Cambridgeshire IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IIS over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Location Amersham Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Thurrock UK Wales Waltham Abbey Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	56
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	21	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	8.607 %	11.76 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£175	£300
Average daily rate	£175	£300
% change on same period last year	-41.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£175	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£312
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.86	-
Average hourly rate	£26.07	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.29	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.22
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Application Platforms Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	244	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.313 %	0.095 %
Daily rates quoted	46	24
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£299
Average daily rate	£327	£304
% change on same period last year	+7.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.56	£23.80
Average hourly rate	£22.51	£26.08
% change on same period last year	-13.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.46	£28.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
IIS East of 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.

IIS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing IIS across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

IIS
Daily Rate Trend

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

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing IIS across the Cambridgeshire region.

IIS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the Cambridgeshire region over the past 3 months.

IIS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the Cambridgeshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Cambridge	+6	12	-	-
2	Peterborough	-26	2	-	-

IIS East of England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing IIS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing IIS.

1 35 (85.37 %) SQL Server 2 28 (68.29 %) Windows 3 18 (43.90 %) Java 4 16 (39.02 %) Microsoft 5 15 (36.59 %) Tomcat 6 13 (31.71 %) .NET 7 12 (29.27 %) XML 8 10 (24.39 %) Active Directory 9 9 (21.95 %) WebServices 10 8 (19.51 %) Software Testing 10 8 (19.51 %) Test Scripting 10 8 (19.51 %) J2EE 10 8 (19.51 %) SQL 11 7 (17.07 %) C# 12 6 (14.63 %) Windows 2000

12 6 (14.63 %) ASP.NET 12 6 (14.63 %) SQL Server 2000 12 6 (14.63 %) Agile Software Development 13 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 2005 13 5 (12.20 %) ADO.NET 13 5 (12.20 %) OOA/OOD 13 5 (12.20 %) JavaScript 13 5 (12.20 %) HTML 14 4 (9.756 %) VB.NET 14 4 (9.756 %) MySQL 14 4 (9.756 %) Oracle 14 4 (9.756 %) COM+ 14 4 (9.756 %) CSS 14 4 (9.756 %) MSMQ 14 4 (9.756 %) Apache

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing IIS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing IIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 13 (31.71 %) .NET 2 12 (29.27 %) XML 3 9 (21.95 %) WebServices 4 8 (19.51 %) J2EE 5 6 (14.63 %) ASP.NET 6 5 (12.20 %) ADO.NET 6 5 (12.20 %) HTML 7 4 (9.756 %) COM+ 7 4 (9.756 %) CSS 8 3 (7.317 %) JSP 8 3 (7.317 %) Servlets 8 3 (7.317 %) WebSphere 9 2 (4.878 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (2.439 %) WCF 10 1 (2.439 %) .NET Remoting 10 1 (2.439 %) XML Schema 10 1 (2.439 %) WinForms 10 1 (2.439 %) Spring 10 1 (2.439 %) JSF 10 1 (2.439 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 15 (36.59 %) Tomcat 2 4 (9.756 %) Apache 3 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (2.439 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (2.439 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (2.439 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.878 %) DNS 1 2 (4.878 %) Internet 2 1 (2.439 %) SSH 2 1 (2.439 %) LAN 2 1 (2.439 %) WAN 2 1 (2.439 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (85.37 %) SQL Server 2 6 (14.63 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (9.756 %) MySQL 5 2 (4.878 %) DTS 6 1 (2.439 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 2 (4.878 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (2.439 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (2.439 %) ClearCase
General 1 1 (2.439 %) Finance 1 1 (2.439 %) Music	Job Titles 1 13 (31.71 %) Developer 2 11 (26.83 %) Test Engineer 3 9 (21.95 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (9.756 %) C# Developer 4 4 (9.756 %) Tester 5 3 (7.317 %) Architect 5 3 (7.317 %) VB.NET Developer 5 3 (7.317 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 3 (7.317 %) Analyst 5 3 (7.317 %) DBA 5 3 (7.317 %) SQL DBA 5 3 (7.317 %) Performance Engineer 5 3 (7.317 %) Java Developer 6 2 (4.878 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 2 (4.878 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (4.878 %) .NET Architect 6 2 (4.878 %) Server Engineer 6 2 (4.878 %) SQL Server DBA 6 2 (4.878 %) Software Developer 7 1 (2.439 %) Author
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.878 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.439 %) E-Learning 2 1 (2.439 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.439 %) N-Tier 2 1 (2.439 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 28 (68.29 %) Windows 2 6 (14.63 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (4.878 %) Unix 3 2 (4.878 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (2.439 %) Windows XP 4 1 (2.439 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (19.51 %) Software Testing 1 8 (19.51 %) Test Scripting 2 6 (14.63 %) Agile Software Development 3 5 (12.20 %) OOA/OOD 4 4 (9.756 %) OOD 5 2 (4.878 %) OO 5 2 (4.878 %) Load Testing 5 2 (4.878 %) Manual Testing 6 1 (2.439 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (2.439 %) ITIL 6 1 (2.439 %) UML 6 1 (2.439 %) GAP Analysis 6 1 (2.439 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (2.439 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 18 (43.90 %) Java 2 8 (19.51 %) SQL 3 7 (17.07 %) C# 4 5 (12.20 %) JavaScript 5 4 (9.756 %) VB.NET 6 2 (4.878 %) VB6 6 2 (4.878 %) VB 7 1 (2.439 %) PHP 7 1 (2.439 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 3 (7.317 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (7.317 %) Sun Certification 2 2 (4.878 %) MCDBA 3 1 (2.439 %) MCSE 3 1 (2.439 %) Degree	System Software 1 10 (24.39 %) Active Directory 2 4 (9.756 %) MSMQ 3 1 (2.439 %) Samba 3 1 (2.439 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 3 (7.317 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.439 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 16 (39.02 %) Microsoft 2 4 (9.756 %) Oracle 3 3 (7.317 %) Sun 4 2 (4.878 %) Citrix 5 1 (2.439 %) BMC 5 1 (2.439 %) VERITAS 5 1 (2.439 %) Sage 5 1 (2.439 %) Remedy 5 1 (2.439 %) Cisco