The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 20 June 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 South Wales 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 36 38 28
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -10
Contract jobs citing IIS 8 6 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 2.204% 1.523% 5.012%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.90% 8.333% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 10
Average daily rate £375 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £425 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £425 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £336
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -47.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-2.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
62 72 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 17.08% 18.27% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 49
Average daily rate £350 £463 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.32% +42.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
Average hourly rate £13.50 £9.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -78.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
IIS
Wales

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales IIS Hourly Rate Trend

IIS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cardiff +7 8 £375 -11.76%
Newport - - - -
Bridgend - - - -
Caerphilly - - - - 2
IIS
Wales

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 10 (55.56%) COBOL
1 10 (55.56%) MS Office
1 10 (55.56%) UNIX
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
1 10 (55.56%) IBM
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
1 10 (55.56%) Shell Script
1 10 (55.56%) WebSphere
2 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (50.00%) Project Management
3 8 (44.44%) OS/400
3 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 8 (44.44%) DB2
3 8 (44.44%) RPG
3 8 (44.44%) iSeries
4 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 6 (33.33%) AIX
5 5 (27.78%) UML
5 5 (27.78%) OO
5 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
5 5 (27.78%) MS Project
5 5 (27.78%) DNS
5 5 (27.78%) TestDirector
5 5 (27.78%) Intranet
5 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
5 5 (27.78%) Web Development
5 5 (27.78%) System Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Back Office
5 5 (27.78%) AS400
6 4 (22.22%) Banking

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 10 (55.56%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.556%) Middleware
2 1 (5.556%) HTML
2 1 (5.556%) .NET
2 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.556%) CSS
2 1 (5.556%) Web Services
2 1 (5.556%) XML
2 1 (5.556%) Ajax
2 1 (5.556%) jQuery
2 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) MS Office
2 5 (27.78%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
1 5 (27.78%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
1 8 (44.44%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) TestDirector
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Back Office
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
2 9 (50.00%) Applications Support
3 8 (44.44%) Applications Support Analyst
3 8 (44.44%) Support Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Developer
5 4 (22.22%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Junior
6 1 (5.556%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Administrator
6 1 (5.556%) SharePoint Administrator
6 1 (5.556%) Information Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Windows Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Information Assurance Manager
6 1 (5.556%) AS400 Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) iSeries
2 5 (27.78%) AS400
3 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) UNIX
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) OS/400
3 6 (33.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) UML
2 5 (27.78%) OO
2 5 (27.78%) Web Development
2 5 (27.78%) System Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.556%) Risk Management
4 1 (5.556%) Information Security
4 1 (5.556%) Information Assurance
4 1 (5.556%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) COBOL
1 10 (55.56%) Shell Script
2 8 (44.44%) RPG
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.556%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.556%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) IBM
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Rackspace
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle