North West ASP.NET Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the ASP.NET Developer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Felixstowe Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	74
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	63	74
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.079 %
As % of the category below	2.077 %	1.824 %
Daily rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum daily rate	£235	£283
Average daily rate	£235	£296
% change on same period last year	-20.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£235	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£262	£308
% change on same period last year	-14.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.40	£25.14
Average hourly rate	£23.15	£28.43
% change on same period last year	-18.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.90	£31.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.43	£31.84
% change on same period last year	-20.12 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3033	4058
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.873 %	4.358 %
Daily rates quoted	676	805
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£326
Average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	437	479
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£19.41
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET Developer across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET Developer across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Developer across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Manchester	-5	20	£338	+21.62 %
Cheshire	+10	16	£110	-
Merseyside	+7	15	£195	-
Lancashire	-10	5	-	-
Cumbria	-	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title 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 with ASP.NET Developer in their job title.

1 148 (100.00 %) .NET 1 148 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 109 (73.65 %) C# 3 104 (70.27 %) SQL Server 4 71 (47.97 %) SQL Server 2005 5 41 (27.70 %) VB.NET 6 40 (27.03 %) XML 7 39 (26.35 %) SQL 8 35 (23.65 %) HTML 9 33 (22.30 %) CSS 10 32 (21.62 %) JavaScript 11 29 (19.59 %) WebServices 12 26 (17.57 %) AJAX 13 22 (14.86 %) ASP 14 20 (13.51 %) SQL Server 2000

15 18 (12.16 %) Visual Studio 16 14 (9.459 %) Web Development 16 14 (9.459 %) VB 17 12 (8.108 %) .NET Framework 18 11 (7.432 %) XHTML 19 10 (6.757 %) E-Commerce 19 10 (6.757 %) Transact-SQL 19 10 (6.757 %) Retail 19 10 (6.757 %) ASP.NET 2.0 20 9 (6.081 %) CMS 20 9 (6.081 %) ADO.NET 20 9 (6.081 %) XSLT 21 8 (5.405 %) B2B 21 8 (5.405 %) SOAP 21 8 (5.405 %) IIS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title 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 with ASP.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 148 (100.00 %) .NET 1 148 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 40 (27.03 %) XML 3 35 (23.65 %) HTML 4 33 (22.30 %) CSS 5 29 (19.59 %) WebServices 6 26 (17.57 %) AJAX 7 22 (14.86 %) ASP 8 12 (8.108 %) .NET Framework 9 11 (7.432 %) XHTML 10 10 (6.757 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 9 (6.081 %) XSLT 11 9 (6.081 %) ADO.NET 12 8 (5.405 %) SOAP 12 8 (5.405 %) WCF 13 6 (4.054 %) Silverlight 14 3 (2.027 %) LINQ 14 3 (2.027 %) Java RMI 15 1 (0.676 %) Hibernate 15 1 (0.676 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 9 (6.081 %) CMS 2 8 (5.405 %) IIS 3 5 (3.378 %) SharePoint 4 3 (2.027 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (0.676 %) Immediacy CMS 5 1 (0.676 %) Sitecore CMS 5 1 (0.676 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.676 %) ArcGIS 5 1 (0.676 %) ArcIMS 5 1 (0.676 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (0.676 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 2 (1.351 %) Photoshop 1 2 (1.351 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.676 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 5 (3.378 %) Intranet 2 2 (1.351 %) Internet 3 1 (0.676 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 104 (70.27 %) SQL Server 2 71 (47.97 %) SQL Server 2005 3 20 (13.51 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (2.703 %) Crystal Reports 4 4 (2.703 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (2.027 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (2.027 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 2 (1.351 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (1.351 %) MS Access 6 2 (1.351 %) DTS 6 2 (1.351 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (1.351 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (0.676 %) MySQL 7 1 (0.676 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 18 (12.16 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (3.378 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.351 %) Flash
General 1 10 (6.757 %) Retail 2 5 (3.378 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (2.027 %) Finance 3 3 (2.027 %) Education 4 2 (1.351 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (0.676 %) Law 5 1 (0.676 %) Construction 5 1 (0.676 %) Billing 5 1 (0.676 %) Graphic Design 5 1 (0.676 %) Interactive Media	Miscellaneous 1 5 (3.378 %) German Language 2 3 (2.027 %) N-Tier 3 2 (1.351 %) W3C 3 2 (1.351 %) PDA 4 1 (0.676 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 4 (2.703 %) Windows 2 1 (0.676 %) Windows CE 2 1 (0.676 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (9.459 %) Web Development 2 10 (6.757 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (5.405 %) B2B 4 6 (4.054 %) Content Management 5 5 (3.378 %) Migration 5 5 (3.378 %) OOP 5 5 (3.378 %) OO 6 4 (2.703 %) OOA/OOD 6 4 (2.703 %) OOD 6 4 (2.703 %) Web Design 7 3 (2.027 %) Project Management 7 3 (2.027 %) Resource Management 8 2 (1.351 %) Requirements Analysis 8 2 (1.351 %) Scrum 8 2 (1.351 %) SEO 9 1 (0.676 %) Workflow 9 1 (0.676 %) Agile Software Development 9 1 (0.676 %) TDD 9 1 (0.676 %) Systems Analysis 9 1 (0.676 %) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages 1 109 (73.65 %) C# 2 41 (27.70 %) VB.NET 3 39 (26.35 %) SQL 4 32 (21.62 %) JavaScript 5 14 (9.459 %) VB 6 10 (6.757 %) Transact-SQL 7 8 (5.405 %) DHTML 8 6 (4.054 %) VBScript 9 5 (3.378 %) VB6 10 4 (2.703 %) C++ 11 3 (2.027 %) PHP 12 2 (1.351 %) Delphi 12 2 (1.351 %) Java 13 1 (0.676 %) PL/SQL 13 1 (0.676 %) Perl 13 1 (0.676 %) XPath 13 1 (0.676 %) PHP5 13 1 (0.676 %) PHP4 13 1 (0.676 %) VBA 13 1 (0.676 %) FoxPro (VFP)	Qualifications 1 1 (0.676 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.676 %) SLA 1 1 (0.676 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.676 %) Intellisync
Vendors 1 6 (4.054 %) Microsoft 2 4 (2.703 %) Oracle 3 1 (0.676 %) Nokia 3 1 (0.676 %) Lotus 3 1 (0.676 %) Infragistics 3 1 (0.676 %) RedDot 3 1 (0.676 %) Sitecore