IIS Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IIS over the 3 months to 28 May 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) UK
Location	3 months to 28 May 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	268	215	157
Rank change year-on-year	-53	-58
Contract jobs citing IIS	395	650	851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.88%	1.19%	1.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category	5.29%	6.63%	8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	263	420	546
Median daily rate	£375	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£282	£275	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£532	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£365	£348	£325
% change year-on-year	+5.03%	+6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted	16	9	22
Median hourly rate	£12.88	£22.50	£22.67
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-42.77%	-0.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£18.82	£17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£35.00	£30.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£14.75	£21.75	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-32.18%	-13.00%

IIS is in the application platform skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract Application Platform Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	7473	9799	9764
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	16.69%	17.97%	17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted	4753	6489	5983
Median daily rate	£425	£420	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.19%	+12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£265	£230
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£580	£571	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£388	£400	£350
% change year-on-year	-3.12%	+14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	184	228	361
Median hourly rate	£19.66	£19.63	£20.19
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.17%	-2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£10.00	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£43.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£21.50	£20.00	£20.19
% change year-on-year	+7.50%	-0.91%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing IIS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Application Platforms category.

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing IIS.

Contractor daily rate trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing IIS over the 3 months to 28 May 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS.

Contractor hourly rate trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing IIS over the 3 months to 28 May 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the UK over the 3 months to 28 May 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-61	348	£375	-	196
London	-48	142	£450	+5.88%	66
South East	+27	96	£350	-	45
Scotland	+39	35	£400	+21.21%	3
South West	-13	26	£400	+14.28%	15
Hampshire	+11	22	£350	+7.69%	11
City of London	-12	22	£413	-0.06%	12
Berkshire	+20	21	£367	-2.13%	6
East of England	-23	21	£338	-3.22%	12
East Midlands	+6	19	£295	-5.60%	7
North West	-6	17	£350	+6.06%	17
Surrey	+7	16	£455	+4.00%	6
Renfrewshire	+47	15	£412	+29.76%
Kent	+20	15	£340	+5.83%	1
Erskine	+46	14	£416	+31.02%
Leicestershire	+14	12	£280	+7.69%	3
Yorkshire	-2	12	£331	-33.75%	15
Cheshire	+21	11	£300	-0.82%	1
Buckinghamshire	-5	11	£488	+50.00%	13
Milton Keynes	-10	11	£488	-	4
Reading	+13	10	£368	-5.16%	2
West Yorkshire	+18	9	£325	-3.70%	12
Hertfordshire	+12	9	£340	+13.33%	3
Leeds	+21	8	£325	-30.85%	9
Edinburgh	+7	8	£350	-5.40%
Bristol	+5	8	£338	-3.57%	8
Glasgow	+2	8	£375	+57.89%	3
Bracknell	+9	7	-	-
Somerset	0	7	£388	-10.14%	1
West Midlands	+16	6	£320	-8.57%	16

IIS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 May 2017, IT contractor jobs citing IIS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for IIS.

1	557 (64.92%)	Windows
2	430 (50.12%)	Microsoft
3	424 (49.42%)	SQL Server
4	363 (42.31%)	.NET
5	328 (38.23%)	Windows Server
6	326 (38.00%)	SQL
7	279 (32.52%)	PowerShell
8	272 (31.70%)	C#
9	204 (23.78%)	Linux
10	202 (23.54%)	Active Directory
11	201 (23.43%)	VMware
12	183 (21.33%)	Finance
13	179 (20.86%)	DNS
14	173 (20.16%)	Team Foundation Server
15	172 (20.05%)	Windows Server 2012

