Reading IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Reading 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Location Amersham Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Thurrock UK Wales Waltham Abbey Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	48
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	13	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	7.602 %	14.29 %
Daily rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£300
Average daily rate	£326	£329
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£312
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£21.50
% change on same period last year	+25.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.22
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Application Platforms Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	171	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	57	26
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£329
Average daily rate	£397	£355
% change on same period last year	+11.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.62	£17.46
Average hourly rate	£36.48	£18.63
% change on same period last year	+95.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.34	£19.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
IIS Berkshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing IIS across the Reading 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 contract IT jobs ads citing IIS across the Reading region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IIS across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing IIS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing IIS.

1 28 (84.85 %) Windows 2 21 (63.64 %) Microsoft 3 15 (45.45 %) SharePoint 4 13 (39.39 %) .NET 4 13 (39.39 %) MS Office 4 13 (39.39 %) DNS 5 11 (33.33 %) C# 5 11 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 11 (33.33 %) Network Load Balancing 6 10 (30.30 %) MSDE 6 10 (30.30 %) SQL 6 10 (30.30 %) HTML 6 10 (30.30 %) Windows 2000 6 10 (30.30 %) ASP.NET 6 10 (30.30 %) Microsoft Certification

7 9 (27.27 %) Java 7 9 (27.27 %) SQL Server 7 9 (27.27 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 8 (24.24 %) C 8 8 (24.24 %) VB 8 8 (24.24 %) HTTP 8 8 (24.24 %) MS Exchange 9 7 (21.21 %) Clustering 9 7 (21.21 %) Windows XP 9 7 (21.21 %) Active Directory 9 7 (21.21 %) HP 10 6 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 10 6 (18.18 %) MS Project 10 6 (18.18 %) MS Excel 10 6 (18.18 %) VMware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing IIS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing IIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 13 (39.39 %) .NET 2 10 (30.30 %) ASP.NET 2 10 (30.30 %) HTML 3 2 (6.061 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 2 (6.061 %) WebServices 3 2 (6.061 %) XML 4 1 (3.030 %) XSLT 4 1 (3.030 %) AJAX 4 1 (3.030 %) CSS 4 1 (3.030 %) ADO.NET 4 1 (3.030 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 15 (45.45 %) SharePoint 2 11 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 9 (27.27 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 8 (24.24 %) MS Exchange 5 5 (15.15 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 5 (15.15 %) Office Project Server 6 3 (9.091 %) Apache 7 2 (6.061 %) BizTalk Server 8 1 (3.030 %) Commerce Server 8 1 (3.030 %) Content Management Server 8 1 (3.030 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 1 (3.030 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 13 (39.39 %) MS Office 2 6 (18.18 %) MS Excel 2 6 (18.18 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 13 (39.39 %) DNS 2 8 (24.24 %) HTTP 3 4 (12.12 %) SAN 4 3 (9.091 %) Internet 5 2 (6.061 %) Firewall 5 2 (6.061 %) DHCP 6 1 (3.030 %) Wireless 6 1 (3.030 %) Intranet 6 1 (3.030 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (3.030 %) WINS 6 1 (3.030 %) LAN 6 1 (3.030 %) WLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (30.30 %) MSDE 2 9 (27.27 %) SQL Server 3 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (3.030 %) DTS 5 1 (3.030 %) IDOL
General 1 2 (6.061 %) Finance 2 1 (3.030 %) Government	Job Titles 1 10 (30.30 %) Server Engineer 2 8 (24.24 %) Consultant 3 6 (18.18 %) Developer 4 4 (12.12 %) Project Engineer 4 4 (12.12 %) Systems Engineer 5 3 (9.091 %) Architect 5 3 (9.091 %) SharePoint Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Consultant 5 3 (9.091 %) Project Consultant 6 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint Consultant 6 2 (6.061 %) Technical Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) C# Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Helpdesk Support 7 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Team Leader 7 1 (3.030 %) Server Support Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Security Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (21.21 %) Clustering 2 4 (12.12 %) French Language 3 2 (6.061 %) Replication 4 1 (3.030 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 28 (84.85 %) Windows 2 10 (30.30 %) Windows 2000 3 7 (21.21 %) Windows XP 4 6 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (6.061 %) Unix 5 2 (6.061 %) Linux 6 1 (3.030 %) Solaris 6 1 (3.030 %) SUSE 6 1 (3.030 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (33.33 %) Network Load Balancing 2 5 (15.15 %) Project Management 3 4 (12.12 %) Validation 4 3 (9.091 %) Load Balancing 4 3 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery 5 2 (6.061 %) ITIL 5 2 (6.061 %) MOF 6 1 (3.030 %) Migration 6 1 (3.030 %) Content Management 6 1 (3.030 %) CRM 6 1 (3.030 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 11 (33.33 %) C# 2 10 (30.30 %) SQL 3 9 (27.27 %) Java 4 8 (24.24 %) C 4 8 (24.24 %) VB 5 3 (9.091 %) VBScript 6 1 (3.030 %) JavaScript 6 1 (3.030 %) Perl 6 1 (3.030 %) C++
Qualifications 1 10 (30.30 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) CISA 2 1 (3.030 %) CISM 2 1 (3.030 %) CEH 2 1 (3.030 %) CISSP 2 1 (3.030 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 7 (21.21 %) Active Directory 2 3 (9.091 %) NetBackup 3 2 (6.061 %) ISA Server 4 1 (3.030 %) MailMarshal 4 1 (3.030 %) VMware Server 4 1 (3.030 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (12.12 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (9.091 %) WSUS 3 2 (6.061 %) BMC PATROL 4 1 (3.030 %) Netcool 4 1 (3.030 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 21 (63.64 %) Microsoft 2 7 (21.21 %) HP 3 6 (18.18 %) VMware 4 5 (15.15 %) Citrix 5 4 (12.12 %) Dell 5 4 (12.12 %) VERITAS 6 2 (6.061 %) Red Hat 6 2 (6.061 %) Compaq 6 2 (6.061 %) BMC 6 2 (6.061 %) Altiris 7 1 (3.030 %) NetApp 7 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 7 1 (3.030 %) Cisco 7 1 (3.030 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (3.030 %) Symantec