The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Leeds region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 67 58 60
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +2
Contract jobs citing ASP 11 15 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.389% 1.484% 0.295%
As % of the Application Development category 4.151% 4.673% 1.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
Average daily rate £275 £338 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.51% +35.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -37.77%
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
265 321 197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 33.46% 31.75% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 205 110
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
Average hourly rate £38.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+117.14% -22.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
ASP
West Yorkshire

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ASP across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Leeds ASP Jobs Demand Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP across the Leeds region.

Leeds ASP Daily Rate Trend

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ASP across the Leeds region.

Leeds ASP Hourly Rate Trend

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 13 (65.00%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (60.00%) VB
3 11 (55.00%) SQL
4 10 (50.00%) .NET
4 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (45.00%) JIRA
6 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (40.00%) C#
6 8 (40.00%) Windows
7 7 (35.00%) COM+
7 7 (35.00%) MTS
7 7 (35.00%) MSMQ
7 7 (35.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 7 (35.00%) SQL Server 2000
7 7 (35.00%) VB6
7 7 (35.00%) Subversion
8 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (30.00%) SOA
8 6 (30.00%) Oracle
8 6 (30.00%) Web Services
9 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
10 4 (20.00%) XML
10 4 (20.00%) MS Office
10 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
10 4 (20.00%) HTML
10 4 (20.00%) Scrum
10 4 (20.00%) VMware
10 4 (20.00%) MSI
10 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 10 (50.00%) .NET
2 7 (35.00%) COM+
2 7 (35.00%) MSMQ
3 6 (30.00%) Web Services
4 4 (20.00%) XML
4 4 (20.00%) HTML
4 4 (20.00%) Gherkin
5 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (10.00%) POSIX
6 2 (10.00%) WCF
6 2 (10.00%) WPF
6 2 (10.00%) WinForms
6 2 (10.00%) Node.js
7 1 (5.000%) REST
7 1 (5.000%) CSS3
7 1 (5.000%) HTML5
7 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.000%) jQuery
7 1 (5.000%) LAMP
7 1 (5.000%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) MTS
2 3 (15.00%) IIS
3 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (10.00%) Apache
3 2 (10.00%) nginx
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Route 53
4 1 (5.000%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (20.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
1 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.000%) SSH
2 1 (5.000%) SSL
2 1 (5.000%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.000%) DNS
2 1 (5.000%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (35.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (10.00%) SimpleDB
4 2 (10.00%) Couchbase
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.00%) Redis
4 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) JIRA
2 7 (35.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 7 (35.00%) Subversion
3 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 4 (20.00%) MSI
3 4 (20.00%) Selenium
3 4 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 4 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 4 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Tester
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Leader
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Agile Tester
3 3 (15.00%) VB Developer
4 2 (10.00%) ASP Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) CRM Developer
5 1 (5.000%) VB6 Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Applications Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (30.00%) SOA
3 4 (20.00%) Scrum
3 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Agile Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) CRM
5 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Kanban
5 2 (10.00%) Network Design
5 2 (10.00%) TDD
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.000%) ITIL V3
6 1 (5.000%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.000%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) VB
2 11 (55.00%) SQL
3 8 (40.00%) C#
4 7 (35.00%) VB6
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.00%) VBScript
6 2 (10.00%) PHP
6 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (10.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (10.00%) Ruby
6 2 (10.00%) Bash shell
7 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) BC Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Perforce