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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the ASP.NET Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

 ASP.NET Developer
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank178160118
Rank change year-on-year
Down-18Down-42
Matching contract IT job ads4313691132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.887 %0.930 %1.380 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.969 %1.015 %1.484 %
Daily rates quoted214128273
Average daily rate£283£325£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.07 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£188£217£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£475£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£225£250£300
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-16.66 %
Hourly rates quoted272698
Average hourly rate£28.50£31.25£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.800 %+4.160 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£24.90£16.75£23.90
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.00£35.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-8.330 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
444733635476281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.50 %91.60 %93.01 %
Daily rates quoted202941169823610
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£213£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted255030506711
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.19£10.71£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.75£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-11.25 %-9.090 %

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.

ASP.NET Developer
Demand Trend

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

ASP.NET Developer Demand Trend

ASP.NET Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

ASP.NET Developer Daily Rate Trend

ASP.NET Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

ASP.NET Developer Daily Rate Histogram

ASP.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ASP.NET Developer Hourly Rate Trend

ASP.NET Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

ASP.NET Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

ASP.NET Developer
Top 30 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 Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-12415£285-12.97 %
LondonDown-67188£350-11.94 %
South EastUp+3877£256+17.81 %
City of LondonDown-7149£400-11.11 %
North WestUp+648£200-
West MidlandsUp+529£255-20.00 %
ManchesterDown-125£205-
East of EnglandUp+1723£288+15.00 %
BerkshireUp+1320£225+3.44 %
YorkshireUp+818£225+5.88 %
South WestUp+417£225-25.00 %
BirminghamUp+115£253-20.78 %
West YorkshireDown-315£250+17.64 %
ScotlandDown-114£200-15.78 %
SurreyDown-913£300+50.00 %
GlasgowUp+512£200-10.61 %
CheshireDown-812£195-
BrightonNew entry-11--
East SussexNew entry-11--
OxfordshireNew entry-10£225-
BristolDown-49£223-
East MidlandsDown-119£220-
LeedsUp+58£200-5.88 %
SuffolkDown-58£325-
OxfordNew entry-8£225-
North EastUp+167£185-47.14 %
ReadingUp+37£225-
EssexUp+16£250-
LancashireUp+145£188-
MerseysideUp+75£213-

ASP.NET Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title 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 with ASP.NET Developer in their job title.

1795 (100.00 %).NET
1795 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
2615 (77.36 %)C#
3498 (62.64 %)SQL Server
4255 (32.08 %)CSS
5248 (31.19 %)SQL
6230 (28.93 %)JavaScript
7213 (26.79 %)SQL Server 2005
8211 (26.54 %)HTML
9182 (22.89 %)XML
10159 (20.00 %)AJAX
11149 (18.74 %)Web Services
12125 (15.72 %)Visual Studio
13122 (15.35 %)VB.NET
1499 (12.45 %)OO
1598 (12.33 %)WCF
1695 (11.95 %)Microsoft
1792 (11.57 %)jQuery
1889 (11.19 %)Banking
1983 (10.44 %).NET Framework
2080 (10.06 %)MVC
2173 (9.182 %)Finance
2173 (9.182 %)XSLT
2271 (8.931 %)T-SQL
2271 (8.931 %)XHTML
2271 (8.931 %)Agile Software Development
2369 (8.679 %)SQL Server 2008
2463 (7.925 %)ASP
2562 (7.799 %)Investment Banking
2562 (7.799 %)TDD

ASP.NET Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited ASP.NET Developer in their job title 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 with ASP.NET Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1795 (100.00 %).NET
1795 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
2255 (32.08 %)CSS
3211 (26.54 %)HTML
4182 (22.89 %)XML
5159 (20.00 %)AJAX
6149 (18.74 %)Web Services
798 (12.33 %)WCF
892 (11.57 %)jQuery
983 (10.44 %).NET Framework
1073 (9.182 %)XSLT
1171 (8.931 %)XHTML
1263 (7.925 %)ASP
1356 (7.044 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1443 (5.409 %)WPF
1539 (4.906 %)WF
1539 (4.906 %)ASP.NET MVC
1638 (4.780 %)LINQ
1729 (3.648 %)WinForms
1824 (3.019 %)DHTML
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
162 (7.799 %)CMS
256 (7.044 %)SharePoint
325 (3.145 %)SharePoint Server 2007
424 (3.019 %)IIS
519 (2.390 %)Umbraco
615 (1.887 %)EPiServer
714 (1.761 %)Sitecore CMS
811 (1.384 %)BizTalk Server
99 (1.132 %)MS Exchange
108 (1.006 %)DotNetNuke
117 (0.881 %)Exchange Server 2007
123 (0.377 %)MTS
132 (0.252 %)WebSphere MQ
132 (0.252 %)MQSeries
132 (0.252 %)Apache
132 (0.252 %)Lotus Domino
132 (0.252 %)AquaLogic
132 (0.252 %)Oracle Workflow
132 (0.252 %)Immediacy CMS
141 (0.126 %)Oracle 10gAS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
117 (2.138 %)MS Excel
28 (1.006 %)MS Office
28 (1.006 %)Photoshop
36 (0.755 %)InfoPath
43 (0.377 %)MS Visio
52 (0.252 %)Adobe Illustrator
52 (0.252 %)Spreadsheet
61 (0.126 %)MS Project
61 (0.126 %)Fireworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (0.503 %)Dynamics CRM
22 (0.252 %)Microsoft CRM
22 (0.252 %)Pivotal CRM
31 (0.126 %)Summit
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
131 (3.899 %)Intranet
211 (1.384 %)Internet
34 (0.503 %)HTTP
42 (0.252 %)Extranet
51 (0.126 %)SMTP
51 (0.126 %)TCP/IP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1498 (62.64 %)SQL Server
2213 (26.79 %)SQL Server 2005
369 (8.679 %)SQL Server 2008
447 (5.912 %)SQL Server 2000
523 (2.893 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
617 (2.138 %)Oracle 10g
617 (2.138 %)SQL Server Integration Services
715 (1.887 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
812 (1.509 %)MySQL
910 (1.258 %)ETL
910 (1.258 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
109 (1.132 %)RDBMS
118 (1.006 %)OLAP
127 (0.881 %)MS Access
136 (0.755 %)Crystal Reports
136 (0.755 %)Oracle 9i
145 (0.629 %)Sybase ASE
145 (0.629 %)Datawarehouse
154 (0.503 %)Oracle 8/8i
154 (0.503 %)Sybase IQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1125 (15.72 %)Visual Studio
235 (4.403 %)NUnit
315 (1.887 %)Subversion
410 (1.258 %)VSS/SourceSafe
410 (1.258 %)ReSharper
410 (1.258 %)Team Foundation Server
410 (1.258 %)Rhino Mocks
57 (0.881 %)TeamCity
66 (0.755 %)ClearCase
66 (0.755 %)MbUnit
75 (0.629 %)Dreamweaver
84 (0.503 %)CruiseControl
93 (0.377 %)MSTest
102 (0.252 %)WinRunner
102 (0.252 %)QuickTest Pro
102 (0.252 %)FrontPage
102 (0.252 %)Moq
102 (0.252 %)Expression Blend
111 (0.126 %)Expression Web
111 (0.126 %)NCover
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
189 (11.19 %)Banking
273 (9.182 %)Finance
