The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 21 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 Cardiff 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 21 28 27
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -1
Contract jobs citing IIS 5 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.732% 1.770% 3.084%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.83% 10.53% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
Average daily rate £375 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £191 £425 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-29.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
24 38 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 13.11% 16.81% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 38
Average daily rate £325 £298 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.24% -8.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £105 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £500 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £17.00 - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
IIS
South Wales

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 10 (76.92%) COBOL
1 10 (76.92%) UNIX
1 10 (76.92%) IBM
1 10 (76.92%) Shell Script
1 10 (76.92%) WebSphere
2 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 9 (69.23%) Project Management
2 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) MS Office
3 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
3 8 (61.54%) DB2
3 8 (61.54%) RPG
3 8 (61.54%) OS/400
3 8 (61.54%) iSeries
4 6 (46.15%) Windows
4 6 (46.15%) AIX
5 5 (38.46%) UML
5 5 (38.46%) OO
5 5 (38.46%) MS Project
5 5 (38.46%) TestDirector
5 5 (38.46%) AS400
6 4 (30.77%) Banking
6 4 (30.77%) Degree
7 2 (15.38%) Rackspace
7 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (15.38%) SLA
7 2 (15.38%) SQL
8 1 (7.692%) .NET
8 1 (7.692%) Oracle
8 1 (7.692%) HTML

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 (76.92%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.692%) .NET
2 1 (7.692%) HTML
2 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.692%) CSS
2 1 (7.692%) Web Services
2 1 (7.692%) XML
2 1 (7.692%) Middleware
2 1 (7.692%) Ajax
2 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.692%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (69.23%) MS Office
2 5 (38.46%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) DNS
1 1 (7.692%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
1 8 (61.54%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) TestDirector
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Analyst
2 9 (69.23%) Applications Support
3 8 (61.54%) Support Analyst
3 8 (61.54%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Junior
4 1 (7.692%) Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (7.692%) Programmer
4 1 (7.692%) Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.692%) AS400 Support
4 1 (7.692%) SharePoint Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) iSeries
2 5 (38.46%) AS400
3 1 (7.692%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) UNIX
2 8 (61.54%) OS/400
3 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Project Management
2 5 (38.46%) UML
2 5 (38.46%) OO
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.692%) Web Development
4 1 (7.692%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) COBOL
1 10 (76.92%) Shell Script
2 8 (61.54%) RPG
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.692%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) IBM
2 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Rackspace
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle