IIS Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 442 456
Rank change year-on-year -101 +14 +30
Contract jobs citing IIS 72 64 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.78% 2.09% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 47 66
10th Percentile £404 £345 £341
25th Percentile £413 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £584
90th Percentile £613 £593 £694
UK median daily rate £453 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.40% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -90.25% +740.34% -71.33%
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -90.25% +740.34% -62.81%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,051 3,061 3,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.99% 11.22% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,695 2,024 2,748
10th Percentile £310 £289 £266
25th Percentile £405 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -1.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 76 135
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.51
25th Percentile £19.02 £26.35 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +44.98% -32.29%
75th Percentile £61.17 £67.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.38 £72.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -38.10%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IIS job vacancy trend in England

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in England

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IIS

IIS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the England region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -43 39 £445 +9.20% 3
South West -22 14 £438 -23.91% 2
South East -70 11 £500 -7.24% 6
North of England -83 4 £625 +47.06% 12
Midlands -47 3 £450 -15.89% 4
North West -49 3 - - 11
West Midlands -62 3 £450 -15.89% 2
Yorkshire -52 1 £625 -
IIS
UK

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.50%) Appian
2 7 (9.72%) Tomcat
3 6 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (6.94%) Camunda
5 4 (5.56%) Apache
5 4 (5.56%) JBoss
5 4 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (5.56%) WebLogic
6 3 (4.17%) nginx
6 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) InDesign
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (6.94%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.11%) Azure
2 16 (22.22%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (9.72%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.17%) Cloudflare
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.39%) Figma
8 1 (1.39%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.39%) IaaS
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.39%) PaaS
8 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.39%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.06%) Internet
2 12 (16.67%) DNS
3 6 (8.33%) DHCP
3 6 (8.33%) HTTPS
4 4 (5.56%) SAN
5 3 (4.17%) Firewall
5 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.78%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.78%) DMZ
6 2 (2.78%) Intranet
6 2 (2.78%) LAN
6 2 (2.78%) NAS
6 2 (2.78%) WAN
6 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.39%) HTTP
7 1 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.39%) SMTP
7 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (65.28%) SQL Server
2 21 (29.17%) Oracle Database
3 8 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.94%) MySQL
4 5 (6.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (5.56%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (5.56%) Power BI
6 3 (4.17%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.78%) ClickHouse
7 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.39%) GIS
8 1 (1.39%) MS Access
8 1 (1.39%) OLAP
8 1 (1.39%) OLTP
8 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
1 4 (5.56%) TeamCity
2 3 (4.17%) Git
2 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.17%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.78%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.78%) Postman
3 2 (2.78%) Vite
4 1 (1.39%) MSI
4 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.39%) webpack
General
1 23 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (27.78%) Banking
3 14 (19.44%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.56%) Front Office
6 4 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (48.61%) Developer
2 18 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 8 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 8 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 6 (8.33%) C# Application Developer
6 5 (6.94%) BPM Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.56%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Architect
7 4 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Junior
7 4 (5.56%) Lead
7 4 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Administrator
8 3 (4.17%) C++ Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (52.78%) .NET
2 32 (44.44%) .NET Framework
3 13 (18.06%) REST
4 12 (16.67%) WinForms
5 11 (15.28%) WPF
6 8 (11.11%) XML
7 7 (9.72%) Web Services
8 6 (8.33%) ASP.NET
8 6 (8.33%) SOAP
9 5 (6.94%) React
10 4 (5.56%) CSS
10 4 (5.56%) HTML
11 3 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (4.17%) Entity Framework
11 3 (4.17%) JSON
11 3 (4.17%) LAMP
11 3 (4.17%) LEMP Stack
11 3 (4.17%) SignalR
11 3 (4.17%) XSLT
11 3 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (9.72%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (8.33%) Legacy Code
5 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.56%) N-Tier
6 3 (4.17%) Client/Server
6 3 (4.17%) PKI
7 2 (2.78%) Clustering
7 2 (2.78%) iPhone
7 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (1.39%) PACS
8 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 55 (76.39%) Windows
2 26 (36.11%) Windows Server
3 9 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (11.11%) Linux
5 6 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (4.17%) CentOS
6 3 (4.17%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.78%) Unix
7 2 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) DevOps
2 23 (31.94%) Agile
3 22 (30.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 17 (23.61%) Change Management
6 15 (20.83%) Runbook
7 13 (18.06%) Incident Response
8 11 (15.28%) High Availability
8 11 (15.28%) ITIL
8 11 (15.28%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (13.89%) OO
9 10 (13.89%) OOP
10 9 (12.50%) AI
10 9 (12.50%) Generative AI
10 9 (12.50%) Migration
10 9 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (11.11%) Incident Management
11 8 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (11.11%) Workflow
12 7 (9.72%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) SQL
2 33 (45.83%) C#
3 24 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 23 (31.94%) PL/SQL
5 20 (27.78%) PowerShell
6 12 (16.67%) VBA
7 11 (15.28%) JavaScript
7 11 (15.28%) Python
7 11 (15.28%) VB
8 5 (6.94%) Bash
8 5 (6.94%) C++
8 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.78%) Java
10 1 (1.39%) Bicep
10 1 (1.39%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.39%) VBScript
10 1 (1.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.67%) Degree
4 5 (6.94%) PMI Certification
4 5 (6.94%) PMP
5 2 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (27.78%) QA
2 7 (9.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.94%) GDPR
3 5 (6.94%) GRC
3 5 (6.94%) HIPAA
3 5 (6.94%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (5.56%) SLA
5 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.39%) DICOM
6 1 (1.39%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.17%) Dovecot
3 3 (4.17%) Postfix
4 2 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.78%) XenApp
4 2 (2.78%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.39%) Docker
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Terraform
2 5 (6.94%) Ansible
2 5 (6.94%) SCCM
3 3 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (4.17%) HAProxy
3 3 (4.17%) WSUS
4 2 (2.78%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.39%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (1.39%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.39%) vMotion
Vendors
1 33 (45.83%) Oracle
2 20 (27.78%) Citrix
3 16 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 9 (12.50%) VMware
5 5 (6.94%) OpenText
6 3 (4.17%) Cisco
6 3 (4.17%) F5
6 3 (4.17%) HP
6 3 (4.17%) Juniper
6 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.78%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.78%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.39%) Adobe
8 1 (1.39%) Dell
8 1 (1.39%) Google
8 1 (1.39%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.39%) IBM
8 1 (1.39%) Progress