The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 28 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing ASP 1 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 0.513% 1.558% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.704% 6.316% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £408 -
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
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
27 95 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 13.85% 24.68% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 50 44
Average daily rate £335 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £238 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £425 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
Average hourly rate £13.11 £35.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.54% +105.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.42 £35.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.62 £35.00 £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
ASP
North East

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear ASP Daily Rate Trend

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Sunderland - 1 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - - - - 1
South Shields - - - - 1
ASP
North East

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) VB
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) XHTML
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 2 (33.33%) TOAD
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) DCOM

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) DCOM
4 1 (16.67%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) TOAD
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (16.67%) DTS
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
1 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
1 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VB
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VB6
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix