Wales ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Wales 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	19
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	20	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.057 %
As % of the category below	14.49 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum daily rate	£204	£281
Average daily rate	£246	£320
% change on same period last year	-22.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£289	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£320
% change on same period last year	-6.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£24.33
% change on same period last year	+43.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£26.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.21	£31.36
% change on same period last year	-13.22 %
Application Development Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	138	159
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.217 %	0.170 %
Daily rates quoted	50	34
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£345
Average daily rate	£310	£391
% change on same period last year	-20.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.04	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£28.86	£25.75
% change on same period last year	+12.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.68	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
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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 Wales 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 Wales region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Wales region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Wales region.

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
South Wales	-21	13	£215	-32.81 %
North Wales	-	5	£325	-
West Wales	-	1	-	-

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ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 43 (100.00 %) .NET 2 35 (81.40 %) C# 3 20 (46.51 %) SQL Server 3 20 (46.51 %) XML 4 17 (39.53 %) JavaScript 5 16 (37.21 %) IIS 5 16 (37.21 %) CSS 6 15 (34.88 %) SQL 6 15 (34.88 %) AJAX 7 12 (27.91 %) VB 7 12 (27.91 %) WebServices 8 10 (23.26 %) Microsoft 8 10 (23.26 %) .NET Framework 9 8 (18.60 %) SOAP 9 8 (18.60 %) Visual Studio

10 7 (16.28 %) ADO.NET 10 7 (16.28 %) PHP 10 7 (16.28 %) Health 10 7 (16.28 %) SQL Server 2005 10 7 (16.28 %) Software Engineering 11 6 (13.95 %) Web Development 11 6 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2000 11 6 (13.95 %) OO 11 6 (13.95 %) DTS 12 5 (11.63 %) Windows 12 5 (11.63 %) Agile Software Development 12 5 (11.63 %) telerik 13 4 (9.302 %) WCF 13 4 (9.302 %) WF 13 4 (9.302 %) Visual Studio Team System

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 43 (100.00 %) .NET 2 20 (46.51 %) XML 3 16 (37.21 %) CSS 4 15 (34.88 %) AJAX 5 12 (27.91 %) WebServices 6 10 (23.26 %) .NET Framework 7 8 (18.60 %) SOAP 8 7 (16.28 %) ADO.NET 9 4 (9.302 %) WCF 9 4 (9.302 %) WF 9 4 (9.302 %) MVC 10 3 (6.977 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 3 (6.977 %) ASP 10 3 (6.977 %) HTML 11 2 (4.651 %) XSLT 11 2 (4.651 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 16 (37.21 %) IIS 2 1 (2.326 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.326 %) CMS 2 1 (2.326 %) Immediacy CMS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.651 %) Internet 2 1 (2.326 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (46.51 %) SQL Server 2 7 (16.28 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (13.95 %) DTS 3 6 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (9.302 %) MySQL 5 3 (6.977 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (4.651 %) OLAP 6 2 (4.651 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (2.326 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 8 (18.60 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (9.302 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 1 (2.326 %) Flash	General 1 7 (16.28 %) Health 2 3 (6.977 %) Government 2 3 (6.977 %) Marketing 3 2 (4.651 %) Retail 4 1 (2.326 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.326 %) Games 4 1 (2.326 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (2.326 %) Back Office 4 1 (2.326 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 39 (90.70 %) Developer 2 17 (39.53 %) .NET Developer 3 14 (32.56 %) Web Developer 4 11 (25.58 %) Software Developer 5 8 (18.60 %) C# Developer 6 7 (16.28 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (11.63 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (4.651 %) Programmer 8 2 (4.651 %) .NET Web Developer 9 1 (2.326 %) .NET Software Engineer 9 1 (2.326 %) C# Web Developer 9 1 (2.326 %) .NET Programmer 9 1 (2.326 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (2.326 %) Web Applications Developer 9 1 (2.326 %) Applications Architect 9 1 (2.326 %) ASP Developer 9 1 (2.326 %) Architect 9 1 (2.326 %) Software Engineer 9 1 (2.326 %) Software Architect 9 1 (2.326 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.302 %) NHS 2 2 (4.651 %) N-Tier 3 1 (2.326 %) W3C 3 1 (2.326 %) Welsh Language 3 1 (2.326 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 5 (11.63 %) Windows 2 3 (6.977 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (16.28 %) Software Engineering 2 6 (13.95 %) Web Development 2 6 (13.95 %) OO 3 5 (11.63 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (9.302 %) OOD 4 4 (9.302 %) SEO 5 3 (6.977 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (4.651 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (4.651 %) UML 6 2 (4.651 %) Validation 6 2 (4.651 %) Software Testing 7 1 (2.326 %) Content Management 7 1 (2.326 %) Product Marketing 7 1 (2.326 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (2.326 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (2.326 %) DRM 7 1 (2.326 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 35 (81.40 %) C# 2 17 (39.53 %) JavaScript 3 15 (34.88 %) SQL 4 12 (27.91 %) VB 5 7 (16.28 %) PHP 6 3 (6.977 %) VB.NET 6 3 (6.977 %) Transact-SQL 7 2 (4.651 %) Delphi 8 1 (2.326 %) DHTML 8 1 (2.326 %) VB6	Vendors 1 10 (23.26 %) Microsoft 2 5 (11.63 %) telerik 3 2 (4.651 %) Oracle 3 2 (4.651 %) Siemens 4 1 (2.326 %) HP