The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Manchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 69 76 62
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -14
Contract jobs citing ASP 4 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.428% 0.696% 0.660%
As % of the Application Development category 1.365% 2.332% 2.373%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
Average daily rate £160 £270 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.74% +8.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £323 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.20% +17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £21.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year
+53.57% -41.25%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
293 386 295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.34% 29.83% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 224 161
Average daily rate £293 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP
North West

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester ASP Hourly Rate Trend

ASP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oldham - 1 - -
ASP
North West

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) XML
4 5 (50.00%) HTML
4 5 (50.00%) Java
4 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (40.00%) Content Management
5 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (40.00%) jQuery
5 4 (40.00%) C#
5 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (40.00%) OO
6 3 (30.00%) Oracle
6 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (30.00%) JMS
6 3 (30.00%) J2EE
6 3 (30.00%) Linux
6 3 (30.00%) OOP
6 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
6 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (30.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 3 (30.00%) CSS
6 3 (30.00%) JDBC
6 3 (30.00%) JSP
6 3 (30.00%) Servlets
6 3 (30.00%) Struts
6 3 (30.00%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (30.00%) HL7

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) HTML
4 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (40.00%) jQuery
5 3 (30.00%) JMS
5 3 (30.00%) J2EE
5 3 (30.00%) CSS
5 3 (30.00%) JDBC
5 3 (30.00%) JSP
5 3 (30.00%) Servlets
5 3 (30.00%) Struts
5 3 (30.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 3 (30.00%) Ajax
5 3 (30.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (10.00%) XSLT
6 1 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) CSS3
6 1 (10.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (30.00%) JCAPS
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (10.00%) TeamSite
3 1 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Maya
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (30.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (30.00%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (20.00%) German Language
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) NHS
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Kindle
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Content Management
1 4 (40.00%) OO
2 3 (30.00%) OOP
2 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (20.00%) Web Design
4 1 (10.00%) RAD
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Web Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) SEO
4 1 (10.00%) Practice Management
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) VB.NET
5 2 (20.00%) PHP
6 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) HL7
2 2 (20.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Interwoven