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The first part of the 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Scotland region.

 Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank796265
Rank change year-on-year
Down-17Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads131639
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland0.667 %1.083 %1.376 %
As % of the Application Development category2.802 %5.047 %6.747 %
Daily rates quoted497
Average daily rate£199£213£225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.470 %-5.550 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£172£147£184
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£287£251£332
UK excluding London average daily rate£288£250£285
% change year-on-year
+15.00 %-12.28 %
Hourly rates quoted023
Average hourly rate-£27.00£24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+12.50 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£20.81£27.50
% change year-on-year
+32.14 %-24.32 %
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
464317578
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland23.82 %21.46 %20.40 %
Daily rates quoted16967132
Average daily rate£320£275£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.36 %-21.42 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£165£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£450£430
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted91713
Average hourly rate£31.50£22.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00 %-25.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.15£10.50£17.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£34.55£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
ASP UKASP
UK

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.

ASP
Demand Trend

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

Scotland ASP Demand Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Scotland ASP Daily Rate Histogram

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
GlasgowDown-66£165-28.64 %
EdinburghDown-185£254+69.16 %
DundeeUp+61£210-7.18 %
AberdeenNo change01--
ASP UKASP
UK

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

113 (59.09 %).NET
113 (59.09 %)ASP.NET
210 (45.45 %)SQL
39 (40.91 %)C#
39 (40.91 %)SQL Server
39 (40.91 %)CSS
48 (36.36 %)JavaScript
56 (27.27 %)HTML
65 (22.73 %)PHP
65 (22.73 %)VB
65 (22.73 %)Visual Studio
65 (22.73 %)XML
65 (22.73 %)Web Development
74 (18.18 %)C
74 (18.18 %)XSLT
83 (13.64 %)Windows
83 (13.64 %)Flash
83 (13.64 %)VSS/SourceSafe
83 (13.64 %)T-SQL
83 (13.64 %)Java
83 (13.64 %)C++
83 (13.64 %)MFC
83 (13.64 %)MySQL
83 (13.64 %)MVC
83 (13.64 %)UML
83 (13.64 %)VC++
83 (13.64 %)Windows CE
83 (13.64 %)Intranet
83 (13.64 %)NUnit
83 (13.64 %)Subversion

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
113 (59.09 %).NET
113 (59.09 %)ASP.NET
29 (40.91 %)CSS
36 (27.27 %)HTML
45 (22.73 %)XML
54 (18.18 %)XSLT
63 (13.64 %)Flash
63 (13.64 %)MFC
63 (13.64 %)AJAX
72 (9.091 %)Ruby on Rails
72 (9.091 %)SOAP
72 (9.091 %)Web Services
72 (9.091 %)XHTML
81 (4.545 %)ADO.NET
81 (4.545 %)Spring
81 (4.545 %)WCF
81 (4.545 %)WebSphere
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (9.091 %)ColdFusion
12 (9.091 %)CMS
21 (4.545 %)IIS
21 (4.545 %)LiveLink
21 (4.545 %)SharePoint
21 (4.545 %)Apache
21 (4.545 %)WebSphere Portal
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (4.545 %)MS Excel
11 (4.545 %)Photoshop
11 (4.545 %)MS Project
11 (4.545 %)MS Office
11 (4.545 %)MS Visio
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (13.64 %)Intranet
21 (4.545 %)Internet
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
19 (40.91 %)SQL Server
23 (13.64 %)MySQL
32 (9.091 %)SQL Server 2005
41 (4.545 %)MS Access
41 (4.545 %)Datawarehouse
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (22.73 %)Visual Studio
23 (13.64 %)VSS/SourceSafe
23 (13.64 %)NUnit
23 (13.64 %)Subversion
23 (13.64 %)FrontPage
32 (9.091 %)TeamCity
32 (9.091 %)CruiseControl
32 (9.091 %)Dreamweaver
32 (9.091 %)ClearCase
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (9.091 %)Finance
21 (4.545 %)Publishing
21 (4.545 %)Marketing
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
120 (90.91 %)Developer
28 (36.36 %).NET Developer
35 (22.73 %)Web Developer
44 (18.18 %)ASP.NET Developer
53 (13.64 %)C++ Developer
53 (13.64 %)Senior Developer
62 (9.091 %)SQL Developer
62 (9.091 %)Software Developer
62 (9.091 %)C# Developer
62 (9.091 %)Senior Web Developer
71 (4.545 %)C++ Software Engineer
71 (4.545 %)Software Engineer
71 (4.545 %)ColdFusion Developer
71 (4.545 %)PHP Developer
71 (4.545 %)C++ Software Developer
71 (4.545 %)Intranet Developer
71 (4.545 %)Marketing Manager
71 (4.545 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
71 (4.545 %)Web Marketing Manager
71 (4.545 %)Web Manager
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (4.545 %)W3C
11 (4.545 %)Web 2.0
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (13.64 %)Windows
13 (13.64 %)Windows CE
21 (4.545 %)Linux
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (22.73 %)Web Development
23 (13.64 %)MVC
23 (13.64 %)UML
23 (13.64 %)Unit Testing
32 (9.091 %)Continuous Integration
32 (9.091 %)Automated Testing
32 (9.091 %)Agile Software Development
32 (9.091 %)TDD
32 (9.091 %)Scrum
32 (9.091 %)Extreme Programming
41 (4.545 %)Service Delivery
41 (4.545 %)Project Management
41 (4.545 %)Data Management
41 (4.545 %)Content Management
41 (4.545 %)Information Management
41 (4.545 %)Enterprise Data Management
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110 (45.45 %)SQL
29 (40.91 %)C#
38 (36.36 %)JavaScript
45 (22.73 %)PHP
45 (22.73 %)VB
54 (18.18 %)C
63 (13.64 %)T-SQL
63 (13.64 %)Java
63 (13.64 %)C++
63 (13.64 %)VC++
63 (13.64 %)VB6
72 (9.091 %)Ruby
72 (9.091 %)VBScript
72 (9.091 %)PL/SQL
72 (9.091 %)VB.NET
81 (4.545 %)CFML
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (9.091 %)Degree
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (9.091 %)Microsoft
21 (4.545 %)Oracle
21 (4.545 %)IBM