16	154 (17.95%)	DevOps
17	149 (17.37%)	Oracle
18	148 (17.25%)	Web Services
19	143 (16.67%)	JavaScript
19	143 (16.67%)	SharePoint
20	141 (16.43%)	Microsoft Azure
21	136 (15.85%)	ASP.NET
22	134 (15.62%)	Agile Software Development
23	133 (15.50%)	VMware Infrastructure
24	128 (14.92%)	Git (software)
25	124 (14.45%)	Firewall
25	124 (14.45%)	ITIL
26	122 (14.22%)	HTML
27	117 (13.64%)	Windows Server 2008
28	113 (13.17%)	DHCP

IIS
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	143 (16.67%)	SharePoint
2	111 (12.94%)	Apache
3	90 (10.49%)	WebSphere
4	82 (9.56%)	Tomcat
5	74 (8.62%)	BizTalk Server
6	56 (6.53%)	JBoss
7	51 (5.94%)	MS Exchange
8	46 (5.36%)	CMS
9	38 (4.43%)	nginx
10	34 (3.96%)	SharePoint 2013
11	30 (3.50%)	SharePoint Server
11	30 (3.50%)	Sitecore CMS
12	26 (3.03%)	Jetty
13	24 (2.80%)	Mongrel
14	22 (2.56%)	Exchange Server 2010
14	22 (2.56%)	WebLogic
15	19 (2.21%)	Exchange Server 2013
16	16 (1.86%)	Confluence
17	15 (1.75%)	Skype for Business
18	14 (1.63%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	30 (3.50%)	Microsoft Office
2	13 (1.52%)	Microsoft Excel
3	5 (0.58%)	Microsoft Project
4	4 (0.47%)	Spreadsheet
5	3 (0.35%)	MS Visio
5	3 (0.35%)	Quicktime
6	1 (0.12%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	58 (6.76%)	Dynamics CRM
2	28 (3.26%)	Dynamics AX
3	6 (0.70%)	OpenText Process Suite
4	5 (0.58%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	5 (0.58%)	Workday HCM
5	3 (0.35%)	Dynamics GP
5	3 (0.35%)	Staffware
6	2 (0.23%)	Changepoint
6	2 (0.23%)	Scribe Insight
6	2 (0.23%)	WebTrends
7	1 (0.12%)	Eloqua
7	1 (0.12%)	FRx
7	1 (0.12%)	Infor M3
7	1 (0.12%)	Magento
7	1 (0.12%)	Orchestrade
7	1 (0.12%)	Sage 1000
7	1 (0.12%)	Summit

Cloud Services
1	141 (16.43%)	Microsoft Azure
2	105 (12.24%)	Amazon AWS
3	59 (6.88%)	IaaS
4	46 (5.36%)	Office 365
5	43 (5.01%)	PaaS
6	36 (4.20%)	Amazon EC2
7	26 (3.03%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	23 (2.68%)	Google App Engine
9	16 (1.86%)	Amazon S3
9	16 (1.86%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	14 (1.63%)	SaaS
11	10 (1.17%)	Amazon CloudWatch
11	10 (1.17%)	Azure Active Directory
11	10 (1.17%)	GitHub
12	9 (1.05%)	Akamai
13	5 (0.58%)	Cloud Computing
13	5 (0.58%)	Route 53
14	4 (0.47%)	Amazon SQS
14	4 (0.47%)	AWS Lambda
14	4 (0.47%)	Dynamics 365

