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 27 June 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 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	277	212	155
Rank change year-on-year	-65	-57
Contract jobs citing IIS	399	626	816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.85%	1.16%	1.48%
As % of the Application Platforms category	5.11%	6.41%	8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted	242	394	513
Median daily rate	£386	£350	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.35%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£280	£250	£253
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£538	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£365	£328	£335
% change year-on-year	+11.45%	-2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted	17	17	12
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£28.00	£23.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-37.50%	+17.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£20.91	£17.01
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£33.50	£31.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£21.25	£28.00	£26.00
% change year-on-year	-24.10%	+7.69%

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	7806	9763	9839
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	16.57%	18.08%	17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	4976	6503	6153
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	£263	£265	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£560	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	+11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted	200	242	324
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£21.00	£21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+19.04%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£12.49	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£43.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.50	£26.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	+5.76%	+23.80%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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	-60	366	£375	+7.14%	198
London	-51	149	£450	+5.88%	70
South East	-2	97	£360	+3.59%	50
South West	-6	31	£413	+30.95%	17
Surrey	+17	25	£450	+15.01%	5
East of England	-12	25	£350	-31.70%	11
Scotland	+19	21	£400	+23.07%	5
Berkshire	+10	21	£368	-2.00%	14
City of London	-12	20	£463	+8.82%	23
East Midlands	+6	19	£280	-13.84%	4
Kent	+9	15	£340	+5.83%	4
North West	+8	15	£350	+7.69%	14
Yorkshire	+1	14	£338	-32.50%	18
West Yorkshire	+2	13	£338	+6.63%	12
Hampshire	-8	13	£330	-1.49%	14
Leeds	+13	12	£338	-7.21%	6
Hertfordshire	+7	12	£360	-21.73%	3
Leicestershire	+3	11	£260	-13.33%
Reading	+18	10	£368	-2.00%	7
Milton Keynes	-9	10	£469	-	3
Buckinghamshire	-15	10	£469	+56.25%	12
Renfrewshire	+53	9	£412	+30.27%
Erskine	+50	9	£412	+30.27%
Cheshire	+19	9	£350	+6.06%	2
Swindon	-5	8	£425	+34.92%
Wiltshire	-11	8	£425	+34.92%	2
Somerset	-	8	£388	-	1
West Midlands	+15	7	£325	-7.14%	11
Leicester	-	7	£253	-
North East	+12	6	£400	+45.45%	2

IIS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 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	549 (64.51%)	Windows
2	423 (49.71%)	Microsoft
3	412 (48.41%)	SQL Server
4	362 (42.54%)	.NET
5	333 (39.13%)	SQL
6	327 (38.43%)	Windows Server
7	282 (33.14%)	PowerShell
8	261 (30.67%)	C#
9	202 (23.74%)	Linux
10	195 (22.91%)	Active Directory
11	188 (22.09%)	VMware
12	175 (20.56%)	DNS
13	174 (20.45%)	Windows Server 2012
14	167 (19.62%)	Team Foundation Server
15	165 (19.39%)	DevOps

16	163 (19.15%)	Finance
17	146 (17.16%)	Microsoft Azure
18	143 (16.80%)	SharePoint
19	142 (16.69%)	Web Services
19	142 (16.69%)	Agile Software Development
20	137 (16.10%)	JavaScript
20	137 (16.10%)	Oracle
21	134 (15.75%)	ITIL
22	129 (15.16%)	Git (software)
23	126 (14.81%)	VMware Infrastructure
24	125 (14.69%)	HTML
25	121 (14.22%)	ASP.NET
26	118 (13.87%)	Firewall
27	117 (13.75%)	Java
28	116 (13.63%)	Windows Server 2008

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 (16.80%)	SharePoint
2	110 (12.93%)	Apache
3	83 (9.75%)	WebSphere
4	77 (9.05%)	Tomcat
5	69 (8.11%)	BizTalk Server
6	58 (6.82%)	JBoss
7	51 (5.99%)	MS Exchange
8	47 (5.52%)	CMS
9	41 (4.82%)	nginx
9	41 (4.82%)	SharePoint 2013
10	32 (3.76%)	Sitecore CMS
11	30 (3.53%)	SharePoint Server
12	25 (2.94%)	Jetty
12	25 (2.94%)	WebLogic
13	23 (2.70%)	Mongrel
14	22 (2.59%)	Exchange Server 2010
15	20 (2.35%)	SharePoint 2010
16	18 (2.12%)	Exchange Server 2013
17	14 (1.65%)	Skype for Business
17	14 (1.65%)	WildFly

Applications
1	37 (4.35%)	Microsoft Office
2	12 (1.41%)	Microsoft Excel
3	5 (0.59%)	Quicktime
4	4 (0.47%)	Spreadsheet
5	3 (0.35%)	SmartSuite
5	3 (0.35%)	Stata
6	2 (0.24%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.24%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	50 (5.88%)	Dynamics CRM
2	19 (2.23%)	Dynamics AX
3	5 (0.59%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	4 (0.47%)	Dynamics GP
4	4 (0.47%)	Unit4 Business World
5	3 (0.35%)	OpenText Process Suite
5	3 (0.35%)	Remedy ITSM
5	3 (0.35%)	Staffware
6	2 (0.24%)	Changepoint
6	2 (0.24%)	FRx
6	2 (0.24%)	Scribe Insight
6	2 (0.24%)	WebTrends
6	2 (0.24%)	Workday HCM
7	1 (0.12%)	Eloqua
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	146 (17.16%)	Microsoft Azure
2	111 (13.04%)	Amazon AWS
3	51 (5.99%)	IaaS
4	48 (5.64%)	Office 365
5	35 (4.11%)	PaaS
6	33 (3.88%)	Amazon EC2
7	27 (3.17%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	22 (2.59%)	Google App Engine
9	17 (2.00%)	Amazon S3
9	17 (2.00%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	12 (1.41%)	GitHub
11	11 (1.29%)	Azure Active Directory
12	10 (1.18%)	Akamai
12	10 (1.18%)	Amazon CloudWatch
13	8 (0.94%)	SaaS
14	6 (0.71%)	Route 53
15	5 (0.59%)	OneDrive
15	5 (0.59%)	Yammer
16	4 (0.47%)	AWS Lambda
16	4 (0.47%)	Dynamics 365

Communications & Networking
1	175 (20.56%)	DNS
2	118 (13.87%)	Firewall
3	103 (12.10%)	DHCP
4	97 (11.40%)	TCP/IP
5	81 (9.52%)	Internet
6	69 (8.11%)	LAN
7	58 (6.82%)	WAN
8	56 (6.58%)	HTTP
9	47 (5.52%)	SSL
10	44 (5.17%)	SAN
11	35 (4.11%)	FTP
12	30 (3.53%)	IPsec
13	29 (3.41%)	LDAP
14	23 (2.70%)	NAS
15	21 (2.47%)	VPN
16	20 (2.35%)	Remote Desktop
16	20 (2.35%)	VLAN
17	19 (2.23%)	Wireless
18	18 (2.12%)	Reverse Proxy
19	14 (1.65%)	HTTPS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	412 (48.41%)	SQL Server
2	90 (10.58%)	SQL Server 2012
3	75 (8.81%)	SQL Server 2008
4	67 (7.87%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	58 (6.82%)	Oracle Database
5	58 (6.82%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	36 (4.23%)	SQL Server 2005
7	32 (3.76%)	Relational Database
8	31 (3.64%)	SQL Server 2014
9	30 (3.53%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
10	25 (2.94%)	Oracle Database 10g
11	22 (2.59%)	SQL Server 2016
12	18 (2.12%)	Oracle Database 11g
13	16 (1.88%)	MySQL
14	15 (1.76%)	BusinessObjects
15	14 (1.65%)	MS Access
15	14 (1.65%)	NoSQL
15	14 (1.65%)	Oracle9i Database
16	13 (1.53%)	RDBMS
17	11 (1.29%)	Amazon RDS

Development Applications
1	167 (19.62%)	Team Foundation Server
2	129 (15.16%)	Git (software)
3	91 (10.69%)	Visual Studio
4	72 (8.46%)	Jenkins
5	63 (7.40%)	TeamCity
6	48 (5.64%)	Octopus Deploy
7	42 (4.94%)	JIRA
8	23 (2.70%)	MSBuild
8	23 (2.70%)	Subversion
9	22 (2.59%)	Travis CI
10	20 (2.35%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	19 (2.23%)	Ant
12	17 (2.00%)	Selenium
13	16 (1.88%)	Moq
14	15 (1.76%)	SpecFlow
15	14 (1.65%)	Visual Studio Team System
16	13 (1.53%)	NUnit
16	13 (1.53%)	ReSharper
17	12 (1.41%)	Maven
18	9 (1.06%)	NuGet

