The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 23 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 East Midlands 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 77 55 48
Rank change year-on-year
-22 -7
Contract jobs citing IIS 6 29 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.481% 2.106% 2.335%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.632% 12.18% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 17 5
Average daily rate - £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £323 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% +14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -4.76%
All Application Platforms
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
228 238 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 18.28% 17.28% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 133 77
Average daily rate £300 £275 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -17.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £205 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £405 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 16
Average hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £57.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
IIS
England

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East Midlands IIS Hourly Rate Histogram

IIS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire -11 5 - -
Derbyshire +6 1 - -
IIS
England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 33 (66.00%) .NET
1 33 (66.00%) Windows
2 28 (56.00%) SQL Server
3 26 (52.00%) C#
3 26 (52.00%) Microsoft
4 22 (44.00%) ASP.NET
4 22 (44.00%) WCF
5 16 (32.00%) Web Services
5 16 (32.00%) SQL
5 16 (32.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 13 (26.00%) .NET Framework
6 13 (26.00%) VMware
6 13 (26.00%) Ajax
6 13 (26.00%) Visual Studio
7 12 (24.00%) MS Excel
7 12 (24.00%) Active Directory
8 11 (22.00%) Finance
8 11 (22.00%) jQuery
9 10 (20.00%) Citrix
9 10 (20.00%) TCP/IP
10 9 (18.00%) SOA
10 9 (18.00%) LINQ
10 9 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 9 (18.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 9 (18.00%) SQL Server 2012
11 8 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (16.00%) MVVM
11 8 (16.00%) WPF
11 8 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (16.00%) JavaScript

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 33 (66.00%) .NET
2 22 (44.00%) ASP.NET
2 22 (44.00%) WCF
3 16 (32.00%) Web Services
4 13 (26.00%) .NET Framework
4 13 (26.00%) Ajax
5 11 (22.00%) jQuery
6 9 (18.00%) LINQ
6 9 (18.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 8 (16.00%) WPF
8 7 (14.00%) HTML
8 7 (14.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
9 5 (10.00%) .NET Remoting
9 5 (10.00%) SOAP
9 5 (10.00%) Reactive Extensions
10 4 (8.000%) XML
10 4 (8.000%) CSS
11 3 (6.000%) TAPI
11 3 (6.000%) Google Maps API
12 2 (4.000%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.00%) Apache
2 4 (8.000%) MSMQ
3 3 (6.000%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.000%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.000%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 12 (24.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (12.00%) SNMP
3 4 (8.000%) NetScaler
4 2 (4.000%) Firewall
5 1 (2.000%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.000%) Internet
5 1 (2.000%) VPN
5 1 (2.000%) DNS
5 1 (2.000%) SAN
5 1 (2.000%) ADSL
5 1 (2.000%) GPRS
5 1 (2.000%) LAN
5 1 (2.000%) WAN
5 1 (2.000%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (56.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (32.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (18.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 8 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (8.000%) GIS
5 4 (8.000%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (2.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (10.00%) Expression Blend
2 5 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 4 (8.000%) MSTest
3 4 (8.000%) NUnit
4 1 (2.000%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 11 (22.00%) Finance
2 6 (12.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.000%) Banking
3 3 (6.000%) Retail
4 1 (2.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (14.00%) WPF Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Analyst
5 4 (8.000%) Systems Support
5 4 (8.000%) Systems Support Engineer
5 4 (8.000%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.000%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (6.000%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.000%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Designer
7 2 (4.000%) Server Engineer
7 2 (4.000%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Technical Support
7 2 (4.000%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.000%) Clustering
2 3 (6.000%) N-Tier
3 2 (4.000%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.000%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 33 (66.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) UNIX
2 6 (12.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (10.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.00%) SOA
2 8 (16.00%) MVVM
3 6 (12.00%) Multithreading
3 6 (12.00%) Validation
4 5 (10.00%) TDD
4 5 (10.00%) OO
5 4 (8.000%) Service Delivery
5 4 (8.000%) Change Management
5 4 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (6.000%) MVC
6 3 (6.000%) Web Development
6 3 (6.000%) OOD
6 3 (6.000%) Project Management
6 3 (6.000%) OOP
7 2 (4.000%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
8 1 (2.000%) Software Engineering
8 1 (2.000%) CRM
8 1 (2.000%) ETL
8 1 (2.000%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) C#
2 16 (32.00%) SQL
3 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.000%) VBScript
4 4 (8.000%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.000%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.000%) Java
6 1 (2.000%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (8.000%) MCSE
1 4 (8.000%) MCP
1 4 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.000%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.00%) MetaFrame
4 4 (8.000%) vSphere
5 1 (2.000%) UAG
5 1 (2.000%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.000%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (10.00%) WMI
3 4 (8.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.00%) VMware
3 10 (20.00%) Citrix
4 6 (12.00%) Cisco
5 4 (8.000%) DevExpress
5 4 (8.000%) Telerik
5 4 (8.000%) Altiris
6 3 (6.000%) IBM
6 3 (6.000%) Oracle
6 3 (6.000%) F5
7 1 (2.000%) McAfee
7 1 (2.000%) Talend