Midlands ASP.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ASP.NET over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury 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 Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne 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 Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Louth Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Ringwood Rochester Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield 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 Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	29
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	71	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.056 %
As % of the category below	21.26 %	15.84 %
Daily rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£333
Average daily rate	£287	£367
% change on same period last year	-21.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£302	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£322
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£32.50
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£33.50
% change on same period last year	-64.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.87	£33.22
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
Application Development Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	334	341
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.440 %	0.357 %
Daily rates quoted	58	32
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£364
Average daily rate	£372	£388
% change on same period last year	-4.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.43	£39.00
Average hourly rate	£25.22	£39.98
% change on same period last year	-36.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£40.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
ASP.NET England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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.

1 145 (97.97 %) .NET 2 94 (63.51 %) C# 3 69 (46.62 %) SQL Server 4 47 (31.76 %) VB.NET 5 34 (22.97 %) JavaScript 6 31 (20.95 %) HTML 6 31 (20.95 %) SQL 7 30 (20.27 %) Oracle 8 28 (18.92 %) CSS 9 26 (17.57 %) Visual Studio 10 24 (16.22 %) XML 11 20 (13.51 %) WebServices 11 20 (13.51 %) ASP 11 20 (13.51 %) SQL Server 2005 12 18 (12.16 %) SharePoint

12 18 (12.16 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 17 (11.49 %) OO 14 16 (10.81 %) VB 14 16 (10.81 %) WinForms 15 15 (10.14 %) AJAX 15 15 (10.14 %) Web Development 15 15 (10.14 %) Windows 16 14 (9.459 %) UML 16 14 (9.459 %) Microsoft 17 13 (8.784 %) Oracle 10g 17 13 (8.784 %) .NET Framework 18 12 (8.108 %) IIS 19 10 (6.757 %) PL/SQL 19 10 (6.757 %) ASP.NET 2.0 20 9 (6.081 %) BizTalk Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 1 145 (97.97 %) .NET 2 31 (20.95 %) HTML 3 28 (18.92 %) CSS 4 24 (16.22 %) XML 5 20 (13.51 %) WebServices 5 20 (13.51 %) ASP 6 16 (10.81 %) WinForms 7 15 (10.14 %) AJAX 8 13 (8.784 %) .NET Framework 9 10 (6.757 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 6 (4.054 %) CAML 11 5 (3.378 %) WCF 11 5 (3.378 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 5 (3.378 %) XHTML 12 4 (2.703 %) Silverlight 13 3 (2.027 %) ArcObjects 14 2 (1.351 %) XSL 14 2 (1.351 %) XSLT 14 2 (1.351 %) SOAP 15 1 (0.676 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 18 (12.16 %) SharePoint 1 18 (12.16 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 12 (8.108 %) IIS 3 9 (6.081 %) BizTalk Server 4 7 (4.730 %) CMS 5 3 (2.027 %) ArcGIS 5 3 (2.027 %) ArcIMS 6 1 (0.676 %) ColdFusion MX 6 1 (0.676 %) Apache 6 1 (0.676 %) Tomcat 6 1 (0.676 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 3 (2.027 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.676 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.351 %) Intranet 2 1 (0.676 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (0.676 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 69 (46.62 %) SQL Server 2 20 (13.51 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (8.784 %) Oracle 10g 4 6 (4.054 %) SQL Server 7 4 6 (4.054 %) Oracle 11g 5 5 (3.378 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (2.703 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 3 (2.027 %) GIS 7 3 (2.027 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (1.351 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (0.676 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 1 (0.676 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 1 (0.676 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 26 (17.57 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (3.378 %) Dreamweaver 3 4 (2.703 %) Oracle Forms 3 4 (2.703 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 4 (2.703 %) NUnit 4 3 (2.027 %) Subversion 5 1 (0.676 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (0.676 %) WinRunner
General 1 6 (4.054 %) Insurance 2 3 (2.027 %) Retail 3 2 (1.351 %) Marketing 3 2 (1.351 %) Finance 4 1 (0.676 %) Automotive 4 1 (0.676 %) Advertising 4 1 (0.676 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 118 (79.73 %) Developer 2 78 (52.70 %) .NET Developer 3 43 (29.05 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 30 (20.27 %) C# Developer 5 25 (16.89 %) VB.NET Developer 6 17 (11.49 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 15 (10.14 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 14 (9.459 %) SQL Developer 9 13 (8.784 %) SharePoint Developer 9 13 (8.784 %) Architect 9 13 (8.784 %) Web Developer 10 12 (8.108 %) Technical Architect 11 6 (4.054 %) PL/SQL Developer 11 6 (4.054 %) SQL Server Developer 12 5 (3.378 %) .NET Web Developer 12 5 (3.378 %) C# Web Developer 13 4 (2.703 %) Senior Developer 13 4 (2.703 %) Programmer 14 3 (2.027 %) BizTalk Developer 14 3 (2.027 %) Junior .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.027 %) Asset Management 1 3 (2.027 %) NHS 2 2 (1.351 %) W3C 3 1 (0.676 %) Social Network 3 1 (0.676 %) E-Learning 3 1 (0.676 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 15 (10.14 %) Windows 2 3 (2.027 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.676 %) Windows NT 3 1 (0.676 %) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (11.49 %) OO 2 15 (10.14 %) Web Development 3 14 (9.459 %) UML 4 9 (6.081 %) Migration 5 7 (4.730 %) Content Management 5 7 (4.730 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 7 (4.730 %) SOA 5 7 (4.730 %) RUP 5 7 (4.730 %) EAI 6 4 (2.703 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (2.027 %) Agile Software Development 7 3 (2.027 %) OOP 8 2 (1.351 %) OOD 9 1 (0.676 %) Security Cleared 9 1 (0.676 %) Web Design 9 1 (0.676 %) SEO 9 1 (0.676 %) Extreme Programming 9 1 (0.676 %) Requirements Analysis 9 1 (0.676 %) Automated Testing 9 1 (0.676 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 94 (63.51 %) C# 2 47 (31.76 %) VB.NET 3 34 (22.97 %) JavaScript 4 31 (20.95 %) SQL 5 16 (10.81 %) VB 6 10 (6.757 %) PL/SQL 7 7 (4.730 %) Java 8 5 (3.378 %) VB6 9 3 (2.027 %) C++ 9 3 (2.027 %) C 9 3 (2.027 %) Transact-SQL 10 2 (1.351 %) VBScript 10 2 (1.351 %) DHTML 11 1 (0.676 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 2 (1.351 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.351 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (2.027 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 30 (20.27 %) Oracle 2 14 (9.459 %) Microsoft