The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 23 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 South West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 81 117 110
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -7
Contract jobs citing ASP 30 24 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.493% 0.740% 0.592%
As % of the Application Development category 6.356% 3.089% 2.496%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 8
Average daily rate £320 £320 £261
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +22.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £292 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £371 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £323 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.20% +17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -15.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £21.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year
+53.57% -41.25%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
472 777 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.48% 23.94% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 465 304
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £248 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 38
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £33.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -24.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £15.10 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP
England

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West ASP Jobs Demand Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West ASP Daily Rate Trend

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the South West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South West ASP Daily Rate Histogram

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Somerset +7 15 £310 -3.12%
Bristol +14 6 £325 -14.47%
Wiltshire - 4 £250 -
Devon +2 2 £320 +28.00%
Gloucestershire +31 1 - -
ASP
England

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 67 (91.78%) .NET
2 64 (87.67%) C#
3 59 (80.82%) JavaScript
4 56 (76.71%) HTML
5 55 (75.34%) SQL
6 48 (65.75%) ASP.NET
7 43 (58.90%) XML
7 43 (58.90%) Java
7 43 (58.90%) SQL Server
8 42 (57.53%) SharePoint
9 41 (56.16%) VB
10 37 (50.68%) Microsoft
10 37 (50.68%) .NET Framework
11 35 (47.95%) UML
12 34 (46.58%) Oracle
13 33 (45.21%) IIS
14 31 (42.47%) ITIL
14 31 (42.47%) VB.NET
14 31 (42.47%) C++
15 29 (39.73%) UNIX
15 29 (39.73%) Ingres
16 25 (34.25%) ISEB
16 25 (34.25%) OpenROAD
16 25 (34.25%) Unit Testing
17 22 (30.14%) CSS
18 21 (28.77%) Security Cleared
19 20 (27.40%) Continuous Integration
20 18 (24.66%) Service Delivery
21 17 (23.29%) NUnit
21 17 (23.29%) Subversion

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 67 (91.78%) .NET
2 56 (76.71%) HTML
3 48 (65.75%) ASP.NET
4 43 (58.90%) XML
5 37 (50.68%) .NET Framework
6 22 (30.14%) CSS
7 10 (13.70%) Web Services
8 6 (8.219%) XSL
8 6 (8.219%) WCF
9 5 (6.849%) HTML5
9 5 (6.849%) Spring
10 4 (5.479%) jQuery
10 4 (5.479%) Spring MVC
11 3 (4.110%) WPF
11 3 (4.110%) WF
11 3 (4.110%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (4.110%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 3 (4.110%) J2EE
12 2 (2.740%) XHTML
12 2 (2.740%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 42 (57.53%) SharePoint
2 33 (45.21%) IIS
3 25 (34.25%) OpenROAD
4 5 (6.849%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.370%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.370%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.370%) WordPress
5 1 (1.370%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.370%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.370%) Commerce Server
5 1 (1.370%) Apache
5 1 (1.370%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.740%) MS Office
2 1 (1.370%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.370%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.370%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (1.370%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.370%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (1.370%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.370%) Intranet
1 1 (1.370%) Internet
1 1 (1.370%) HTTP
1 1 (1.370%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (58.90%) SQL Server
2 29 (39.73%) Ingres
3 14 (19.18%) SQLPlus
4 4 (5.479%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (5.479%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.740%) MySQL
6 1 (1.370%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.370%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.370%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.370%) MS Access
6 1 (1.370%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (23.29%) NUnit
1 17 (23.29%) Subversion
1 17 (23.29%) MSTest
2 16 (21.92%) Team Foundation Server
3 13 (17.81%) TeamCity
3 13 (17.81%) Jenkins
4 12 (16.44%) CruiseControl
4 12 (16.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 8 (10.96%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.740%) JUnit
6 2 (2.740%) ReSharper
7 1 (1.370%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (1.370%) FrontPage
General
1 8 (10.96%) Retail
2 4 (5.479%) Finance
3 1 (1.370%) Marketing
3 1 (1.370%) Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (84.93%) Developer
2 31 (42.47%) .NET Developer
3 25 (34.25%) C# Developer
3 25 (34.25%) C# .NET Developer
4 20 (27.40%) Analyst
5 18 (24.66%) Analyst Developer
6 13 (17.81%) Senior Developer
6 13 (17.81%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (15.07%) Senior Analyst Developer
8 10 (13.70%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 10 (13.70%) ASP.NET Developer
8 10 (13.70%) Support Analyst
9 7 (9.589%) Senior Support Analyst
10 4 (5.479%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.479%) Web Developer
10 4 (5.479%) Applications Developer
11 3 (4.110%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
11 3 (4.110%) ASP Developer
11 3 (4.110%) Senior C# Developer
11 3 (4.110%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.740%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (2.740%) Social Media
2 1 (1.370%) iPhone
2 1 (1.370%) Data Extraction
2 1 (1.370%) iPad
2 1 (1.370%) Open Source
2 1 (1.370%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.370%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (39.73%) UNIX
2 6 (8.219%) Windows
3 1 (1.370%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.370%) Android
3 1 (1.370%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.370%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.370%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.95%) UML
2 31 (42.47%) ITIL
3 25 (34.25%) Unit Testing
4 20 (27.40%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (24.66%) Service Delivery
6 17 (23.29%) MVC
7 15 (20.55%) ITSM
7 15 (20.55%) Service Management
8 12 (16.44%) Web Development
9 11 (15.07%) TDD
10 9 (12.33%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (6.849%) Waterfall
11 5 (6.849%) RAD
12 4 (5.479%) PRINCE2
12 4 (5.479%) Performance Management
13 3 (4.110%) SOA
13 3 (4.110%) Change Management
13 3 (4.110%) TOGAF
13 3 (4.110%) Pair Programming
14 2 (2.740%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (87.67%) C#
2 59 (80.82%) JavaScript
3 55 (75.34%) SQL
4 43 (58.90%) Java
5 41 (56.16%) VB
6 31 (42.47%) VB.NET
6 31 (42.47%) C++
7 8 (10.96%) VB6
8 7 (9.589%) VBScript
9 6 (8.219%) PHP
9 6 (8.219%) C
10 1 (1.370%) Python
10 1 (1.370%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.370%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (34.25%) ISEB
2 21 (28.77%) Security Cleared
3 15 (20.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (15.07%) MCP
4 11 (15.07%) MCPD
4 11 (15.07%) MCTS
4 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.479%) ISEB Practitioner
5 4 (5.479%) MCSD
5 4 (5.479%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (4.110%) Degree
7 1 (1.370%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.849%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.849%) ISO 9000
2 4 (5.479%) TickIT
3 3 (4.110%) COBIT
4 1 (1.370%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (1.370%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 37 (50.68%) Microsoft
2 34 (46.58%) Oracle
3 2 (2.740%) Facebook
3 2 (2.740%) Twitter
4 1 (1.370%) Zend
4 1 (1.370%) WatchGuard
4 1 (1.370%) hybris
4 1 (1.370%) Cisco
4 1 (1.370%) IBM
4 1 (1.370%) Sage
4 1 (1.370%) Adobe
4 1 (1.370%) HP
4 1 (1.370%) Cognos
Wiltshire
The skills and experience needed for this Swindon based contract role includes the following:- developing web applications using ASP C# for MVC with HTML5 and JavaScript development skills.
Colston Consulting
Rate: £250 - 300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Essential core skills: - Java development - TDD - Web development (ASP.NET/Classic ASP/C#/PHP) The role itself is two-fold... java developer j2ee programmer c#.net asp.net...
G2 Recruitment Solutions Ltd.
Rate: Market rate paid weekly
Posted: 20 May 2013