Communications & Networking
1	179 (20.86%)	DNS
2	124 (14.45%)	Firewall
3	113 (13.17%)	DHCP
4	99 (11.54%)	TCP/IP
5	86 (10.02%)	Internet
6	72 (8.39%)	LAN
7	63 (7.34%)	WAN
8	56 (6.53%)	HTTP
9	53 (6.18%)	SAN
10	50 (5.83%)	SSL
11	37 (4.31%)	FTP
12	30 (3.50%)	IPsec
13	29 (3.38%)	LDAP
14	24 (2.80%)	NAS
15	22 (2.56%)	VPN
16	21 (2.45%)	Remote Desktop
17	18 (2.10%)	VLAN
18	17 (1.98%)	Kerberos
18	17 (1.98%)	Reverse Proxy
19	15 (1.75%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	424 (49.42%)	SQL Server
2	92 (10.72%)	SQL Server 2008
3	89 (10.37%)	SQL Server 2012
4	81 (9.44%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	70 (8.16%)	Oracle Database
6	60 (6.99%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
7	39 (4.55%)	SQL Server 2005
8	31 (3.61%)	Relational Database
8	31 (3.61%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	30 (3.50%)	SQL Server 2014
10	28 (3.26%)	Oracle Database 10g
11	18 (2.10%)	MySQL
11	18 (2.10%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	18 (2.10%)	SQL Server 2016
12	16 (1.86%)	Oracle9i Database
13	15 (1.75%)	BusinessObjects
13	15 (1.75%)	MS Access
14	12 (1.40%)	PostgreSQL
14	12 (1.40%)	RDBMS
15	10 (1.17%)	MongoDB

Development Applications
1	173 (20.16%)	Team Foundation Server
2	128 (14.92%)	Git (software)
3	83 (9.67%)	Visual Studio
4	68 (7.93%)	Jenkins
5	63 (7.34%)	TeamCity
6	47 (5.48%)	JIRA
7	46 (5.36%)	Octopus Deploy
8	29 (3.38%)	Subversion
9	23 (2.68%)	Travis CI
10	20 (2.33%)	MSBuild
11	19 (2.21%)	Atlassian Bamboo
12	17 (1.98%)	Moq
13	16 (1.86%)	SpecFlow
14	15 (1.75%)	Ant
14	15 (1.75%)	ReSharper
14	15 (1.75%)	Selenium
15	14 (1.63%)	NUnit
16	9 (1.05%)	Visual Studio Team System
17	8 (0.93%)	Maven
18	7 (0.82%)	Hudson

General
1	183 (21.33%)	Finance
2	60 (6.99%)	Banking
3	21 (2.45%)	Back Office
4	19 (2.21%)	Retail
5	18 (2.10%)	Front Office
6	17 (1.98%)	Legal
7	12 (1.40%)	Telecoms
8	11 (1.28%)	Marketing
9	9 (1.05%)	Law
10	8 (0.93%)	International Banking
10	8 (0.93%)	Manufacturing
11	7 (0.82%)	Advertising
11	7 (0.82%)	Investment Banking
12	6 (0.70%)	Local Government
13	5 (0.58%)	Publishing
14	4 (0.47%)	Financial Institution
14	4 (0.47%)	French Language
14	4 (0.47%)	Games
14	4 (0.47%)	Pharmaceutical
15	3 (0.35%)	Electronics

Job Titles
1	205 (23.89%)	Developer
2	105 (12.24%)	Analyst
3	101 (11.77%)	.NET Developer
4	78 (9.09%)	DevOps Engineer
5	63 (7.34%)	Support Analyst
6	62 (7.23%)	Applications Support
6	62 (7.23%)	C# Developer
7	59 (6.88%)	Architect
7	59 (6.88%)	PowerShell Engineer
8	49 (5.71%)	Windows Engineer
9	47 (5.48%)	C# .NET Developer
10	36 (4.20%)	Applications Support Analyst
11	34 (3.96%)	Automation Engineer
12	33 (3.85%)	Consultant
13	31 (3.61%)	Administrator
13	31 (3.61%)	Infrastructure Engineer
13	31 (3.61%)	Support Engineer
14	26 (3.03%)	Dynamics AX Developer
14	26 (3.03%)	Microsoft Developer
14	26 (3.03%)	Systems Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	363 (42.31%)	.NET
2	148 (17.25%)	Web Services
3	136 (15.85%)	ASP.NET
4	122 (14.22%)	HTML
5	112 (13.05%)	CSS
6	109 (12.70%)	XML
7	102 (11.89%)	jQuery
8	83 (9.67%)	.NET Framework
9	77 (8.97%)	WCF
10	59 (6.88%)	Ajax
11	50 (5.83%)	ASP.NET MVC
12	48 (5.59%)	Middleware
13	47 (5.48%)	AngularJS
13	47 (5.48%)	ASP.NET Web API
14	40 (4.66%)	JSON
14	40 (4.66%)	XSLT
15	39 (4.55%)	SOAP
16	34 (3.96%)	REST
17	32 (3.73%)	Entity Framework
17	32 (3.73%)	HTML5

