The first table below looks at the demand for ASP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASP over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Active Server Pages (Classic ASP)
Rank 96 97 88
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -9
Contract jobs citing ASP 17 17 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.901% 0.739% 0.447%
As % of the Application Development category 3.085% 3.085% 1.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
Average daily rate £300 £328 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.39% +13.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £273 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £332 £374 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £323 £281
% change year-on-year
-3.87% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £23.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year
+40.21% -35.66%
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
551 551 452
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 29.20% 23.95% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 329 240
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
West Yorkshire -1 13 £275 -22.53%
South Yorkshire -1 2 - -
North Yorkshire +1 1 £335 +34.00%
ASP
England

ASP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 25 (73.53%) SQL
2 22 (64.71%) SQL Server
3 18 (52.94%) .NET
4 16 (47.06%) Windows
5 12 (35.29%) VB
5 12 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (35.29%) PowerShell
6 10 (29.41%) ITIL
7 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
7 9 (26.47%) SLA
7 9 (26.47%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (26.47%) Service Management
8 8 (23.53%) JIRA
8 8 (23.53%) C#
9 7 (20.59%) HTML
9 7 (20.59%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 7 (20.59%) COM+
9 7 (20.59%) Oracle
9 7 (20.59%) MTS
9 7 (20.59%) MSMQ
9 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2000
9 7 (20.59%) VB6
9 7 (20.59%) Subversion
9 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
9 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
10 6 (17.65%) SOA
10 6 (17.65%) Web Services
10 6 (17.65%) T-SQL
11 5 (14.71%) PHP
11 5 (14.71%) CSS

ASP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 18 (52.94%) .NET
2 7 (20.59%) HTML
2 7 (20.59%) COM+
3 6 (17.65%) Web Services
4 5 (14.71%) CSS
5 3 (8.824%) Gherkin
5 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET
5 3 (8.824%) XML
6 2 (5.882%) jQuery
6 2 (5.882%) POSIX
6 2 (5.882%) Node.js
7 1 (2.941%) REST
7 1 (2.941%) CSS3
7 1 (2.941%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.941%) HTML5
7 1 (2.941%) JSP
7 1 (2.941%) XHTML
7 1 (2.941%) LAMP
7 1 (2.941%) WinForms
7 1 (2.941%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) MTS
1 7 (20.59%) MSMQ
2 4 (11.76%) IIS
3 3 (8.824%) Apache
4 2 (5.882%) nginx
4 2 (5.882%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.882%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.882%) Route 53
4 2 (5.882%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.941%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.824%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.941%) Sage 1000
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.882%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (5.882%) HTTP
1 2 (5.882%) DNS
2 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.941%) SSL
2 1 (2.941%) DHCP
2 1 (2.941%) Internet
2 1 (2.941%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (64.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (26.47%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (5.882%) SimpleDB
5 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.882%) MySQL
5 2 (5.882%) Redis
5 2 (5.882%) Couchbase
5 2 (5.882%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.882%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.882%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.941%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 1 (2.941%) DB2
6 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 7 (20.59%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 7 (20.59%) Subversion
3 3 (8.824%) WebDriver
3 3 (8.824%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.824%) SpecFlow
3 3 (8.824%) Visual Studio
3 3 (8.824%) MSI
3 3 (8.824%) Selenium
3 3 (8.824%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (5.882%) Telecoms
1 2 (5.882%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.941%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 9 (26.47%) DBA
2 9 (26.47%) SQL DBA
3 5 (14.71%) Applications Support
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Leader
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Agile Tester
5 3 (8.824%) Tester
5 3 (8.824%) VB Developer
6 2 (5.882%) ASP Developer
6 2 (5.882%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.882%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Analyst
6 2 (5.882%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.941%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.882%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.941%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 3 (8.824%) Linux
3 2 (5.882%) UNIX
4 1 (2.941%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (29.41%) ITIL
3 9 (26.47%) Service Management
4 6 (17.65%) SOA
5 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.76%) Scrum
7 3 (8.824%) Agile Testing
7 3 (8.824%) Software Testing
7 3 (8.824%) Automated Testing
7 3 (8.824%) Manual Testing
7 3 (8.824%) Kanban
7 3 (8.824%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (5.882%) Test Automation
8 2 (5.882%) Performance Testing
8 2 (5.882%) Security Testing
8 2 (5.882%) TDD
8 2 (5.882%) Network Design
8 2 (5.882%) Configuration Management
8 2 (5.882%) Project Management
8 2 (5.882%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) SQL
2 12 (35.29%) VB
2 12 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 8 (23.53%) C#
4 7 (20.59%) VB6
5 6 (17.65%) T-SQL
6 5 (14.71%) PHP
7 3 (8.824%) VBScript
7 3 (8.824%) Java
7 3 (8.824%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.882%) Ruby
8 2 (5.882%) Python
8 2 (5.882%) C++
8 2 (5.882%) Bash shell
9 1 (2.941%) Perl
9 1 (2.941%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) Degree
3 1 (2.941%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) SLA
2 2 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.824%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Oracle
3 3 (8.824%) VMware
4 1 (2.941%) IBM
4 1 (2.941%) Sage
4 1 (2.941%) Perforce
4 1 (2.941%) EPiServer