Essex IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Essex 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	46	49
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	16	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	12.31 %	2.586 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£213	£225
Average daily rate	£216	£225
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£219	£225
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£312
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-24.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.22
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Application Platforms Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	130	116
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.167 %	0.130 %
Daily rates quoted	33	42
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£293
Average daily rate	£291	£309
% change on same period last year	-5.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.11	£26.23
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£27.30
% change on same period last year	-10.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.03	£28.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
IIS East of 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 Essex 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 Essex region.

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

IIS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the Essex 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 Essex 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	Witham	-	6	£190	-
2	Thurrock	-	1	-	-
2	Waltham Abbey	-	1	£260	-
2	Southend-on-Sea	-	1	-	-

IIS East of England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex 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 19 (79.17 %) SQL 2 18 (75.00 %) ASP 3 17 (70.83 %) Microsoft 3 17 (70.83 %) VBScript 3 17 (70.83 %) CSS 4 12 (50.00 %) MS Access 5 11 (45.83 %) Graphic Design 6 9 (37.50 %) Internet 7 7 (29.17 %) Extranet 7 7 (29.17 %) Intranet 7 7 (29.17 %) JavaScript 8 6 (25.00 %) .NET 8 6 (25.00 %) Web Development 9 5 (20.83 %) VB 10 4 (16.67 %) Linux

10 4 (16.67 %) XML 10 4 (16.67 %) Web Design 11 3 (12.50 %) Content Management 11 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 12 2 (8.333 %) McAfee Security 12 2 (8.333 %) Project Management 12 2 (8.333 %) Back Office 12 2 (8.333 %) VMware 12 2 (8.333 %) VMware ESX 12 2 (8.333 %) Backup Exec 12 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 2 (8.333 %) Unix 12 2 (8.333 %) Windows 12 2 (8.333 %) Flash 12 2 (8.333 %) MS Exchange

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex 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 18 (75.00 %) ASP 2 17 (70.83 %) CSS 3 6 (25.00 %) .NET 4 4 (16.67 %) XML 5 2 (8.333 %) MAPI 5 2 (8.333 %) HTML 6 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.167 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 9 (37.50 %) Internet 2 7 (29.17 %) Extranet 2 7 (29.17 %) Intranet 3 2 (8.333 %) SAN 4 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 4 1 (4.167 %) DNS 4 1 (4.167 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (50.00 %) MS Access 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 3 1 (4.167 %) MySQL 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) Flash
General 1 11 (45.83 %) Graphic Design 2 2 (8.333 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 18 (75.00 %) Web Developer 1 18 (75.00 %) Developer 2 5 (20.83 %) Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Server Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) PHP Web Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Infrastructure Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Consultant 4 1 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) PHP Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint Consultant 4 1 (4.167 %) Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) N-Tier 1 1 (4.167 %) NHS 1 1 (4.167 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 4 (16.67 %) Linux 2 2 (8.333 %) Unix 2 2 (8.333 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (25.00 %) Web Development 2 4 (16.67 %) Web Design 3 3 (12.50 %) Content Management 4 2 (8.333 %) Project Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Migration 5 1 (4.167 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 19 (79.17 %) SQL 2 17 (70.83 %) VBScript 3 7 (29.17 %) JavaScript 4 5 (20.83 %) VB 5 2 (8.333 %) C 6 1 (4.167 %) C# 6 1 (4.167 %) DHTML 6 1 (4.167 %) Java 6 1 (4.167 %) ActionScript 6 1 (4.167 %) PHP
System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 1 2 (8.333 %) VMware ESX 1 2 (8.333 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 17 (70.83 %) Microsoft 2 2 (8.333 %) Dell 2 2 (8.333 %) NetApp 2 2 (8.333 %) McAfee Security 2 2 (8.333 %) VMware 3 1 (4.167 %) Adobe