The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET 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.NET 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 ASP.NET
Rank 38 14 13
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -1
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 41 89 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 5.177% 8.803% 8.247%
As % of the Application Development category 15.47% 27.73% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 66 27
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+122.22% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -10.71%
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.NET
West Yorkshire

ASP.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds ASP.NET Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds ASP.NET Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leeds ASP.NET Daily Rate Histogram

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds ASP.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 130 (100.00%) .NET
2 111 (85.38%) C#
3 67 (51.54%) SQL Server
4 57 (43.85%) JavaScript
5 54 (41.54%) .NET Framework
6 49 (37.69%) MVC
6 49 (37.69%) Web Services
7 48 (36.92%) ASP.NET MVC
8 45 (34.62%) SQL
9 42 (32.31%) HTML
10 38 (29.23%) CSS
11 32 (24.62%) jQuery
12 28 (21.54%) Visual Studio
12 28 (21.54%) SharePoint
13 27 (20.77%) Microsoft
13 27 (20.77%) Agile Software Development
14 26 (20.00%) Web Development
14 26 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
15 25 (19.23%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 21 (16.15%) XML
17 20 (15.38%) Scrum
17 20 (15.38%) Degree
17 20 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC 3
18 18 (13.85%) WPF
19 17 (13.08%) E-Commerce
20 15 (11.54%) T-SQL
20 15 (11.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
21 14 (10.77%) Oracle
21 14 (10.77%) PRINCE2
22 13 (10.00%) OO

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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
1 130 (100.00%) .NET
2 54 (41.54%) .NET Framework
3 49 (37.69%) Web Services
4 48 (36.92%) ASP.NET MVC
5 42 (32.31%) HTML
6 38 (29.23%) CSS
7 32 (24.62%) jQuery
8 25 (19.23%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 21 (16.15%) XML
10 20 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 18 (13.85%) WPF
12 12 (9.231%) Silverlight
12 12 (9.231%) WCF
13 10 (7.692%) NHibernate
14 9 (6.923%) Ajax
15 8 (6.154%) WinForms
15 8 (6.154%) MDX
15 8 (6.154%) HTML5
16 7 (5.385%) REST
17 4 (3.077%) CAML
Application Platforms
1 28 (21.54%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.462%) CMS
3 6 (4.615%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (4.615%) EPiServer CMS
4 5 (3.846%) IIS
5 4 (3.077%) FileNet
5 4 (3.077%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.538%) DotNetNuke
6 2 (1.538%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.769%) Windows Azure
7 1 (0.769%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.538%) MS Project
3 1 (0.769%) MS Office
3 1 (0.769%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (6.154%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.769%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (51.54%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (11.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 11 (8.462%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (6.923%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 8 (6.154%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (4.615%) SQL Server 2012
9 5 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
10 4 (3.077%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (3.077%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (1.538%) MySQL
11 2 (1.538%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.538%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Visual Studio
2 8 (6.154%) JIRA
3 4 (3.077%) NUnit
4 2 (1.538%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.538%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.769%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (6.154%) Finance
2 3 (2.308%) Financial Institution
3 2 (1.538%) Law
3 2 (1.538%) Advertising
4 1 (0.769%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.769%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (84.62%) Developer
2 72 (55.38%) .NET Developer
3 31 (23.85%) C# Developer
4 26 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 24 (18.46%) ASP.NET Developer
6 19 (14.62%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 14 (10.77%) SharePoint Developer
8 9 (6.923%) .NET Web Developer
8 9 (6.923%) Web Developer
9 8 (6.154%) Project Manager
10 7 (5.385%) C# Web Developer
11 6 (4.615%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.846%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.846%) VB.NET Developer
13 4 (3.077%) SQL Developer
13 4 (3.077%) Technical Manager
13 4 (3.077%) Consultant
13 4 (3.077%) CMS Developer
13 4 (3.077%) FileNet Consultant
14 3 (2.308%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.615%) NHS
2 4 (3.077%) W3C
3 3 (2.308%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.308%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.308%) N-Tier
3 3 (2.308%) Informatics
4 2 (1.538%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.615%) Windows
2 2 (1.538%) UNIX
2 2 (1.538%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.69%) MVC
2 27 (20.77%) Agile Software Development
3 26 (20.00%) Web Development
4 20 (15.38%) Scrum
5 17 (13.08%) E-Commerce
6 14 (10.77%) PRINCE2
7 13 (10.00%) OO
8 11 (8.462%) TDD
9 10 (7.692%) Kanban
9 10 (7.692%) Dependency Injection
10 9 (6.923%) Automated Testing
10 9 (6.923%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (6.154%) Project Management
11 8 (6.154%) CRM
11 8 (6.154%) ITIL
12 7 (5.385%) Software Engineering
13 6 (4.615%) Data Management
13 6 (4.615%) Migration
13 6 (4.615%) Unit Testing
14 5 (3.846%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 111 (85.38%) C#
2 57 (43.85%) JavaScript
3 45 (34.62%) SQL
4 15 (11.54%) T-SQL
5 12 (9.231%) XAML
6 11 (8.462%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.538%) VBA
7 2 (1.538%) VB
7 2 (1.538%) OCaml
8 1 (0.769%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (15.38%) Degree
2 7 (5.385%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 5 (3.846%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.308%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.538%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.538%) ISEB
5 2 (1.538%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.769%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.308%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.77%) Oracle
3 8 (6.154%) EPiServer
4 6 (4.615%) Perforce
5 5 (3.846%) RedDot
6 4 (3.077%) IBM
7 3 (2.308%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.538%) HP
9 1 (0.769%) Remedy
9 1 (0.769%) Open Text