The first table below looks at the demand for ASP.NET skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET over the 3 months to 24 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 Somerset 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ASP.NET
Rank 12 13 8
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -5
Contract jobs citing ASP.NET 17 23 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 10.00% 13.53% 19.65%
As % of the Application Development category 43.59% 37.10% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 22
Average daily rate £310 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £311 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £412 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.06% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -23.07%
All Application Development
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
39 62 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 22.94% 36.47% 47.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 44
Average daily rate £320 £335 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +21.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £240 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP.NET
South West

ASP.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset ASP.NET Jobs Demand Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET across the Somerset region.

Somerset ASP.NET Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Somerset ASP.NET Daily Rate Histogram

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset ASP.NET Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 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
Taunton -3 3 £318 -0.62%
Bridgwater - 2 £310 -
Bath - 1 £200 -
ASP.NET
South West

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 68 (100.00%) .NET
2 59 (86.76%) C#
3 54 (79.41%) JavaScript
4 49 (72.06%) HTML
5 47 (69.12%) SQL
6 46 (67.65%) SQL Server
7 39 (57.35%) ASP
8 38 (55.88%) Java
9 35 (51.47%) .NET Framework
10 34 (50.00%) SharePoint
11 33 (48.53%) VB.NET
12 31 (45.59%) Oracle
12 31 (45.59%) Microsoft
13 30 (44.12%) XML
13 30 (44.12%) IIS
13 30 (44.12%) VB
14 29 (42.65%) UML
15 28 (41.18%) UNIX
15 28 (41.18%) C++
16 27 (39.71%) Ingres
17 26 (38.24%) ITIL
18 23 (33.82%) OpenROAD
19 22 (32.35%) ISEB
19 22 (32.35%) Unit Testing
20 19 (27.94%) Continuous Integration
20 19 (27.94%) Security Cleared
20 19 (27.94%) MVC
20 19 (27.94%) Visual Studio
21 16 (23.53%) CSS
22 15 (22.06%) Service Delivery

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 68 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (72.06%) HTML
3 39 (57.35%) ASP
4 35 (51.47%) .NET Framework
5 30 (44.12%) XML
6 16 (23.53%) CSS
7 10 (14.71%) Web Services
8 8 (11.76%) HTML5
9 7 (10.29%) jQuery
10 6 (8.824%) Spring
10 6 (8.824%) Spring MVC
11 5 (7.353%) Ajax
11 5 (7.353%) Ext JS
12 4 (5.882%) J2EE
12 4 (5.882%) LINQ
13 3 (4.412%) LAMP
13 3 (4.412%) ASP.NET MVC
14 2 (2.941%) XHTML
14 2 (2.941%) WCF
15 1 (1.471%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 34 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 30 (44.12%) IIS
3 23 (33.82%) OpenROAD
4 5 (7.353%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (4.412%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (4.412%) Commerce Server
6 1 (1.471%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.471%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (67.65%) SQL Server
2 27 (39.71%) Ingres
3 13 (19.12%) SQLPlus
4 6 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.471%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (27.94%) Visual Studio
2 15 (22.06%) NUnit
2 15 (22.06%) Team Foundation Server
2 15 (22.06%) MSTest
3 12 (17.65%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 12 (17.65%) CruiseControl
3 12 (17.65%) Subversion
3 12 (17.65%) TeamCity
3 12 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.941%) JUnit
General
1 10 (14.71%) Retail
2 5 (7.353%) Publishing
3 3 (4.412%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (80.88%) Developer
2 29 (42.65%) .NET Developer
3 26 (38.24%) Analyst
4 18 (26.47%) C# Developer
4 18 (26.47%) C# .NET Developer
5 17 (25.00%) Analyst Developer
6 14 (20.59%) Senior Developer
7 13 (19.12%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (16.18%) Senior Analyst Developer
8 11 (16.18%) ASP.NET Developer
9 10 (14.71%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 10 (14.71%) Support Analyst
10 7 (10.29%) Senior Support Analyst
11 6 (8.824%) Test Analyst
12 5 (7.353%) SharePoint Developer
12 5 (7.353%) Web Developer
12 5 (7.353%) Tester
13 4 (5.882%) Senior .NET Developer
13 4 (5.882%) Software Tester
13 4 (5.882%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.353%) Animation
3 1 (1.471%) iPhone
3 1 (1.471%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 28 (41.18%) UNIX
2 2 (2.941%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.471%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) UML
2 26 (38.24%) ITIL
3 22 (32.35%) Unit Testing
4 19 (27.94%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (27.94%) MVC
5 15 (22.06%) Service Delivery
6 14 (20.59%) Agile Software Development
7 12 (17.65%) TDD
8 10 (14.71%) Service Management
9 9 (13.24%) ITSM
10 7 (10.29%) Release Management
10 7 (10.29%) E-Commerce
11 6 (8.824%) Project Management
11 6 (8.824%) Automated Testing
11 6 (8.824%) Test Scripting
12 5 (7.353%) User Experience Design
12 5 (7.353%) Data Management
12 5 (7.353%) Scrum
12 5 (7.353%) Regression Testing
13 4 (5.882%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 59 (86.76%) C#
2 54 (79.41%) JavaScript
3 47 (69.12%) SQL
4 38 (55.88%) Java
5 33 (48.53%) VB.NET
6 30 (44.12%) VB
7 28 (41.18%) C++
8 6 (8.824%) PHP
9 4 (5.882%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (32.35%) ISEB
2 19 (27.94%) Security Cleared
3 15 (22.06%) MCTS
4 10 (14.71%) MCPD
4 10 (14.71%) MCP
4 10 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.412%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.941%) Degree
8 1 (1.471%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.412%) QA
Vendors
1 31 (45.59%) Oracle
1 31 (45.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.412%) SAP
3 1 (1.471%) ATG
Bridgwater, Somerset
Technologies used will include TDD, Test Driven Development .NET (C# and/or VB), ASP.NET, Classic ASP, Web Services, SQL, HTML, JavaScript & CSS Junit as well as Java (...
Emponics Ltd
Rate: £ negotiable
Posted: 23 May 2013