Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IIS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 530 490
Rank change year-on-year +32 -40 -131
Permanent jobs citing IIS 468 478 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.50% 0.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.38% 4.50% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 397 381 778
10th Percentile £31,700 £32,500 £34,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +17.65% -3.61%
75th Percentile £64,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £84,000 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +17.78% +5.88%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,683 10,621 23,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 11.20% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,101 7,402 11,552
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IIS.

Salary trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +73 426 £52,500 -4.55% 56
UK excluding London -3 350 £52,500 -0.94% 39
Work from Home +86 277 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Midlands +41 105 £50,000 -4.76% 11
London +69 99 £56,250 -15.41% 21
South East -46 83 £52,500 -4.55% 10
North of England +35 73 £60,000 +20.00% 6
West Midlands +24 66 £52,500 -4.55% 5
North West -3 50 £60,000 +14.29% 1
South West -4 42 £61,500 +95.55% 3
East Midlands +3 39 £50,000 +42.86% 6
Scotland -49 22 £48,500 -8.49% 6
East of England +4 21 £32,000 -41.82% 2
Yorkshire +53 19 £52,500 +10.53% 4
North East -10 4 £35,000 -63.16% 1
Northern Ireland +17 2 £40,000 +25.00%
Wales -18 2 £49,500 +54.69% 1

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 51 (10.90%) SharePoint
2 48 (10.26%) Apache
2 48 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (9.62%) CMS
3 45 (9.62%) Tomcat
3 45 (9.62%) Umbraco
4 38 (8.12%) Sitecore CMS
5 36 (7.69%) Headless CMS
5 36 (7.69%) Kentico
6 10 (2.14%) WebSphere
7 9 (1.92%) WebLogic
7 9 (1.92%) WordPress
8 7 (1.50%) JBoss
8 7 (1.50%) WildFly
9 6 (1.28%) nginx
10 5 (1.07%) IBM Notes
11 4 (0.85%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.43%) Liferay
12 2 (0.43%) Moodle
12 2 (0.43%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 30 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.28%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.85%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.64%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 27 (5.77%) NEC Housing
2 7 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.50%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 280 (59.83%) Azure
2 106 (22.65%) Azure DevOps
3 74 (15.81%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (14.53%) AWS
5 36 (7.69%) Kontent
6 25 (5.34%) Power Platform
7 20 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
7 20 (4.27%) SaaS
8 19 (4.06%) Entra ID
9 18 (3.85%) GCP
10 15 (3.21%) OneDrive
11 12 (2.56%) IaaS
12 11 (2.35%) GitHub
13 7 (1.50%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.50%) PaaS
14 6 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.07%) Nutanix
16 4 (0.85%) Power Automate
17 3 (0.64%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 123 (26.28%) DNS
2 117 (25.00%) Firewall
3 65 (13.89%) DHCP
3 65 (13.89%) WAN
4 50 (10.68%) SAN
5 37 (7.91%) SSL
6 35 (7.48%) TCP/IP
7 34 (7.26%) VPN
8 22 (4.70%) iSCSI
9 20 (4.27%) Internet
10 17 (3.63%) LAN
11 14 (2.99%) SD-WAN
12 12 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
12 12 (2.56%) Wireless
12 12 (2.56%) WLAN
13 11 (2.35%) NAS
13 11 (2.35%) SNMP
14 7 (1.50%) FTP
14 7 (1.50%) HTTP
15 6 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (51.92%) SQL Server
2 41 (8.76%) Oracle Database
3 30 (6.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 29 (6.20%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.34%) Power BI
6 18 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.21%) MySQL
8 14 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.07%) Redis
12 4 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (0.43%) DB2
14 2 (0.43%) DTS
14 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database 10g
15 1 (0.21%) Firebird
15 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (10.68%) Git
2 46 (9.83%) Visual Studio
3 28 (5.98%) Jasmine
3 28 (5.98%) Karma Test Runner
4 19 (4.06%) Octopus Deploy
5 14 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.56%) JIRA
7 10 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.71%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.85%) Selenium
10 3 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.64%) FitNesse
10 3 (0.64%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.64%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.43%) Bower
11 2 (0.43%) gulp
11 2 (0.43%) Moq
11 2 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 109 (23.29%) Finance
2 71 (15.17%) Social Skills
3 43 (9.19%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.62%) Law
6 28 (5.98%) Local Government
7 27 (5.77%) Police
8 19 (4.06%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.21%) Marketing
10 12 (2.56%) Legal
10 12 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.14%) Aviation
11 10 (2.14%) Military
11 10 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.92%) Banking
13 8 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.85%) French Language
15 4 (0.85%) Spanish Language
16 3 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 164 (35.04%) Developer
2 101 (21.58%) Senior
3 75 (16.03%) C# Developer
4 73 (15.60%) .NET Developer
5 57 (12.18%) Systems Engineer
6 49 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 48 (10.26%) Applications Support
8 42 (8.97%) Applications Developer
8 42 (8.97%) C# .NET Developer
9 40 (8.55%) Senior Developer
10 39 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
11 38 (8.12%) .NET Applications Developer
11 38 (8.12%) Consultant
12 37 (7.91%) ASP.NET Developer
13 36 (7.69%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 36 (7.69%) CMS Developer
14 35 (7.48%) C# Application Developer
14 35 (7.48%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
15 34 (7.26%) Senior .NET Applications Developer
15 34 (7.26%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (41.03%) .NET
2 146 (31.20%) ASP.NET
3 113 (24.15%) REST
4 92 (19.66%) Web Services
5 85 (18.16%) AngularJS
6 78 (16.67%) HTML
7 77 (16.45%) React
8 73 (15.60%) CSS
9 70 (14.96%) XML
10 69 (14.74%) ASP.NET MVC
10 69 (14.74%) JSON
11 59 (12.61%) .NET Core
12 56 (11.97%) .NET Framework
13 43 (9.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 42 (8.97%) SOAP
15 39 (8.33%) jQuery
15 39 (8.33%) RESTful
16 36 (7.69%) Next.js
17 34 (7.26%) Sass
18 28 (5.98%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 74 (15.81%) Self-Motivation
2 60 (12.82%) Clustering
3 52 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 29 (6.20%) Management Information System
5 19 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.99%) Replication
8 12 (2.56%) CESG
8 12 (2.56%) PMI
9 10 (2.14%) CMDB
9 10 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.71%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.71%) PKI
11 8 (1.71%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.28%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.28%) IoT
13 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 219 (46.79%) Windows
2 115 (24.57%) Linux
3 106 (22.65%) Windows Server
4 35 (7.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (6.20%) Unix
6 28 (5.98%) Solaris
7 22 (4.70%) VMS
7 22 (4.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (2.14%) Ubuntu
10 9 (1.92%) Windows 10
11 7 (1.50%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (1.28%) CentOS
13 4 (0.85%) Debian
13 4 (0.85%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.21%) Android
15 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (29.06%) DevOps
2 127 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (18.38%) MVC
4 79 (16.88%) Continuous Integration
5 70 (14.96%) Web Development
6 63 (13.46%) High Availability
6 63 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 62 (13.25%) Agile
8 53 (11.32%) Project Management
9 51 (10.90%) Customer Service
10 50 (10.68%) E-Commerce
11 47 (10.04%) CRM
12 46 (9.83%) CI/CD
13 42 (8.97%) API Development
13 42 (8.97%) Server Management
14 41 (8.76%) ERP
14 41 (8.76%) Presales
15 40 (8.55%) Deployment Automation
15 40 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
16 39 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 236 (50.43%) SQL
2 164 (35.04%) C#
3 132 (28.21%) JavaScript
4 81 (17.31%) PowerShell
5 75 (16.03%) T-SQL
6 38 (8.12%) VB.NET
7 35 (7.48%) TypeScript
8 34 (7.26%) Java
9 31 (6.62%) VB
10 28 (5.98%) Shell Script
10 28 (5.98%) VB6
11 24 (5.13%) XAML
12 13 (2.78%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.92%) Python
14 7 (1.50%) PHP
14 7 (1.50%) XPath
15 6 (1.28%) C
15 6 (1.28%) C++
16 4 (0.85%) CFML
17 2 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 94 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 83 (17.74%) Degree
3 30 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.06%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.56%) CISMP
7 12 (2.56%) IISP
7 12 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.56%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.71%) CCNA
8 8 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.71%) MCSE
8 8 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.07%) MCSA
11 4 (0.85%) CCA
11 4 (0.85%) CCDA
11 4 (0.85%) Citrix Certification
11 4 (0.85%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.62%) QA
2 32 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.42%) NIST
4 12 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 12 (2.56%) JSP 440
4 12 (2.56%) NIST 800
5 11 (2.35%) RMADS
6 9 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.50%) SLA
8 6 (1.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.43%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.21%) FISMA
10 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.21%) HITRUST
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 150 (32.05%) Active Directory
2 102 (21.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (7.26%) Hyper-V
4 29 (6.20%) vSphere
5 27 (5.77%) VMware NSX
6 12 (2.56%) Docker
6 12 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.92%) Forefront TMG
7 9 (1.92%) VMware Server
7 9 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
8 8 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (1.50%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.85%) KVM
11 3 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.43%) Firmware
13 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.21%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.21%) Samba
13 1 (0.21%) Varnish
13 1 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (5.56%) SCOM
2 24 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (4.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 19 (4.06%) WSUS
4 15 (3.21%) Kubernetes
4 15 (3.21%) ZABBIX
5 13 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
6 12 (2.56%) Opsgenie
6 12 (2.56%) VxRail
7 11 (2.35%) SCCM
7 11 (2.35%) Terraform
8 8 (1.71%) Ansible
9 7 (1.50%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.28%) SCOrch
11 5 (1.07%) Backup Exec
11 5 (1.07%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.85%) vMotion
12 4 (0.85%) WhatsUp Gold
13 3 (0.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 303 (64.74%) Microsoft
2 136 (29.06%) VMware
3 52 (11.11%) Oracle
4 38 (8.12%) Sitecore
5 36 (7.69%) Optimizely
6 27 (5.77%) NEC
7 26 (5.56%) Cisco
8 24 (5.13%) Dell
9 20 (4.27%) SolarWinds
9 20 (4.27%) Veeam
10 18 (3.85%) NetApp
11 14 (2.99%) Aruba
11 14 (2.99%) Fortinet
12 13 (2.78%) HP
13 12 (2.56%) Citrix
14 11 (2.35%) Palo Alto
14 11 (2.35%) Zerto
15 10 (2.14%) Adaptive Insights
15 10 (2.14%) Dynatrace
15 10 (2.14%) Tagetik