IIS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 115 115
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +48
Contract jobs citing IIS 3 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.12% 0.50%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.60% 1.03% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £524
25th Percentile £538 - £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.77%
75th Percentile £613 - £750
90th Percentile - - £863
Central London median daily rate £575 £450 £613
% change year-on-year +27.78% -26.53% +44.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

All Application Platform Skills
City of London

IIS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 188 195 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.90% 11.44% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 103 219
10th Percentile £361 £313 £252
25th Percentile £431 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £624
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £19.64 - -
25th Percentile £20.23 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.33 £87.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.62% +118.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £22.31 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £22.82 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £56.98 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.63% +42.44% -23.81%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

IIS job vacancy trend in the City of London

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IIS

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IIS

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XSL
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Sitecore
2 1 (33.33%) VMware