Miscellaneous
1	62 (7.23%)	Analytical Skills
2	47 (5.48%)	Clustering
3	36 (4.20%)	Data Centre
4	26 (3.03%)	Management Information System
4	26 (3.03%)	PKI
5	19 (2.21%)	Computer Science
5	19 (2.21%)	User Experience
6	17 (1.98%)	W3C
7	13 (1.52%)	EPoS
8	12 (1.40%)	Client/Server
8	12 (1.40%)	Public Cloud
9	11 (1.28%)	Replication
10	10 (1.17%)	Enterprise Software
10	10 (1.17%)	Greenfield Project
10	10 (1.17%)	Mobile App
10	10 (1.17%)	Private Cloud
10	10 (1.17%)	Virtual Team
11	8 (0.93%)	Fintech
12	7 (0.82%)	CESG
12	7 (0.82%)	Hybrid Cloud

Operating Systems
1	557 (64.92%)	Windows
2	328 (38.23%)	Windows Server
3	204 (23.78%)	Linux
4	172 (20.05%)	Windows Server 2012
5	117 (13.64%)	Windows Server 2008
6	103 (12.00%)	Windows Server 2003
7	73 (8.51%)	Unix
8	43 (5.01%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	27 (3.15%)	Windows 7
10	18 (2.10%)	AIX
11	16 (1.86%)	Solaris
12	12 (1.40%)	CentOS
13	11 (1.28%)	Android
13	11 (1.28%)	Apple iOS
14	7 (0.82%)	zOS
15	5 (0.58%)	Ubuntu
15	5 (0.58%)	Windows 8
15	5 (0.58%)	Windows XP
16	4 (0.47%)	Embedded Linux
16	4 (0.47%)	Windows 2000 Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	154 (17.95%)	DevOps
2	134 (15.62%)	Agile Software Development
3	124 (14.45%)	ITIL
4	111 (12.94%)	MVC
5	98 (11.42%)	Continuous Integration
6	82 (9.56%)	Scrum
7	73 (8.51%)	CRM
8	62 (7.23%)	Configuration Management
8	62 (7.23%)	Migration
9	60 (6.99%)	TDD
10	59 (6.88%)	Open Source
11	56 (6.53%)	Load Balancing
12	55 (6.41%)	Business Intelligence
13	51 (5.94%)	Continuous Delivery
14	50 (5.83%)	Project Management
15	49 (5.71%)	Web Development
16	38 (4.43%)	High Availability
17	36 (4.20%)	Release Management
18	32 (3.73%)	E-Commerce
18	32 (3.73%)	ERP

Programming Languages
1	326 (38.00%)	SQL
2	279 (32.52%)	PowerShell
3	272 (31.70%)	C#
4	143 (16.67%)	JavaScript
5	106 (12.35%)	Java
6	91 (10.61%)	T-SQL
7	61 (7.11%)	VBScript
8	59 (6.88%)	Perl
9	52 (6.06%)	Python
10	41 (4.78%)	VB
11	36 (4.20%)	XAML
12	26 (3.03%)	Ruby
13	25 (2.91%)	Bash Shell
14	19 (2.21%)	PHP
14	19 (2.21%)	VB.NET
15	18 (2.10%)	C
16	13 (1.52%)	VBA
17	12 (1.40%)	ActionScript
17	12 (1.40%)	C++
18	10 (1.17%)	F#

