The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 24 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 Canary Wharf 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 48 38 59
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +21
Contract jobs citing IIS 3 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.777% 3.175% 0.388%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.762% 21.05% 3.636%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
Average daily rate £355 £375 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.33% -31.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
63 57 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 16.32% 15.08% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 37
Average daily rate £450 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £380 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £675 £700 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
IIS
London

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (40.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 2 (40.00%) Confluence
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (40.00%) BladeLogic
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) NetIQ
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) BMC
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) VBScript

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) WSH
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveX
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) JSP
2 1 (20.00%) Struts
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) XSD
2 1 (20.00%) SAP XI
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (20.00%) ReportNet
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) Ant
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) VBScript
2 2 (40.00%) VB
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
3 1 (20.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) NetIQ
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Cognos
3 1 (20.00%) JBoss
3 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
3 1 (20.00%) SAP