North East ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the North East 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.NET over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Fife Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	40
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	55	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	36.18 %	11.22 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£200
Average daily rate	£345	£200
% change on same period last year	+72.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£312
% change on same period last year	-0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.00	£35.40
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£38.50
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	£41.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.49	£32.29
% change on same period last year	-5.57 %
Application Development North East
Matching contract IT job ads	152	196
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.215 %	0.198 %
Daily rates quoted	23	40
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£320
Average daily rate	£339	£330
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.03	£30.89
Average hourly rate	£31.85	£32.08
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.67	£33.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£31.98
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
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 North East 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 North East region.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

ASP.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET within the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Tyne and Wear	+25	20	-	-
Durham	-8	7	-	-
Teesside	+4	5	£425	-

ASP.NET England

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

1 115 (100.00 %) .NET 2 88 (76.52 %) C# 3 75 (65.22 %) SQL Server 4 32 (27.83 %) SQL Server 2005 5 31 (26.96 %) SQL 6 28 (24.35 %) CSS 7 21 (18.26 %) WebServices 7 21 (18.26 %) HTML 8 20 (17.39 %) VB.NET 8 20 (17.39 %) XML 9 19 (16.52 %) Visual Studio 9 19 (16.52 %) JavaScript 10 17 (14.78 %) .NET Framework 11 16 (13.91 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 15 (13.04 %) Agile Software Development

12 15 (13.04 %) SharePoint 12 15 (13.04 %) Microsoft 13 14 (12.17 %) SQL Server 2000 13 14 (12.17 %) ASP 14 12 (10.43 %) XHTML 15 9 (7.826 %) Web Development 15 9 (7.826 %) Windows 16 8 (6.957 %) Finance 17 7 (6.087 %) Oracle 17 7 (6.087 %) UML 17 7 (6.087 %) OO 18 6 (5.217 %) XSLT 18 6 (5.217 %) MS Excel 18 6 (5.217 %) AJAX 18 6 (5.217 %) SharePoint Server 2007

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 1 115 (100.00 %) .NET 2 28 (24.35 %) CSS 3 21 (18.26 %) HTML 3 21 (18.26 %) WebServices 4 20 (17.39 %) XML 5 17 (14.78 %) .NET Framework 6 16 (13.91 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 14 (12.17 %) ASP 8 12 (10.43 %) XHTML 9 6 (5.217 %) XSLT 9 6 (5.217 %) AJAX 10 4 (3.478 %) WSDL 10 4 (3.478 %) Middleware 10 4 (3.478 %) SOAP 10 4 (3.478 %) XSL 11 2 (1.739 %) JSP 11 2 (1.739 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 2 (1.739 %) .NET Remoting 12 1 (0.870 %) ODBC 12 1 (0.870 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 15 (13.04 %) SharePoint 2 6 (5.217 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (2.609 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 2 (1.739 %) IIS 4 2 (1.739 %) Apache 4 2 (1.739 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.870 %) ArcGIS 5 1 (0.870 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 6 (5.217 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.739 %) InfoPath 3 1 (0.870 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.609 %) Internet 2 2 (1.739 %) HTTP 2 2 (1.739 %) HTTPS 2 2 (1.739 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.870 %) Extranet 3 1 (0.870 %) TELNET 3 1 (0.870 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 75 (65.22 %) SQL Server 2 32 (27.83 %) SQL Server 2005 3 14 (12.17 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (3.478 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (3.478 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 3 (2.609 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (2.609 %) MySQL 6 2 (1.739 %) DTS 7 1 (0.870 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.870 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (0.870 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.870 %) GIS 7 1 (0.870 %) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 19 (16.52 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (4.348 %) NUnit 3 2 (1.739 %) Flash 4 1 (0.870 %) Visual Studio Team System 4 1 (0.870 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 8 (6.957 %) Finance 2 5 (4.348 %) Insurance 3 4 (3.478 %) Health 4 3 (2.609 %) Telecoms 4 3 (2.609 %) Education 5 2 (1.739 %) Automotive 5 2 (1.739 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (1.739 %) Graphic Design 6 1 (0.870 %) Interactive Media 6 1 (0.870 %) Advertising 6 1 (0.870 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 101 (87.83 %) Developer 2 59 (51.30 %) .NET Developer 3 42 (36.52 %) C# Developer 4 39 (33.91 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 33 (28.70 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 13 (11.30 %) SharePoint Developer 7 11 (9.565 %) SQL Developer 7 11 (9.565 %) Web Developer 8 9 (7.826 %) VB.NET Developer 9 6 (5.217 %) .NET Web Developer 10 5 (4.348 %) SQL Server Developer 10 5 (4.348 %) Senior Developer 11 4 (3.478 %) C# Web Developer 11 4 (3.478 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 12 3 (2.609 %) Senior .NET Developer 12 3 (2.609 %) Applications Developer 13 2 (1.739 %) Technical Architect 13 2 (1.739 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 13 2 (1.739 %) Architect 13 2 (1.739 %) Senior Sharepoint Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.478 %) N-Tier 2 3 (2.609 %) Blog 3 1 (0.870 %) NHS 3 1 (0.870 %) Spread Betting	Operating Systems 1 9 (7.826 %) Windows 2 2 (1.739 %) Solaris 2 2 (1.739 %) Linux 2 2 (1.739 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (13.04 %) Agile Software Development 2 9 (7.826 %) Web Development 3 7 (6.087 %) UML 3 7 (6.087 %) OO 4 4 (3.478 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (3.478 %) Workflow 5 3 (2.609 %) Migration 5 3 (2.609 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (2.609 %) Systems Analysis 6 2 (1.739 %) Integration Testing 6 2 (1.739 %) Project Management 6 2 (1.739 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (0.870 %) Process Management 7 1 (0.870 %) Web Design 7 1 (0.870 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (0.870 %) Time Management 7 1 (0.870 %) Software Testing 7 1 (0.870 %) Content Management 7 1 (0.870 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 88 (76.52 %) C# 2 31 (26.96 %) SQL 3 20 (17.39 %) VB.NET 4 19 (16.52 %) JavaScript 5 4 (3.478 %) PHP 5 4 (3.478 %) VB6 5 4 (3.478 %) VB 6 3 (2.609 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (1.739 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (1.739 %) Perl 7 2 (1.739 %) C++
Qualifications 1 1 (0.870 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.870 %) HL7
Vendors 1 15 (13.04 %) Microsoft 2 7 (6.087 %) Oracle