Yorkshire IIS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) skills within the Yorkshire 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 16 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 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	51
Rank change on same period last year	-35
Matching contract IT job ads	39	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.093 %
As % of the category below	7.800 %	15.23 %
Daily rates quoted	14	7
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£209
Average daily rate	£289	£217
% change on same period last year	+33.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£224
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£315
% change on same period last year	+9.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£27.00
Average hourly rate	-	£28.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.37	£30.24
% change on same period last year	+0.44 %
Application Platforms Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	500	545
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.642 %	0.612 %
Daily rates quoted	95	65
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£289
Average daily rate	£304	£304
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	63	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.12	£14.14
Average hourly rate	£17.44	£14.69
% change on same period last year	+18.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.77	£15.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
IIS England

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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	West Yorkshire	-18	26	£280	+64.17 %
2	North Yorkshire	-17	6	£300	-25.00 %
3	South Yorkshire	-11	1	£350	+57.30 %
3	East Yorkshire	+1	1	£350	+64.70 %

IIS England

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 59 (73.75 %) .NET 2 49 (61.25 %) ASP.NET 3 42 (52.50 %) C# 4 37 (46.25 %) SQL Server 5 26 (32.50 %) Windows 6 22 (27.50 %) SQL Server 2005 7 21 (26.25 %) Visual Studio 7 21 (26.25 %) VB 7 21 (26.25 %) Microsoft 8 20 (25.00 %) WebServices 8 20 (25.00 %) Finance 9 19 (23.75 %) XML 9 19 (23.75 %) SQL 9 19 (23.75 %) ASP 10 17 (21.25 %) Active Directory

10 17 (21.25 %) HTML 10 17 (21.25 %) JavaScript 11 14 (17.50 %) TCP/IP 12 13 (16.25 %) SharePoint 12 13 (16.25 %) Windows Server 2003 12 13 (16.25 %) VBScript 12 13 (16.25 %) Oracle 12 13 (16.25 %) VB6 12 13 (16.25 %) Internet 13 11 (13.75 %) SQL Server 7 13 11 (13.75 %) VB.NET 13 11 (13.75 %) CSS 14 9 (11.25 %) SQL Server 2000 14 9 (11.25 %) VERITAS 14 9 (11.25 %) Web Development

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 59 (73.75 %) .NET 2 49 (61.25 %) ASP.NET 3 20 (25.00 %) WebServices 4 19 (23.75 %) XML 4 19 (23.75 %) ASP 5 17 (21.25 %) HTML 6 11 (13.75 %) CSS 7 8 (10.00 %) .NET Framework 8 7 (8.750 %) XSL 9 6 (7.500 %) XHTML 10 5 (6.250 %) XSLT 10 5 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 3 (3.750 %) AJAX 11 3 (3.750 %) XML Messaging 11 3 (3.750 %) SOAP 11 3 (3.750 %) COM+ 11 3 (3.750 %) DCOM 12 1 (1.250 %) ADO.NET 12 1 (1.250 %) WinForms 12 1 (1.250 %) ISAPI	Application Platforms 1 13 (16.25 %) SharePoint 2 7 (8.750 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 4 (5.000 %) Content Management Server 4 2 (2.500 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (1.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (1.250 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (1.250 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 8 (10.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 14 (17.50 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (16.25 %) Internet 3 5 (6.250 %) Firewall 3 5 (6.250 %) DNS 4 4 (5.000 %) Extranet 4 4 (5.000 %) Intranet 5 2 (2.500 %) CTI 6 1 (1.250 %) LDAP 6 1 (1.250 %) DHCP 6 1 (1.250 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 37 (46.25 %) SQL Server 2 22 (27.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (13.75 %) SQL Server 7 4 9 (11.25 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (6.250 %) RDBMS 6 3 (3.750 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (2.500 %) MySQL 8 1 (1.250 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 1 (1.250 %) dBASE	Development Applications 1 21 (26.25 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (10.00 %) NUnit 3 4 (5.000 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 2 (2.500 %) Flash 4 2 (2.500 %) Dreamweaver 4 2 (2.500 %) InstallShield 5 1 (1.250 %) WebLOAD 5 1 (1.250 %) MSI
General 1 20 (25.00 %) Finance 2 5 (6.250 %) Banking 3 4 (5.000 %) Telecoms 4 3 (3.750 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.250 %) Construction 5 1 (1.250 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 45 (56.25 %) Developer 2 24 (30.00 %) .NET Developer 3 11 (13.75 %) C# Developer 4 10 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 8 (10.00 %) Systems Engineer 6 7 (8.750 %) Administrator 7 5 (6.250 %) Web Developer 7 5 (6.250 %) Systems Administrator 7 5 (6.250 %) .NET Designer 7 5 (6.250 %) Server Administrator 7 5 (6.250 %) ASP Developer 8 4 (5.000 %) VB Developer 8 4 (5.000 %) Server Support 8 4 (5.000 %) Senior Developer 9 3 (3.750 %) Senior Systems Engineer 9 3 (3.750 %) Network Engineer 9 3 (3.750 %) 2nd Line Support 9 3 (3.750 %) SQL Developer 9 3 (3.750 %) SQL Server Developer 9 3 (3.750 %) Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 7 (8.750 %) Clustering 2 3 (3.750 %) Client/Server 2 3 (3.750 %) Mainframe 3 2 (2.500 %) Fat Client 3 2 (2.500 %) W3C 3 2 (2.500 %) Thin Client 4 1 (1.250 %) N-Tier 4 1 (1.250 %) IVR 4 1 (1.250 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.250 %) PDA 4 1 (1.250 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 26 (32.50 %) Windows 2 13 (16.25 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (3.750 %) Windows NT 4 3 (3.750 %) Unix 5 1 (1.250 %) Windows CE 5 1 (1.250 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (11.25 %) Web Development 2 7 (8.750 %) ITIL 3 6 (7.500 %) OO 4 5 (6.250 %) UML 5 4 (5.000 %) Unit Testing 6 3 (3.750 %) Web Testing 6 3 (3.750 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (2.500 %) OOP 7 2 (2.500 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (1.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (1.250 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (1.250 %) Performance Management 8 1 (1.250 %) RUP 8 1 (1.250 %) OOD 8 1 (1.250 %) Workflow 8 1 (1.250 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 42 (52.50 %) C# 2 21 (26.25 %) VB 3 19 (23.75 %) SQL 4 17 (21.25 %) JavaScript 5 13 (16.25 %) VBScript 5 13 (16.25 %) VB6 6 11 (13.75 %) VB.NET 7 4 (5.000 %) C++ 7 4 (5.000 %) C 8 2 (2.500 %) PHP 9 1 (1.250 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 4 (5.000 %) Degree 2 3 (3.750 %) MCSE 2 3 (3.750 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.250 %) WAI
System Software 1 17 (21.25 %) Active Directory 2 8 (10.00 %) NetBackup 3 2 (2.500 %) Oracle RAC 4 1 (1.250 %) MSMQ	Systems Management 1 6 (7.500 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 21 (26.25 %) Microsoft 2 13 (16.25 %) Oracle 3 9 (11.25 %) VERITAS 4 3 (3.750 %) Sage 4 3 (3.750 %) McAfee Security 5 2 (2.500 %) Macromedia 5 2 (2.500 %) HP 6 1 (1.250 %) IBM 6 1 (1.250 %) VMware 6 1 (1.250 %) Google