The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET over the 3 months to 17 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 Milton Keynes 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET
Rank 36 29 34
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +5
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 16 35 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 3.119% 4.814% 4.188%
As % of the Application Development category 13.33% 26.92% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 16
Average daily rate £325 £300 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +1.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £264 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £430 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.06% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £24.44 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+43.22% -24.80%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 130 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 23.39% 17.88% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 60 52
Average daily rate £375 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP.NET
Buckinghamshire

ASP.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes ASP.NET Daily Rate Trend

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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes ASP.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 45 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (88.89%) C#
3 37 (82.22%) MVC
4 32 (71.11%) ASP.NET MVC
5 23 (51.11%) SQL Server
6 19 (42.22%) JavaScript
7 13 (28.89%) HTML
7 13 (28.89%) CSS
7 13 (28.89%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (28.89%) jQuery
8 12 (26.67%) Web Development
8 12 (26.67%) SQL
9 11 (24.44%) OO
9 11 (24.44%) SQL Server 2005
9 11 (24.44%) WCF
10 10 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
11 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (17.78%) NHibernate
12 7 (15.56%) .NET Framework
12 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
12 7 (15.56%) Mercurial
12 7 (15.56%) Moq
12 7 (15.56%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 7 (15.56%) FogBugz
12 7 (15.56%) CMS
12 7 (15.56%) NUnit
13 6 (13.33%) Scrum
13 6 (13.33%) N-Tier
13 6 (13.33%) Web Application Development
13 6 (13.33%) Umbraco

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 45 (100.00%) .NET
2 32 (71.11%) ASP.NET MVC
3 13 (28.89%) HTML
3 13 (28.89%) CSS
3 13 (28.89%) jQuery
4 11 (24.44%) WCF
5 8 (17.78%) NHibernate
6 7 (15.56%) .NET Framework
6 7 (15.56%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 5 (11.11%) Web Services
7 5 (11.11%) XML
8 4 (8.889%) Ajax
8 4 (8.889%) LINQ
8 4 (8.889%) KnockoutJS
9 3 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 3 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (6.667%) ASP
10 2 (4.444%) XSLT
10 2 (4.444%) XHTML
10 2 (4.444%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.56%) CMS
2 6 (13.33%) Umbraco
3 2 (4.444%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.222%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (2.222%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.222%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.222%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (51.11%) SQL Server
2 11 (24.44%) SQL Server 2005
3 10 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) NUnit
1 7 (15.56%) Mercurial
1 7 (15.56%) Moq
1 7 (15.56%) FogBugz
2 5 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (6.667%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.222%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.222%) Subversion
4 1 (2.222%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 3 (6.667%) Finance
2 2 (4.444%) Banking
3 1 (2.222%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (100.00%) Developer
2 34 (75.56%) .NET Developer
3 13 (28.89%) Web Developer
3 13 (28.89%) ASP.NET Developer
4 9 (20.00%) C# Developer
5 6 (13.33%) C# Web Developer
6 4 (8.889%) Agile .NET Developer
6 4 (8.889%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (6.667%) .NET Programmer
7 3 (6.667%) .NET Web Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Programmer
8 2 (4.444%) VB.NET Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Senior Web Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Senior .NET Web Developer
8 2 (4.444%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (2.222%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.222%) VB.NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) N-Tier
2 3 (6.667%) SaaS
3 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.222%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.444%) Windows
1 2 (4.444%) MVS
2 1 (2.222%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (82.22%) MVC
2 13 (28.89%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (26.67%) Web Development
4 11 (24.44%) OO
5 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
7 6 (13.33%) Web Application Development
7 6 (13.33%) Scrum
8 5 (11.11%) TDD
9 1 (2.222%) Systems Analysis
9 1 (2.222%) Business Continuity
9 1 (2.222%) E-Commerce
9 1 (2.222%) Data Modelling
9 1 (2.222%) OOD
9 1 (2.222%) Business Intelligence
9 1 (2.222%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 40 (88.89%) C#
2 19 (42.22%) JavaScript
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (6.667%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.667%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.222%) VB6
5 1 (2.222%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (4.444%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.444%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.222%) MCP
2 1 (2.222%) MCAD
2 1 (2.222%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.222%) MCITP
2 1 (2.222%) MCPD
Vendors
1 3 (6.667%) Microsoft
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