Qualifications
1	100 (11.66%)	Security Cleared
2	83 (9.67%)	SC Cleared
3	47 (5.48%)	Microsoft Certification
4	35 (4.08%)	Degree
5	29 (3.38%)	MCSE
6	26 (3.03%)	Cisco Certification
7	19 (2.21%)	DV Cleared
8	18 (2.10%)	CCNA
9	16 (1.86%)	CCNP
10	14 (1.63%)	MCSA
11	13 (1.52%)	CISSP
12	12 (1.40%)	Computer Science Degree
13	11 (1.28%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14	10 (1.17%)	MCITP
15	9 (1.05%)	ISEB
15	9 (1.05%)	MCP
16	8 (0.93%)	IISP
17	7 (0.82%)	CISM
17	7 (0.82%)	PMI Certification
17	7 (0.82%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	24 (2.80%)	QA
2	19 (2.21%)	SLA
3	17 (1.98%)	PCI DSS
4	7 (0.82%)	SEPA
5	6 (0.70%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	4 (0.47%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	4 (0.47%)	PMO
7	3 (0.35%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	2 (0.23%)	COBIT
8	2 (0.23%)	FedRAMP
8	2 (0.23%)	HIPAA
9	1 (0.12%)	Data Quality
9	1 (0.12%)	HL7
9	1 (0.12%)	ISO 9001
9	1 (0.12%)	MiFID
9	1 (0.12%)	WCAG

System Software
1	202 (23.54%)	Active Directory
2	133 (15.50%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	68 (7.93%)	Hyper-V
4	45 (5.24%)	VMware ESXi
5	29 (3.38%)	Xen
6	22 (2.56%)	XenApp
7	20 (2.33%)	vSphere
8	16 (1.86%)	ISA Server
9	13 (1.52%)	UAG
10	12 (1.40%)	Terminal Services
11	10 (1.17%)	Virtual Desktop
12	9 (1.05%)	Docker
12	9 (1.05%)	Forefront TMG
12	9 (1.05%)	Oracle RAC
13	8 (0.93%)	Microsoft App-V
13	8 (0.93%)	NFS
13	8 (0.93%)	Virtual Machines
14	7 (0.82%)	KVM
15	6 (0.70%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
15	6 (0.70%)	Virtual Servers

Systems Management
1	96 (11.19%)	Puppet
2	57 (6.64%)	SCCM
3	51 (5.94%)	Opscode Chef
4	41 (4.78%)	Ansible
5	25 (2.91%)	SCOM
6	21 (2.45%)	Nagios
7	19 (2.21%)	Control-M
8	18 (2.10%)	Microsoft Clustering
9	14 (1.63%)	WSUS
10	12 (1.40%)	McAfee ePO
10	12 (1.40%)	vRealize
11	11 (1.28%)	NetBackup
11	11 (1.28%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
12	10 (1.17%)	Terraform
13	9 (1.05%)	Tivoli
14	8 (0.93%)	AirWatch
15	7 (0.82%)	SCOrch
16	6 (0.70%)	Oracle Identity Management
16	6 (0.70%)	Oracle Identity Manager
17	5 (0.58%)	BladeLogic

Vendors
1	430 (50.12%)	Microsoft
2	201 (23.43%)	VMware
3	149 (17.37%)	Oracle
4	78 (9.09%)	Citrix
5	52 (6.06%)	IBM
6	51 (5.94%)	HP
7	50 (5.83%)	Cisco
8	45 (5.24%)	Red Hat
9	34 (3.96%)	Google
10	32 (3.73%)	Sitecore
11	25 (2.91%)	Dell
12	24 (2.80%)	McAfee
13	23 (2.68%)	SAP
14	22 (2.56%)	EMC
15	20 (2.33%)	Apple
16	16 (1.86%)	CheckPoint
16	16 (1.86%)	Splunk
17	15 (1.75%)	Symantec
18	13 (1.52%)	NetApp
19	12 (1.40%)	Informatica