Norfolk ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Norfolk 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 over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Basingstoke Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hertfordshire Hitchin Horsham Hove Hull Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Whyteleafe Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	46
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	8	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	7.547 %	3.608 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£300
Average daily rate	£450	£300
% change on same period last year	+50.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£285
% change on same period last year	+7.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.99	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Application Development Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	106	194
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.203 %
Daily rates quoted	15	43
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£422
Average daily rate	£357	£437
% change on same period last year	-18.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£452
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.61	£29.28
Average hourly rate	£32.45	£33.62
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.28	£37.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
ASP East of 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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP across the Norfolk 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 IT contract jobs citing ASP across the Norfolk region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

ASP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing ASP within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 8 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
Norwich	+4	4	£450	+50.00 %

ASP East of England

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 6 (54.55 %) C# 1 6 (54.55 %) .NET 2 5 (45.45 %) SQL 3 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows 4 3 (27.27 %) CSS 4 3 (27.27 %) JavaScript 4 3 (27.27 %) VB 4 3 (27.27 %) VB.NET 4 3 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (18.18 %) C 5 2 (18.18 %) DHTML 5 2 (18.18 %) HTML 5 2 (18.18 %) XHTML 5 2 (18.18 %) LDAP

5 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (18.18 %) Internet 5 2 (18.18 %) Tivoli 5 2 (18.18 %) Insurance 5 2 (18.18 %) assyst 5 2 (18.18 %) Web Development 5 2 (18.18 %) Network Security 5 2 (18.18 %) WinForms 6 1 (9.091 %) FrontPage 6 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (9.091 %) VAX 6 1 (9.091 %) BT 6 1 (9.091 %) BBC 6 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (9.091 %) SCORM

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 6 (54.55 %) .NET 2 3 (27.27 %) CSS 2 3 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (18.18 %) HTML 3 2 (18.18 %) XHTML 3 2 (18.18 %) WinForms 4 1 (9.091 %) SOAP 4 1 (9.091 %) WebServices 4 1 (9.091 %) XML 4 1 (9.091 %) XSL 4 1 (9.091 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) assyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) LDAP 1 2 (18.18 %) Internet 1 2 (18.18 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) FrontPage 1 1 (9.091 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 2 (18.18 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 8 (72.73 %) Developer 2 5 (45.45 %) .NET Developer 2 5 (45.45 %) C# Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) VB.NET Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 3 2 (18.18 %) WinForms Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Web Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Software Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) VAX 1 1 (9.091 %) BBC 1 1 (9.091 %) SCORM
Operating Systems 1 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2 1 (9.091 %) OS/2 2 1 (9.091 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 6 (54.55 %) C# 2 5 (45.45 %) SQL 3 3 (27.27 %) JavaScript 3 3 (27.27 %) VB 3 3 (27.27 %) VB.NET 4 2 (18.18 %) C 4 2 (18.18 %) DHTML 5 1 (9.091 %) VC++ 5 1 (9.091 %) C++ 5 1 (9.091 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management 1 2 (18.18 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) BT 2 1 (9.091 %) Olivetti 2 1 (9.091 %) Adobe 2 1 (9.091 %) Macromedia 2 1 (9.091 %) HP 2 1 (9.091 %) IBM 2 1 (9.091 %) Oracle