The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 Halifax 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 - 30 23
Contract jobs citing IIS 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax - 0.441% 0.820%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 5.000% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 5.833% 8.811% 9.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 7
Average daily rate £380 £318 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.68% -20.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
IIS
West Yorkshire

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax IIS Daily Rate Trend

IIS
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
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