Surrey ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the Surrey 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 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	81	55
Rank change on same period last year	-26
Matching contract IT job ads	31	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.057 %
As % of the category below	5.506 %	8.629 %
Daily rates quoted	11	14
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£289
Average daily rate	£242	£306
% change on same period last year	-20.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£252	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£283
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.50	£30.42
Average hourly rate	£24.50	£32.37
% change on same period last year	-24.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.50	£34.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.88	£30.44
% change on same period last year	-5.14 %
Application Development Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	563	649
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.750 %	0.657 %
Daily rates quoted	195	174
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£298
Average daily rate	£296	£322
% change on same period last year	-7.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.41	£32.91
Average hourly rate	£29.56	£34.48
% change on same period last year	-14.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.72	£36.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
ASP South East

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 Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

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

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

ASP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 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
Farnham	-	4	£240	-
Guildford	+5	3	£227	-29.93 %
Camberley	+1	1	-	-
Dorking	-8	1	£325	+18.18 %
Whyteleafe	+2	1	£350	-

ASP South East

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 37 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 35 (47.30 %) .NET 2 35 (47.30 %) SQL 3 34 (45.95 %) VB 4 27 (36.49 %) C# 4 27 (36.49 %) HTML 5 22 (29.73 %) VB6 5 22 (29.73 %) Microsoft 6 18 (24.32 %) CSS 7 16 (21.62 %) Marketing 7 16 (21.62 %) Web Development 7 16 (21.62 %) Transact-SQL 8 15 (20.27 %) C++ 8 15 (20.27 %) SQL Server 2005 9 14 (18.92 %) XML

9 14 (18.92 %) ASP.NET 10 12 (16.22 %) JavaScript 10 12 (16.22 %) Photoshop 11 11 (14.86 %) DCOM 12 10 (13.51 %) COM+ 12 10 (13.51 %) Motorola 13 9 (12.16 %) AJAX 13 9 (12.16 %) Flash 14 8 (10.81 %) MySQL 14 8 (10.81 %) VB.NET 15 7 (9.459 %) Finance 15 7 (9.459 %) Intranet 15 7 (9.459 %) SQL Server 2000 15 7 (9.459 %) Visual Studio 15 7 (9.459 %) XHTML

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 35 (47.30 %) .NET 2 27 (36.49 %) HTML 3 18 (24.32 %) CSS 4 14 (18.92 %) ASP.NET 4 14 (18.92 %) XML 5 11 (14.86 %) DCOM 6 10 (13.51 %) COM+ 7 9 (12.16 %) AJAX 8 7 (9.459 %) XHTML 9 6 (8.108 %) WebServices 10 3 (4.054 %) J2EE 10 3 (4.054 %) WAP 10 3 (4.054 %) DOM 10 3 (4.054 %) script.aculo.us 11 2 (2.703 %) .NET Framework 11 2 (2.703 %) WCF 12 1 (1.351 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 1 (1.351 %) XSLT 12 1 (1.351 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.054 %) IIS 1 3 (4.054 %) Apache 1 3 (4.054 %) CMS 2 1 (1.351 %) DotNetNuke
Applications 1 12 (16.22 %) Photoshop 2 5 (6.757 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 3 (4.054 %) MS Excel 4 1 (1.351 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.351 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.351 %) MS Office 4 1 (1.351 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (2.703 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 7 (9.459 %) Intranet 2 2 (2.703 %) Internet 3 1 (1.351 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.351 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.351 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 37 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 15 (20.27 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (10.81 %) MySQL 4 7 (9.459 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (4.054 %) SQLBase 6 2 (2.703 %) BusinessObjects 6 2 (2.703 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 9 (12.16 %) Flash 2 7 (9.459 %) Visual Studio 3 6 (8.108 %) Dreamweaver 4 2 (2.703 %) Subversion 5 1 (1.351 %) FrontPage 5 1 (1.351 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 16 (21.62 %) Marketing 2 7 (9.459 %) Finance 3 3 (4.054 %) Electronics 3 3 (4.054 %) Insurance 4 2 (2.703 %) Electric 4 2 (2.703 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.351 %) Education 5 1 (1.351 %) Publishing 5 1 (1.351 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 57 (77.03 %) Developer 2 25 (33.78 %) ASP Developer 3 18 (24.32 %) VB Developer 4 16 (21.62 %) C# Developer 4 16 (21.62 %) Web Developer 4 16 (21.62 %) VB6 Developer 5 10 (13.51 %) .NET Developer 6 8 (10.81 %) SQL Developer 7 7 (9.459 %) Web Designer 8 5 (6.757 %) Software Developer 9 4 (5.405 %) Programmer 9 4 (5.405 %) Analyst 9 4 (5.405 %) SQL Server Developer 10 3 (4.054 %) PHP Developer 10 3 (4.054 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 3 (4.054 %) MySQL Developer 10 3 (4.054 %) PHP Web Developer 10 3 (4.054 %) Analyst Programmer 10 3 (4.054 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 3 (4.054 %) C++ Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.054 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (2.703 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.351 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.351 %) NHS 3 1 (1.351 %) W3C 3 1 (1.351 %) PACS
Operating Systems 1 3 (4.054 %) Windows 1 3 (4.054 %) Linux 2 2 (2.703 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.351 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (1.351 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (21.62 %) Web Development 2 3 (4.054 %) TDD 3 2 (2.703 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (2.703 %) Technical Architecture 3 2 (2.703 %) UML 3 2 (2.703 %) OOP 3 2 (2.703 %) OO 3 2 (2.703 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (2.703 %) ERP 3 2 (2.703 %) EAI 3 2 (2.703 %) SOA 3 2 (2.703 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (2.703 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.351 %) Web Design 4 1 (1.351 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 35 (47.30 %) SQL 2 34 (45.95 %) VB 3 27 (36.49 %) C# 4 22 (29.73 %) VB6 5 16 (21.62 %) Transact-SQL 6 15 (20.27 %) C++ 7 12 (16.22 %) JavaScript 8 8 (10.81 %) VB.NET 9 6 (8.108 %) PHP 10 5 (6.757 %) VBScript 10 5 (6.757 %) ActionScript 11 3 (4.054 %) C 11 3 (4.054 %) DHTML 12 2 (2.703 %) PL/SQL 13 1 (1.351 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (2.703 %) MCSE 1 2 (2.703 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (2.703 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.351 %) ISO9001	Systems Management 1 1 (1.351 %) Legato
Vendors 1 22 (29.73 %) Microsoft 2 10 (13.51 %) Motorola 3 4 (5.405 %) Cisco 3 4 (5.405 %) Oracle 4 3 (4.054 %) Adobe 4 3 (4.054 %) Macromedia 5 2 (2.703 %) Business Objects 5 2 (2.703 %) PeopleSoft 5 2 (2.703 %) SAP 5 2 (2.703 %) Cognos 5 2 (2.703 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.351 %) EMC