The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 20 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 of England 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 61 99 83
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -16
Contract jobs citing IIS 56 37 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 2.594% 1.259% 1.627%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.00% 7.957% 8.787%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 16
Average daily rate £325 £306 £304
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.12% +0.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £231 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £375 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £25.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-29.00% -11.50%
All Application Platforms
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
400 465 478
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.53% 15.83% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 223 219
Average daily rate £300 £375 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +9.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £208 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 44 52
Average hourly rate £23.50 £20.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.50% +42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.75 £35.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
IIS
England

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England IIS Hourly Rate Trend

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 of England region over the 3 months to 20 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
Bedfordshire +15 15 £330 -14.83%
Cambridgeshire +13 12 - -
Essex +8 11 £313 -12.28%
Norfolk +8 8 £225 -10.00%
Hertfordshire +7 6 £400 +45.45%
Suffolk +13 4 £315 -3.07%
IIS
England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 71 (72.45%) Windows
2 44 (44.90%) Microsoft
3 41 (41.84%) Active Directory
4 37 (37.76%) VMware
4 37 (37.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 34 (34.69%) SQL
6 33 (33.67%) SQL Server
6 33 (33.67%) DNS
7 24 (24.49%) .NET
7 24 (24.49%) MS Exchange
8 23 (23.47%) DHCP
9 21 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
10 20 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
10 20 (20.41%) Oracle
11 18 (18.37%) ASP.NET
11 18 (18.37%) ITIL
11 18 (18.37%) Citrix
11 18 (18.37%) Windows Server 2003
12 17 (17.35%) Exchange Server 2010
13 16 (16.33%) Finance
14 15 (15.31%) HP
14 15 (15.31%) SAN
14 15 (15.31%) XML
14 15 (15.31%) C#
14 15 (15.31%) Forefront TMG
15 13 (13.27%) TCP/IP
16 12 (12.24%) Symantec
16 12 (12.24%) Configuration Management
16 12 (12.24%) Java
16 12 (12.24%) Web Services

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 24 (24.49%) .NET
2 18 (18.37%) ASP.NET
3 15 (15.31%) XML
4 12 (12.24%) Web Services
5 11 (11.22%) Middleware
5 11 (11.22%) WCF
6 10 (10.20%) CSS
6 10 (10.20%) HTML
7 8 (8.163%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (7.143%) Ajax
9 6 (6.122%) XSLT
9 6 (6.122%) .NET Framework
9 6 (6.122%) ASP
10 5 (5.102%) XHTML
10 5 (5.102%) WebSphere
11 4 (4.082%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 4 (4.082%) LINQ
12 3 (3.061%) WinForms
12 3 (3.061%) jQuery
12 3 (3.061%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 24 (24.49%) MS Exchange
2 21 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
3 17 (17.35%) Exchange Server 2010
4 12 (12.24%) SharePoint
5 10 (10.20%) Apache
6 9 (9.184%) WebLogic
7 8 (8.163%) Exchange Server 2003
8 7 (7.143%) Tomcat
9 6 (6.122%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (3.061%) Lync
10 3 (3.061%) Amazon AWS
11 2 (2.041%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (2.041%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (1.020%) CMS
12 1 (1.020%) Documentum
12 1 (1.020%) Tuxedo
12 1 (1.020%) Oracle Service Bus
12 1 (1.020%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (1.020%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (8.163%) MS Excel
2 5 (5.102%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.061%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.020%) MS Office
4 1 (1.020%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 4 (4.082%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.020%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (33.67%) DNS
2 23 (23.47%) DHCP
3 15 (15.31%) SAN
4 13 (13.27%) TCP/IP
5 12 (12.24%) Firewall
6 10 (10.20%) HTTP
7 7 (7.143%) BIG-IP
8 6 (6.122%) NAS
8 6 (6.122%) DMZ
9 5 (5.102%) FTP
10 4 (4.082%) Internet
10 4 (4.082%) Nortel Meridian
11 2 (2.041%) Cisco PIX
11 2 (2.041%) Unified Communications
11 2 (2.041%) VPN
11 2 (2.041%) HTTPS
11 2 (2.041%) LAN
11 2 (2.041%) WAN
12 1 (1.020%) SMTP
12 1 (1.020%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (33.67%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.24%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (8.163%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (5.102%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.061%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (2.041%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.020%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.020%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (6.122%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.041%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (2.041%) Subversion
3 2 (2.041%) Selenium
3 2 (2.041%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.041%) WiX
3 2 (2.041%) MSBuild
3 2 (2.041%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.020%) Hudson
4 1 (1.020%) NUnit
4 1 (1.020%) PVCS
General
1 16 (16.33%) Finance
2 9 (9.184%) Financial Institution
3 7 (7.143%) Retail
4 5 (5.102%) Publishing
4 5 (5.102%) Back Office
5 3 (3.061%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.041%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.020%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (17.35%) Developer
1 17 (17.35%) Support Engineer
2 16 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (12.24%) Administrator
4 11 (11.22%) Analyst
5 8 (8.163%) .NET Developer
6 7 (7.143%) Architect
6 7 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (7.143%) Senior Support Engineer
7 6 (6.122%) Applications Support
8 5 (5.102%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.102%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.102%) ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (5.102%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.102%) SharePoint Administrator
9 4 (4.082%) Web Engineer
9 4 (4.082%) C# Developer
9 4 (4.082%) Server Support
9 4 (4.082%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.082%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.163%) Hedge funds
2 5 (5.102%) Blackberry
2 5 (5.102%) IVR
3 4 (4.082%) Clustering
4 3 (3.061%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.020%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.020%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.020%) PKI
5 1 (1.020%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.020%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.020%) Social Media
5 1 (1.020%) HP StorageWorks
5 1 (1.020%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 71 (72.45%) Windows
2 37 (37.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (18.37%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (12.24%) UNIX
4 12 (12.24%) Linux
5 8 (8.163%) Windows XP
5 8 (8.163%) Windows 8
6 5 (5.102%) Windows 7
7 3 (3.061%) Windows 2000 Server
7 3 (3.061%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.061%) Windows 2000
8 1 (1.020%) Solaris
8 1 (1.020%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.37%) ITIL
2 12 (12.24%) Configuration Management
2 12 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (9.184%) PRINCE2
3 9 (9.184%) PRINCE
4 7 (7.143%) Infrastructure Management
4 7 (7.143%) Information Security
5 6 (6.122%) MVC
6 5 (5.102%) OO
6 5 (5.102%) TOGAF
6 5 (5.102%) Software Engineering
6 5 (5.102%) Network Load Balancing
7 4 (4.082%) Unit Testing
7 4 (4.082%) Integration Testing
7 4 (4.082%) E-Commerce
7 4 (4.082%) Project Management
7 4 (4.082%) Service Delivery
8 3 (3.061%) Change Management
8 3 (3.061%) Use Case
8 3 (3.061%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.69%) SQL
2 15 (15.31%) C#
3 12 (12.24%) Java
4 9 (9.184%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.143%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.143%) Perl
6 6 (6.122%) VB
7 4 (4.082%) T-SQL
7 4 (4.082%) C
8 2 (2.041%) VBA
8 2 (2.041%) XPath
8 2 (2.041%) PHP
9 1 (1.020%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.020%) VBScript
9 1 (1.020%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.020%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (11.22%) ITIL Certification
2 10 (10.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (9.184%) MCITP
3 9 (9.184%) VCP5
4 5 (5.102%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.082%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.041%) Degree
7 1 (1.020%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.020%) MCSE
7 1 (1.020%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.020%) VCP4
7 1 (1.020%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.082%) SLA
2 2 (2.041%) GAMP
System Software
1 41 (41.84%) Active Directory
2 20 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (15.31%) Forefront TMG
4 12 (12.24%) Hyper-V
5 10 (10.20%) UAG
6 6 (6.122%) XenApp
7 5 (5.102%) XenDesktop
7 5 (5.102%) VMware Server
8 4 (4.082%) vSphere
9 3 (3.061%) VMware ESX
10 2 (2.041%) Xen
10 2 (2.041%) DFS Replication
11 1 (1.020%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (1.020%) ISA Server
11 1 (1.020%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 8 (8.163%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 7 (7.143%) SCOM
3 6 (6.122%) Norton AntiVirus
3 6 (6.122%) NetBackup
4 4 (4.082%) Backup Exec
4 4 (4.082%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (3.061%) WhatsUp Gold
5 3 (3.061%) Puppet
5 3 (3.061%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (1.020%) WSUS
6 1 (1.020%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (44.90%) Microsoft
2 37 (37.76%) VMware
3 20 (20.41%) Oracle
4 18 (18.37%) Citrix
5 15 (15.31%) HP
6 12 (12.24%) Symantec
7 10 (10.20%) Cisco
8 7 (7.143%) JBoss
9 4 (4.082%) Adobe
9 4 (4.082%) Nortel
9 4 (4.082%) NetApp
9 4 (4.082%) Sophos
10 3 (3.061%) Akamai
10 3 (3.061%) Acronis
11 2 (2.041%) Telerik
11 2 (2.041%) Juniper
11 2 (2.041%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.041%) Mercator
12 1 (1.020%) McAfee
12 1 (1.020%) BEA
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