The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Taunton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 9 16 14
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs citing ASP 9 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 14.06% 6.667% 8.511%
As % of the Application Development category 64.29% 30.77% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
Average daily rate £338 £320 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.46% +9.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £320 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £320 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -37.77%
All Application Development
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
14 13 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 21.88% 21.67% 51.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 18
Average daily rate £350 £333 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +3.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £318 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £365 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
ASP
Somerset

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Taunton 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 Taunton region.

Taunton 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 Taunton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Taunton 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 Taunton region.

Taunton ASP Hourly Rate Trend

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 25 (100.00%) C#
1 25 (100.00%) HTML
1 25 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 25 (100.00%) SQL
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (88.00%) Java
3 20 (80.00%) VB
3 20 (80.00%) XML
3 20 (80.00%) SharePoint
4 19 (76.00%) ASP.NET
5 18 (72.00%) UML
6 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
6 17 (68.00%) Oracle
6 17 (68.00%) SQL Server
7 16 (64.00%) IIS
8 15 (60.00%) Subversion
8 15 (60.00%) .NET Framework
8 15 (60.00%) ITIL
9 14 (56.00%) ISEB
9 14 (56.00%) VB.NET
9 14 (56.00%) C++
9 14 (56.00%) Ingres
9 14 (56.00%) UNIX
10 13 (52.00%) Service Management
10 13 (52.00%) ITSM
10 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (52.00%) NUnit
10 13 (52.00%) MSTest
11 12 (48.00%) Jenkins
11 12 (48.00%) Unit Testing

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 25 (100.00%) HTML
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (80.00%) XML
3 19 (76.00%) ASP.NET
4 15 (60.00%) .NET Framework
5 9 (36.00%) CSS
6 5 (20.00%) Web Services
7 4 (16.00%) Spring
7 4 (16.00%) Spring MVC
7 4 (16.00%) XSL
8 3 (12.00%) WCF
8 3 (12.00%) WPF
8 3 (12.00%) WF
9 2 (8.000%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 20 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 16 (64.00%) IIS
3 11 (44.00%) OpenROAD
4 4 (16.00%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (68.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (56.00%) Ingres
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (8.000%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) Subversion
2 13 (52.00%) NUnit
2 13 (52.00%) MSTest
3 12 (48.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (48.00%) TeamCity
3 12 (48.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (44.00%) CruiseControl
4 11 (44.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (16.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (12.00%) JUnit
General
1 5 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (84.00%) Developer
2 17 (68.00%) .NET Developer
3 16 (64.00%) C# Developer
3 16 (64.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 7 (28.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 7 (28.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Analyst
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Support Analyst
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Analyst Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (12.00%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (12.00%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (12.00%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (8.000%) Classic ASP Developer
8 2 (8.000%) ASP Developer
9 1 (4.000%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) UML
2 15 (60.00%) ITIL
3 13 (52.00%) Service Management
3 13 (52.00%) ITSM
4 12 (48.00%) Unit Testing
4 12 (48.00%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (40.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (20.00%) TDD
7 4 (16.00%) Web Development
7 4 (16.00%) Performance Management
7 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
7 4 (16.00%) PRINCE2
7 4 (16.00%) RAD
7 4 (16.00%) MVC
8 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (12.00%) Pair Programming
8 3 (12.00%) Change Management
8 3 (12.00%) SOA
8 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
9 2 (8.000%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) C#
1 25 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 25 (100.00%) SQL
2 22 (88.00%) Java
3 20 (80.00%) VB
4 14 (56.00%) VB.NET
4 14 (56.00%) C++
5 4 (16.00%) VB6
5 4 (16.00%) C
5 4 (16.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) ISEB
2 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (36.00%) MCP
3 9 (36.00%) MCPD
3 9 (36.00%) MCTS
4 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
5 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (16.00%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (16.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (16.00%) MCSD
7 1 (4.000%) BC Cleared
7 1 (4.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (16.00%) ISO 9000
1 4 (16.00%) TickIT
2 3 (12.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
1 17 (68.00%) Oracle