Manchester ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Manchester 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 over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak Home Counties Horsham Hove Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Pagnell Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stockport Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	25
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	24	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	6.030 %	15.97 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£100
Average daily rate	-	£123
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£145
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£290
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.67	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£22.22	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-25.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.78	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.06	£27.11
% change on same period last year	+7.18 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	398	288
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.511 %	0.324 %
Daily rates quoted	74	46
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£243
Average daily rate	£357	£264
% change on same period last year	+35.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.95	£32.16
Average hourly rate	£29.31	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-14.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.67	£36.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
ASP 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

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

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Manchester region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

ASP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Stockport	+3	4	-	-
2	Oldham	-	1	-	-
2	Wigan	-	1	-	-
2	Bolton	-	1	-	-
2	Ashton-under-Lyne	-	1	-	-

ASP North West

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP.

1 39 (68.42 %) .NET 2 33 (57.89 %) SQL Server 3 29 (50.88 %) ASP.NET 4 27 (47.37 %) C# 5 20 (35.09 %) JavaScript 5 20 (35.09 %) SQL 6 16 (28.07 %) XML 7 15 (26.32 %) HTML 8 14 (24.56 %) SQL Server 2005 9 13 (22.81 %) VB 10 11 (19.30 %) VB.NET 11 10 (17.54 %) CSS 12 9 (15.79 %) Microsoft 13 8 (14.04 %) WebServices 14 7 (12.28 %) XHTML

15 6 (10.53 %) Web Development 15 6 (10.53 %) MS Excel 15 6 (10.53 %) E-Commerce 15 6 (10.53 %) NHS 15 6 (10.53 %) SQL Server 7 16 5 (8.772 %) SQL Server 2000 16 5 (8.772 %) UML 16 5 (8.772 %) .NET Framework 17 4 (7.018 %) VB6 17 4 (7.018 %) N-Tier 17 4 (7.018 %) IIS 17 4 (7.018 %) MySQL 17 4 (7.018 %) PHP 17 4 (7.018 %) Transact-SQL 18 3 (5.263 %) VBScript

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 39 (68.42 %) .NET 2 29 (50.88 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (28.07 %) XML 4 15 (26.32 %) HTML 5 10 (17.54 %) CSS 6 8 (14.04 %) WebServices 7 7 (12.28 %) XHTML 8 5 (8.772 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (5.263 %) XSLT 9 3 (5.263 %) SOAP 10 2 (3.509 %) JSP 10 2 (3.509 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 1 (1.754 %) COM+ 11 1 (1.754 %) XSL 11 1 (1.754 %) Adobe Flex 11 1 (1.754 %) Adobe AIR 11 1 (1.754 %) Web Dynpro 11 1 (1.754 %) AJAX 11 1 (1.754 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 4 (7.018 %) IIS 2 3 (5.263 %) SharePoint 2 3 (5.263 %) CMS 3 1 (1.754 %) SAP Web AS 3 1 (1.754 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 6 (10.53 %) MS Excel 2 3 (5.263 %) Photoshop 3 2 (3.509 %) Doxygen	Business Applications 1 1 (1.754 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (1.754 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.509 %) SSL 1 2 (3.509 %) Intranet 1 2 (3.509 %) Internet 1 2 (3.509 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (57.89 %) SQL Server 2 14 (24.56 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (10.53 %) SQL Server 7 4 5 (8.772 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (7.018 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.754 %) SAP BI 6 1 (1.754 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (1.754 %) MS Access 6 1 (1.754 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 3 (5.263 %) Dreamweaver 1 3 (5.263 %) NUnit 1 3 (5.263 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.509 %) FrontPage 2 2 (3.509 %) Selenium 3 1 (1.754 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 3 (5.263 %) Insurance 2 2 (3.509 %) Finance 3 1 (1.754 %) Retail 3 1 (1.754 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 48 (84.21 %) Developer 2 16 (28.07 %) Web Developer 3 13 (22.81 %) .NET Developer 3 13 (22.81 %) ASP Developer 4 7 (12.28 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (8.772 %) SQL Developer 5 5 (8.772 %) VB.NET Developer 6 4 (7.018 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (5.263 %) Junior 7 3 (5.263 %) Junior Developer 7 3 (5.263 %) SQL Server Developer 7 3 (5.263 %) .NET Web Developer 7 3 (5.263 %) Junior Web Developer 7 3 (5.263 %) C# Developer 8 2 (3.509 %) Lead Developer 8 2 (3.509 %) Webmaster 8 2 (3.509 %) Software Developer 8 2 (3.509 %) Author 8 2 (3.509 %) VB Developer 9 1 (1.754 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (10.53 %) NHS 2 4 (7.018 %) N-Tier 3 2 (3.509 %) Replication 3 2 (3.509 %) W3C 4 1 (1.754 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (10.53 %) E-Commerce 1 6 (10.53 %) Web Development 2 5 (8.772 %) UML 3 3 (5.263 %) Performance Management 3 3 (5.263 %) E-business 4 2 (3.509 %) OO 4 2 (3.509 %) SOA 5 1 (1.754 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (1.754 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (1.754 %) OOP 5 1 (1.754 %) ERP 5 1 (1.754 %) EAI 5 1 (1.754 %) OOD 5 1 (1.754 %) BPM 5 1 (1.754 %) Migration 5 1 (1.754 %) Web Design 5 1 (1.754 %) TDD 5 1 (1.754 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 27 (47.37 %) C# 2 20 (35.09 %) JavaScript 2 20 (35.09 %) SQL 3 13 (22.81 %) VB 4 11 (19.30 %) VB.NET 5 4 (7.018 %) VB6 5 4 (7.018 %) Transact-SQL 5 4 (7.018 %) PHP 6 3 (5.263 %) Java 6 3 (5.263 %) VBScript 6 3 (5.263 %) Perl 7 2 (3.509 %) DHTML 7 2 (3.509 %) VBA 8 1 (1.754 %) Python 8 1 (1.754 %) Lingo 8 1 (1.754 %) ABAP 8 1 (1.754 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 1 (1.754 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.509 %) PAS 78 1 2 (3.509 %) QA
Vendors 1 9 (15.79 %) Microsoft 2 3 (5.263 %) Adobe 2 3 (5.263 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.754 %) SAP 3 1 (1.754 %) Siebel 3 1 (1.754 %) i2 3 1 (1.754 %) Retek 3 1 (1.754 %) JD Edwards 3 1 (1.754 %) webMethods