South Coast ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the South Coast 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Avon Basingstoke Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington City of London Cleckheaton Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Haywards Heath Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hove Hull Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Whyteleafe Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	23
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	15.38 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£283
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.88	£30.44
% change on same period last year	-5.14 %
Application Development South Coast
Matching contract IT job ads	20	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.026 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£270
Average daily rate	-	£270
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.25	£27.75
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£27.75
% change on same period last year	+17.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.75	£27.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
ASP England

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP across the South Coast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast 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 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) CSS 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) N-Tier 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) AJAX 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast 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 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) CSS 1 1 (100.00 %) AJAX 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) N-Tier	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft