The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 20 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing IIS 12 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 5.581% 2.521% 1.504%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.05% 13.04% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Average daily rate £213 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £323 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -4.76%
All Application Platforms
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
57 23 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 26.51% 19.33% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 8 6
Average daily rate £300 £375 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £104 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 £17.50 £13.11
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+148.57% +33.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £17.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £60.00 £27.30 £14.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
IIS
Surrey

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (83.33%) .NET
3 9 (75.00%) Games
4 8 (66.67%) PHP
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (25.00%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) Game Development
7 2 (16.67%) Kinect
7 2 (16.67%) REST
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 2 (16.67%) Load Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Process Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Automated Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Ajax
7 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
7 2 (16.67%) Degree
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (16.67%) WCF
7 2 (16.67%) C
7 2 (16.67%) Web Services
7 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
7 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
7 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
7 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (83.33%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Ajax
2 2 (16.67%) WCF
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.333%) HTML
3 1 (8.333%) CSS
3 1 (8.333%) XSLT
3 1 (8.333%) jQuery
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) Firewall
1 1 (8.333%) FTP
1 1 (8.333%) DNS
1 1 (8.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (75.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Development Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Kinect
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Game Development
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) Load Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Process Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Automated Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Code Coverage
3 1 (8.333%) OOP
3 1 (8.333%) OO
3 1 (8.333%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (66.67%) PHP
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) C
4 2 (16.67%) C++
5 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft