Leicestershire ASP.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Leicestershire 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.NET over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon 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 Carlisle Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire 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 High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rochester Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge 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 Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	27
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	12	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	18.75 %	17.19 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£225
Average daily rate	£265	£225
% change on same period last year	+17.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£280	£225
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£317
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£18.50	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-38.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£33.02
% change on same period last year	-1.64 %
Application Development Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	64	64
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.085 %	0.065 %
Daily rates quoted	12	7
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£372
Average daily rate	£347	£378
% change on same period last year	-8.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£23.70
Average hourly rate	£24.50	£27.34
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£30.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
ASP.NET East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP.NET
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET within the Leicestershire 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
Leicester	+5	7	-	-

ASP.NET East Midlands

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 28 (100.00 %) .NET 2 22 (78.57 %) SQL Server 3 18 (64.29 %) C# 4 14 (50.00 %) VB.NET 5 11 (39.29 %) Windows 6 9 (32.14 %) HTML 7 8 (28.57 %) SQL 8 6 (21.43 %) XML 8 6 (21.43 %) Intranet 8 6 (21.43 %) Internet 9 5 (17.86 %) Extranet 9 5 (17.86 %) MS Excel 9 5 (17.86 %) VB 9 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft 10 4 (14.29 %) Oracle

10 4 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 11 3 (10.71 %) JavaScript 11 3 (10.71 %) OO 11 3 (10.71 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 3 (10.71 %) AJAX 11 3 (10.71 %) Marketing 12 2 (7.143 %) Web Development 12 2 (7.143 %) Degree 12 2 (7.143 %) Computer Science 12 2 (7.143 %) QA 12 2 (7.143 %) Software Engineering 12 2 (7.143 %) Retail 12 2 (7.143 %) VB6 12 2 (7.143 %) Content Management 12 2 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 28 (100.00 %) .NET 2 9 (32.14 %) HTML 3 6 (21.43 %) XML 4 3 (10.71 %) AJAX 5 2 (7.143 %) WinForms 5 2 (7.143 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (3.571 %) CSS 6 1 (3.571 %) WebServices 6 1 (3.571 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.571 %) SharePoint 1 1 (3.571 %) CMS
Applications 1 5 (17.86 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (21.43 %) Intranet 1 6 (21.43 %) Internet 2 5 (17.86 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (78.57 %) SQL Server 2 4 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (10.71 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 2 (7.143 %) DB2 4 2 (7.143 %) Crystal Reports 4 2 (7.143 %) Informix 4 2 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (7.143 %) Flash
General 1 3 (10.71 %) Marketing 2 2 (7.143 %) Health 2 2 (7.143 %) Retail 3 1 (3.571 %) Finance 3 1 (3.571 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 25 (89.29 %) Developer 2 19 (67.86 %) .NET Developer 3 17 (60.71 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 12 (42.86 %) C# Developer 5 11 (39.29 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 10 (35.71 %) VB.NET Developer 7 8 (28.57 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 7 (25.00 %) SQL Developer 9 6 (21.43 %) Web Developer 10 5 (17.86 %) SQL Server Developer 11 3 (10.71 %) .NET Web Developer 11 3 (10.71 %) C# Web Developer 12 2 (7.143 %) Team Leader 12 2 (7.143 %) Software Engineer 12 2 (7.143 %) .NET Team Leader 13 1 (3.571 %) Senior .NET Developer 13 1 (3.571 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 13 1 (3.571 %) Senior Developer 13 1 (3.571 %) Project Leader 13 1 (3.571 %) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.143 %) Computer Science 2 1 (3.571 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 11 (39.29 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.71 %) OO 2 2 (7.143 %) OOD 2 2 (7.143 %) Content Management 2 2 (7.143 %) Software Engineering 2 2 (7.143 %) Web Development 2 2 (7.143 %) Time Management 2 2 (7.143 %) UML 3 1 (3.571 %) Pay per click 3 1 (3.571 %) SEO 3 1 (3.571 %) Migration 3 1 (3.571 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 18 (64.29 %) C# 2 14 (50.00 %) VB.NET 3 8 (28.57 %) SQL 4 5 (17.86 %) VB 5 3 (10.71 %) JavaScript 6 2 (7.143 %) C 6 2 (7.143 %) C++ 6 2 (7.143 %) VB6 7 1 (3.571 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (3.571 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 2 (7.143 %) HNC 1 2 (7.143 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.143 %) ISO9001 1 2 (7.143 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft 2 4 (14.29 %) Oracle