The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 18 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 Lancashire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 27 42 17
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -25
Contract jobs citing IIS 5 2 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 2.222% 0.467% 5.350%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.63% 3.175% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
Average daily rate £275 £155 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+77.41% -48.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £155 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £155 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £17.50 - £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
32 63 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 14.22% 14.72% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 27
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £155 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 8
Average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +30.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.75 £20.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.94 £30.00 £52.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
IIS
North West

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Preston - 1 £300 -
Burnley - - - -
IIS
North West

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 (85.71%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 7 (50.00%) .NET
3 7 (50.00%) C#
3 7 (50.00%) XML
3 7 (50.00%) XSD
3 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (50.00%) WCF
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
4 6 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (42.86%) SCOM
4 6 (42.86%) iSCSI
4 6 (42.86%) vSphere
4 6 (42.86%) XenDesktop
4 6 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (42.86%) Mobile App
4 6 (42.86%) Mobile Application Development
4 6 (42.86%) WPF
4 6 (42.86%) Cisco
4 6 (42.86%) .NET Framework
4 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (42.86%) Document Management
4 6 (42.86%) VMware
4 6 (42.86%) Backup Exec
4 6 (42.86%) Citrix
4 6 (42.86%) MS Exchange
4 6 (42.86%) SAS

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 7 (50.00%) .NET
1 7 (50.00%) XML
1 7 (50.00%) XSD
1 7 (50.00%) WCF
2 6 (42.86%) WPF
2 6 (42.86%) .NET Framework
2 6 (42.86%) SOAP
2 6 (42.86%) WSDL
3 5 (35.71%) Ninject
4 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (21.43%) REST
5 3 (21.43%) Web Services
6 1 (7.143%) Ajax
6 1 (7.143%) .NET Remoting
6 1 (7.143%) HTML
6 1 (7.143%) Silverlight
6 1 (7.143%) ActiveX
6 1 (7.143%) MSMQ
6 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
6 1 (7.143%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) MS Exchange
1 6 (42.86%) SAS
1 6 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.143%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) iSCSI
1 6 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (7.143%) DHCP
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
2 1 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2012
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 7
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Visual Studio
2 3 (21.43%) Subversion
3 1 (7.143%) TortoiseSVN
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Service Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Services Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) WPF Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Document Management
1 6 (42.86%) Mobile Application Development
2 5 (35.71%) UML
2 5 (35.71%) MVC
3 4 (28.57%) Workflow
3 4 (28.57%) OO
3 4 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.143%) MVVM
6 1 (7.143%) Integration Testing
6 1 (7.143%) Change Management
6 1 (7.143%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) VB6
3 4 (28.57%) VB
4 3 (21.43%) VB.NET
5 1 (7.143%) VBA
5 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 6 (42.86%) XenDesktop
2 6 (42.86%) vSphere
2 6 (42.86%) NFS
3 3 (21.43%) XenApp
4 1 (7.143%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Backup Exec
1 6 (42.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Citrix
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 1 (7.143%) Sage