ASP.NET 2.0 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 skills across the UK 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 2.0 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Exeter Glasgow Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Rochester Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	296	289
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	344	496
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.459 %	0.502 %
As % of the category below	1.964 %	2.159 %
Daily rates quoted	126	133
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£326
Average daily rate	£374	£352
% change on same period last year	+6.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£322
% change on same period last year	+5.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.63	£30.06
Average hourly rate	£35.44	£31.59
% change on same period last year	+12.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.25	£33.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.85	£32.29
% change on same period last year	+4.81 %
Application Development UK
Matching contract IT job ads	17514	22973
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	23.34 %	23.24 %
Daily rates quoted	5868	6997
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£372
Average daily rate	£378	£398
% change on same period last year	-5.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£424
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	967	1398
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.29	£30.90
Average hourly rate	£32.64	£33.41
% change on same period last year	-2.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.98	£35.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %

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 2.0
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET 2.0 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ASP.NET 2.0
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASP.NET 2.0 within the UK.

ASP.NET 2.0
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET 2.0 within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

ASP.NET 2.0
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET 2.0 within the UK.

ASP.NET 2.0
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET 2.0 within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

ASP.NET 2.0
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP.NET 2.0 within the UK 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
England	+1	335	£373	+6.03 %
London	+38	168	£386	+1.05 %
City of London	+17	52	£424	-20.50 %
West Midlands	+26	42	£337	+3.79 %
South East	-11	31	£369	+11.93 %
Yorkshire	+17	29	£194	-35.06 %
North West	-14	28	£328	+24.15 %
West Yorkshire	+9	26	£194	-35.06 %
Coventry	-2	19	£301	-7.40 %
Leeds	-5	18	£194	-35.06 %
South West	+21	15	-	-
Manchester	-20	11	£305	+27.97 %
Midlands	+15	10	£435	-
Scotland	+16	9	£475	+46.15 %
East of England	-32	9	£317	-17.48 %
Surrey	-10	8	£400	+17.17 %
Oxfordshire	-3	7	£375	-
Birmingham	+24	7	£375	-
Lancashire	+14	6	-	-
Cheshire	-8	6	£375	-
Hampshire	+10	6	-	-
Docklands, London	+31	6	£350	-12.50 %
Berkshire	+22	5	£350	+15.32 %
Aberdeen	-	4	£475	-
Croydon	+13	4	£327	-
North East	-	4	-	-
Herefordshire	+22	4	-	-
Cambridgeshire	-1	4	-	-
North Yorkshire	-	3	-	-
Warwickshire	+5	3	£360	+10.76 %

ASP.NET 2.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ASP.NET 2.0 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 2.0.

1 813 (100.00 %) .NET 2 777 (95.57 %) ASP.NET 3 682 (83.89 %) C# 4 483 (59.41 %) SQL Server 5 315 (38.75 %) SQL Server 2005 6 253 (31.12 %) CSS 7 251 (30.87 %) XML 8 240 (29.52 %) SQL 9 217 (26.69 %) WebServices 10 211 (25.95 %) JavaScript 11 181 (22.26 %) Microsoft 12 169 (20.79 %) HTML 13 167 (20.54 %) AJAX 14 151 (18.57 %) SharePoint 15 127 (15.62 %) Visual Studio

16 120 (14.76 %) OO 17 109 (13.41 %) SQL Server 2000 18 103 (12.67 %) Windows 19 102 (12.55 %) XHTML 20 100 (12.30 %) SharePoint Server 2007 21 85 (10.46 %) Web Development 22 78 (9.594 %) .NET Framework 23 75 (9.225 %) Agile Software Development 24 73 (8.979 %) MS Excel 25 72 (8.856 %) Transact-SQL 25 72 (8.856 %) Finance 26 71 (8.733 %) VB.NET 27 67 (8.241 %) SQL Server 7 28 58 (7.134 %) UML 28 58 (7.134 %) XSLT

