Oxford IIS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Oxford 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 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	29
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	8	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	11.43 %	9.524 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£325
Average daily rate	£320	£353
% change on same period last year	-9.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£325
% change on same period last year	+7.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£13.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.96	£30.85
% change on same period last year	-22.32 %
Application Platforms Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	70	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.099 %	0.042 %
Daily rates quoted	28	11
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£262
Average daily rate	£351	£299
% change on same period last year	+17.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.40	£10.88
Average hourly rate	£22.82	£11.93
% change on same period last year	+91.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.24	£12.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.69	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
IIS Oxfordshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IIS across the Oxford 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 IT contract jobs citing IIS across the Oxford region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 11 (68.75 %) .NET 2 9 (56.25 %) HTML 2 9 (56.25 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (50.00 %) Windows 4 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft 4 7 (43.75 %) SQL Server 5 6 (37.50 %) C# 5 6 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 6 5 (31.25 %) Internet 6 5 (31.25 %) DNS 6 5 (31.25 %) Firewall 6 5 (31.25 %) JavaScript 6 5 (31.25 %) Linux 6 5 (31.25 %) XML 6 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2005

7 4 (25.00 %) AJAX 7 4 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 7 4 (25.00 %) WebServices 7 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (25.00 %) Perl 7 4 (25.00 %) SQL 7 4 (25.00 %) SharePoint 8 3 (18.75 %) DHCP 8 3 (18.75 %) Commerce Server 8 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 8 3 (18.75 %) Visual Studio 8 3 (18.75 %) Apache 8 3 (18.75 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 3 (18.75 %) Commerce Server 2007 9 2 (12.50 %) Life Science

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 11 (68.75 %) .NET 2 9 (56.25 %) HTML 2 9 (56.25 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (31.25 %) XML 4 4 (25.00 %) WebServices 4 4 (25.00 %) AJAX 4 4 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (12.50 %) MooTools 5 2 (12.50 %) MVC 5 2 (12.50 %) XHTML 5 2 (12.50 %) CSS 5 2 (12.50 %) ASP 6 1 (6.250 %) ADO 6 1 (6.250 %) ODBC 6 1 (6.250 %) OLE DB 6 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 4 (25.00 %) SharePoint 2 3 (18.75 %) Apache 2 3 (18.75 %) Commerce Server 2 3 (18.75 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 3 (18.75 %) Commerce Server 2007 3 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (6.250 %) CMS
Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.250 %) Fireworks 2 1 (6.250 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (6.250 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 5 (31.25 %) DNS 1 5 (31.25 %) Internet 1 5 (31.25 %) Firewall 2 3 (18.75 %) DHCP 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (43.75 %) SQL Server 2 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (6.250 %) MySQL 3 1 (6.250 %) MS Access 3 1 (6.250 %) DataStage
Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (6.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (6.250 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (6.250 %) NUnit	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Publishing 2 1 (6.250 %) Education
Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) Developer 2 4 (25.00 %) Administrator 2 4 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Software Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Web Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Java Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Systems Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Web Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows Systems Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Web Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) DataStage Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET Designer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Life Science 2 1 (6.250 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 8 (50.00 %) Windows 2 6 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (31.25 %) Linux 4 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (12.50 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (6.250 %) UNIX 6 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) OO 2 1 (6.250 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Data Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Content Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 2 1 (6.250 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 6 (37.50 %) C# 2 5 (31.25 %) JavaScript 3 4 (25.00 %) Perl 3 4 (25.00 %) SQL 4 2 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (12.50 %) C 5 1 (6.250 %) Java 5 1 (6.250 %) VB 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Red Hat 2 2 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 2 2 (12.50 %) Cisco