The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 82 79 72
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -7
Contract jobs citing ASP 13 18 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.948% 1.034% 0.917%
As % of the Application Development category 3.533% 3.905% 3.537%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
Average daily rate £264 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.08% +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £21.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -37.77%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
368 461 311
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 26.82% 26.49% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 267 170
Average daily rate £288 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £375 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
Average hourly rate £38.00 £18.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+111.11% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
ASP
Yorkshire

ASP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Leeds -9 11 £275 -18.51% 4
Huddersfield - 1 £253 -
Halifax - - - -
ASP
Yorkshire

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 15 (60.00%) SQL
2 13 (52.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (52.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (48.00%) VB
4 11 (44.00%) .NET
5 9 (36.00%) C#
5 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (36.00%) JIRA
5 9 (36.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (32.00%) Oracle
6 8 (32.00%) HTML
6 8 (32.00%) Windows
7 7 (28.00%) COM+
7 7 (28.00%) MTS
7 7 (28.00%) MSMQ
7 7 (28.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 7 (28.00%) SQL Server 2000
7 7 (28.00%) VB6
7 7 (28.00%) Subversion
8 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (24.00%) SOA
8 6 (24.00%) CSS
8 6 (24.00%) Web Services
9 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
9 5 (20.00%) PHP
10 4 (16.00%) VBScript
10 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
10 4 (16.00%) MS Office
10 4 (16.00%) Visual Studio
10 4 (16.00%) XML

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 11 (44.00%) .NET
2 8 (32.00%) HTML
3 7 (28.00%) COM+
3 7 (28.00%) MSMQ
4 6 (24.00%) CSS
4 6 (24.00%) Web Services
5 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (16.00%) XML
5 4 (16.00%) Gherkin
6 2 (8.000%) WinForms
6 2 (8.000%) POSIX
6 2 (8.000%) Node.js
6 2 (8.000%) HTML5
6 2 (8.000%) WCF
6 2 (8.000%) WPF
6 2 (8.000%) jQuery
7 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (4.000%) REST
7 1 (4.000%) CSS3
7 1 (4.000%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) MTS
2 3 (12.00%) IIS
3 2 (8.000%) Apache
3 2 (8.000%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.000%) nginx
3 2 (8.000%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.000%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.000%) Route 53
3 2 (8.000%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (4.000%) Windows Azure
4 1 (4.000%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (16.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.000%) HTTP
1 2 (8.000%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.000%) SSH
2 1 (4.000%) SSL
2 1 (4.000%) Internet
2 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.000%) DNS
2 1 (4.000%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (52.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (36.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (28.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (8.000%) MySQL
5 2 (8.000%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.000%) SimpleDB
5 2 (8.000%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.000%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.000%) Couchbase
5 2 (8.000%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (8.000%) Redis
6 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 7 (28.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 7 (28.00%) Subversion
3 4 (16.00%) Visual Studio
3 4 (16.00%) MSI
3 4 (16.00%) TeamCity
3 4 (16.00%) WebDriver
3 4 (16.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (16.00%) Selenium
3 4 (16.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.000%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
1 2 (8.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Tester
2 4 (16.00%) Applications Support
2 4 (16.00%) Technical Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Agile Tester
2 4 (16.00%) Technical Leader
3 3 (12.00%) VB Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.000%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.000%) ASP Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) VB6 Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Applications Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.000%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (24.00%) SOA
3 4 (16.00%) Scrum
3 4 (16.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (16.00%) Automated Testing
3 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (16.00%) Agile Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (8.000%) CRM
5 2 (8.000%) Project Management
5 2 (8.000%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.000%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.000%) Kanban
5 2 (8.000%) TDD
5 2 (8.000%) Security Testing
5 2 (8.000%) Network Design
5 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (4.000%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) SQL
2 12 (48.00%) VB
3 9 (36.00%) C#
4 7 (28.00%) VB6
5 5 (20.00%) PHP
6 4 (16.00%) VBScript
7 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (12.00%) Java
8 2 (8.000%) JavaScript
8 2 (8.000%) C++
8 2 (8.000%) T-SQL
8 2 (8.000%) Python
8 2 (8.000%) Bash shell
8 2 (8.000%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) Oracle
3 4 (16.00%) VMware
4 2 (8.000%) Perforce
5 1 (4.000%) EPiServer