The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank - 76 71
Contract jobs citing ASP 0 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - 0.439% 0.582%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.959% 2.532%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £323 £281
% change year-on-year
-3.87% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £23.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year
+40.21% -35.66%
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
214 169 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.85% 14.85% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 61 112
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £458 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP
Berkshire

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading ASP Jobs Demand Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP across the Reading region.

Reading ASP Daily Rate Trend

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading ASP Hourly Rate Trend

ASP
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Auditor
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL