Scotland ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Scotland 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 over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak Home Counties Horsham Hove Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Pagnell Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	82
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	27	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	5.192 %	7.037 %
Daily rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum daily rate	£181	£298
Average daily rate	£204	£298
% change on same period last year	-31.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£226	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£290
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£18.75
% change on same period last year	+86.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.91	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Application Development Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	520	540
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.667 %	0.607 %
Daily rates quoted	78	107
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£322
Average daily rate	£323	£338
% change on same period last year	-4.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.61	£20.93
Average hourly rate	£31.68	£22.75
% change on same period last year	+39.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.74	£24.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
ASP UK

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Scotland region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the Scotland region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Edinburgh	-11	9	£170	-42.95 %
2	Aberdeen	+2	7	-	-
3	Glasgow	+5	6	£238	-
4	South Lanarkshire	-	1	£300	-

ASP UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP.

1 55 (72.37 %) .NET 2 38 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 37 (48.68 %) SQL 4 33 (43.42 %) SQL Server 5 24 (31.58 %) VB 6 22 (28.95 %) C# 6 22 (28.95 %) HTML 6 22 (28.95 %) Microsoft 7 18 (23.68 %) JavaScript 7 18 (23.68 %) XML 8 16 (21.05 %) CSS 9 14 (18.42 %) VB.NET 10 10 (13.16 %) Finance 10 10 (13.16 %) Oracle 11 9 (11.84 %) Visual Studio

11 9 (11.84 %) VB6 12 8 (10.53 %) Data Management 12 8 (10.53 %) LiveLink 12 8 (10.53 %) Web Development 12 8 (10.53 %) Enterprise Data Management 12 8 (10.53 %) Internet 12 8 (10.53 %) SharePoint 13 7 (9.211 %) Dreamweaver 13 7 (9.211 %) WebServices 13 7 (9.211 %) Business Analysis 13 7 (9.211 %) Publishing 14 6 (7.895 %) XSL 14 6 (7.895 %) IIS 14 6 (7.895 %) Transact-SQL 14 6 (7.895 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 55 (72.37 %) .NET 2 38 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 22 (28.95 %) HTML 4 18 (23.68 %) XML 5 16 (21.05 %) CSS 6 7 (9.211 %) WebServices 7 6 (7.895 %) XSL 8 5 (6.579 %) JSP 8 5 (6.579 %) SOAP 9 4 (5.263 %) XSLT 9 4 (5.263 %) .NET Framework 10 3 (3.947 %) XHTML 11 2 (2.632 %) COM 12 1 (1.316 %) COM+ 12 1 (1.316 %) ADO 12 1 (1.316 %) AJAX 12 1 (1.316 %) NHibernate 12 1 (1.316 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 8 (10.53 %) SharePoint 1 8 (10.53 %) LiveLink 2 6 (7.895 %) IIS 3 5 (6.579 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.316 %) Apache
Applications 1 6 (7.895 %) MS Excel 2 4 (5.263 %) Photoshop 2 4 (5.263 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (10.53 %) Internet 2 5 (6.579 %) Intranet 3 3 (3.947 %) LAN 3 3 (3.947 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (43.42 %) SQL Server 2 5 (6.579 %) BusinessObjects 2 5 (6.579 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (5.263 %) Crystal Reports 4 3 (3.947 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (3.947 %) MySQL 5 1 (1.316 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (1.316 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.316 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 9 (11.84 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (9.211 %) Dreamweaver 3 5 (6.579 %) Flash 4 4 (5.263 %) FrontPage 5 3 (3.947 %) NUnit 6 2 (2.632 %) InterDev
General 1 10 (13.16 %) Finance 2 7 (9.211 %) Publishing 3 5 (6.579 %) Banking 4 3 (3.947 %) Retail 5 2 (2.632 %) Multimedia 5 2 (2.632 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (2.632 %) Marketing 5 2 (2.632 %) Government 6 1 (1.316 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 49 (64.47 %) Developer 2 30 (39.47 %) .NET Developer 3 14 (18.42 %) Web Developer 4 11 (14.47 %) C# Developer 5 10 (13.16 %) ASP Developer 6 8 (10.53 %) Applications Support 7 7 (9.211 %) VB.NET Developer 7 7 (9.211 %) Analyst 8 6 (7.895 %) Programmer 8 6 (7.895 %) Support Engineer 8 6 (7.895 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 6 (7.895 %) SQL Developer 8 6 (7.895 %) Applications Support Engineer 9 4 (5.263 %) .NET Designer 10 3 (3.947 %) PHP Developer 10 3 (3.947 %) .NET Web Developer 10 3 (3.947 %) .NET Programmer 10 3 (3.947 %) Web Programmer 10 3 (3.947 %) Senior Developer 10 3 (3.947 %) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.579 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.316 %) NHS 2 1 (1.316 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 4 (5.263 %) Unix 1 4 (5.263 %) Linux 2 1 (1.316 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (1.316 %) Windows NT 2 1 (1.316 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (10.53 %) Data Management 1 8 (10.53 %) Web Development 1 8 (10.53 %) Enterprise Data Management 2 7 (9.211 %) Business Analysis 3 6 (7.895 %) Project Management 3 6 (7.895 %) OO 4 5 (6.579 %) ITIL 5 3 (3.947 %) Web Design 6 2 (2.632 %) Information Management 6 2 (2.632 %) Search Engine Marketing 6 2 (2.632 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (1.316 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.316 %) UML 7 1 (1.316 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (1.316 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (1.316 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 37 (48.68 %) SQL 2 24 (31.58 %) VB 3 22 (28.95 %) C# 4 18 (23.68 %) JavaScript 5 14 (18.42 %) VB.NET 6 9 (11.84 %) VB6 7 6 (7.895 %) Transact-SQL 8 5 (6.579 %) VBScript 8 5 (6.579 %) PHP 9 4 (5.263 %) Java 10 2 (2.632 %) VBA 10 2 (2.632 %) C 10 2 (2.632 %) DHTML 11 1 (1.316 %) Delphi 11 1 (1.316 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (3.947 %) MCSD 1 3 (3.947 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.632 %) MCPD 2 2 (2.632 %) MCAD	System Software 1 5 (6.579 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 22 (28.95 %) Microsoft 2 10 (13.16 %) Oracle 3 5 (6.579 %) Business Objects 4 2 (2.632 %) Adobe 5 1 (1.316 %) Borland