The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 23 May 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 West Midlands 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 92 82 80
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -2
Contract jobs citing ASP 5 23 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.307% 1.023% 1.047%
As % of the Application Development category 1.285% 4.205% 4.202%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 7
Average daily rate £263 £275 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% +12.24%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £323 £275
% change year-on-year
-6.20% +17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -30.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £21.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year
+53.57% -41.25%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
389 547 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.85% 24.32% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 299 255
Average daily rate £300 £300 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £37.50 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ASP
England

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Solihull +2 2 £263 +31.25%
Birmingham +7 1 £250 -4.76%
Shropshire - 1 - -
ASP
England

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) .NET
2 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (55.00%) HTML
4 9 (45.00%) CSS
5 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (35.00%) XML
5 7 (35.00%) C#
6 6 (30.00%) VB.NET
7 5 (25.00%) DHTML
7 5 (25.00%) XSLT
7 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
7 5 (25.00%) Internet
7 5 (25.00%) jQuery
7 5 (25.00%) Web Development
8 4 (20.00%) Ajax
8 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
8 4 (20.00%) VBScript
8 4 (20.00%) Oracle
9 3 (15.00%) VBA
9 3 (15.00%) T-SQL
9 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (15.00%) Release Management
10 2 (10.00%) Web Usability
10 2 (10.00%) Automotive
10 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
10 2 (10.00%) DTS

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 12 (60.00%) .NET
1 12 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 11 (55.00%) HTML
3 9 (45.00%) CSS
4 7 (35.00%) XML
5 5 (25.00%) DHTML
5 5 (25.00%) XSLT
5 5 (25.00%) jQuery
6 4 (20.00%) Ajax
7 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
8 2 (10.00%) ADO.NET
8 2 (10.00%) COM
8 2 (10.00%) DOM
8 2 (10.00%) Web Services
8 2 (10.00%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.000%) MQSeries
2 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.000%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.000%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.00%) MS Office
3 1 (5.000%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) ATM
2 1 (5.000%) SDH
2 1 (5.000%) Ethernet
2 1 (5.000%) Intranet
2 1 (5.000%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.00%) DTS
3 1 (5.000%) Informix
3 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.000%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Web Developer
3 7 (35.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (15.00%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (15.00%) ASP Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Classic ASP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.000%) DBA
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.000%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) SQL DBA
6 1 (5.000%) Configuration Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Environment Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Web Development
2 3 (15.00%) Release Management
3 2 (10.00%) Web Usability
3 2 (10.00%) OO
4 1 (5.000%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.000%) Project Management
4 1 (5.000%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.000%) Workflow
4 1 (5.000%) Content Management
4 1 (5.000%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.000%) Migration
4 1 (5.000%) Data Entry
4 1 (5.000%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (35.00%) C#
4 6 (30.00%) VB.NET
5 4 (20.00%) VBScript
6 3 (15.00%) VBA
6 3 (15.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (10.00%) VB
7 2 (10.00%) Java
8 1 (5.000%) VB6
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle