Cheshire IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Cheshire 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	58	33
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching contract IT job ads	20	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	7.905 %	13.13 %
Daily rates quoted	9	9
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£264
Average daily rate	£395	£267
% change on same period last year	+47.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£312
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£34.17	£27.50
% change on same period last year	+24.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.33	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.22
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Application Platforms Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	253	160
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.325 %	0.180 %
Daily rates quoted	69	36
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£320
Average daily rate	£385	£327
% change on same period last year	+17.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.55	£26.53
Average hourly rate	£30.73	£27.97
% change on same period last year	+9.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.91	£29.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
IIS North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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 Cheshire region.

IIS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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	Knutsford	-	8	£385	-

IIS North West

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 20 (71.43 %) SQL 2 17 (60.71 %) Windows 3 15 (53.57 %) LAN 3 15 (53.57 %) WAN 3 15 (53.57 %) Citrix 3 15 (53.57 %) SAN 4 14 (50.00 %) VMware 5 10 (35.71 %) .NET 6 9 (32.14 %) Active Directory 7 8 (28.57 %) SQL Server 7 8 (28.57 %) Altiris 8 7 (25.00 %) Migration 8 7 (25.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 7 (25.00 %) COM+ 8 7 (25.00 %) DCOM

8 7 (25.00 %) XML 8 7 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 8 7 (25.00 %) POP3 8 7 (25.00 %) SMTP 8 7 (25.00 %) MCSE 8 7 (25.00 %) Finance 9 6 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 9 6 (21.43 %) PRINCE2 10 5 (17.86 %) ASP.NET 10 5 (17.86 %) HTML 10 5 (17.86 %) SharePoint 10 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft 10 5 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2005 11 4 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 11 4 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 2.0

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (35.71 %) .NET 2 7 (25.00 %) COM+ 2 7 (25.00 %) DCOM 2 7 (25.00 %) XML 3 5 (17.86 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (17.86 %) HTML 4 4 (14.29 %) CSS 4 4 (14.29 %) WebServices 4 4 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 4 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (7.143 %) XSLT 5 2 (7.143 %) ASP 6 1 (3.571 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (3.571 %) XHTML 6 1 (3.571 %) AJAX 6 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 5 (17.86 %) SharePoint 2 2 (7.143 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (3.571 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 15 (53.57 %) LAN 1 15 (53.57 %) WAN 1 15 (53.57 %) SAN 2 7 (25.00 %) POP3 2 7 (25.00 %) SMTP 3 2 (7.143 %) Intranet 4 1 (3.571 %) Internet 4 1 (3.571 %) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2 5 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (3.571 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (7.143 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (7.143 %) InstallShield
General 1 7 (25.00 %) Finance 2 3 (10.71 %) Banking 3 1 (3.571 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (3.571 %) Construction 3 1 (3.571 %) Health	Job Titles 1 9 (32.14 %) Developer 2 7 (25.00 %) Applications Packager 3 5 (17.86 %) Infrastructure Specialist 3 5 (17.86 %) Server Specialist 4 4 (14.29 %) Server Engineer 4 4 (14.29 %) Development Specialist 5 3 (10.71 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (7.143 %) Solutions Architect 6 2 (7.143 %) Analyst 6 2 (7.143 %) Web Developer 6 2 (7.143 %) Architect 6 2 (7.143 %) Analyst Developer 6 2 (7.143 %) SharePoint Developer 7 1 (3.571 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (3.571 %) Senior Infrastructure Specialist 7 1 (3.571 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (3.571 %) SQL DBA 7 1 (3.571 %) Infrastructure Architect 7 1 (3.571 %) Web Applications Developer 7 1 (3.571 %) Performance Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.571 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 17 (60.71 %) Windows 2 6 (21.43 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.571 %) Unix 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (25.00 %) Migration 1 7 (25.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 6 (21.43 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (10.71 %) ITIL 4 2 (7.143 %) Content Management 5 1 (3.571 %) Document Management 5 1 (3.571 %) Scalability Testing 5 1 (3.571 %) UML 5 1 (3.571 %) OO 5 1 (3.571 %) CRM 5 1 (3.571 %) ERP 5 1 (3.571 %) B2B	Programming Languages 1 20 (71.43 %) SQL 2 4 (14.29 %) C# 3 3 (10.71 %) JavaScript 4 2 (7.143 %) DHTML 4 2 (7.143 %) Java 4 2 (7.143 %) VB 5 1 (3.571 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 7 (25.00 %) MCSE 1 7 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.571 %) Degree 2 1 (3.571 %) CCA 2 1 (3.571 %) Citrix Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.571 %) SLA
System Software 1 9 (32.14 %) Active Directory 2 2 (7.143 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 15 (53.57 %) Citrix 2 14 (50.00 %) VMware 3 8 (28.57 %) Altiris 4 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft 5 1 (3.571 %) HP 5 1 (3.571 %) Dell 5 1 (3.571 %) Oracle