Leeds IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Leeds 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Location Amersham Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Thurrock UK Wales Waltham Abbey Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	48
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	13	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	7.927 %	14.67 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£250
Average daily rate	£225	£250
% change on same period last year	-9.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£225	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£312
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.22
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Application Platforms Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	164	150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.210 %	0.169 %
Daily rates quoted	33	28
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£284
Average daily rate	£316	£299
% change on same period last year	+5.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.64	£15.54
Average hourly rate	£19.25	£16.62
% change on same period last year	+15.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.86	£17.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
IIS West Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing IIS across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing IIS across the Leeds region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the Leeds region over the past 3 months.

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing IIS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing IIS.

1 17 (94.44 %) .NET 2 13 (72.22 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (66.67 %) SQL Server 4 10 (55.56 %) C# 5 7 (38.89 %) Visual Studio 6 6 (33.33 %) Windows 6 6 (33.33 %) SQL 6 6 (33.33 %) VB 6 6 (33.33 %) SharePoint 6 6 (33.33 %) Internet 6 6 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 7 5 (27.78 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 5 (27.78 %) Microsoft 7 5 (27.78 %) Active Directory 7 5 (27.78 %) CSS

8 4 (22.22 %) Telecoms 8 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 8 4 (22.22 %) Windows Server 2003 8 4 (22.22 %) HTML 8 4 (22.22 %) JavaScript 8 4 (22.22 %) XHTML 9 3 (16.67 %) OO 9 3 (16.67 %) VB.NET 9 3 (16.67 %) ASP 9 3 (16.67 %) Finance 9 3 (16.67 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 2 (11.11 %) VB6 10 2 (11.11 %) AJAX 10 2 (11.11 %) Firewall 10 2 (11.11 %) WebServices

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing IIS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing IIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (94.44 %) .NET 2 13 (72.22 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (27.78 %) CSS 3 5 (27.78 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 4 (22.22 %) HTML 4 4 (22.22 %) XHTML 5 3 (16.67 %) ASP 6 2 (11.11 %) WebServices 6 2 (11.11 %) XML 6 2 (11.11 %) AJAX 6 2 (11.11 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (5.556 %) JSON 7 1 (5.556 %) KML 7 1 (5.556 %) Google Maps API 7 1 (5.556 %) DOM 7 1 (5.556 %) ISAPI 7 1 (5.556 %) SAML	Application Platforms 1 6 (33.33 %) SharePoint 2 3 (16.67 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (5.556 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (11.11 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (33.33 %) Internet 2 2 (11.11 %) Firewall 2 2 (11.11 %) DNS 2 2 (11.11 %) CTI 3 1 (5.556 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 6 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 7 (38.89 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (5.556 %) NUnit
General 1 4 (22.22 %) Telecoms 2 3 (16.67 %) Finance 3 1 (5.556 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 13 (72.22 %) Developer 2 5 (27.78 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (16.67 %) Systems Engineer 3 3 (16.67 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (11.11 %) SQL Developer 4 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server Developer 4 2 (11.11 %) VB Developer 4 2 (11.11 %) Senior Systems Engineer 4 2 (11.11 %) C# Developer 4 2 (11.11 %) Web Developer 5 1 (5.556 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (5.556 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (5.556 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (5.556 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 (5.556 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 (5.556 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (5.556 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.556 %) N-Tier 1 1 (5.556 %) W3C 1 1 (5.556 %) IVR 1 1 (5.556 %) Web 2.0 1 1 (5.556 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 6 (33.33 %) Windows 2 4 (22.22 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (5.556 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (16.67 %) OO 2 2 (11.11 %) Web Development 2 2 (11.11 %) OOP 3 1 (5.556 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (5.556 %) Performance Testing 3 1 (5.556 %) Performance Management 3 1 (5.556 %) RUP 3 1 (5.556 %) Workflow 3 1 (5.556 %) ITIL 3 1 (5.556 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 10 (55.56 %) C# 2 6 (33.33 %) SQL 2 6 (33.33 %) VB 3 4 (22.22 %) JavaScript 4 3 (16.67 %) VB.NET 5 2 (11.11 %) VB6 5 2 (11.11 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 2 (11.11 %) MCSE 1 2 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.556 %) WAI
System Software 1 5 (27.78 %) Active Directory 2 1 (5.556 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 5 (27.78 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.556 %) McAfee Security 2 1 (5.556 %) Google 2 1 (5.556 %) Oracle