South Wales ASP.NET Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ASP.NET over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Louth Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Ringwood Rochester Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	34
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	29	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	20.71 %	16.30 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£300
Average daily rate	£303	£325
% change on same period last year	-6.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£323
% change on same period last year	+4.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£38.00
Average hourly rate	£22.20	£38.00
% change on same period last year	-41.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.40	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.92	£33.21
% change on same period last year	-3.89 %
Application Development South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	140	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.185 %	0.098 %
Daily rates quoted	27	16
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£272
Average daily rate	£367	£296
% change on same period last year	+24.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.62	£33.57
Average hourly rate	£27.49	£34.07
% change on same period last year	-19.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.36	£34.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
ASP.NET Wales

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.NET
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing ASP.NET within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cardiff	+13	16	£305	-
Rhondda Cynon Taff	-	6	-	-
Merthyr Tydfil	-	1	-	-
Bridgend	-8	1	£300	-7.69 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 87 (100.00 %) .NET 2 62 (71.26 %) XML 3 39 (44.83 %) VB.NET 4 34 (39.08 %) AJAX 5 31 (35.63 %) C# 6 28 (32.18 %) CSS 6 28 (32.18 %) Microsoft 7 26 (29.89 %) SQL Server 8 25 (28.74 %) Windows 9 24 (27.59 %) XSLT 10 23 (26.44 %) JavaScript 10 23 (26.44 %) SQL 11 21 (24.14 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 18 (20.69 %) WinForms 13 17 (19.54 %) WebServices

14 16 (18.39 %) HTML 14 16 (18.39 %) VB 15 15 (17.24 %) SOAP 15 15 (17.24 %) E-business 15 15 (17.24 %) Web Development 16 14 (16.09 %) BizTalk Server 16 14 (16.09 %) SharePoint 16 14 (16.09 %) ASP 16 14 (16.09 %) IIS 17 13 (14.94 %) MS Office 17 13 (14.94 %) Middleware 17 13 (14.94 %) MCTS 18 12 (13.79 %) Health 19 10 (11.49 %) Government 19 10 (11.49 %) Visual Studio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 87 (100.00 %) .NET 2 62 (71.26 %) XML 3 34 (39.08 %) AJAX 4 28 (32.18 %) CSS 5 24 (27.59 %) XSLT 6 18 (20.69 %) WinForms 7 17 (19.54 %) WebServices 8 16 (18.39 %) HTML 9 15 (17.24 %) SOAP 10 14 (16.09 %) ASP 11 13 (14.94 %) Middleware 12 6 (6.897 %) WF 13 3 (3.448 %) WCF 13 3 (3.448 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 2 (2.299 %) XHTML 14 2 (2.299 %) .NET Framework 14 2 (2.299 %) ADO.NET 15 1 (1.149 %) ActiveX 15 1 (1.149 %) Ruby on Rails 15 1 (1.149 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 21 (24.14 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 14 (16.09 %) IIS 2 14 (16.09 %) SharePoint 2 14 (16.09 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.149 %) ArcGIS 3 1 (1.149 %) Apache
Applications 1 13 (14.94 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.149 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.149 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (29.89 %) SQL Server 2 9 (10.34 %) MySQL 3 8 (9.195 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (5.747 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (2.299 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (1.149 %) GIS 6 1 (1.149 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 10 (11.49 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (3.448 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 1 (1.149 %) Flash
General 1 12 (13.79 %) Health 2 10 (11.49 %) Government 3 5 (5.747 %) Marketing 4 3 (3.448 %) Graphic Design 5 2 (2.299 %) Back Office 5 2 (2.299 %) Retail 6 1 (1.149 %) Finance 6 1 (1.149 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.149 %) Animation 6 1 (1.149 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 77 (88.51 %) Developer 2 47 (54.02 %) .NET Developer 3 19 (21.84 %) VB.NET Developer 4 18 (20.69 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 18 (20.69 %) Web Developer 5 10 (11.49 %) C# Developer 6 9 (10.34 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 8 (9.195 %) Software Developer 8 6 (6.897 %) SharePoint Developer 9 5 (5.747 %) .NET Web Developer 10 2 (2.299 %) SQL Developer 10 2 (2.299 %) Applications Developer 10 2 (2.299 %) Senior Developer 10 2 (2.299 %) SQL Server Developer 10 2 (2.299 %) ASP Developer 10 2 (2.299 %) C# Application Developer 10 2 (2.299 %) .NET Applications Developer 11 1 (1.149 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 11 1 (1.149 %) Applications Architect 11 1 (1.149 %) Junior ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.448 %) NHS 1 3 (3.448 %) Welsh Language 2 2 (2.299 %) Data Integration 3 1 (1.149 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.149 %) W3C 3 1 (1.149 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 25 (28.74 %) Windows 2 7 (8.046 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (17.24 %) E-business 1 15 (17.24 %) Web Development 2 8 (9.195 %) DSDM 3 7 (8.046 %) RAD 3 7 (8.046 %) SOA 3 7 (8.046 %) SEO 3 7 (8.046 %) Software Engineering 4 4 (4.598 %) MVC 4 4 (4.598 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (3.448 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (3.448 %) Integration Testing 5 3 (3.448 %) Business Analysis 5 3 (3.448 %) Workflow 6 2 (2.299 %) B2C 6 2 (2.299 %) OO 6 2 (2.299 %) UML 6 2 (2.299 %) Product Marketing 6 2 (2.299 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (1.149 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (1.149 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 39 (44.83 %) VB.NET 2 31 (35.63 %) C# 3 23 (26.44 %) JavaScript 3 23 (26.44 %) SQL 4 16 (18.39 %) VB 5 9 (10.34 %) PHP 6 3 (3.448 %) Java 7 1 (1.149 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (1.149 %) DHTML 7 1 (1.149 %) VB6 7 1 (1.149 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 13 (14.94 %) MCTS	Vendors 1 28 (32.18 %) Microsoft 2 5 (5.747 %) telerik 3 2 (2.299 %) Oracle