Wales IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Wales 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	53	54
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	7	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	5.072 %	2.727 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£312
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.22
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Application Platforms Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	138	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.124 %
Daily rates quoted	34	18
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£338
Average daily rate	£401	£356
% change on same period last year	+12.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.36	£14.95
Average hourly rate	£28.91	£15.76
% change on same period last year	+83.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.47	£16.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
IIS UK

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.

IIS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing IIS across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

IIS
Daily Rate Trend

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

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

IIS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the Wales region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	South Wales	-3	6	-	-

IIS UK

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Wales 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 13 (81.25 %) C# 1 13 (81.25 %) XML 1 13 (81.25 %) Windows 2 11 (68.75 %) SOAP 2 11 (68.75 %) WebServices 2 11 (68.75 %) HTML 2 11 (68.75 %) SOA 3 10 (62.50 %) Java 4 9 (56.25 %) Health 5 8 (50.00 %) .NET 5 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 5 8 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 6 7 (43.75 %) SQL 6 7 (43.75 %) Government 6 7 (43.75 %) Internet

7 6 (37.50 %) JMS 7 6 (37.50 %) SAML 7 6 (37.50 %) C++ 7 6 (37.50 %) XSD 7 6 (37.50 %) C 7 6 (37.50 %) WSDL 7 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 8 5 (31.25 %) Windows XP 8 5 (31.25 %) RAD 8 5 (31.25 %) CSS 8 5 (31.25 %) Visual Studio 8 5 (31.25 %) VB 8 5 (31.25 %) BPEL 9 4 (25.00 %) AJAX 9 4 (25.00 %) NHS

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Wales 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 (81.25 %) XML 2 11 (68.75 %) SOAP 2 11 (68.75 %) WebServices 2 11 (68.75 %) HTML 3 8 (50.00 %) .NET 3 8 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (37.50 %) XSD 4 6 (37.50 %) JMS 4 6 (37.50 %) WSDL 4 6 (37.50 %) SAML 5 5 (31.25 %) CSS 6 4 (25.00 %) AJAX 7 3 (18.75 %) NetBeans 8 2 (12.50 %) XSLT 9 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Communications & Networking 1 7 (43.75 %) Internet 2 1 (6.250 %) HTTP 2 1 (6.250 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 5 (31.25 %) Visual Studio
General 1 9 (56.25 %) Health 2 7 (43.75 %) Government	Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Developer 1 6 (37.50 %) .NET Developer 2 3 (18.75 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Specialist 3 1 (6.250 %) Server Specialist 3 1 (6.250 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) C# Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) Server Support 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Support
Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) NHS 2 2 (12.50 %) Clustering 3 1 (6.250 %) PKI 3 1 (6.250 %) Fat Client 3 1 (6.250 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 13 (81.25 %) Windows 2 5 (31.25 %) Windows XP 3 1 (6.250 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (68.75 %) SOA 2 5 (31.25 %) RAD 2 5 (31.25 %) BPEL 3 4 (25.00 %) UML 3 4 (25.00 %) RUP 4 2 (12.50 %) DSDM 4 2 (12.50 %) B2C 4 2 (12.50 %) E-business 4 2 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (6.250 %) Network Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 13 (81.25 %) C# 2 10 (62.50 %) Java 3 7 (43.75 %) SQL 4 6 (37.50 %) C 4 6 (37.50 %) C++ 5 5 (31.25 %) VB 6 4 (25.00 %) JavaScript 7 3 (18.75 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCTS 2 1 (6.250 %) MCSE 2 1 (6.250 %) MCDBA 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 4 (25.00 %) Oracle 3 2 (12.50 %) VMware 4 1 (6.250 %) IBM 4 1 (6.250 %) Intel