Surrey ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET 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.NET over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Fife Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	39
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	98	86
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.138 %	0.087 %
As % of the category below	18.96 %	11.75 %
Daily rates quoted	41	27
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£352
Average daily rate	£311	£379
% change on same period last year	-17.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£312
% change on same period last year	-0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.25	£29.38
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.75	£30.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.78	£32.17
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
Application Development Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	517	732
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.728 %	0.740 %
Daily rates quoted	169	228
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£314
Average daily rate	£314	£334
% change on same period last year	-6.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.67	£27.82
Average hourly rate	£35.64	£29.93
% change on same period last year	+19.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.61	£32.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
ASP.NET 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.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET across the Surrey 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 Surrey region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Surrey region.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Woking	+7	8	£420	-
Guildford	-3	7	£271	-25.51 %
Tadworth	-	5	£274	-
Farnham	-	5	£254	-
Leatherhead	-	3	£444	-
Sunbury-on-Thames	-	3	£290	-
Camberley	+2	2	£150	-68.42 %
Haslemere	-	1	£325	-
Staines	-	1	-	-

ASP.NET South East

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

1 172 (98.29 %) .NET 2 131 (74.86 %) C# 3 111 (63.43 %) SQL Server 4 57 (32.57 %) SQL 5 44 (25.14 %) JavaScript 5 44 (25.14 %) HTML 6 41 (23.43 %) CSS 6 41 (23.43 %) XML 7 37 (21.14 %) Visual Studio 7 37 (21.14 %) SQL Server 2005 8 33 (18.86 %) VB.NET 9 30 (17.14 %) WebServices 10 29 (16.57 %) SharePoint 11 26 (14.86 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 26 (14.86 %) AJAX

11 26 (14.86 %) Microsoft 12 25 (14.29 %) Intranet 13 22 (12.57 %) VB 14 21 (12.00 %) OO 14 21 (12.00 %) SQL Server 2000 15 18 (10.29 %) Marketing 16 16 (9.143 %) OOP 17 15 (8.571 %) Transact-SQL 17 15 (8.571 %) SharePoint Server 2007 18 14 (8.000 %) Oracle 18 14 (8.000 %) COM+ 18 14 (8.000 %) Windows 19 13 (7.429 %) XSLT 19 13 (7.429 %) ASP 19 13 (7.429 %) Finance

