The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 24 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 Oxfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank - 38 31
Contract jobs citing IIS 0 19 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - 3.069% 3.672%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 13.29% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 10
Average daily rate - £269 £389
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -30.86%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
134 143 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 29.39% 23.10% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 72 51
Average daily rate £335 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.84% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £210 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 15
Average hourly rate £23.75 £16.50 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+43.93% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.35 £11.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.98 £22.55 £27.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -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 Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (16.67%) XenApp
5 1 (16.67%) vSphere
5 1 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (16.67%) Kentico
5 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (16.67%) CSS3
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
5 1 (16.67%) Marketing
5 1 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (16.67%) Release Management
5 1 (16.67%) Email Marketing
5 1 (16.67%) jQuery

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) XMPP
2 1 (16.67%) ASP
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Kentico
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Network Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Server Support Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Server Support
1 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Server Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Web Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Release Management
1 1 (16.67%) Email Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Time Management
1 1 (16.67%) Web Design
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
1 1 (16.67%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) XenApp
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (16.67%) Foglight
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe