The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 23 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 Middlesex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 19 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing IIS 3 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.485% 1.911% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.11% 17.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £438 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £323 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -4.76%
All Application Platforms
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
27 34 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 13.37% 10.83% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 27
Average daily rate £443 £365 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.23% -18.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £234 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £495 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 11
Average hourly rate £16.00 £19.52 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.03% +22.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
IIS
South East

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) SCADA
2 3 (50.00%) CISM
2 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 2 (33.33%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
4 1 (16.67%) JBoss
4 1 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (16.67%) ASP
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) MCSD
4 1 (16.67%) DB2
4 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
4 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) HTML

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (16.67%) ASP
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 1 (16.67%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) SMTP
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Management Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Information Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (50.00%) Information Security
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) MCSD
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Zend