Yorkshire ASP.NET Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft ASP.NET skills within the Yorkshire 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 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ASP.NET
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford 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 Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford 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 Lincoln 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 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	11
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	193	331
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.306 %	0.352 %
As % of the category below	32.66 %	33.50 %
Daily rates quoted	27	37
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£305
Average daily rate	£329	£325
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£321
% change on same period last year	-7.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£27.57
Average hourly rate	£30.22	£29.31
% change on same period last year	+3.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.43	£31.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-15.04 %
Application Development Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	591	988
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.937 %	1.052 %
Daily rates quoted	118	232
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£315
Average daily rate	£325	£329
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.86	£26.38
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£28.29
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.49	£30.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.72	£31.64
% change on same period last year	-9.21 %
ASP.NET 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.NET
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ASP.NET across the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

ASP.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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 Yorkshire region.

ASP.NET
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ASP.NET across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 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
West Yorkshire	-4	121	£329	+1.02 %
North Yorkshire	-2	28	-	-
South Yorkshire	+3	21	£300	-
East Yorkshire	-8	1	-	-

ASP.NET England

ASP.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

1 449 (100.00 %) .NET 2 367 (81.74 %) C# 3 294 (65.48 %) SQL Server 4 182 (40.53 %) SQL Server 2005 5 131 (29.18 %) XML 6 117 (26.06 %) SQL 7 110 (24.50 %) CSS 8 101 (22.49 %) Visual Studio 9 96 (21.38 %) HTML 10 90 (20.04 %) JavaScript 10 90 (20.04 %) SharePoint 11 86 (19.15 %) Microsoft 12 83 (18.49 %) WebServices 13 81 (18.04 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 65 (14.48 %) SQL Server 2000

15 63 (14.03 %) .NET Framework 16 56 (12.47 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 53 (11.80 %) XHTML 18 51 (11.36 %) OO 19 50 (11.14 %) VB.NET 20 46 (10.24 %) ADO.NET 20 46 (10.24 %) E-Commerce 21 38 (8.463 %) AJAX 21 38 (8.463 %) DHTML 22 35 (7.795 %) XSLT 23 33 (7.350 %) SQL Server Integration Services 24 30 (6.682 %) NHS 25 29 (6.459 %) Transact-SQL 26 28 (6.236 %) Finance 26 28 (6.236 %) Web Development

ASP.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1 449 (100.00 %) .NET 2 131 (29.18 %) XML 3 110 (24.50 %) CSS 4 96 (21.38 %) HTML 5 83 (18.49 %) WebServices 6 63 (14.03 %) .NET Framework 7 56 (12.47 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 53 (11.80 %) XHTML 9 46 (10.24 %) ADO.NET 10 38 (8.463 %) AJAX 11 35 (7.795 %) XSLT 12 25 (5.568 %) ASP 13 24 (5.345 %) WCF 14 17 (3.786 %) Silverlight 15 11 (2.450 %) Middleware 16 10 (2.227 %) WinForms 17 9 (2.004 %) Windows SharePoint Services 17 9 (2.004 %) XSD 18 8 (1.782 %) SOAP 19 7 (1.559 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 90 (20.04 %) SharePoint 2 81 (18.04 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 27 (6.013 %) CMS 3 27 (6.013 %) IIS 4 25 (5.568 %) BizTalk Server 5 20 (4.454 %) Commerce Server 6 14 (3.118 %) Commerce Server 2007 7 4 (0.891 %) Lotus Notes 7 4 (0.891 %) Lotus Domino 8 3 (0.668 %) ColdFusion 9 1 (0.223 %) Apache 9 1 (0.223 %) Tomcat 9 1 (0.223 %) Community Server 9 1 (0.223 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 21 (4.677 %) MS Excel 2 9 (2.004 %) MS Office 3 8 (1.782 %) InfoPath 4 2 (0.445 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (0.223 %) WebTrends 1 1 (0.223 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 18 (4.009 %) Internet 2 5 (1.114 %) SSL 3 4 (0.891 %) Intranet 4 3 (0.668 %) Extranet 5 2 (0.445 %) Firewall 5 2 (0.445 %) DNS 6 1 (0.223 %) HTTPS 6 1 (0.223 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 294 (65.48 %) SQL Server 2 182 (40.53 %) SQL Server 2005 3 65 (14.48 %) SQL Server 2000 4 33 (7.350 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 12 (2.673 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 11 (2.450 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 11 (2.450 %) EDRMS 6 11 (2.450 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 11 (2.450 %) MySQL 7 7 (1.559 %) Datawarehouse 8 5 (1.114 %) DTS 8 5 (1.114 %) BusinessObjects 9 4 (0.891 %) ETL 10 3 (0.668 %) SQL Server 2008 11 2 (0.445 %) RDBMS 11 2 (0.445 %) Oracle 10g 11 2 (0.445 %) Oracle 9i 11 2 (0.445 %) MS Access 12 1 (0.223 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 101 (22.49 %) Visual Studio 2 11 (2.450 %) NUnit 3 8 (1.782 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 6 (1.336 %) Selenium 5 5 (1.114 %) CruiseControl 6 4 (0.891 %) Flash 7 3 (0.668 %) Visual Studio Team System 8 1 (0.223 %) Dreamweaver 8 1 (0.223 %) Synon	General 1 28 (6.236 %) Finance 2 21 (4.677 %) Health 3 16 (3.563 %) Retail 4 14 (3.118 %) Publishing 5 12 (2.673 %) Government 6 7 (1.559 %) Banking 7 5 (1.114 %) Insurance 8 4 (0.891 %) Games 9 2 (0.445 %) Education 9 2 (0.445 %) Graphic Design 10 1 (0.223 %) Back Office 10 1 (0.223 %) Construction 10 1 (0.223 %) Law 10 1 (0.223 %) Legal 10 1 (0.223 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.223 %) Pensions 10 1 (0.223 %) Marketing 10 1 (0.223 %) Multimedia 10 1 (0.223 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 376 (83.74 %) Developer 2 217 (48.33 %) .NET Developer 3 129 (28.73 %) C# Developer 4 114 (25.39 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 70 (15.59 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 61 (13.59 %) Web Developer 7 40 (8.909 %) SharePoint Developer 8 30 (6.682 %) .NET Web Developer 9 17 (3.786 %) Senior Developer 10 13 (2.895 %) VB.NET Developer 11 12 (2.673 %) C# Web Developer 12 11 (2.450 %) Lead Developer 13 10 (2.227 %) Team Leader 13 10 (2.227 %) Senior .NET Developer 14 9 (2.004 %) SQL Developer 14 9 (2.004 %) Applications Developer 15 7 (1.559 %) BizTalk Developer 16 6 (1.336 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 16 6 (1.336 %) Architect 16 6 (1.336 %) SQL Server Developer	Miscellaneous 1 30 (6.682 %) NHS 2 7 (1.559 %) W3C 2 7 (1.559 %) N-Tier 3 5 (1.114 %) Taxonomies 4 4 (0.891 %) Client/Server 5 2 (0.445 %) Computer Science 5 2 (0.445 %) E-Learning 5 2 (0.445 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.223 %) Wiki 6 1 (0.223 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 26 (5.791 %) Windows 2 9 (2.004 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.223 %) UNIX 3 1 (0.223 %) Solaris 3 1 (0.223 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 51 (11.36 %) OO 2 46 (10.24 %) E-Commerce 3 28 (6.236 %) Web Development 4 18 (4.009 %) UML 5 16 (3.563 %) Migration 5 16 (3.563 %) Unit Testing 6 15 (3.341 %) Content Management 7 11 (2.450 %) SOA 8 10 (2.227 %) OOP 9 8 (1.782 %) Web Design 9 8 (1.782 %) Agile Software Development 9 8 (1.782 %) OOD 10 6 (1.336 %) Automated Testing 10 6 (1.336 %) Configuration Management 10 6 (1.336 %) Project Management 11 5 (1.114 %) B2B 11 5 (1.114 %) Information Management 12 4 (0.891 %) Document Management 12 4 (0.891 %) TDD 12 4 (0.891 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 367 (81.74 %) C# 2 117 (26.06 %) SQL 3 90 (20.04 %) JavaScript 4 50 (11.14 %) VB.NET 5 38 (8.463 %) DHTML 6 29 (6.459 %) Transact-SQL 7 23 (5.122 %) VB 8 16 (3.563 %) PHP 9 9 (2.004 %) VB6 10 5 (1.114 %) VBScript 11 4 (0.891 %) C++ 12 3 (0.668 %) Ruby 12 3 (0.668 %) VBA 13 2 (0.445 %) ActionScript 13 2 (0.445 %) Java 14 1 (0.223 %) PL/SQL 14 1 (0.223 %) Perl 14 1 (0.223 %) XPath 14 1 (0.223 %) PHP5 14 1 (0.223 %) C	Qualifications 1 7 (1.559 %) Degree 2 1 (0.223 %) MCSE 2 1 (0.223 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.223 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.445 %) WAI 1 2 (0.445 %) QA 1 2 (0.445 %) HIPAA 2 1 (0.223 %) ISO17799 2 1 (0.223 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.223 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (1.114 %) Active Directory 2 4 (0.891 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (0.668 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Vendors 1 86 (19.15 %) Microsoft 2 6 (1.336 %) Oracle 3 5 (1.114 %) Business Objects 3 5 (1.114 %) Tridion 4 4 (0.891 %) Lotus 4 4 (0.891 %) VMware 4 4 (0.891 %) MicroStrategy 4 4 (0.891 %) Dundas 5 3 (0.668 %) Google 5 3 (0.668 %) Mercator 6 2 (0.445 %) telerik 6 2 (0.445 %) Endeca 6 2 (0.445 %) Adobe 6 2 (0.445 %) Macromedia 7 1 (0.223 %) SAP 7 1 (0.223 %) Zend