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 1 172 (98.29 %) .NET 2 44 (25.14 %) HTML 3 41 (23.43 %) XML 3 41 (23.43 %) CSS 4 30 (17.14 %) WebServices 5 26 (14.86 %) AJAX 5 26 (14.86 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 14 (8.000 %) COM+ 7 13 (7.429 %) ASP 7 13 (7.429 %) XSLT 8 10 (5.714 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 9 (5.143 %) XHTML 10 8 (4.571 %) WinForms 11 6 (3.429 %) COM 12 5 (2.857 %) MVC 12 5 (2.857 %) WCF 13 4 (2.286 %) MonoRail 13 4 (2.286 %) DCOM 14 3 (1.714 %) ADO.NET 14 3 (1.714 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 29 (16.57 %) SharePoint 2 15 (8.571 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 10 (5.714 %) CMS 4 7 (4.000 %) BizTalk Server 4 7 (4.000 %) IIS 5 6 (3.429 %) ColdFusion 5 6 (3.429 %) ColdFusion MX 5 6 (3.429 %) EPiServer 6 3 (1.714 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 2 (1.143 %) DotNetNuke 8 1 (0.571 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 8 (4.571 %) Photoshop 2 5 (2.857 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.571 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.571 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (0.571 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 25 (14.29 %) Intranet 2 11 (6.286 %) Internet 3 3 (1.714 %) SSL 3 3 (1.714 %) IPsec 4 2 (1.143 %) Firewall 4 2 (1.143 %) DMZ 4 2 (1.143 %) Extranet 5 1 (0.571 %) ICMP 5 1 (0.571 %) FTP 5 1 (0.571 %) HTTP 5 1 (0.571 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (0.571 %) DNS 5 1 (0.571 %) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 111 (63.43 %) SQL Server 2 37 (21.14 %) SQL Server 2005 3 21 (12.00 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (2.286 %) MySQL 5 3 (1.714 %) BusinessObjects 6 2 (1.143 %) GIS 7 1 (0.571 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (0.571 %) ReportNet 7 1 (0.571 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.571 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (0.571 %) SQL Server 2008	Development Applications 1 37 (21.14 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (4.000 %) Flash 3 6 (3.429 %) NUnit 4 3 (1.714 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.571 %) CruiseControl 5 1 (0.571 %) WinRunner 5 1 (0.571 %) TestDirector 5 1 (0.571 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (0.571 %) LoadRunner
General 1 18 (10.29 %) Marketing 2 13 (7.429 %) Finance 3 7 (4.000 %) Publishing 3 7 (4.000 %) Insurance 4 3 (1.714 %) Retail 4 3 (1.714 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (1.143 %) Education 5 2 (1.143 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.571 %) Government 6 1 (0.571 %) Law 6 1 (0.571 %) Legal 6 1 (0.571 %) Front Office 6 1 (0.571 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 146 (83.43 %) Developer 2 73 (41.71 %) .NET Developer 3 53 (30.29 %) C# Developer 4 43 (24.57 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 29 (16.57 %) Web Developer 5 29 (16.57 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 16 (9.143 %) SQL Developer 7 15 (8.571 %) SQL Server Developer 8 12 (6.857 %) Intranet Developer 8 12 (6.857 %) VB.NET Developer 9 11 (6.286 %) C# Web Developer 10 10 (5.714 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 10 10 (5.714 %) .NET Web Developer 11 9 (5.143 %) VB Developer 12 8 (4.571 %) Analyst 13 7 (4.000 %) ASP Developer 14 6 (3.429 %) Applications Developer 15 5 (2.857 %) Senior Developer 15 5 (2.857 %) Consultant 15 5 (2.857 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 7 (4.000 %) N-Tier 2 4 (2.286 %) Blackberry 2 4 (2.286 %) Multithreading 3 2 (1.143 %) W3C 3 2 (1.143 %) Computer Science 3 2 (1.143 %) RIA 4 1 (0.571 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.571 %) Credit Risk 4 1 (0.571 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 14 (8.000 %) Windows 2 4 (2.286 %) Windows Server 2003 2 4 (2.286 %) Windows Mobile 3 3 (1.714 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (12.00 %) OO 2 16 (9.143 %) OOP 3 12 (6.857 %) UML 3 12 (6.857 %) TDD 3 12 (6.857 %) Incident Management 4 10 (5.714 %) Web Development 4 10 (5.714 %) E-Commerce 5 8 (4.571 %) CRM 6 6 (3.429 %) CAD 6 6 (3.429 %) Web Analytics 6 6 (3.429 %) Load Balancing 6 6 (3.429 %) Email Marketing 7 5 (2.857 %) Unit Testing 7 5 (2.857 %) SEO 7 5 (2.857 %) Agile Software Development 7 5 (2.857 %) Security Cleared 8 4 (2.286 %) Migration 8 4 (2.286 %) Scrum 9 3 (1.714 %) Content Management 9 3 (1.714 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 131 (74.86 %) C# 2 57 (32.57 %) SQL 3 44 (25.14 %) JavaScript 4 33 (18.86 %) VB.NET 5 22 (12.57 %) VB 6 15 (8.571 %) Transact-SQL 7 11 (6.286 %) C++ 7 11 (6.286 %) Java 8 5 (2.857 %) C 8 5 (2.857 %) VB6 9 4 (2.286 %) VBA 10 2 (1.143 %) ActionScript 10 2 (1.143 %) VBScript 11 1 (0.571 %) PHP 11 1 (0.571 %) PL/SQL 11 1 (0.571 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 5 (2.857 %) MCP 1 5 (2.857 %) MCSD 1 5 (2.857 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (1.714 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.571 %) BS7666 1 1 (0.571 %) QA
System Software 1 5 (2.857 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (0.571 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 26 (14.86 %) Microsoft 2 14 (8.000 %) Oracle 3 6 (3.429 %) Intel 3 6 (3.429 %) salesforce.com 4 3 (1.714 %) Google 4 3 (1.714 %) Motorola 4 3 (1.714 %) Business Objects 5 2 (1.143 %) Yahoo! 6 1 (0.571 %) Cognos 6 1 (0.571 %) Compaq 6 1 (0.571 %) Lotus 6 1 (0.571 %) Citrix 6 1 (0.571 %) BMC