The first part of the table below looks at the demand for IIS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank10010594
Rank change year-on-year
Up+5Down-11
Matching permanent IT job ads320028492130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.654 %2.323 %2.231 %
As % of the Application Platforms category13.00 %12.22 %12.91 %
Number of salaries quoted277025071821
Average salary£40,000£38,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89 %+10.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£57,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,500£33,500
% change year-on-year
-1.40 %+5.97 %
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
246122331416502
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK20.41 %19.01 %17.28 %
Number of salaries quoted213852008713741
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£36,000
% change year-on-year
-+4.16 %

IIS
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IIS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

IIS Demand Trend

IIS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IIS within the UK.

IIS Salary Trend

IIS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IIS over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

IIS Salary Histogram

IIS
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+22996£40,000+3.89 %
LondonUp+141244£45,000-
South EastDown-11804£40,000+5.26 %
SurreyDown-15299£45,000+5.88 %
City of LondonUp+9277£45,000-8.16 %
East of EnglandUp+22276£40,000+6.66 %
North WestUp+15234£34,000+13.33 %
BerkshireUp+6154£40,000+23.07 %
South WestUp+18152£32,500-7.14 %
ManchesterUp+21120£31,500-10.00 %
YorkshireDown-25119£30,000-
HampshireDown-13101£35,000-6.41 %
East MidlandsUp+294£32,500+4.83 %
ScotlandUp+3092£35,000-12.50 %
BuckinghamshireUp+3688£37,500+2.73 %
West MidlandsUp+1578£35,000+12.90 %
EssexUp+2077£42,500+6.25 %
HertfordshireUp+875£45,000+5.88 %
WalesUp+2174£30,000-40.00 %
South WalesUp+2173£30,000-40.00 %
West YorkshireDown-2368£32,500+8.33 %
ReadingUp+456£37,500+11.94 %
CheshireDown-1055£35,000+25.00 %
ReigateDown-253£57,500+27.77 %
CambridgeshireDown-2752£35,000-2.02 %
BedfordshireUp+1849£41,000+9.33 %
OxfordshireUp+2848£35,000-12.50 %
StainesDown-1546£47,500+14.45 %
WiltshireUp+1944£30,000-14.28 %
Milton KeynesUp+2243£40,000+9.58 %

IIS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited IIS.

13648 (60.63 %)Windows
23500 (58.17 %)SQL Server
32966 (49.29 %).NET
42908 (48.33 %)SQL
52816 (46.80 %)Microsoft
62063 (34.29 %)ASP.NET
71998 (33.21 %)C#
81607 (26.71 %)Active Directory
91602 (26.62 %)JavaScript
101539 (25.58 %)Windows Server 2008
111530 (25.43 %)HTML
121493 (24.81 %)CSS
131348 (22.40 %)VMware
141278 (21.24 %)Windows Server 2003
151260 (20.94 %)XML
161250 (20.77 %)MS Excel
171137 (18.90 %)SQL Server 2008
181133 (18.83 %)Web Services
191082 (17.98 %)Linux
201053 (17.50 %)Finance
21963 (16.00 %)Apache
22961 (15.97 %)SharePoint
22961 (15.97 %)SQL Server 2005
23911 (15.14 %)DNS
24823 (13.68 %)TCP/IP
25784 (13.03 %)Oracle
26765 (12.71 %)jQuery
27761 (12.65 %)Visual Studio
28757 (12.58 %)ITIL
29754 (12.53 %)MS Exchange

IIS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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 IT job ads sampled that cited IIS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12966 (49.29 %).NET
22063 (34.29 %)ASP.NET
31530 (25.43 %)HTML
41493 (24.81 %)CSS
51260 (20.94 %)XML
61133 (18.83 %)Web Services
7765 (12.71 %)jQuery
8736 (12.23 %)Ajax
9531 (8.825 %).NET Framework
10509 (8.459 %)ASP
11417 (6.930 %)XSLT
12386 (6.415 %)XHTML
13382 (6.349 %)WCF
14257 (4.271 %)ASP.NET MVC
15251 (4.172 %)HTML5
16250 (4.155 %)LINQ
17245 (4.072 %)WebSphere
18223 (3.706 %)SOAP
19194 (3.224 %)WinForms
20176 (2.925 %)Middleware
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1963 (16.00 %)Apache
2961 (15.97 %)SharePoint
3754 (12.53 %)MS Exchange
4525 (8.725 %)Tomcat
5339 (5.634 %)Exchange Server 2007
6334 (5.551 %)Exchange Server 2003
7304 (5.052 %)CMS
8300 (4.986 %)Exchange Server 2010
9241 (4.005 %)WebLogic
10227 (3.773 %)SharePoint 2010
11220 (3.656 %)BizTalk Server
12165 (2.742 %)SharePoint Server
13112 (1.861 %)WebSphere Application Server
14111 (1.845 %)Umbraco
1584 (1.396 %)Oracle Coherence
1584 (1.396 %)IBM HTTP Server
1672 (1.197 %)Amazon EC2
1758 (0.964 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1856 (0.931 %)GlassFish
1952 (0.864 %)MSMQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11250 (20.77 %)MS Excel
2322 (5.352 %)MS Office
3144 (2.393 %)MS Visio
4136 (2.260 %)Photoshop
553 (0.881 %)InfoPath
636 (0.598 %)Fireworks
735 (0.582 %)MS PowerPoint
819 (0.316 %)Adobe Illustrator
916 (0.266 %)MS Project
1011 (0.183 %)Google Apps
119 (0.150 %)Office 365
128 (0.133 %)Acrobat
133 (0.050 %)ProjectWise
142 (0.033 %)FastStats
142 (0.033 %)ArcView
151 (0.017 %)Spreadsheet
151 (0.017 %)Doxygen
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
175 (1.246 %)Dynamics CRM
230 (0.499 %)Google Analytics
317 (0.283 %)WebTrends
416 (0.266 %)Dynamics NAV
512 (0.199 %)Dynamics AX
611 (0.183 %)SAP ERP
710 (0.166 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
710 (0.166 %)Prophet
710 (0.166 %)Maximo
89 (0.150 %)Agresso
98 (0.133 %)Oracle Applications
105 (0.083 %)Dynamics GP
105 (0.083 %)Movex
113 (0.050 %)HFM
113 (0.050 %)RMDS
113 (0.050 %)SunGard AvantGard
113 (0.050 %)Hyperion Planning
122 (0.033 %)BASE24
122 (0.033 %)Changepoint
122 (0.033 %)SoftGrid
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1911 (15.14 %)DNS
2823 (13.68 %)TCP/IP
3744 (12.36 %)Internet
4625 (10.39 %)Firewall
5569 (9.457 %)SAN
6421 (6.997 %)DHCP
7321 (5.335 %)HTTP
8293 (4.870 %)VPN
9280 (4.653 %)LAN
10262 (4.354 %)WAN
11178 (2.958 %)SSL
12169 (2.809 %)Intranet
13153 (2.543 %)SMTP
14152 (2.526 %)FTP
15151 (2.510 %)LDAP
16144 (2.393 %)NAS
17122 (2.028 %)VoIP
18103 (1.712 %)VLAN
19102 (1.695 %)DMZ
2091 (1.512 %)iSCSI
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13500 (58.17 %)SQL Server
21137 (18.90 %)SQL Server 2008
3961 (15.97 %)SQL Server 2005
4469 (7.795 %)MySQL
5322 (5.352 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6257 (4.271 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7163 (2.709 %)SQL Server 2000
8131 (2.177 %)RDBMS
9127 (2.111 %)Data Warehouse
10120 (1.994 %)Oracle 8/8i
11103 (1.712 %)Crystal Reports
1288 (1.463 %)DB2
1376 (1.263 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1466 (1.097 %)Oracle 10g
1565 (1.080 %)Oracle 11g
1663 (1.047 %)DTS
1750 (0.831 %)MS Access
1835 (0.582 %)OLAP
1932 (0.532 %)EDRMS
2031 (0.515 %)ETL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1761 (12.65 %)Visual Studio
2343 (5.701 %)Team Foundation Server
3341 (5.667 %)Subversion
4172 (2.859 %)NUnit
5138 (2.294 %)VSS/SourceSafe
678 (1.296 %)CruiseControl
776 (1.263 %)Git (software)
864 (1.064 %)TortoiseSVN
937 (0.615 %)MSI
1036 (0.598 %)MSBuild
1132 (0.532 %)Dreamweaver
1231 (0.515 %)Visual Studio Team System
1329 (0.482 %)JIRA
1329 (0.482 %)Eclipse
1428 (0.465 %)TeamCity
1525 (0.415 %)Ant
1618 (0.299 %)Maven
1717 (0.283 %)Selenium
1816 (0.266 %)Synon
1914 (0.233 %)TestComplete
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11053 (17.50 %)Finance
2235 (3.906 %)Marketing
3177 (2.942 %)Retail
4140 (2.327 %)Banking
5135 (2.244 %)Games
697 (1.612 %)Telecoms
785 (1.413 %)Back Office
871 (1.180 %)Law
970 (1.163 %)Legal
1065 (1.080 %)Front Office
1156 (0.931 %)Publishing
1247 (0.781 %)French Language
1338 (0.632 %)Advertising
1437 (0.615 %)Manufacturing
1533 (0.548 %)Music
1631 (0.515 %)German Language
1729 (0.482 %)Financial Institution
1825 (0.415 %)Investment Banking
1920 (0.332 %)Music Industry
1920 (0.332 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12028 (33.70 %)Developer
2951 (15.81 %).NET Developer
3759 (12.61 %)Analyst
4596 (9.905 %)C# Developer
5551 (9.157 %)Administrator
6541 (8.991 %)Web Developer
7486 (8.077 %)C# .NET Developer
8431 (7.163 %)ASP.NET Developer
9419 (6.964 %)Support Analyst
10416 (6.914 %)Consultant
11369 (6.133 %)Support Engineer
12364 (6.050 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
13354 (5.883 %)Systems Administrator
14332 (5.518 %)Applications Support
15301 (5.002 %)Senior Developer
16233 (3.872 %)Technical Support
17232 (3.856 %)Systems Engineer
18212 (3.523 %)Architect
19186 (3.091 %).NET Web Developer
20176 (2.925 %)Infrastructure Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1388 (6.448 %)Clustering
2233 (3.872 %)Computer Science
3196 (3.257 %)N-Tier
4144 (2.393 %)Open Source
5134 (2.227 %)Management Information System
6125 (2.077 %)Client/Server
7119 (1.978 %)Blackberry
8112 (1.861 %)SaaS
9102 (1.695 %)W3C
1098 (1.629 %)PKI
1180 (1.330 %)Replication
1269 (1.147 %)Cloud Computing
1361 (1.014 %)Hedge funds
1458 (0.964 %)CESG
1554 (0.897 %)CESG CLAS
1554 (0.897 %)Spread Betting
1653 (0.881 %)Enterprise Storage
1747 (0.781 %)Digital Media
1747 (0.781 %)Social Media
1747 (0.781 %)Graphic Design
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13648 (60.63 %)Windows
21539 (25.58 %)Windows Server 2008
31278 (21.24 %)Windows Server 2003
41082 (17.98 %)Linux
5382 (6.349 %)UNIX
6304 (5.052 %)Windows 7
7271 (4.504 %)Windows XP
8264 (4.388 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9138 (2.294 %)AIX
10121 (2.011 %)Solaris
11107 (1.778 %)Windows 2000
11107 (1.778 %)Windows 2000 Server
1296 (1.595 %)Windows Vista
1392 (1.529 %)CentOS
1469 (1.147 %)Debian
1567 (1.114 %)Ubuntu
1646 (0.765 %)Android
1730 (0.499 %)Mac OS X
1829 (0.482 %)SUSE
1924 (0.399 %)Apple iOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1757 (12.58 %)ITIL
2567 (9.423 %)E-Commerce
3515 (8.559 %)MVC
4461 (7.662 %)Web Development
5383 (6.365 %)Load Balancing
6356 (5.917 %)Agile Software Development
7332 (5.518 %)OO
8324 (5.385 %)Project Management
9302 (5.019 %)TDD
10273 (4.537 %)Service Delivery
11242 (4.022 %)Disaster Recovery
12221 (3.673 %)Change Management
13210 (3.490 %)Content Management
14190 (3.158 %)CRM
15179 (2.975 %)Scrum
16162 (2.692 %)Migration
17153 (2.543 %)Unit Testing
18131 (2.177 %)SEO
19127 (2.111 %)Business Intelligence
20121 (2.011 %)Configuration Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12908 (48.33 %)SQL
21998 (33.21 %)C#
31602 (26.62 %)JavaScript
4697 (11.58 %)T-SQL
5626 (10.40 %)VB.NET
6562 (9.340 %)Java
7445 (7.396 %)PowerShell
8351 (5.833 %)VB
9337 (5.601 %)PHP
10299 (4.969 %)VBScript
11200 (3.324 %)Perl
12150 (2.493 %)C++
13140 (2.327 %)VBA
14124 (2.061 %)C
15115 (1.911 %)Python
16112 (1.861 %)Bash shell
1798 (1.629 %)PL/SQL
1897 (1.612 %)VB6
1976 (1.263 %)Shell Script
2043 (0.715 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1742 (12.33 %)Degree
2731 (12.15 %)Microsoft Certification
3459 (7.628 %)MCSE
4243 (4.039 %)Cisco Certification
5216 (3.590 %)MCITP
6200 (3.324 %)CCNA
7159 (2.643 %)Security Cleared
8158 (2.626 %)MCP
9107 (1.778 %)CISSP
1092 (1.529 %)MCSA
1191 (1.512 %)SC Cleared
1282 (1.363 %)MCTS
1282 (1.363 %)ITIL Certification
1376 (1.263 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1450 (0.831 %)DV Cleared
1450 (0.831 %)CCNP
1545 (0.748 %)CISM
1638 (0.632 %)MCSD
1735 (0.582 %)MCAD
1735 (0.582 %)MCPD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1178 (2.958 %)SLA
2144 (2.393 %)QA
386 (1.429 %)ISO/IEC 27001
456 (0.931 %)PCI DSS
554 (0.897 %)ISO 9001
635 (0.582 %)WCAG
719 (0.316 %)WAI
818 (0.299 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
98 (0.133 %)JSP 440
104 (0.066 %)HL7
113 (0.050 %)HMG Infosec
113 (0.050 %)COBIT
121 (0.017 %)BS25999
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11607 (26.71 %)Active Directory
2695 (11.55 %)VMware Infrastructure
3373 (6.199 %)VMware ESX
4332 (5.518 %)Hyper-V
5266 (4.421 %)vSphere
6156 (2.593 %)ISA Server
7147 (2.443 %)XenApp
881 (1.346 %)VMware ESXi
965 (1.080 %)XenServer
1055 (0.914 %)Terminal Services
1151 (0.848 %)XenDesktop
1246 (0.765 %)MetaFrame
1339 (0.648 %)Xen
1339 (0.648 %)VMware Server
1433 (0.548 %)UAG
1529 (0.482 %)Terminal Server
1626 (0.432 %)NFS
1724 (0.399 %)VMware Workstation
1724 (0.399 %)Sendmail
1822 (0.366 %)Postfix
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1184 (3.058 %)SCOM
2129 (2.144 %)SCCM
3122 (2.028 %)Backup Exec
481 (1.346 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
575 (1.246 %)WSUS
674 (1.230 %)Nagios
772 (1.197 %)NetBackup
854 (0.897 %)Tivoli
944 (0.731 %)Puppet
1039 (0.648 %)vCenter
1134 (0.565 %)MOM
1227 (0.449 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1326 (0.432 %)Foglight
1326 (0.432 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1424 (0.399 %)Norton AntiVirus
1424 (0.399 %)HP SIM
1521 (0.349 %)Plesk
1618 (0.299 %)McAfee ePO
1618 (0.299 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
1618 (0.299 %)WMI
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12816 (46.80 %)Microsoft
21348 (22.40 %)VMware
3784 (13.03 %)Oracle
4627 (10.42 %)Citrix
5619 (10.29 %)Cisco
6357 (5.933 %)HP
7255 (4.238 %)Red Hat
8197 (3.274 %)IBM
9177 (2.942 %)JBoss
10167 (2.775 %)Sun
11142 (2.360 %)Symantec
12133 (2.210 %)Dell
13110 (1.828 %)Google
1483 (1.379 %)NetApp
1577 (1.280 %)EMC
1671 (1.180 %)SAP
1769 (1.147 %)Juniper
1769 (1.147 %)CheckPoint
1868 (1.130 %)Adobe
1965 (1.080 %)F5