General
1	163 (19.15%)	Finance
2	50 (5.88%)	Banking
3	23 (2.70%)	Back Office
4	19 (2.23%)	Front Office
5	17 (2.00%)	Legal
6	15 (1.76%)	Retail
7	13 (1.53%)	Marketing
8	12 (1.41%)	Telecoms
9	9 (1.06%)	Law
10	7 (0.82%)	Investment Banking
10	7 (0.82%)	Local Government
10	7 (0.82%)	Manufacturing
11	5 (0.59%)	Advertising
11	5 (0.59%)	French Language
11	5 (0.59%)	Publishing
12	4 (0.47%)	Financial Institution
12	4 (0.47%)	Games
12	4 (0.47%)	International Banking
12	4 (0.47%)	Pharmaceutical
13	3 (0.35%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	187 (21.97%)	Developer
2	103 (12.10%)	Analyst
3	90 (10.58%)	.NET Developer
4	87 (10.22%)	DevOps Engineer
5	62 (7.29%)	Applications Support
5	62 (7.29%)	PowerShell Engineer
6	60 (7.05%)	Support Analyst
7	55 (6.46%)	Architect
8	53 (6.23%)	C# Developer
9	49 (5.76%)	Windows Engineer
10	39 (4.58%)	C# .NET Developer
11	36 (4.23%)	Consultant
12	34 (4.00%)	Applications Support Analyst
13	33 (3.88%)	Automation Engineer
14	31 (3.64%)	Administrator
15	30 (3.53%)	Infrastructure Engineer
15	30 (3.53%)	Support Engineer
16	28 (3.29%)	Systems Engineer
17	22 (2.59%)	Sitecore Developer
18	21 (2.47%)	Windows DevOps Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	362 (42.54%)	.NET
2	142 (16.69%)	Web Services
3	125 (14.69%)	HTML
4	121 (14.22%)	ASP.NET
5	111 (13.04%)	XML
6	110 (12.93%)	CSS
7	99 (11.63%)	jQuery
8	83 (9.75%)	.NET Framework
9	63 (7.40%)	WCF
10	57 (6.70%)	Ajax
11	50 (5.88%)	ASP.NET MVC
12	48 (5.64%)	AngularJS
13	45 (5.29%)	Middleware
14	43 (5.05%)	ASP.NET Web API
15	38 (4.47%)	JSON
16	36 (4.23%)	HTML5
17	33 (3.88%)	REST
18	32 (3.76%)	XSLT
19	31 (3.64%)	Entity Framework
19	31 (3.64%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	62 (7.29%)	Analytical Skills
2	49 (5.76%)	Clustering
3	41 (4.82%)	Data Centre
4	23 (2.70%)	Management Information System
5	22 (2.59%)	Computer Science
6	21 (2.47%)	Client/Server
6	21 (2.47%)	PKI
7	18 (2.12%)	User Experience
8	17 (2.00%)	W3C
9	14 (1.65%)	EPoS
10	12 (1.41%)	Enterprise Software
11	10 (1.18%)	Fintech
11	10 (1.18%)	Mobile App
12	9 (1.06%)	Greenfield Project
12	9 (1.06%)	Public Cloud
12	9 (1.06%)	Replication
12	9 (1.06%)	Virtual Team
13	8 (0.94%)	Private Cloud
14	7 (0.82%)	Mainframe
15	6 (0.71%)	CESG

Operating Systems
1	549 (64.51%)	Windows
2	327 (38.43%)	Windows Server
3	202 (23.74%)	Linux
4	174 (20.45%)	Windows Server 2012
5	116 (13.63%)	Windows Server 2008
6	99 (11.63%)	Windows Server 2003
7	81 (9.52%)	Unix
8	40 (4.70%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	31 (3.64%)	Windows 7
10	14 (1.65%)	AIX
10	14 (1.65%)	Solaris
11	10 (1.18%)	CentOS
12	8 (0.94%)	Android
12	8 (0.94%)	Apple iOS
13	7 (0.82%)	Windows 8
13	7 (0.82%)	zOS
14	5 (0.59%)	Debian
14	5 (0.59%)	Windows 2000 Server
14	5 (0.59%)	Windows Vista
14	5 (0.59%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	165 (19.39%)	DevOps
2	142 (16.69%)	Agile Software Development
3	134 (15.75%)	ITIL
4	108 (12.69%)	MVC
5	102 (11.99%)	Continuous Integration
6	74 (8.70%)	Scrum
7	64 (7.52%)	CRM
8	63 (7.40%)	Migration
9	62 (7.29%)	Open Source
10	61 (7.17%)	Configuration Management
11	57 (6.70%)	Load Balancing
12	54 (6.35%)	Project Management
13	52 (6.11%)	Continuous Delivery
14	49 (5.76%)	TDD
15	47 (5.52%)	Business Intelligence
16	41 (4.82%)	Web Development
17	39 (4.58%)	Release Management
18	38 (4.47%)	High Availability
19	36 (4.23%)	Problem Management
20	34 (4.00%)	E-Commerce

Programming Languages
1	333 (39.13%)	SQL
2	282 (33.14%)	PowerShell
3	261 (30.67%)	C#
4	137 (16.10%)	JavaScript
5	117 (13.75%)	Java
6	86 (10.11%)	T-SQL
7	64 (7.52%)	Perl
8	57 (6.70%)	Python
9	53 (6.23%)	VBScript
10	38 (4.47%)	VB
11	36 (4.23%)	XAML
12	27 (3.17%)	Bash Shell
13	26 (3.06%)	Ruby
14	22 (2.59%)	VB.NET
15	18 (2.12%)	PHP
16	17 (2.00%)	C
17	14 (1.65%)	C++
18	12 (1.41%)	VBA
19	10 (1.18%)	F#
20	9 (1.06%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	106 (12.46%)	Security Cleared
2	85 (9.99%)	SC Cleared
3	41 (4.82%)	Degree
4	40 (4.70%)	Microsoft Certification
5	22 (2.59%)	Cisco Certification
5	22 (2.59%)	MCSE
6	18 (2.12%)	CCNA
6	18 (2.12%)	DV Cleared
7	15 (1.76%)	CCNP
8	13 (1.53%)	Computer Science Degree
9	12 (1.41%)	MCITP
9	12 (1.41%)	MCSA
10	11 (1.29%)	CISSP
11	10 (1.18%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12	7 (0.82%)	IISP
12	7 (0.82%)	MCP
12	7 (0.82%)	PMI Certification
12	7 (0.82%)	PMP
13	6 (0.71%)	BPSS Clearance
13	6 (0.71%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	23 (2.70%)	QA
2	21 (2.47%)	SLA
3	12 (1.41%)	PCI DSS
4	5 (0.59%)	COBIT
4	5 (0.59%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	4 (0.47%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	4 (0.47%)	PMO
5	4 (0.47%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	2 (0.24%)	SEPA
7	1 (0.12%)	Data Quality
7	1 (0.12%)	FedRAMP
7	1 (0.12%)	HIPAA
7	1 (0.12%)	HL7
7	1 (0.12%)	ISO 9001
7	1 (0.12%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	1 (0.12%)	MiFID
7	1 (0.12%)	WCAG

System Software
1	195 (22.91%)	Active Directory
2	126 (14.81%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	68 (7.99%)	Hyper-V
4	41 (4.82%)	VMware ESXi
5	26 (3.06%)	Xen
6	19 (2.23%)	XenApp
7	16 (1.88%)	Docker
7	16 (1.88%)	ISA Server
8	15 (1.76%)	vSphere
9	14 (1.65%)	UAG
10	10 (1.18%)	Virtual Desktop
11	9 (1.06%)	Forefront TMG
12	8 (0.94%)	Microsoft App-V
12	8 (0.94%)	Terminal Services
12	8 (0.94%)	Virtual Machines
12	8 (0.94%)	Virtual Servers
13	7 (0.82%)	Oracle RAC
14	6 (0.71%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
14	6 (0.71%)	XenDesktop
15	5 (0.59%)	Microsoft Virtual Server

Systems Management
1	97 (11.40%)	Puppet
2	59 (6.93%)	SCCM
3	57 (6.70%)	Opscode Chef
4	52 (6.11%)	Ansible
5	26 (3.06%)	SCOM
6	22 (2.59%)	Microsoft Clustering
7	17 (2.00%)	Control-M
8	16 (1.88%)	Nagios
8	16 (1.88%)	Terraform
9	13 (1.53%)	NetBackup
9	13 (1.53%)	WSUS
10	11 (1.29%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
11	10 (1.18%)	McAfee ePO
11	10 (1.18%)	vRealize
12	9 (1.06%)	Tivoli
13	7 (0.82%)	OpenView Configuration Management
14	6 (0.71%)	Rundeck
15	5 (0.59%)	Norton AntiVirus
15	5 (0.59%)	SCDPM
15	5 (0.59%)	SCOrch

Vendors
1	423 (49.71%)	Microsoft
2	188 (22.09%)	VMware
3	137 (16.10%)	Oracle
4	75 (8.81%)	Citrix
5	57 (6.70%)	HP
6	49 (5.76%)	IBM
7	40 (4.70%)	Cisco
8	39 (4.58%)	Red Hat
9	36 (4.23%)	Sitecore
10	32 (3.76%)	Google
11	26 (3.06%)	McAfee
12	23 (2.70%)	SAP
13	21 (2.47%)	Apple
14	20 (2.35%)	Dell
14	20 (2.35%)	Splunk
15	16 (1.88%)	Symantec
16	13 (1.53%)	CheckPoint
16	13 (1.53%)	EMC
16	13 (1.53%)	Juniper
16	13 (1.53%)	Veritas