South West ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the South West 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.NET over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	39
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	179	195
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.282 %	0.209 %
As % of the category below	20.91 %	16.10 %
Daily rates quoted	58	35
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£336
Average daily rate	£322	£358
% change on same period last year	-10.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£320
% change on same period last year	-6.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.43	£32.81
Average hourly rate	£23.95	£36.14
% change on same period last year	-33.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.46	£39.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.21	£31.36
% change on same period last year	-13.22 %
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	856	1211
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.348 %	1.298 %
Daily rates quoted	208	284
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£326
Average daily rate	£322	£344
% change on same period last year	-6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	135	178
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.22	£30.62
Average hourly rate	£27.44	£33.38
% change on same period last year	-17.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£36.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
ASP.NET 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.NET
Demand Trend

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

ASP.NET
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 West region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

ASP.NET
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 West region.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Bristol	+12	56	£298	-14.68 %
Wiltshire	0	42	£301	-32.47 %
Somerset	+10	33	£313	-
Dorset	+12	16	£499	+50.49 %
Gloucestershire	-3	8	£363	-
Devon	+8	5	£367	+4.76 %
Cornwall	-	1	-	-

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ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 361 (100.00 %) .NET 2 235 (65.10 %) C# 3 195 (54.02 %) SQL Server 4 111 (30.75 %) SQL 5 99 (27.42 %) CSS 6 97 (26.87 %) HTML 7 76 (21.05 %) XML 8 75 (20.78 %) JavaScript 9 70 (19.39 %) SQL Server 2005 9 70 (19.39 %) ASP 10 57 (15.79 %) Windows 11 55 (15.24 %) VB.NET 12 51 (14.13 %) VB 13 48 (13.30 %) SQL Server 2000 14 44 (12.19 %) Microsoft

14 44 (12.19 %) Visual Studio 15 41 (11.36 %) Internet 16 40 (11.08 %) AJAX 17 36 (9.972 %) Security Cleared 18 32 (8.864 %) XHTML 19 30 (8.310 %) WebServices 20 28 (7.756 %) SharePoint 21 27 (7.479 %) Oracle 22 26 (7.202 %) E-Commerce 22 26 (7.202 %) ASP.NET 2.0 23 25 (6.925 %) SC Cleared 23 25 (6.925 %) Flash 23 25 (6.925 %) XSLT 23 25 (6.925 %) IIS 24 22 (6.094 %) VB6

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 361 (100.00 %) .NET 2 99 (27.42 %) CSS 3 97 (26.87 %) HTML 4 76 (21.05 %) XML 5 70 (19.39 %) ASP 6 40 (11.08 %) AJAX 7 32 (8.864 %) XHTML 8 30 (8.310 %) WebServices 9 26 (7.202 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 25 (6.925 %) XSLT 11 17 (4.709 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 17 (4.709 %) .NET Framework 12 13 (3.601 %) WCF 12 13 (3.601 %) WinForms 13 12 (3.324 %) Silverlight 14 11 (3.047 %) XSL 14 11 (3.047 %) ADO.NET 15 8 (2.216 %) MVC 15 8 (2.216 %) NHibernate 16 7 (1.939 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 28 (7.756 %) SharePoint 2 25 (6.925 %) IIS 3 20 (5.540 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 14 (3.878 %) BizTalk Server 5 11 (3.047 %) CMS 6 10 (2.770 %) Commerce Server 7 9 (2.493 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 2 (0.554 %) Oracle Application Server 9 1 (0.277 %) ColdFusion 9 1 (0.277 %) CICS 9 1 (0.277 %) Commerce Server 2007 9 1 (0.277 %) Immediacy CMS
Applications 1 15 (4.155 %) MS Project 2 10 (2.770 %) MS Excel 3 5 (1.385 %) MS Visio 4 4 (1.108 %) MS Office 5 2 (0.554 %) Photoshop 5 2 (0.554 %) XMetaL 5 2 (0.554 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (0.277 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (0.277 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 41 (11.36 %) Internet 2 7 (1.939 %) Intranet 3 3 (0.831 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 195 (54.02 %) SQL Server 2 70 (19.39 %) SQL Server 2005 3 48 (13.30 %) SQL Server 2000 4 15 (4.155 %) MySQL 5 12 (3.324 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 11 (3.047 %) Crystal Reports 7 7 (1.939 %) Oracle 10g 8 4 (1.108 %) Oracle Reports 9 2 (0.554 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 2 (0.554 %) MS Access 9 2 (0.554 %) Datawarehouse 9 2 (0.554 %) DTS 9 2 (0.554 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 1 (0.277 %) DB2 10 1 (0.277 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 44 (12.19 %) Visual Studio 2 25 (6.925 %) Flash 3 9 (2.493 %) NUnit 4 6 (1.662 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 6 (1.662 %) Log4Net 5 3 (0.831 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (0.554 %) CruiseControl 6 2 (0.554 %) Paros 6 2 (0.554 %) Oracle APEX 6 2 (0.554 %) Selenium 6 2 (0.554 %) FitNesse 7 1 (0.277 %) Visual Studio Team System 7 1 (0.277 %) Eclipse 7 1 (0.277 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 21 (5.817 %) Finance 2 12 (3.324 %) Retail 3 10 (2.770 %) Government 4 7 (1.939 %) Music 5 6 (1.662 %) Telecoms 6 5 (1.385 %) Insurance 6 5 (1.385 %) Marketing 6 5 (1.385 %) Manufacturing 6 5 (1.385 %) Aerospace 7 4 (1.108 %) Back Office 7 4 (1.108 %) Electronics 7 4 (1.108 %) Multimedia 8 3 (0.831 %) Banking 8 3 (0.831 %) Pensions 8 3 (0.831 %) Publishing 8 3 (0.831 %) Law 8 3 (0.831 %) Legal 9 2 (0.554 %) Health 9 2 (0.554 %) Financial Institution 9 2 (0.554 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 291 (80.61 %) Developer 2 144 (39.89 %) .NET Developer 3 77 (21.33 %) Web Developer 4 74 (20.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 62 (17.17 %) C# Developer 6 39 (10.80 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 29 (8.033 %) Analyst 8 25 (6.925 %) .NET Web Developer 9 19 (5.263 %) SQL Developer 10 16 (4.432 %) Analyst Developer 11 15 (4.155 %) Programmer 12 14 (3.878 %) Consultant 13 13 (3.601 %) Analyst Programmer 14 12 (3.324 %) VB.NET Developer 15 11 (3.047 %) Software Developer 16 10 (2.770 %) Software Engineer 16 10 (2.770 %) C# Web Developer 17 9 (2.493 %) SharePoint Consultant 17 9 (2.493 %) SQL Server Developer 18 8 (2.216 %) SQL DBA	Miscellaneous 1 10 (2.770 %) W3C 2 6 (1.662 %) Client/Server 3 5 (1.385 %) N-Tier 3 5 (1.385 %) NHS 3 5 (1.385 %) Web 2.0 3 5 (1.385 %) Computer Science 4 2 (0.554 %) Data Protection Act 5 1 (0.277 %) Mainframe 5 1 (0.277 %) BBC 5 1 (0.277 %) E-Learning 5 1 (0.277 %) Life Science
Operating Systems 1 57 (15.79 %) Windows 2 18 (4.986 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (0.831 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (0.554 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (9.972 %) Security Cleared 2 26 (7.202 %) E-Commerce 3 25 (6.925 %) SC Cleared 4 20 (5.540 %) Agile Software Development 5 19 (5.263 %) Web Development 6 15 (4.155 %) Web Design 7 12 (3.324 %) OO 8 9 (2.493 %) Scrum 9 8 (2.216 %) DV Cleared 9 8 (2.216 %) System Testing 10 6 (1.662 %) Project Planning 10 6 (1.662 %) Content Management 11 5 (1.385 %) Workflow 11 5 (1.385 %) Migration 11 5 (1.385 %) CRM 11 5 (1.385 %) OOP 11 5 (1.385 %) Data Modelling 12 4 (1.108 %) Business Intelligence 12 4 (1.108 %) Project Management 12 4 (1.108 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 235 (65.10 %) C# 2 111 (30.75 %) SQL 3 75 (20.78 %) JavaScript 4 55 (15.24 %) VB.NET 5 51 (14.13 %) VB 6 22 (6.094 %) VB6 7 14 (3.878 %) Transact-SQL 8 12 (3.324 %) Java 9 10 (2.770 %) DHTML 10 9 (2.493 %) VBA 11 5 (1.385 %) VBScript 11 5 (1.385 %) C 11 5 (1.385 %) XPath 12 4 (1.108 %) C++ 12 4 (1.108 %) PHP 12 4 (1.108 %) PL/SQL 13 3 (0.831 %) XAML 14 2 (0.554 %) Perl 14 2 (0.554 %) ActionScript 15 1 (0.277 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 8 (2.216 %) Degree 2 2 (0.554 %) HNC 2 2 (0.554 %) CISSP 3 1 (0.277 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (1.662 %) WAI 2 4 (1.108 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (1.385 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.554 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 2 (0.554 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 44 (12.19 %) Microsoft 2 27 (7.479 %) Oracle 3 3 (0.831 %) Lagan 4 2 (0.554 %) Watchfire 4 2 (0.554 %) SAP 5 1 (0.277 %) salesforce.com 5 1 (0.277 %) Infragistics 5 1 (0.277 %) RedDot 5 1 (0.277 %) telerik