The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 24 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 Essex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 34 40 40
Rank change year-on-year
+6 0
Contract jobs citing IIS 13 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 3.234% 1.205% 2.551%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.06% 8.197% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
Average daily rate £300 £356 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% -15.17%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
72 61 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.91% 14.70% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 37
Average daily rate £300 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.41% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £162 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 17
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +107.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £18.70 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.02 £32.09 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
IIS
East of England

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Colchester - 2 £338 -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
IIS
East of England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) .NET
3 9 (56.25%) SQL
4 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
5 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
6 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
6 6 (37.50%) WCF
7 5 (31.25%) Network Load Balancing
7 5 (31.25%) HTTP
7 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
7 5 (31.25%) Visual Studio
7 5 (31.25%) C#
7 5 (31.25%) XML
8 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
8 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
8 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
8 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
8 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (18.75%) LINQ
9 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (18.75%) VMware
9 3 (18.75%) XSLT
9 3 (18.75%) OO
9 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
10 2 (12.50%) High Availability
10 2 (12.50%) Lync

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 10 (62.50%) .NET
2 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (37.50%) WCF
4 5 (31.25%) XML
5 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (18.75%) LINQ
6 3 (18.75%) XSLT
7 2 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (12.50%) Web Services
7 2 (12.50%) CSS
7 2 (12.50%) ADO.NET
7 2 (12.50%) ASP
7 2 (12.50%) XHTML
7 2 (12.50%) WinForms
7 2 (12.50%) jQuery
7 2 (12.50%) WSE
8 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
8 1 (6.250%) WF
8 1 (6.250%) HTML5
8 1 (6.250%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (12.50%) Lync
3 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (12.50%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (6.250%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (6.250%) Tuxedo
4 1 (6.250%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) HTTP
3 2 (12.50%) Unified Communications
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 2 (12.50%) SAN
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (6.250%) BGP
4 1 (6.250%) Internet
4 1 (6.250%) EIGRP
4 1 (6.250%) MGCP
4 1 (6.250%) ISDN
4 1 (6.250%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.250%) ReSharper
2 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.250%) NUnit
2 1 (6.250%) CruiseControl
2 1 (6.250%) PVCS
General
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
1 1 (6.250%) Law
1 1 (6.250%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Web Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Web Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Web Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Server Support
3 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Applications Support
4 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Server Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Communications Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Server Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Web Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
2 1 (6.250%) PKI
2 1 (6.250%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.250%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) VME
3 1 (6.250%) UNIX
3 1 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Network Load Balancing
2 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) OO
3 3 (18.75%) Capacity Management
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (6.250%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.250%) TDD
5 1 (6.250%) Workflow
5 1 (6.250%) Scrum
5 1 (6.250%) B2B
5 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.250%) SOA
5 1 (6.250%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) XPath
4 1 (6.250%) XQuery
4 1 (6.250%) Java
4 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.250%) C
4 1 (6.250%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) BC Cleared
1 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) DFS Replication
3 1 (6.250%) vSphere
3 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Symantec
3 2 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (6.250%) Fujitsu
4 1 (6.250%) Telerik
4 1 (6.250%) Google
4 1 (6.250%) BEA
4 1 (6.250%) HP
4 1 (6.250%) Adobe
4 1 (6.250%) McAfee
4 1 (6.250%) Clearswift
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle
Witham, South East
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