West Midlands ASP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) skills within the West Midlands 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 over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak Home Counties Horsham Hove Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Pagnell Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	66
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	52	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	7.658 %	9.350 %
Daily rates quoted	9	14
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£296
Average daily rate	£253	£312
% change on same period last year	-18.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£260	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£290
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£18.80
Average hourly rate	£25.50	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+12.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£26.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.91	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	679	492
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.871 %	0.553 %
Daily rates quoted	124	84
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£306
Average daily rate	£318	£327
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.91	£27.38
Average hourly rate	£27.74	£30.12
% change on same period last year	-7.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.57	£32.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
ASP England

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
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ASP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the West Midlands region.

ASP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

ASP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing ASP across the West Midlands region.

ASP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP across the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASP within the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Warwickshire	+15	16	£230	-
2	Birmingham	-3	11	£250	-29.80 %
3	Coventry	-15	4	-	-
4	Worcestershire	-5	2	-	-
5	Herefordshire	+4	1	£300	-

ASP England

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP.

1 72 (60.50 %) .NET 2 60 (50.42 %) ASP.NET 3 54 (45.38 %) SQL 3 54 (45.38 %) HTML 4 47 (39.50 %) JavaScript 5 39 (32.77 %) VB 5 39 (32.77 %) SQL Server 6 37 (31.09 %) CSS 7 34 (28.57 %) XML 8 29 (24.37 %) VB.NET 9 25 (21.01 %) OO 10 22 (18.49 %) VBScript 10 22 (18.49 %) Oracle 11 21 (17.65 %) Web Development 12 20 (16.81 %) C#

13 16 (13.45 %) Migration 14 15 (12.61 %) SQL Server 2005 15 13 (10.92 %) Transact-SQL 16 12 (10.08 %) SharePoint 16 12 (10.08 %) Microsoft 16 12 (10.08 %) Internet 16 12 (10.08 %) VB6 17 11 (9.244 %) E-Commerce 17 11 (9.244 %) Dreamweaver 18 10 (8.403 %) Photoshop 18 10 (8.403 %) Visual Studio 19 9 (7.563 %) Crystal Reports 19 9 (7.563 %) ADO.NET 19 9 (7.563 %) PHP 19 9 (7.563 %) Flash

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing ASP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ASP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 72 (60.50 %) .NET 2 60 (50.42 %) ASP.NET 3 54 (45.38 %) HTML 4 37 (31.09 %) CSS 5 34 (28.57 %) XML 6 9 (7.563 %) ADO.NET 7 7 (5.882 %) WebServices 7 7 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 5 (4.202 %) .NET Remoting 8 5 (4.202 %) .NET Framework 9 4 (3.361 %) Servlets 10 3 (2.521 %) JSP 10 3 (2.521 %) XSL 11 2 (1.681 %) XSLT 11 2 (1.681 %) WinForms 11 2 (1.681 %) AJAX 12 1 (0.840 %) CSLA.NET 12 1 (0.840 %) Spring 12 1 (0.840 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 12 1 (0.840 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 12 (10.08 %) SharePoint 2 7 (5.882 %) CMS 3 5 (4.202 %) IIS 4 4 (3.361 %) Apache 4 4 (3.361 %) Tomcat 5 3 (2.521 %) ColdFusion 6 1 (0.840 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (0.840 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 10 (8.403 %) Photoshop 2 5 (4.202 %) MS Office 2 5 (4.202 %) 3ds Max 3 2 (1.681 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 3 (2.521 %) Hyperion Enterprise
Communications & Networking 1 12 (10.08 %) Internet 2 5 (4.202 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 39 (32.77 %) SQL Server 2 15 (12.61 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (7.563 %) Crystal Reports 4 7 (5.882 %) MySQL 5 5 (4.202 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (3.361 %) DTS 7 2 (1.681 %) RDBMS 7 2 (1.681 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (0.840 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 1 (0.840 %) Oracle 10g 8 1 (0.840 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (0.840 %) SQL Server 7 8 1 (0.840 %) ReportNet 8 1 (0.840 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 11 (9.244 %) Dreamweaver 2 10 (8.403 %) Visual Studio 3 9 (7.563 %) Flash 4 4 (3.361 %) Eclipse 4 4 (3.361 %) Ant 4 4 (3.361 %) Subversion 5 1 (0.840 %) NetAdvantage 5 1 (0.840 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 7 (5.882 %) Retail 2 5 (4.202 %) Back Office 3 4 (3.361 %) Telecoms 3 4 (3.361 %) Finance 4 3 (2.521 %) Marketing 5 2 (1.681 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.840 %) Graphic Design 6 1 (0.840 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.840 %) Construction 6 1 (0.840 %) Education 6 1 (0.840 %) Law
Job Titles 1 89 (74.79 %) Developer 2 29 (24.37 %) .NET Developer 3 25 (21.01 %) Web Developer 4 23 (19.33 %) ASP Developer 5 16 (13.45 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 14 (11.76 %) Analyst 7 7 (5.882 %) Systems Analyst 7 7 (5.882 %) VB.NET Developer 8 6 (5.042 %) PHP Developer 8 6 (5.042 %) Applications Developer 8 6 (5.042 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 5 (4.202 %) C# Developer 9 5 (4.202 %) SQL Developer 10 4 (3.361 %) VB Developer 10 4 (3.361 %) HTML Developer 10 4 (3.361 %) 3rd Line Support 10 4 (3.361 %) Java Developer 11 3 (2.521 %) Applications Support 11 3 (2.521 %) Administrator 11 3 (2.521 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.521 %) W3C 2 2 (1.681 %) Equities 2 2 (1.681 %) N-Tier 3 1 (0.840 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (0.840 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 7 (5.882 %) Windows 2 2 (1.681 %) Windows NT 2 2 (1.681 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.840 %) Linux 3 1 (0.840 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (21.01 %) OO 2 21 (17.65 %) Web Development 3 16 (13.45 %) Migration 4 11 (9.244 %) E-Commerce 5 5 (4.202 %) OOD 6 4 (3.361 %) UML 6 4 (3.361 %) Systems Analysis 6 4 (3.361 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (1.681 %) RAD 7 2 (1.681 %) Web Design 7 2 (1.681 %) Content Management 7 2 (1.681 %) Project Management 8 1 (0.840 %) Risk Management 8 1 (0.840 %) SEO 8 1 (0.840 %) Workflow 8 1 (0.840 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (0.840 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (0.840 %) CRM 8 1 (0.840 %) ITIL 8 1 (0.840 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 54 (45.38 %) SQL 2 47 (39.50 %) JavaScript 3 39 (32.77 %) VB 4 29 (24.37 %) VB.NET 5 22 (18.49 %) VBScript 6 20 (16.81 %) C# 7 13 (10.92 %) Transact-SQL 8 12 (10.08 %) VB6 9 9 (7.563 %) PHP 10 7 (5.882 %) PL/SQL 11 5 (4.202 %) Java 12 3 (2.521 %) C++ 13 2 (1.681 %) Perl 14 1 (0.840 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 1 (0.840 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (0.840 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 22 (18.49 %) Oracle 2 12 (10.08 %) Microsoft 3 5 (4.202 %) Interwoven 4 4 (3.361 %) Open Text 5 3 (2.521 %) Hyperion 5 3 (2.521 %) Adobe 6 2 (1.681 %) Macromedia 6 2 (1.681 %) Cognos 7 1 (0.840 %) Business Objects 7 1 (0.840 %) SAP 7 1 (0.840 %) TIBCO 7 1 (0.840 %) Infragistics