362 (7.799 %)Investment Banking
427 (3.396 %)Marketing
524 (3.019 %)Front Office
623 (2.893 %)Government
714 (1.761 %)Retail
810 (1.258 %)Insurance
98 (1.006 %)Telecoms
98 (1.006 %)Financial Institution
98 (1.006 %)Education
98 (1.006 %)Health
106 (0.755 %)Publishing
114 (0.503 %)Pharmaceutical
114 (0.503 %)Corporate Banking
123 (0.377 %)Pensions
123 (0.377 %)Back Office
123 (0.377 %)Multimedia
132 (0.252 %)Police
132 (0.252 %)Home Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
127 (3.396 %)N-Tier
219 (2.390 %)Multithreading
315 (1.887 %)Web 2.0
315 (1.887 %)NHS
414 (1.761 %)Contract for Difference
511 (1.384 %)Fixed Income
511 (1.384 %)W3C
69 (1.132 %)Credit Risk
69 (1.132 %)Equities
77 (0.881 %)Social Network
86 (0.755 %)Dependency Injection
95 (0.629 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
104 (0.503 %)AS400
104 (0.503 %)Market Risk
104 (0.503 %)Cloud Computing
113 (0.377 %)Computer Science
113 (0.377 %)Derivative
122 (0.252 %)E-Learning
122 (0.252 %)Ergonomics
131 (0.126 %)iPhone
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
152 (6.541 %)Windows
24 (0.503 %)UNIX
24 (0.503 %)Linux
32 (0.252 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (0.252 %)Windows Mobile
32 (0.252 %)Red Hat Linux
41 (0.126 %)Windows Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
199 (12.45 %)OO
280 (10.06 %)MVC
371 (8.931 %)Agile Software Development
462 (7.799 %)TDD
557 (7.170 %)E-Commerce
649 (6.164 %)Web Development
735 (4.403 %)Scrum
833 (4.151 %)Unit Testing
932 (4.025 %)CRM
1028 (3.522 %)UML
1126 (3.270 %)OOD
1223 (2.893 %)Content Management
1322 (2.767 %)SOA
1420 (2.516 %)Workflow
1519 (2.390 %)Continuous Integration
1618 (2.264 %)OOP
1713 (1.635 %)Business Intelligence
1811 (1.384 %)Digital Marketing
1811 (1.384 %)Migration
1811 (1.384 %)Requirements Analysis
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1615 (77.36 %)C#
2248 (31.19 %)SQL
3230 (28.93 %)JavaScript
4122 (15.35 %)VB.NET
571 (8.931 %)T-SQL
632 (4.025 %)VB
726 (3.270 %)PL/SQL
822 (2.767 %)C
912 (1.509 %)Java
912 (1.509 %)PHP
912 (1.509 %)VB6
1010 (1.258 %)VBA
117 (0.881 %)XPath
117 (0.881 %)VBScript
124 (0.503 %)Shell Script
133 (0.377 %)ActionScript
133 (0.377 %)Perl
133 (0.377 %)C++
142 (0.252 %)Delphi
142 (0.252 %)ActionScript 3.0
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
117 (2.138 %)Microsoft Certification
213 (1.635 %)MCAD
213 (1.635 %)MCSD
312 (1.509 %)Degree
48 (1.006 %)MCP
48 (1.006 %)MCTS
48 (1.006 %)Security Cleared
57 (0.881 %)SC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (0.503 %)WCAG
23 (0.377 %)WAI
31 (0.126 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.252 %)MSMQ
12 (0.252 %)Active Directory
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
195 (11.95 %)Microsoft
256 (7.044 %)Oracle
315 (1.887 %)Sitecore
412 (1.509 %)Sybase
55 (0.629 %)Adobe
63 (0.377 %)Infragistics
63 (0.377 %)Perforce
63 (0.377 %)Singularity
72 (0.252 %)TIBCO
72 (0.252 %)Red Hat
72 (0.252 %)BEA
72 (0.252 %)Plumtree
72 (0.252 %)Lotus
72 (0.252 %)IBM
72 (0.252 %)Yahoo!
72 (0.252 %)Google
72 (0.252 %)Syncfusion
72 (0.252 %)Dundas
81 (0.126 %)Seapine
81 (0.126 %)RedDot