Reading ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Reading 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 6 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 Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire 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 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 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	27
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	40	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	18.60 %	17.14 %
Daily rates quoted	4	20
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£317
Average daily rate	£255	£345
% change on same period last year	-25.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£278	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£312
% change on same period last year	-0.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-6.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£32.07
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Application Development Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	215	280
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.300 %	0.281 %
Daily rates quoted	53	109
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£323
Average daily rate	£300	£348
% change on same period last year	-13.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.70	£36.20
Average hourly rate	£36.91	£37.72
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.13	£39.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
ASP.NET Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Reading region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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 Reading region.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Reading region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 96 (100.00 %) .NET 2 80 (83.33 %) C# 3 57 (59.38 %) SQL Server 4 29 (30.21 %) XML 5 28 (29.17 %) HTML 6 27 (28.13 %) SQL 7 25 (26.04 %) SQL Server 2005 8 22 (22.92 %) Microsoft 9 19 (19.79 %) JavaScript 10 18 (18.75 %) CSS 10 18 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 10 18 (18.75 %) WebServices 11 15 (15.63 %) Microsoft Certification 12 13 (13.54 %) HTTP 12 13 (13.54 %) IIS

12 13 (13.54 %) Security Cleared 13 12 (12.50 %) ASP 13 12 (12.50 %) SharePoint 13 12 (12.50 %) AJAX 14 11 (11.46 %) Oracle 14 11 (11.46 %) VB 14 11 (11.46 %) .NET Framework 14 11 (11.46 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 10 (10.42 %) SC Cleared 15 10 (10.42 %) VB.NET 15 10 (10.42 %) MS Office 15 10 (10.42 %) Windows 15 10 (10.42 %) Finance 16 9 (9.375 %) Windows 2000 16 9 (9.375 %) C

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 96 (100.00 %) .NET 2 29 (30.21 %) XML 3 28 (29.17 %) HTML 4 18 (18.75 %) CSS 4 18 (18.75 %) WebServices 5 12 (12.50 %) AJAX 5 12 (12.50 %) ASP 6 11 (11.46 %) .NET Framework 7 7 (7.292 %) XSLT 7 7 (7.292 %) WCF 8 6 (6.250 %) XHTML 9 5 (5.208 %) SOAP 9 5 (5.208 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 4 (4.167 %) J2EE 10 4 (4.167 %) UDDI 11 3 (3.125 %) WinForms 11 3 (3.125 %) MDX 11 3 (3.125 %) ADO.NET 11 3 (3.125 %) XSL 12 2 (2.083 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 13 (13.54 %) IIS 2 12 (12.50 %) SharePoint 3 11 (11.46 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 8 (8.333 %) BizTalk Server 5 6 (6.250 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 4 (4.167 %) ESB 6 4 (4.167 %) WebLogic Portal 6 4 (4.167 %) WebLogic 6 4 (4.167 %) Oracle Application Server 7 1 (1.042 %) CMS 7 1 (1.042 %) Commerce Server 7 1 (1.042 %) Commerce Server 2007 7 1 (1.042 %) Immediacy CMS
Applications 1 10 (10.42 %) MS Office 2 3 (3.125 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (3.125 %) Applix TM1
Communications & Networking 1 13 (13.54 %) HTTP 2 9 (9.375 %) DNS 3 1 (1.042 %) CTI 3 1 (1.042 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.042 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 57 (59.38 %) SQL Server 2 25 (26.04 %) SQL Server 2005 3 18 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (7.292 %) MSDE 5 5 (5.208 %) DTS 6 4 (4.167 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (1.042 %) GIS 7 1 (1.042 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 8 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.042 %) PVCS 2 1 (1.042 %) StarTeam	General 1 10 (10.42 %) Finance 2 4 (4.167 %) Banking 3 2 (2.083 %) Retail 3 2 (2.083 %) Pensions 3 2 (2.083 %) Construction 3 2 (2.083 %) Government 3 2 (2.083 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (2.083 %) International Banking 4 1 (1.042 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.042 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.042 %) Telemarketing 4 1 (1.042 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (1.042 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 65 (67.71 %) Developer 2 40 (41.67 %) .NET Developer 3 27 (28.13 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 25 (26.04 %) C# Developer 5 19 (19.79 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 10 (10.42 %) Web Developer 7 7 (7.292 %) Analyst 8 4 (4.167 %) Software Developer 8 4 (4.167 %) Programmer 8 4 (4.167 %) Support Specialist 8 4 (4.167 %) VB.NET Developer 9 3 (3.125 %) C# Web Developer 9 3 (3.125 %) Analyst Programmer 9 3 (3.125 %) ASP Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) WinForms Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) SharePoint Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) Technical Advisor 10 2 (2.083 %) Junior ASP.NET Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) Sharepoint Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.250 %) Replication 1 6 (6.250 %) Clustering 2 2 (2.083 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (2.083 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.042 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 10 (10.42 %) Windows 2 9 (9.375 %) Windows 2000 2 9 (9.375 %) Windows XP 2 9 (9.375 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (13.54 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (10.42 %) SC Cleared 3 9 (9.375 %) Network Load Balancing 4 6 (6.250 %) Technical Architecture 4 6 (6.250 %) Load Balancing 4 6 (6.250 %) B2B 5 4 (4.167 %) SOA 5 4 (4.167 %) Workflow 6 3 (3.125 %) Agile Software Development 6 3 (3.125 %) Content Management 6 3 (3.125 %) CRM 6 3 (3.125 %) Requirements Analysis 7 2 (2.083 %) Project Planning 7 2 (2.083 %) Wealth Management 7 2 (2.083 %) BC Cleared 7 2 (2.083 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (2.083 %) UML 7 2 (2.083 %) OO 7 2 (2.083 %) Validation 7 2 (2.083 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 80 (83.33 %) C# 2 27 (28.13 %) SQL 3 19 (19.79 %) JavaScript 4 11 (11.46 %) VB 5 10 (10.42 %) VB.NET 6 9 (9.375 %) Transact-SQL 6 9 (9.375 %) C 7 7 (7.292 %) Java 8 6 (6.250 %) VBA 9 3 (3.125 %) VBScript 10 2 (2.083 %) PHP 10 2 (2.083 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 15 (15.63 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (5.208 %) MCSD 3 3 (3.125 %) MCP 3 3 (3.125 %) MCAD 4 2 (2.083 %) MCSE 4 2 (2.083 %) MCDST
System Software 1 2 (2.083 %) MSMQ 2 1 (1.042 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 22 (22.92 %) Microsoft 2 11 (11.46 %) Oracle 3 3 (3.125 %) TIBCO 3 3 (3.125 %) Applix 4 1 (1.042 %) Borland