East Midlands IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the East Midlands 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	79	60
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	19	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	5.413 %	8.333 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£417	£231
Average daily rate	£417	£232
% change on same period last year	+79.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£233
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£312
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.22
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Application Platforms East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	351	288
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.450 %	0.324 %
Daily rates quoted	97	59
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£310
Average daily rate	£353	£321
% change on same period last year	+9.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.66	£17.92
Average hourly rate	£19.36	£19.57
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.05	£21.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
IIS 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

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 East Midlands 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	Derbyshire	+11	7	£350	-
2	Nottinghamshire	-9	4	-	-
3	Leicestershire	0	2	£450	-
4	Lincolnshire	-	1	-	-

IIS England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 30 (66.67 %) .NET 2 26 (57.78 %) HTML 2 26 (57.78 %) JavaScript 3 24 (53.33 %) VB.NET 3 24 (53.33 %) ASP.NET 4 23 (51.11 %) Visual Studio 5 19 (42.22 %) CSS 5 19 (42.22 %) SQL Server 5 19 (42.22 %) SQL 6 17 (37.78 %) VB 6 17 (37.78 %) XML 6 17 (37.78 %) Windows 7 15 (33.33 %) Java 7 15 (33.33 %) Microsoft 8 14 (31.11 %) VB6

9 13 (28.89 %) SQL Server 2005 10 11 (24.44 %) WebServices 11 10 (22.22 %) XSLT 11 10 (22.22 %) Finance 12 9 (20.00 %) Unit Testing 12 9 (20.00 %) VSS/SourceSafe 12 9 (20.00 %) Crystal Reports 12 9 (20.00 %) SharePoint 13 8 (17.78 %) Dreamweaver 13 8 (17.78 %) Active Directory 13 8 (17.78 %) ASP 13 8 (17.78 %) XSL 13 8 (17.78 %) Content Management 13 8 (17.78 %) CMS 14 7 (15.56 %) Exchange Server 5.5

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 30 (66.67 %) .NET 2 26 (57.78 %) HTML 3 24 (53.33 %) ASP.NET 4 19 (42.22 %) CSS 5 17 (37.78 %) XML 6 11 (24.44 %) WebServices 7 10 (22.22 %) XSLT 8 8 (17.78 %) XSL 8 8 (17.78 %) ASP 9 5 (11.11 %) J2EE 9 5 (11.11 %) JDBC 9 5 (11.11 %) JSP 9 5 (11.11 %) Spring 9 5 (11.11 %) WebSphere 10 4 (8.889 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (8.889 %) SOAP 11 2 (4.444 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 9 (20.00 %) SharePoint 2 8 (17.78 %) CMS 3 7 (15.56 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 5 (11.11 %) Apache 4 5 (11.11 %) Tomcat 5 4 (8.889 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 3 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (4.444 %) MS Exchange 8 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 5 (11.11 %) MS Office 2 3 (6.667 %) MS Excel 2 3 (6.667 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.889 %) Intranet 1 4 (8.889 %) Firewall 2 2 (4.444 %) SAN 2 2 (4.444 %) MPLS 2 2 (4.444 %) LAN 2 2 (4.444 %) WAN 3 1 (2.222 %) VPN 3 1 (2.222 %) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (42.22 %) SQL Server 2 13 (28.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (20.00 %) Crystal Reports 4 7 (15.56 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (8.889 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (4.444 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (2.222 %) MS Access 7 1 (2.222 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 23 (51.11 %) Visual Studio 2 9 (20.00 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 8 (17.78 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 10 (22.22 %) Finance 2 3 (6.667 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 29 (64.44 %) Developer 2 21 (46.67 %) .NET Developer 3 17 (37.78 %) VB.NET Developer 4 15 (33.33 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 15 (33.33 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (11.11 %) Java Developer 5 5 (11.11 %) Analyst 5 5 (11.11 %) Lead Developer 6 4 (8.889 %) SQL Developer 6 4 (8.889 %) SQL Server Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) J2EE Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) Analyst Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) Programmer 7 3 (6.667 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) Software Programmer 8 2 (4.444 %) WinForms Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) Support Analyst 8 2 (4.444 %) Architect 8 2 (4.444 %) Support Specialist 8 2 (4.444 %) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.889 %) Client/Server 2 3 (6.667 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 17 (37.78 %) Windows 2 7 (15.56 %) Linux 2 7 (15.56 %) Windows NT 2 7 (15.56 %) Unix 3 2 (4.444 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (4.444 %) AIX 3 2 (4.444 %) HPUX 4 1 (2.222 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (20.00 %) Unit Testing 2 8 (17.78 %) Content Management 3 5 (11.11 %) Migration 3 5 (11.11 %) Technical Architecture 4 4 (8.889 %) CRM 5 3 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (4.444 %) Logistics 6 2 (4.444 %) System Testing 6 2 (4.444 %) Disaster Recovery 6 2 (4.444 %) Yourdon 6 2 (4.444 %) UML 6 2 (4.444 %) OO 6 2 (4.444 %) RAD 6 2 (4.444 %) SSADM 6 2 (4.444 %) Problem Management 7 1 (2.222 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (2.222 %) Performance Management 7 1 (2.222 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 26 (57.78 %) JavaScript 2 24 (53.33 %) VB.NET 3 19 (42.22 %) SQL 4 17 (37.78 %) VB 5 15 (33.33 %) Java 6 14 (31.11 %) VB6 7 3 (6.667 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (6.667 %) VBScript 7 3 (6.667 %) C# 8 2 (4.444 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (2.222 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 4 (8.889 %) Degree 2 1 (2.222 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.222 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 8 (17.78 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.444 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (4.444 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 15 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 7 (15.56 %) Sybase 3 4 (8.889 %) Sage 4 2 (4.444 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (4.444 %) Sun 4 2 (4.444 %) Cisco 4 2 (4.444 %) IBM 4 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 4 2 (4.444 %) Infragistics 5 1 (2.222 %) Business Objects 5 1 (2.222 %) McAfee Security