The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 63 66 64
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing IIS 6 17 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.615% 1.379% 0.568%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.941% 7.328% 3.974%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 5
Average daily rate £290 £248 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.17% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £227 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £374 £365 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
204 232 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 20.92% 18.82% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 127 87
Average daily rate £300 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £166 £200 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 12
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.25 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.29% +75.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £12.45 £9.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.70 £25.00 £25.00
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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester IIS Daily Rate Trend

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Manchester IIS Daily Rate Histogram

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Bolton - - - -
Cheadle - - - -
Rochdale - - - - 2
Salford - - - -
Stockport - - - - 2
Wigan - - - - 1
IIS
North West

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 8 (66.67%) .NET
1 8 (66.67%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
4 5 (41.67%) Windows
4 5 (41.67%) C#
5 4 (33.33%) Oracle
5 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 4 (33.33%) jQuery
5 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (25.00%) OO
6 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (25.00%) VMware
7 2 (16.67%) MVC
7 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
7 2 (16.67%) W3C
7 2 (16.67%) Project Management
7 2 (16.67%) Cisco
7 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 2 (16.67%) Citrix
7 2 (16.67%) SAS
7 2 (16.67%) NFS
7 2 (16.67%) SAP

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (66.67%) CSS
1 8 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 4 (33.33%) jQuery
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) Ajax
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 2 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (8.333%) XHTML
5 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
5 1 (8.333%) WCF
5 1 (8.333%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (16.67%) SAS
3 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (8.333%) Umbraco
4 1 (8.333%) WordPress
4 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (8.333%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (8.333%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (8.333%) SAN
2 1 (8.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Development Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Services Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Network Support
4 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Team Leader
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 1 (8.333%) CRM Developer
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) W3C
2 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (8.333%) HPUX
3 1 (8.333%) Solaris
3 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (16.67%) MVC
2 2 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (8.333%) Service Management
3 1 (8.333%) Quality Management
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL
3 1 (8.333%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (8.333%) Change Control
3 1 (8.333%) Migration
3 1 (8.333%) Programme Management
3 1 (8.333%) Business Analysis
3 1 (8.333%) CRM
3 1 (8.333%) ERP
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.333%) BPR
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) C#
4 1 (8.333%) VB
4 1 (8.333%) Perl
4 1 (8.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (8.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) XenDesktop
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
2 2 (16.67%) NFS
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
1 2 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) IBM
4 1 (8.333%) Sun