Lancashire ASP.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Lancashire 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 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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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 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 Stowmarket 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 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	14
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	36	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	42.35 %	34.86 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£276
Average daily rate	-	£329
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£323
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.60	£22.14
Average hourly rate	£32.80	£26.07
% change on same period last year	+25.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.92	£33.21
% change on same period last year	-3.89 %
Application Development Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	85	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	6	19
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£313
Average daily rate	£347	£343
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.13	£22.01
Average hourly rate	£26.76	£26.77
% change on same period last year	-0.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.40	£31.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
ASP.NET 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.NET
Demand Trend

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

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 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	0	13	-	-
Blackpool	-1	2	-	-

ASP.NET North West

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 77 (98.72 %) .NET 2 65 (83.33 %) SQL Server 3 43 (55.13 %) C# 4 38 (48.72 %) SQL Server 2005 5 31 (39.74 %) VB.NET 6 27 (34.62 %) SQL 7 25 (32.05 %) JavaScript 7 25 (32.05 %) XML 8 16 (20.51 %) CSS 9 15 (19.23 %) ASP 9 15 (19.23 %) AJAX 10 13 (16.67 %) WebServices 10 13 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 11 12 (15.38 %) E-Commerce 11 12 (15.38 %) Microsoft

11 12 (15.38 %) Transact-SQL 12 11 (14.10 %) VB 13 10 (12.82 %) VB6 14 9 (11.54 %) .NET Framework 14 9 (11.54 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 9 (11.54 %) DHTML 14 9 (11.54 %) DTS 15 8 (10.26 %) HTML 15 8 (10.26 %) VBScript 15 8 (10.26 %) SharePoint 16 7 (8.974 %) SOAP 16 7 (8.974 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 7 (8.974 %) IIS 17 6 (7.692 %) XSLT 17 6 (7.692 %) MVC

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 77 (98.72 %) .NET 2 25 (32.05 %) XML 3 16 (20.51 %) CSS 4 15 (19.23 %) ASP 4 15 (19.23 %) AJAX 5 13 (16.67 %) WebServices 6 9 (11.54 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 9 (11.54 %) .NET Framework 7 8 (10.26 %) HTML 8 7 (8.974 %) SOAP 9 6 (7.692 %) XSLT 9 6 (7.692 %) jQuery 9 6 (7.692 %) JSON 10 4 (5.128 %) XHTML 11 1 (1.282 %) WinForms 11 1 (1.282 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 8 (10.26 %) SharePoint 2 7 (8.974 %) IIS 3 1 (1.282 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.282 %) CMS
Applications 1 5 (6.410 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.282 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.282 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.282 %) Intranet 1 1 (1.282 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 65 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2 38 (48.72 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (11.54 %) DTS 5 5 (6.410 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (6.410 %) Crystal Reports 6 4 (5.128 %) OLAP 6 4 (5.128 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 4 (5.128 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 4 (5.128 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 3 (3.846 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (2.564 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 1 (1.282 %) MS Access 9 1 (1.282 %) MySQL 9 1 (1.282 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 7 (8.974 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 5 (6.410 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.282 %) NUnit	General 1 4 (5.128 %) Health 2 3 (3.846 %) Retail 3 2 (2.564 %) Multimedia 4 1 (1.282 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.282 %) Police 4 1 (1.282 %) Construction 4 1 (1.282 %) Government
Job Titles 1 62 (79.49 %) Developer 2 45 (57.69 %) .NET Developer 3 31 (39.74 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 9 (11.54 %) C# Developer 4 9 (11.54 %) Web Developer 5 8 (10.26 %) VB.NET Developer 6 7 (8.974 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (7.692 %) SQL Developer 8 5 (6.410 %) Analyst 8 5 (6.410 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 5 (6.410 %) SQL Server Developer 9 4 (5.128 %) Senior Developer 9 4 (5.128 %) Analyst Programmer 9 4 (5.128 %) Programmer 9 4 (5.128 %) Architect 10 3 (3.846 %) .NET Web Developer 10 3 (3.846 %) Senior .NET Developer 11 2 (2.564 %) .NET Programmer 11 2 (2.564 %) VB.NET Programmer 11 2 (2.564 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.846 %) N-Tier 1 3 (3.846 %) NHS 2 1 (1.282 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 5 (6.410 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (15.38 %) E-Commerce 2 6 (7.692 %) SOA 2 6 (7.692 %) MVC 3 4 (5.128 %) Service Delivery 3 4 (5.128 %) Data Modelling 3 4 (5.128 %) OOD 3 4 (5.128 %) ITIL 3 4 (5.128 %) OO 4 3 (3.846 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (2.564 %) Performance Management 5 2 (2.564 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (2.564 %) Web Development 5 2 (2.564 %) E-business 6 1 (1.282 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.282 %) UML 6 1 (1.282 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (1.282 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (1.282 %) TDD 6 1 (1.282 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 43 (55.13 %) C# 2 31 (39.74 %) VB.NET 3 27 (34.62 %) SQL 4 25 (32.05 %) JavaScript 5 12 (15.38 %) Transact-SQL 6 11 (14.10 %) VB 7 10 (12.82 %) VB6 8 9 (11.54 %) DHTML 9 8 (10.26 %) VBScript 10 3 (3.846 %) C	System Software 1 1 (1.282 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 12 (15.38 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.282 %) Business Objects