Oxfordshire ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Oxfordshire 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwynedd Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	21	8
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	30	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.068 %
As % of the category below	25.00 %	35.76 %
Daily rates quoted	10	13
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£282
Average daily rate	£271	£305
% change on same period last year	-11.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£325
% change on same period last year	-11.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.33	£32.50
Average hourly rate	£13.33	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-64.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.33	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.05	£31.43
% change on same period last year	-20.31 %
Application Development Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	120	151
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.241 %	0.189 %
Daily rates quoted	37	27
Average minimum daily rate	£274	£297
Average daily rate	£294	£323
% change on same period last year	-8.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£334
% change on same period last year	-5.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.62	£20.97
Average hourly rate	£22.40	£26.60
% change on same period last year	-15.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.18	£32.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.48	£31.45
% change on same period last year	-9.45 %
ASP.NET South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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 Oxfordshire region.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	-1	14	£299	-0.94 %
Abingdon	-	1	-	-

ASP.NET South East

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 87 (100.00 %) .NET 2 59 (67.82 %) C# 3 50 (57.47 %) SQL Server 4 40 (45.98 %) SQL Server 2005 5 25 (28.74 %) JavaScript 6 24 (27.59 %) CSS 7 22 (25.29 %) HTML 8 19 (21.84 %) Visual Studio 9 18 (20.69 %) XML 10 17 (19.54 %) Web Development 11 16 (18.39 %) SQL 11 16 (18.39 %) Microsoft 12 15 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2000 13 14 (16.09 %) SharePoint 13 14 (16.09 %) VB.NET

14 13 (14.94 %) WebServices 15 12 (13.79 %) OO 16 10 (11.49 %) E-Commerce 16 10 (11.49 %) SharePoint Server 2007 16 10 (11.49 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 8 (9.195 %) Commerce Server 2007 17 8 (9.195 %) XHTML 17 8 (9.195 %) Commerce Server 17 8 (9.195 %) XSLT 17 8 (9.195 %) Linux 18 7 (8.046 %) MS Office 18 7 (8.046 %) Perl 18 7 (8.046 %) Microsoft Certification 18 7 (8.046 %) AJAX 18 7 (8.046 %) Content Management

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 87 (100.00 %) .NET 2 24 (27.59 %) CSS 3 22 (25.29 %) HTML 4 18 (20.69 %) XML 5 13 (14.94 %) WebServices 6 10 (11.49 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 8 (9.195 %) XSLT 7 8 (9.195 %) XHTML 8 7 (8.046 %) AJAX 9 5 (5.747 %) ASP 10 4 (4.598 %) WCF 11 3 (3.448 %) Flash 11 3 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 12 2 (2.299 %) MooTools 12 2 (2.299 %) MVC 12 2 (2.299 %) WinForms 13 1 (1.149 %) WPF 13 1 (1.149 %) Symfony 13 1 (1.149 %) LINQ 13 1 (1.149 %) jQuery	Application Platforms 1 14 (16.09 %) SharePoint 2 10 (11.49 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 8 (9.195 %) Commerce Server 2007 3 8 (9.195 %) Commerce Server 4 6 (6.897 %) IIS 5 3 (3.448 %) CMS 6 2 (2.299 %) BizTalk Server 7 1 (1.149 %) Apache 7 1 (1.149 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 7 (8.046 %) MS Office 2 3 (3.448 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.149 %) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.598 %) DNS 1 4 (4.598 %) Intranet 1 4 (4.598 %) Internet 2 3 (3.448 %) Firewall 2 3 (3.448 %) DHCP 3 1 (1.149 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.149 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.149 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (57.47 %) SQL Server 2 40 (45.98 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (2.299 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (1.149 %) MySQL 5 1 (1.149 %) PostgreSQL 5 1 (1.149 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (1.149 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (1.149 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (1.149 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (1.149 %) PerformancePoint
Development Applications 1 19 (21.84 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.299 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.149 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (1.149 %) Eclipse	General 1 6 (6.897 %) Publishing 2 3 (3.448 %) Marketing 3 2 (2.299 %) Online Games 3 2 (2.299 %) Finance 3 2 (2.299 %) Games 4 1 (1.149 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.149 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.149 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 70 (80.46 %) Developer 2 48 (55.17 %) .NET Developer 3 18 (20.69 %) C# Developer 4 14 (16.09 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 13 (14.94 %) C# ASP.NET Developer 6 11 (12.64 %) Web Developer 7 6 (6.897 %) Software Developer 7 6 (6.897 %) .NET Web Developer 8 5 (5.747 %) Analyst 9 4 (4.598 %) SharePoint Developer 10 3 (3.448 %) Graduate .NET Developer 10 3 (3.448 %) Graduate 10 3 (3.448 %) Systems Analyst 10 3 (3.448 %) Junior 10 3 (3.448 %) Business Developer 10 3 (3.448 %) Applications Developer 10 3 (3.448 %) VB.NET Developer 10 3 (3.448 %) Systems Developer 10 3 (3.448 %) C# Web Developer 10 3 (3.448 %) Junior ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.747 %) W3C 1 5 (5.747 %) Life Science 2 1 (1.149 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 8 (9.195 %) Linux 2 3 (3.448 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (19.54 %) Web Development 2 12 (13.79 %) OO 3 10 (11.49 %) E-Commerce 4 7 (8.046 %) Content Management 5 4 (4.598 %) UML 6 3 (3.448 %) Software Engineering 7 2 (2.299 %) E-business 8 1 (1.149 %) E-Procurement 8 1 (1.149 %) Scrum 8 1 (1.149 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (1.149 %) OOD 8 1 (1.149 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (1.149 %) Web Analytics 8 1 (1.149 %) Pay per click 8 1 (1.149 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 59 (67.82 %) C# 2 25 (28.74 %) JavaScript 3 16 (18.39 %) SQL 4 14 (16.09 %) VB.NET 5 7 (8.046 %) Perl 6 4 (4.598 %) C 7 3 (3.448 %) ActionScript 7 3 (3.448 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (2.299 %) PHP 8 2 (2.299 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (2.299 %) VC++ 9 1 (1.149 %) XQuery 9 1 (1.149 %) XPath 9 1 (1.149 %) PHP5 9 1 (1.149 %) PHP4 9 1 (1.149 %) VB 9 1 (1.149 %) C++	Qualifications 1 7 (8.046 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (5.747 %) MCSD 3 2 (2.299 %) MCAD 3 2 (2.299 %) Degree 4 1 (1.149 %) MCTS 4 1 (1.149 %) MCP 4 1 (1.149 %) MCDBA
Vendors 1 16 (18.39 %) Microsoft 2 3 (3.448 %) Cisco 3 2 (2.299 %) Adobe 4 1 (1.149 %) Sage 4 1 (1.149 %) telerik 4 1 (1.149 %) Google 4 1 (1.149 %) Zend