The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 115 104 108
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +4
Contract jobs citing ASP 7 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.283% 0.189% 0.292%
As % of the Application Development category 0.854% 1.196% 1.455%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
Average daily rate £305 £260 £258
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.30% +0.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £200 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £292 £284
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-4.61% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £23.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year
+40.21% -35.66%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
820 418 550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.17% 15.82% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 184 289
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.95 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.70 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP
UK

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland ASP Daily Rate Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland ASP Daily Rate Histogram

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland ASP Hourly Rate Trend

ASP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Edinburgh +8 4 £250 -3.84%
Glasgow - 2 £350 -
ASP
UK

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 22 (95.65%) .NET
2 16 (69.57%) CSS
3 15 (65.22%) SQL Server
4 14 (60.87%) JavaScript
5 12 (52.17%) C#
6 11 (47.83%) XML
7 10 (43.48%) VB
8 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET
8 9 (39.13%) jQuery
9 8 (34.78%) SQL Server 2008
10 7 (30.43%) Degree
10 7 (30.43%) Windows
10 7 (30.43%) HTML
10 7 (30.43%) SQL
11 6 (26.09%) XHTML
11 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
12 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2005
12 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
12 5 (21.74%) PHP
12 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
12 5 (21.74%) Intranet
13 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
13 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
13 4 (17.39%) XSL
13 4 (17.39%) XSLT
13 4 (17.39%) Oracle
14 3 (13.04%) MS Access
14 3 (13.04%) IIS
14 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
14 3 (13.04%) CMS

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 22 (95.65%) .NET
2 16 (69.57%) CSS
3 11 (47.83%) XML
4 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET
4 9 (39.13%) jQuery
5 7 (30.43%) HTML
6 6 (26.09%) XHTML
7 4 (17.39%) XSL
7 4 (17.39%) XSLT
8 2 (8.696%) .NET Framework
8 2 (8.696%) HTML5
9 1 (4.348%) ADO
9 1 (4.348%) ADO.NET
9 1 (4.348%) J2EE
9 1 (4.348%) MooTools
9 1 (4.348%) WCF
9 1 (4.348%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.04%) IIS
2 3 (13.04%) CMS
3 2 (8.696%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (8.696%) Apache
4 1 (4.348%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (4.348%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.696%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (4.348%) Tridion
2 1 (4.348%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.348%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Intranet
2 2 (8.696%) LAN
2 2 (8.696%) WAN
3 1 (4.348%) LDAP
3 1 (4.348%) DNS
3 1 (4.348%) Firewall
3 1 (4.348%) Internet
3 1 (4.348%) Extranet
3 1 (4.348%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (34.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
5 3 (13.04%) MS Access
5 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.348%) GIS
6 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.348%) MSI
1 1 (4.348%) InstallShield
1 1 (4.348%) MorphX
General
1 1 (4.348%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (82.61%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Web Developer
3 6 (26.09%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.696%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Front-End Web Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Junior
5 1 (4.348%) Programmer
5 1 (4.348%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Web Hosting Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Web Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Senior SharePoint Developer
5 1 (4.348%) SharePoint Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Web Programmer
5 1 (4.348%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.348%) Semantic Web
1 1 (4.348%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.348%) Solaris
3 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.04%) Content Management
2 2 (8.696%) Release Management
2 2 (8.696%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (8.696%) Migration
3 1 (4.348%) UML
3 1 (4.348%) OO
3 1 (4.348%) CRM
3 1 (4.348%) ERP
3 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
3 1 (4.348%) Configuration Management
3 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.348%) Resource Management
3 1 (4.348%) Software Engineering
3 1 (4.348%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (4.348%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) JavaScript
2 12 (52.17%) C#
3 10 (43.48%) VB
4 7 (30.43%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) PHP
6 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
6 3 (13.04%) VB6
7 1 (4.348%) Delphi
7 1 (4.348%) XQuery
7 1 (4.348%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.348%) XPath
7 1 (4.348%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 2 (8.696%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (4.348%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 1 (4.348%) Cognos
3 1 (4.348%) SAP
3 1 (4.348%) HP
3 1 (4.348%) CommVault
3 1 (4.348%) Epicor
3 1 (4.348%) JD Edwards
3 1 (4.348%) TIBCO
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Posted: 16 May 2013