The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 17 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 Leicestershire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank - 23 32
Contract jobs citing IIS 0 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire - 1.408% 2.146%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 12.00% 14.29%
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 2 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-38.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
27 25 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 12.86% 11.74% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 8
Average daily rate £408 £330 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.48% -12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £203 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £18.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+80.55% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
IIS
East Midlands

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) MCSE
2 4 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Clustering
2 4 (66.67%) Altiris
2 4 (66.67%) SCOM
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) VBScript
2 4 (66.67%) MCP
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
3 2 (33.33%) GIS
3 2 (33.33%) OOP
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) DevExpress
3 2 (33.33%) TAPI
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) Ajax
1 2 (33.33%) WCF
1 2 (33.33%) jQuery
1 2 (33.33%) Google Maps API
1 2 (33.33%) TAPI
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Support
1 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
2 2 (33.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) VBScript
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) MCP
1 4 (66.67%) MCSE
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
1 4 (66.67%) Altiris
2 2 (33.33%) DevExpress
2 2 (33.33%) Telerik