ASP.NET 2.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ASP.NET 2.0 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 2.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 813 (100.00 %) .NET 2 777 (95.57 %) ASP.NET 3 253 (31.12 %) CSS 4 251 (30.87 %) XML 5 217 (26.69 %) WebServices 6 169 (20.79 %) HTML 7 167 (20.54 %) AJAX 8 102 (12.55 %) XHTML 9 78 (9.594 %) .NET Framework 10 58 (7.134 %) XSLT 11 48 (5.904 %) ADO.NET 11 48 (5.904 %) ASP 12 45 (5.535 %) WCF 13 44 (5.412 %) Windows SharePoint Services 14 41 (5.043 %) WinForms 15 35 (4.305 %) XSL 15 35 (4.305 %) SOAP 16 24 (2.952 %) WF 17 16 (1.968 %) MVC 18 13 (1.599 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 151 (18.57 %) SharePoint 2 100 (12.30 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 46 (5.658 %) IIS 4 26 (3.198 %) BizTalk Server 5 20 (2.460 %) CMS 6 8 (0.984 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 7 (0.861 %) Content Management Server 8 4 (0.492 %) Lotus Notes 8 4 (0.492 %) Lotus Domino 8 4 (0.492 %) Documentum 9 3 (0.369 %) ColdFusion 9 3 (0.369 %) MQSeries 9 3 (0.369 %) ColdFusion MX 9 3 (0.369 %) Commerce Server 9 3 (0.369 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 2 (0.246 %) DotNetNuke 10 2 (0.246 %) Umbraco 10 2 (0.246 %) ESB 11 1 (0.123 %) Office Project Server 11 1 (0.123 %) Rhythmyx
Applications 1 73 (8.979 %) MS Excel 2 26 (3.198 %) MS Office 3 14 (1.722 %) InfoPath 4 5 (0.615 %) Doxygen 5 4 (0.492 %) Photoshop 6 3 (0.369 %) MS Project 7 1 (0.123 %) Fireworks 7 1 (0.123 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 13 (1.599 %) Microsoft CRM 2 10 (1.230 %) Oracle EBS 2 10 (1.230 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 35 (4.305 %) Intranet 2 24 (2.952 %) Internet 3 15 (1.845 %) SSL 4 9 (1.107 %) HTTP 5 4 (0.492 %) LDAP 5 4 (0.492 %) Extranet 6 2 (0.246 %) SSH 7 1 (0.123 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (0.123 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 483 (59.41 %) SQL Server 2 315 (38.75 %) SQL Server 2005 3 109 (13.41 %) SQL Server 2000 4 67 (8.241 %) SQL Server 7 5 28 (3.444 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 17 (2.091 %) Datawarehouse 7 16 (1.968 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 9 (1.107 %) DTS 9 5 (0.615 %) MySQL 9 5 (0.615 %) MS Access 10 4 (0.492 %) GIS 10 4 (0.492 %) Crystal Reports 11 3 (0.369 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 3 (0.369 %) Oracle 10g 11 3 (0.369 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 2 (0.246 %) DocBase 12 2 (0.246 %) Oracle 9i 12 2 (0.246 %) TOAD 13 1 (0.123 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 1 (0.123 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 127 (15.62 %) Visual Studio 2 43 (5.289 %) NUnit 3 20 (2.460 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 18 (2.214 %) Flash 5 6 (0.738 %) Subversion 6 4 (0.492 %) Selenium 7 3 (0.369 %) CruiseControl 8 2 (0.246 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.123 %) Log4Net 9 1 (0.123 %) FrontPage 9 1 (0.123 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 72 (8.856 %) Finance 2 56 (6.888 %) Banking 3 42 (5.166 %) Investment Banking 4 24 (2.952 %) Health 5 23 (2.829 %) Marketing 6 22 (2.706 %) Front Office 7 21 (2.583 %) Government 8 15 (1.845 %) Publishing 9 11 (1.353 %) Insurance 10 8 (0.984 %) Local Government 10 8 (0.984 %) Retail 10 8 (0.984 %) Telecoms 10 8 (0.984 %) Construction 11 6 (0.738 %) Games 12 5 (0.615 %) Advertising 12 5 (0.615 %) Education 13 3 (0.369 %) Back Office 13 3 (0.369 %) Financial Institution 14 2 (0.246 %) Multimedia 14 2 (0.246 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 717 (88.19 %) Developer 2 397 (48.83 %) .NET Developer 3 297 (36.53 %) C# Developer 4 233 (28.66 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 162 (19.93 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 130 (15.99 %) Web Developer 7 57 (7.011 %) SharePoint Developer 8 45 (5.535 %) Senior Developer 8 45 (5.535 %) .NET Web Developer 9 41 (5.043 %) SQL Developer 10 33 (4.059 %) Analyst 11 32 (3.936 %) SQL Server Developer 12 28 (3.444 %) Architect 13 27 (3.321 %) Applications Developer 13 27 (3.321 %) C# Web Developer 14 24 (2.952 %) Senior .NET Developer 15 20 (2.460 %) Programmer 16 16 (1.968 %) Senior C# Developer 17 13 (1.599 %) Consultant 18 12 (1.476 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 42 (5.166 %) W3C 2 40 (4.920 %) N-Tier 3 28 (3.444 %) NHS 4 21 (2.583 %) Web 2.0 5 19 (2.337 %) Equities 6 16 (1.968 %) Fixed Income 7 5 (0.615 %) Replication 7 5 (0.615 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 4 (0.492 %) Derivative 8 4 (0.492 %) Computer Science 9 3 (0.369 %) Credit Risk 10 2 (0.246 %) Multithreading 10 2 (0.246 %) Data Integration 10 2 (0.246 %) Blog 11 1 (0.123 %) Social Network 11 1 (0.123 %) Copywriting 11 1 (0.123 %) Data Conversion 11 1 (0.123 %) Psychology 11 1 (0.123 %) Ergonomics 11 1 (0.123 %) Human Factors
Operating Systems 1 103 (12.67 %) Windows 2 4 (0.492 %) UNIX 3 2 (0.246 %) Solaris 3 2 (0.246 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 120 (14.76 %) OO 2 85 (10.46 %) Web Development 3 75 (9.225 %) Agile Software Development 4 58 (7.134 %) UML 5 55 (6.765 %) E-Commerce 6 46 (5.658 %) OOP 7 43 (5.289 %) Content Management 8 34 (4.182 %) TDD 8 34 (4.182 %) CRM 9 31 (3.813 %) Web Design 10 23 (2.829 %) Scrum 11 21 (2.583 %) SOA 12 20 (2.460 %) Workflow 13 15 (1.845 %) OOD 14 14 (1.722 %) Continuous Integration 15 13 (1.599 %) Unit Testing 16 12 (1.476 %) Migration 17 10 (1.230 %) RAD 18 9 (1.107 %) Security Cleared 19 8 (0.984 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 682 (83.89 %) C# 2 240 (29.52 %) SQL 3 211 (25.95 %) JavaScript 4 72 (8.856 %) Transact-SQL 5 71 (8.733 %) VB.NET 6 42 (5.166 %) VB 7 31 (3.813 %) DHTML 8 21 (2.583 %) C++ 9 16 (1.968 %) VBScript 9 16 (1.968 %) PHP 10 15 (1.845 %) VB6 11 11 (1.353 %) Java 12 9 (1.107 %) C 13 7 (0.861 %) PL/SQL 13 7 (0.861 %) XPath 14 4 (0.492 %) ECMAScript 15 3 (0.369 %) Embedded C++ 15 3 (0.369 %) ActionScript 15 3 (0.369 %) VC++ 16 2 (0.246 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 8 (0.984 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (0.861 %) Degree 3 6 (0.738 %) MCSD 4 2 (0.246 %) MCPD 5 1 (0.123 %) MCTS 5 1 (0.123 %) HND 5 1 (0.123 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.123 %) MCP 5 1 (0.123 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (1.107 %) QA 2 1 (0.123 %) WAI	System Software 1 13 (1.599 %) Active Directory 2 4 (0.492 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 1 (0.123 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 181 (22.26 %) Microsoft 2 53 (6.519 %) Oracle 3 6 (0.738 %) salesforce.com 4 4 (0.492 %) telerik 4 4 (0.492 %) Lotus 5 3 (0.369 %) Adobe 5 3 (0.369 %) Murex 5 3 (0.369 %) Calypso 6 2 (0.246 %) Tridion 6 2 (0.246 %) Cognos 6 2 (0.246 %) Google 6 2 (0.246 %) RedDot 6 2 (0.246 %) Mercator 6 2 (0.246 %) Reuters 6 2 (0.246 %) Bloomberg 7 1 (0.123 %) ESRI 7 1 (0.123 %) BT 7 1 (0.123 %) Infragistics 7 1 (0.123 %) thinkFolio 7 1 (0.123 %) Business Objects