The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 54 63 64
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +1
Contract jobs citing IIS 4 16 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.626% 1.606% 0.978%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.000% 10.96% 5.660%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
Average daily rate £400 £275 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -4.34%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-2.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
100 146 159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.65% 14.66% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 68 84
Average daily rate £325 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £250 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £490 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 12
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -29.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £71.30 £30.20 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
IIS
East of England

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
St Albans +3 1 £400 +60.00%
Watford - - - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - - 3
Hemel Hempstead - - - - 2
Hertford - - - -
IIS
East of England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
3 9 (56.25%) .NET
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
6 5 (31.25%) Firewall
6 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (25.00%) VMware
7 4 (25.00%) Citrix
7 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
7 4 (25.00%) C#
7 4 (25.00%) HTML
7 4 (25.00%) VB
8 3 (18.75%) SQL
8 3 (18.75%) Java
8 3 (18.75%) ASP
8 3 (18.75%) CSS
8 3 (18.75%) DNS
8 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (18.75%) Content Management
8 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (12.50%) vSphere
9 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
9 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (12.50%) Acronis

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (56.25%) .NET
2 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 4 (25.00%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) ASP
4 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 2 (12.50%) Ajax
5 2 (12.50%) Web Services
5 2 (12.50%) XML
6 1 (6.250%) DHTML
6 1 (6.250%) XHTML
6 1 (6.250%) XSLT
6 1 (6.250%) COM+
6 1 (6.250%) LINQ
6 1 (6.250%) jQuery
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.250%) WCF
6 1 (6.250%) Silverlight
6 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
3 1 (6.250%) Apache
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
2 1 (6.250%) MS Office
2 1 (6.250%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) DNS
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (12.50%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (6.250%) LAN
4 1 (6.250%) WAN
4 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (6.250%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 2 (12.50%) WiX
2 2 (12.50%) MSBuild
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Subversion
2 2 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.250%) Hudson
General
1 2 (12.50%) Retail
1 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Build Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Release Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Junior
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Deployment Manager
5 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.250%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.250%) Environment Manager
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
1 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 2000
4 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (18.75%) Content Management
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
2 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.250%) OO
3 1 (6.250%) ITIL
3 1 (6.250%) MVC
3 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (6.250%) Web Development
3 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.250%) Document Management
3 1 (6.250%) Business Analysis
3 1 (6.250%) Time Management
3 1 (6.250%) High Availability
3 1 (6.250%) Change Control
3 1 (6.250%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C#
1 4 (25.00%) VB
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.250%) VBScript
4 1 (6.250%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Xen
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESX
3 1 (6.250%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Citrix
3 2 (12.50%) Acronis
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 2 (12.50%) Symantec
3 2 (12.50%) Sophos
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle
4 1 (6.250%) Adobe