The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS 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 Platforms category for the Birmingham 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 Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 42 43 38
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -5
Contract jobs citing IIS 2 13 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.458% 2.077% 2.128%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.390% 11.40% 9.483%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
Average daily rate £388 £242 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.13% -12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £181 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £545 £298
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £323 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -4.76%
All Application Platforms
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
59 114 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 13.50% 18.21% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 57 66
Average daily rate £310 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.80% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £183 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
Average hourly rate £13.25 £30.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.83% +150.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £8.25 £11.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.45 £33.00 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
IIS
West Midlands

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IIS across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Birmingham IIS Jobs Demand Trend

IIS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IIS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham IIS Daily Rate Trend

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Birmingham IIS Daily Rate Histogram

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IIS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing IIS 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 IIS.

1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (71.43%) Windows
3 8 (57.14%) C#
4 6 (42.86%) Visual Studio
4 6 (42.86%) .NET
5 5 (35.71%) UML
5 5 (35.71%) WCF
5 5 (35.71%) Silverlight
5 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
5 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
5 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (28.57%) Windows 7
6 4 (28.57%) MSTest
6 4 (28.57%) Moq
6 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (28.57%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 4 (28.57%) RIA
6 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (28.57%) Ajax
6 4 (28.57%) Web Services
6 4 (28.57%) Client/Server
6 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
6 4 (28.57%) ESRI
6 4 (28.57%) ArcGIS
6 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
7 3 (21.43%) Java
7 3 (21.43%) SQL

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing IIS 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 IIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) WCF
2 5 (35.71%) Silverlight
3 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 4 (28.57%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 4 (28.57%) Ajax
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
3 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (14.29%) LINQ
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (7.143%) ADO.NET
5 1 (7.143%) ASP
5 1 (7.143%) DHTML
5 1 (7.143%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (7.143%) WPF
5 1 (7.143%) WF
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) ArcGIS
2 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
3 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
4 1 (7.143%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (7.143%) SharePoint Foundation
4 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) InfoPath
2 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Internet
1 2 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (7.143%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.143%) SAN
2 1 (7.143%) BGP
2 1 (7.143%) X.25
2 1 (7.143%) LAN
2 1 (7.143%) WAN
2 1 (7.143%) DHCP
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
2 1 (7.143%) VLAN
2 1 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (7.143%) Junos
2 1 (7.143%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (14.29%) GIS
4 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.143%) DTS
4 1 (7.143%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Visual Studio
2 4 (28.57%) MSTest
2 4 (28.57%) Moq
3 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (7.143%) NUnit
4 1 (7.143%) CruiseControl
4 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (7.143%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) C# Developer
3 4 (28.57%) C# Programmer
3 4 (28.57%) Software Programmer
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Programmer
3 4 (28.57%) Software Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Java Architect
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Silverlight Developer
5 2 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Programmer
5 2 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) SQL Developer
6 1 (7.143%) SQL DBA
6 1 (7.143%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) RIA
1 4 (28.57%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows 7
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.143%) Debian
4 1 (7.143%) Linux
4 1 (7.143%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) UML
2 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
4 2 (14.29%) Web Development
5 1 (7.143%) Workflow
5 1 (7.143%) Unified Process
5 1 (7.143%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (7.143%) OO
5 1 (7.143%) RUP
5 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.143%) MSF
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) VB.NET
4 1 (7.143%) VBScript
4 1 (7.143%) VB
4 1 (7.143%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.143%) CCIE
4 1 (7.143%) CCNP
4 1 (7.143%) CCNA
4 1 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) ESRI
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) DevExpress
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.143%) HP
3 1 (7.143%) Cisco