Lancashire ASP.NET Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the ASP.NET Developer role in IT contracts within the Lancashire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Teddington Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	27
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	12	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	3.834 %	3.755 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£215
Average daily rate	-	£258
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£297
% change on same period last year	-3.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£33.33	£25.50
% change on same period last year	+30.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.67	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.22	£32.26
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	313	506
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.512 %
Daily rates quoted	63	119
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£327
Average daily rate	£326	£337
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.11	£24.44
Average hourly rate	£24.19	£26.33
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.27	£28.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET Developer across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET Developer across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET Developer within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Preston	+2	4	-	-
Blackpool	-	3	-	-
Lancaster	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title 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 with ASP.NET Developer in their job title.

1 32 (100.00 %) .NET 1 32 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 31 (96.88 %) SQL Server 3 23 (71.88 %) C# 4 20 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 5 14 (43.75 %) VB.NET 6 12 (37.50 %) JavaScript 6 12 (37.50 %) XML 7 11 (34.38 %) CSS 8 7 (21.88 %) DHTML 8 7 (21.88 %) VBScript 8 7 (21.88 %) VB 8 7 (21.88 %) ASP 8 7 (21.88 %) AJAX 8 7 (21.88 %) VB6

9 6 (18.75 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 6 (18.75 %) DTS 9 6 (18.75 %) SOAP 9 6 (18.75 %) IIS 10 5 (15.63 %) SQL 10 5 (15.63 %) SQL Server 2000 11 4 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 12 3 (9.375 %) Crystal Reports 12 3 (9.375 %) WebServices 12 3 (9.375 %) HTML 12 3 (9.375 %) E-Commerce 12 3 (9.375 %) N-Tier 12 3 (9.375 %) OOD 12 3 (9.375 %) Windows 12 3 (9.375 %) OO

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title 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 with ASP.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 32 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 32 (100.00 %) .NET 2 12 (37.50 %) XML 3 11 (34.38 %) CSS 4 7 (21.88 %) ASP 4 7 (21.88 %) AJAX 5 6 (18.75 %) SOAP 6 3 (9.375 %) WebServices 6 3 (9.375 %) XHTML 6 3 (9.375 %) .NET Framework 6 3 (9.375 %) HTML 7 1 (3.125 %) Silverlight 7 1 (3.125 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 6 (18.75 %) IIS 2 2 (6.250 %) SharePoint 3 1 (3.125 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (3.125 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.125 %) Intranet 1 1 (3.125 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (96.88 %) SQL Server 2 20 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (18.75 %) DTS 4 5 (15.63 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (9.375 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (6.250 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 6 (18.75 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 4 (12.50 %) Visual Studio
General 1 3 (9.375 %) Retail 2 2 (6.250 %) Health 3 1 (3.125 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (3.125 %) Police 3 1 (3.125 %) Multimedia 3 1 (3.125 %) Construction	Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.375 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 3 (9.375 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.375 %) OO 1 3 (9.375 %) E-Commerce 1 3 (9.375 %) OOD 2 2 (6.250 %) Web Development 3 1 (3.125 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (3.125 %) SEO 3 1 (3.125 %) Scrum 3 1 (3.125 %) Web Design 3 1 (3.125 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (3.125 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 23 (71.88 %) C# 2 14 (43.75 %) VB.NET 3 12 (37.50 %) JavaScript 4 7 (21.88 %) DHTML 4 7 (21.88 %) VB6 4 7 (21.88 %) VBScript 4 7 (21.88 %) VB 5 5 (15.63 %) SQL 6 1 (3.125 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (3.125 %) C	Vendors 1 1 (3.125 %) Microsoft