The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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 24 38 15
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -23
Contract jobs citing IIS 4 3 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 2.759% 1.210% 9.474%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.00% 5.769% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £315 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% +18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
16 52 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 11.03% 20.97% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 22
Average daily rate £350 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £233 £164
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £371
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
Average hourly rate £10.00 £17.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% +25.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
IIS
East of England

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Ipswich +3 2 - -
IIS
East of England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Forefront TMG
2 3 (42.86%) UAG
2 3 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
3 2 (28.57%) HTTPS
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) Symantec
3 2 (28.57%) SOAP
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) XSLT
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) soapUI
3 2 (28.57%) WCF
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 (28.57%) SOAP
1 2 (28.57%) XML
1 2 (28.57%) XSLT
1 2 (28.57%) soapUI
1 2 (28.57%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
1 3 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) HTTPS
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) NAS
3 1 (14.29%) WAAS
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Server Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Support
2 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 8
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Use Case
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) VCP5
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (14.29%) MCITP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (42.86%) Forefront TMG
1 3 (42.86%) UAG
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Symantec
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Brocade