 (20.83 %) C# 12 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 12 5 (20.83 %) InterDev 12 5 (20.83 %) Local Government 13 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005 14 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 14 3 (12.50 %) HTML

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 22 (91.67 %) .NET 2 17 (70.83 %) CSS 3 14 (58.33 %) ASP.NET 4 7 (29.17 %) XML 5 6 (25.00 %) SOAP 6 3 (12.50 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (25.00 %) IIS 2 1 (4.167 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Summit
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 8 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports 2 8 (33.33 %) Oracle Reports 3 6 (25.00 %) DTS 4 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (4.167 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 7 (29.17 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (25.00 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 5 (20.83 %) InterDev 4 1 (4.167 %) FrontPage
General 1 6 (25.00 %) Government 2 5 (20.83 %) Local Government 3 2 (8.333 %) Health 4 1 (4.167 %) Police 4 1 (4.167 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 23 (95.83 %) Developer 2 11 (45.83 %) Web Developer 3 9 (37.50 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (29.17 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (20.83 %) VB.NET Developer 6 4 (16.67 %) ASP Developer 6 4 (16.67 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (8.333 %) SQL Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) .NET Web Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) C# Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Webmaster
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) NHS 2 1 (4.167 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (25.00 %) e-GIF 2 2 (8.333 %) E-business 2 2 (8.333 %) Performance Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Content Management 3 1 (4.167 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 18 (75.00 %) JavaScript 2 15 (62.50 %) VBScript 3 12 (50.00 %) SQL 4 10 (41.67 %) VB 5 9 (37.50 %) VB.NET 6 8 (33.33 %) VB6 6 8 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 7 6 (25.00 %) DHTML 8 5 (20.83 %) C# 9 1 (4.167 %) Perl 9 1 (4.167 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) HND
Vendors 1 9 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.167 %) Adobe