The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 43 68 51
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -17
Contract jobs citing IIS 27 16 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.234% 1.435% 3.263%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.52% 9.877% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 22
Average daily rate £400 £325 £364
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -10.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £175 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
174 162 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 20.84% 14.53% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 61 84
Average daily rate £400 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £178 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 10
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.85 £10.00 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £37.00 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
IIS
Berkshire

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 35 (81.40%) Windows
2 23 (53.49%) SQL
3 22 (51.16%) Microsoft
4 19 (44.19%) SQL Server
5 18 (41.86%) Web Services
6 17 (39.53%) .NET
6 17 (39.53%) Windows Server 2003
7 16 (37.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 15 (34.88%) Active Directory
9 14 (32.56%) MS Excel
10 13 (30.23%) C#
10 13 (30.23%) Visual Studio
11 11 (25.58%) SharePoint
11 11 (25.58%) TCP/IP
11 11 (25.58%) Workflow
11 11 (25.58%) VMware
12 10 (23.26%) ITIL
12 10 (23.26%) Apache
12 10 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
12 10 (23.26%) WCF
13 9 (20.93%) Windows Azure
13 9 (20.93%) Tomcat
13 9 (20.93%) MCSE
13 9 (20.93%) HTML
13 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (20.93%) Finance
13 9 (20.93%) Clustering
13 9 (20.93%) SAN
14 8 (18.60%) IBM HTTP Server
14 8 (18.60%) HP

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 18 (41.86%) Web Services
2 17 (39.53%) .NET
3 10 (23.26%) WCF
4 9 (20.93%) HTML
5 8 (18.60%) .NET Framework
6 7 (16.28%) XML
6 7 (16.28%) Middleware
7 6 (13.95%) J2EE
7 6 (13.95%) REST
8 5 (11.63%) Silverlight
9 4 (9.302%) CSS
9 4 (9.302%) WebSphere
10 3 (6.977%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (6.977%) jQuery
10 3 (6.977%) Ajax
10 3 (6.977%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 2 (4.651%) ASP.NET
11 2 (4.651%) Razor View Engine
11 2 (4.651%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 2 (4.651%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 11 (25.58%) SharePoint
2 10 (23.26%) Apache
3 9 (20.93%) Windows Azure
3 9 (20.93%) Tomcat
4 8 (18.60%) IBM HTTP Server
5 7 (16.28%) MS Exchange
6 6 (13.95%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 6 (13.95%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (13.95%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (11.63%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (11.63%) WebLogic
7 5 (11.63%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (9.302%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (6.977%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (2.326%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (2.326%) Documentum
10 1 (2.326%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (2.326%) CMS
10 1 (2.326%) FileNet
Applications
1 14 (32.56%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.651%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (11.63%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) TCP/IP
2 9 (20.93%) SAN
3 8 (18.60%) LAN
3 8 (18.60%) HTTP
4 6 (13.95%) DNS
5 4 (9.302%) LDAP
6 3 (6.977%) NAS
6 3 (6.977%) DHCP
7 2 (4.651%) Internet
7 2 (4.651%) Firewall
7 2 (4.651%) SSL
8 1 (2.326%) VLAN
8 1 (2.326%) VPN
8 1 (2.326%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (44.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (6.977%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (6.977%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (4.651%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (4.651%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.651%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (4.651%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (20.93%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Games
3 2 (4.651%) Banking
3 2 (4.651%) Retail
4 1 (2.326%) Marketing
4 1 (2.326%) Electronics
4 1 (2.326%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Consultant
1 9 (20.93%) Support Engineer
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
2 5 (11.63%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Consultant
2 5 (11.63%) CRM Consultant
2 5 (11.63%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (9.302%) Software Engineer
3 4 (9.302%) Developer
3 4 (9.302%) Software Development Engineer
3 4 (9.302%) Development Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) WebSphere Consultant
4 3 (6.977%) Server Engineer
5 2 (4.651%) Software Developer
5 2 (4.651%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.651%) Administrator
5 2 (4.651%) DBA
5 2 (4.651%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.651%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Clustering
2 5 (11.63%) Blackberry
3 4 (9.302%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.977%) Computer Science
5 2 (4.651%) Thin Client
5 2 (4.651%) Kinect
5 2 (4.651%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.651%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.326%) iPad
6 1 (2.326%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.326%) iPhone
6 1 (2.326%) Oracle Exalogic
6 1 (2.326%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (81.40%) Windows
2 17 (39.53%) Windows Server 2003
3 16 (37.21%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (18.60%) Windows 7
5 4 (9.302%) Windows 2000
5 4 (9.302%) UNIX
5 4 (9.302%) Windows XP
6 3 (6.977%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.326%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.326%) Android
7 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (2.326%) CentOS
7 1 (2.326%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Workflow
2 10 (23.26%) ITIL
3 6 (13.95%) Content Management
4 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (11.63%) EAI
4 5 (11.63%) CRM
4 5 (11.63%) Project Management
5 4 (9.302%) Automated Testing
5 4 (9.302%) Problem Management
5 4 (9.302%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.977%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.977%) MVC
7 2 (4.651%) Service Delivery
7 2 (4.651%) Code Coverage
7 2 (4.651%) TDD
7 2 (4.651%) Scrum
7 2 (4.651%) Test Strategy
7 2 (4.651%) Capacity Management
7 2 (4.651%) Game Development
7 2 (4.651%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) SQL
2 13 (30.23%) C#
3 5 (11.63%) C++
4 4 (9.302%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.977%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.651%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.651%) C
7 1 (2.326%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) MCSE
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (13.95%) Degree
3 5 (11.63%) MCP
4 4 (9.302%) MCSD
4 4 (9.302%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.977%) HNC
6 2 (4.651%) CCA
6 2 (4.651%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (4.651%) OCP
6 2 (4.651%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (4.651%) ISTQB
6 2 (4.651%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.326%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.326%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.326%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Active Directory
2 10 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.63%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.977%) NLBS
5 2 (4.651%) VMware ESX
5 2 (4.651%) NFS
5 2 (4.651%) MetaFrame
5 2 (4.651%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) HP SIM
2 4 (9.302%) Foglight
3 3 (6.977%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 2 (4.651%) MOM
5 1 (2.326%) SCCM
5 1 (2.326%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Microsoft
2 11 (25.58%) VMware
3 8 (18.60%) HP
3 8 (18.60%) IBM
4 7 (16.28%) Oracle
5 4 (9.302%) Remedy
5 4 (9.302%) JBoss
6 2 (4.651%) Citrix
6 2 (4.651%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.326%) ProCurve
7 1 (2.326%) Lumension
7 1 (2.326%) ReadSoft
7 1 (2.326%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.326%) Primavera
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