The first table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Rank 40 48 38
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Contract jobs citing IIS 5 7 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.179% 1.252% 3.577%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.937% 6.195% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
Average daily rate £375 £425 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £191 £209 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-29.00% -9.09%
All Application Platforms
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
63 113 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 14.86% 20.21% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 46 71
Average daily rate £350 £308 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% -5.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £207 £105 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 12
Average hourly rate £17.00 £20.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -6.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.95 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £20.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
IIS
UK

IIS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Wales region.

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

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 Wales region.

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 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
South Wales +9 5 £375 -11.76%
IIS
UK

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (62.50%) COBOL
1 10 (62.50%) MS Office
1 10 (62.50%) UNIX
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 10 (62.50%) IBM
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 10 (62.50%) Shell Script
1 10 (62.50%) WebSphere
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Project Management
3 8 (50.00%) DB2
3 8 (50.00%) OS/400
3 8 (50.00%) RPG
3 8 (50.00%) iSeries
4 6 (37.50%) Windows
4 6 (37.50%) AIX
5 5 (31.25%) UML
5 5 (31.25%) OO
5 5 (31.25%) MS Project
5 5 (31.25%) TestDirector
5 5 (31.25%) Degree
5 5 (31.25%) AS400
6 4 (25.00%) Banking
7 3 (18.75%) .NET
8 2 (12.50%) SQL
8 2 (12.50%) C#
8 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
8 2 (12.50%) CSS
8 2 (12.50%) SLA

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (62.50%) WebSphere
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) jQuery
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.250%) Ajax
4 1 (6.250%) YUI
4 1 (6.250%) HTML5
4 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (6.250%) CSS3
4 1 (6.250%) Middleware
4 1 (6.250%) Web Services
4 1 (6.250%) XML
4 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (62.50%) MS Office
2 5 (31.25%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Intranet
1 1 (6.250%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (50.00%) DB2
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) TestDirector
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.250%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 9 (56.25%) Applications Support
3 8 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 8 (50.00%) Support Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Administrator
6 1 (6.250%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (6.250%) Programmer
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Information Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Windows Support Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) AS400 Support
6 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Administrator
6 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Information Assurance Manager
6 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) iSeries
2 5 (31.25%) AS400
3 1 (6.250%) Mathematics
3 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.250%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) UNIX
2 8 (50.00%) OS/400
3 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 6 (37.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Project Management
2 5 (31.25%) UML
2 5 (31.25%) OO
3 2 (12.50%) MVC
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.250%) System Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.250%) Information Security
4 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.250%) Web Development
4 1 (6.250%) Information Management
4 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.250%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) COBOL
1 10 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 8 (50.00%) RPG
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) IBM
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Rackspace
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle