Kent IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Kent 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Cramlington Croydon Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	42
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	10	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	12.66 %	9.091 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£250
Average daily rate	£310	£258
% change on same period last year	+19.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£267
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£320
% change on same period last year	+9.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.50
Average hourly rate	-	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.45	£29.75
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Application Platforms Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	79	154
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.105 %	0.156 %
Daily rates quoted	28	21
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£361
Average daily rate	£341	£366
% change on same period last year	-6.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.84	£21.49
Average hourly rate	£30.29	£24.21
% change on same period last year	+25.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.74	£26.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
IIS South East

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IIS across the Kent 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 IT contract jobs citing IIS across the Kent region.

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IIS across the Kent region.

IIS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Dartford	-	1	£313	-

IIS South East

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (66.67 %) Windows 2 10 (55.56 %) SQL 3 6 (33.33 %) .NET 3 6 (33.33 %) CSS 3 6 (33.33 %) XHTML 4 5 (27.78 %) XML 4 5 (27.78 %) Microsoft 4 5 (27.78 %) BizTalk Server 4 5 (27.78 %) C# 4 5 (27.78 %) JavaScript 4 5 (27.78 %) SQL Server 4 5 (27.78 %) ASP 5 4 (22.22 %) AJAX 6 3 (16.67 %) Degree 6 3 (16.67 %) VMware

6 3 (16.67 %) SharePoint 6 3 (16.67 %) ADSI 7 2 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 7 2 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (11.11 %) ASP.NET 7 2 (11.11 %) MS Office 7 2 (11.11 %) ADO 7 2 (11.11 %) Java 7 2 (11.11 %) Migration 7 2 (11.11 %) Project Management 7 2 (11.11 %) Requirements Analysis 7 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 2 (11.11 %) VMware Infrastructure

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 6 (33.33 %) .NET 1 6 (33.33 %) CSS 1 6 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 5 (27.78 %) XML 2 5 (27.78 %) ASP 3 4 (22.22 %) AJAX 4 3 (16.67 %) ADSI 5 2 (11.11 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (11.11 %) ADO 6 1 (5.556 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (27.78 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (16.67 %) SharePoint 3 2 (11.11 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (5.556 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (5.556 %) Apache
Applications 1 2 (11.11 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.556 %) DNS 1 1 (5.556 %) SAN 1 1 (5.556 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (27.78 %) SQL Server 2 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (5.556 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (5.556 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 1 (5.556 %) Government 1 1 (5.556 %) Health	Job Titles 1 5 (27.78 %) Developer 2 2 (11.11 %) BizTalk Consultant 2 2 (11.11 %) Technical Manager 2 2 (11.11 %) Consultant 2 2 (11.11 %) .NET Developer 2 2 (11.11 %) C# Developer 2 2 (11.11 %) Technical Specialist 2 2 (11.11 %) Programme Manager 2 2 (11.11 %) Sharepoint Specialist 3 1 (5.556 %) PHP Developer 3 1 (5.556 %) Programmer 3 1 (5.556 %) Support Specialist 3 1 (5.556 %) Administrator 3 1 (5.556 %) MySQL Developer 3 1 (5.556 %) C# Web Developer 3 1 (5.556 %) Systems Programmer 3 1 (5.556 %) Web Programmer 3 1 (5.556 %) SharePoint Administrator 3 1 (5.556 %) BizTalk Specialist 3 1 (5.556 %) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.556 %) Management Information System 1 1 (5.556 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 12 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (5.556 %) UNIX 3 1 (5.556 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.11 %) Project Management 1 2 (11.11 %) Migration 1 2 (11.11 %) Requirements Analysis 2 1 (5.556 %) Data Migration 2 1 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (5.556 %) BC Cleared 2 1 (5.556 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (5.556 %) OOP 2 1 (5.556 %) OO 2 1 (5.556 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (5.556 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 10 (55.56 %) SQL 2 5 (27.78 %) C# 2 5 (27.78 %) JavaScript 3 2 (11.11 %) Java 4 1 (5.556 %) PHP 4 1 (5.556 %) VB 4 1 (5.556 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 3 (16.67 %) Degree	System Software 1 2 (11.11 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (5.556 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (5.556 %) MOM	Vendors 1 5 (27.78 %) Microsoft 2 3 (16.67 %) VMware 3 1 (5.556 %) HP 3 1 (5.556 %) Citrix 3 1 (5.556 %) Symantec