The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS 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 Platforms category for the Cambridge 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 Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 24 43 28
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -15
Contract jobs citing IIS 12 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 3.859% 1.345% 3.472%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.39% 6.452% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £314 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-2.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
69 93 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.19% 20.85% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 42 26
Average daily rate £280 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.03% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £224 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 3
Average hourly rate £34.00 £33.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £22.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £36.50 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
IIS
Cambridgeshire

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge IIS Daily Rate Trend

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 12 (54.55%) Oracle
2 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Middleware
3 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
3 9 (40.91%) UNIX
4 8 (36.36%) DNS
4 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
5 7 (31.82%) Financial Institution
5 7 (31.82%) Finance
5 7 (31.82%) WebLogic
5 7 (31.82%) Perl
5 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
5 7 (31.82%) DHCP
5 7 (31.82%) Apache
5 7 (31.82%) Information Security
5 7 (31.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (31.82%) Hedge funds
5 7 (31.82%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (27.27%) Tomcat
6 6 (27.27%) JBoss
6 6 (27.27%) Java
6 6 (27.27%) BIG-IP
6 6 (27.27%) Shell Script
7 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 5 (22.73%) VMware
7 5 (22.73%) SQL
7 5 (22.73%) Web Services
7 5 (22.73%) WebSphere

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 10 (45.45%) Middleware
2 7 (31.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (22.73%) Web Services
3 5 (22.73%) WebSphere
4 2 (9.091%) HTML
4 2 (9.091%) CSS
5 1 (4.545%) XHTML
5 1 (4.545%) XML
5 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.545%) .NET
5 1 (4.545%) Ajax
5 1 (4.545%) WCF
5 1 (4.545%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) WebLogic
1 7 (31.82%) Apache
2 6 (27.27%) Tomcat
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
4 1 (4.545%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) DNS
2 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
2 7 (31.82%) DHCP
3 6 (27.27%) BIG-IP
4 3 (13.64%) NAS
4 3 (13.64%) SAN
5 1 (4.545%) FTP
5 1 (4.545%) HTTP
5 1 (4.545%) VPN
5 1 (4.545%) Firewall
5 1 (4.545%) Internet
5 1 (4.545%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) MySQL
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (31.82%) Financial Institution
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Systems Administrator
1 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Administrator
2 7 (31.82%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (4.545%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (4.545%) Developer
3 1 (4.545%) Applications Support
3 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
3 1 (4.545%) Applications Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Hedge funds
2 2 (9.091%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.545%) SaaS
3 1 (4.545%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) UNIX
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
5 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Information Security
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
5 2 (9.091%) ITIL
6 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.545%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Perl
2 6 (27.27%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) C
5 1 (4.545%) Python
5 1 (4.545%) C#
5 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.545%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) MCSE
1 1 (4.545%) CCNP
1 1 (4.545%) CCNA
1 1 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) GAMP
2 1 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.545%) ISA Server
3 1 (4.545%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.545%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Puppet
3 1 (4.545%) Nagios
3 1 (4.545%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) JBoss
3 5 (22.73%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) Akamai
4 3 (13.64%) NetApp
5 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.545%) Cisco
6 1 (4.545%) Telerik