Slough ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Slough 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	19	9
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	16	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	38.10 %	32.94 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£260
Average daily rate	£260	£260
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£290
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.40	£36.17
Average hourly rate	£36.45	£36.37
% change on same period last year	+0.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.49	£36.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.91	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Application Development Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	42	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.095 %
Daily rates quoted	8	14
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£289
Average daily rate	£283	£294
% change on same period last year	-3.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.21	£41.97
Average hourly rate	£36.44	£42.42
% change on same period last year	-14.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.68	£42.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
ASP 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
Demand Trend

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

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

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

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Slough 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 25 (75.76 %) SQL Server 2 22 (66.67 %) .NET 3 20 (60.61 %) SQL 4 18 (54.55 %) HTML 4 18 (54.55 %) JavaScript 5 15 (45.45 %) ASP.NET 5 15 (45.45 %) CSS 5 15 (45.45 %) Flash 6 14 (42.42 %) JSP 6 14 (42.42 %) Photoshop 6 14 (42.42 %) Dreamweaver 7 13 (39.39 %) IBM 7 13 (39.39 %) Windows Server 2003 7 13 (39.39 %) DB2 UDB 7 13 (39.39 %) DB2

7 13 (39.39 %) Java 7 13 (39.39 %) IIS 7 13 (39.39 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 12 (36.36 %) Transact-SQL 8 12 (36.36 %) Extranet 9 11 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 9 11 (33.33 %) VB 9 11 (33.33 %) ActionScript 9 11 (33.33 %) COM+ 9 11 (33.33 %) XML 10 10 (30.30 %) VB.NET 11 9 (27.27 %) InterDev 11 9 (27.27 %) DHTML 11 9 (27.27 %) XSL 11 9 (27.27 %) N-Tier

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Slough 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 22 (66.67 %) .NET 2 18 (54.55 %) HTML 3 15 (45.45 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (45.45 %) CSS 4 14 (42.42 %) JSP 5 11 (33.33 %) COM+ 5 11 (33.33 %) XML 6 9 (27.27 %) XSL 7 5 (15.15 %) WebServices 8 4 (12.12 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 13 (39.39 %) IIS 2 5 (15.15 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 14 (42.42 %) Photoshop 2 2 (6.061 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 12 (36.36 %) Extranet 2 8 (24.24 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (75.76 %) SQL Server 2 13 (39.39 %) DB2 2 13 (39.39 %) DB2 UDB 3 11 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (3.030 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (3.030 %) TOAD 4 1 (3.030 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 15 (45.45 %) Flash 2 14 (42.42 %) Dreamweaver 3 13 (39.39 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 9 (27.27 %) InterDev
General 1 8 (24.24 %) Multimedia 2 2 (6.061 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 29 (87.88 %) Developer 2 13 (39.39 %) Web Developer 3 10 (30.30 %) SQL Developer 4 9 (27.27 %) SQL Server Developer 5 6 (18.18 %) ASP Developer 6 5 (15.15 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 5 (15.15 %) .NET Developer 7 4 (12.12 %) Applications Developer 7 4 (12.12 %) .NET Applications Developer 8 3 (9.091 %) HTML Developer 9 2 (6.061 %) .NET Team Leader 9 2 (6.061 %) Team Leader 9 2 (6.061 %) Project Leader 9 2 (6.061 %) Internet Developer 10 1 (3.030 %) Analyst 10 1 (3.030 %) Analyst Programmer 10 1 (3.030 %) Programmer 10 1 (3.030 %) Analyst Developer 10 1 (3.030 %) ActionScript Developer 10 1 (3.030 %) Flash Developer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (27.27 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 13 (39.39 %) Windows Server 2003 2 8 (24.24 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (24.24 %) Release Management 2 5 (15.15 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 5 (15.15 %) System Testing 3 1 (3.030 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 20 (60.61 %) SQL 2 18 (54.55 %) JavaScript 3 13 (39.39 %) Java 4 12 (36.36 %) Transact-SQL 5 11 (33.33 %) VB 5 11 (33.33 %) ActionScript 6 10 (30.30 %) VB.NET 7 9 (27.27 %) DHTML 8 6 (18.18 %) VB6 9 1 (3.030 %) C# 9 1 (3.030 %) PL/SQL
Vendors 1 13 (39.39 %) IBM 2 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.030 %) Business Objects