IIS Contracts in England

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring IIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IIS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 438 473
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 +11
Contract jobs citing IIS 60 104 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.13% 3.00% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 79 145
10th Percentile £340 £313 £352
25th Percentile £385 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile £580 £688 £830
UK median daily rate £450 £439 £525
% change year-on-year +2.51% -16.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
Median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year +740.34% -71.33% +58.10%
UK median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +740.34% -62.81% +21.90%

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 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IIS in England

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IIS in England.

Daily rate trend for IIS in England

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in England

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IIS in England.

Hourly rate trend for IIS in England

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 1 May 2025. 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 +7 28 £390 -10.86% 26
South East +59 14 £520 +18.86% 15
Midlands +26 7 £675 -32.50% 8
West Midlands +18 7 £675 -32.50% 6
North West +13 5 £375 +7.14% 8
North of England +9 5 £375 -31.82% 16
East of England +11 4 £454 +29.64% 7
South West - 2 £575 - 15
IIS
UK

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (8.33%) Apache
1 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (5.00%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.33%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (3.33%) nginx
5 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.67%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) AWS
3 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.67%) PowerApps
4 4 (6.67%) ShareGate
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 3 (5.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.33%) GitHub
6 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.67%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.33%) DNS
2 12 (20.00%) Internet
3 10 (16.67%) DHCP
4 6 (10.00%) Firewall
4 6 (10.00%) HTTP
4 6 (10.00%) NetScaler
4 6 (10.00%) SMTP
5 4 (6.67%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.00%) HTTPS
6 3 (5.00%) SSL
7 2 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (3.33%) VoIP
8 1 (1.67%) DECT
8 1 (1.67%) FTP
8 1 (1.67%) LAN
8 1 (1.67%) Multicast
8 1 (1.67%) NAS
8 1 (1.67%) Network Security
8 1 (1.67%) VPN
8 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (23.33%) Oracle Database
3 5 (8.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.33%) Tableau
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
2 2 (3.33%) JMeter
2 2 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.67%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.67%) NUnit
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.33%) Korean Language
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Developer
2 15 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 12 (20.00%) C# WPF Developer
3 12 (20.00%) WPF Developer
4 11 (18.33%) C# WCF Developer
4 11 (18.33%) WCF Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Administrator
7 4 (6.67%) Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Applications Support
7 4 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) VMWare Administrator
7 4 (6.67%) Wintel Administrator
8 3 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (38.33%) .NET
2 16 (26.67%) .NET Framework
3 13 (21.67%) WCF
3 13 (21.67%) WPF
4 11 (18.33%) WinForms
5 7 (11.67%) HTML
6 6 (10.00%) Middleware
7 3 (5.00%) Web Services
8 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (3.33%) LAMP
8 2 (3.33%) LDAP
8 2 (3.33%) MSMQ
8 2 (3.33%) REST
8 2 (3.33%) SOAP
8 2 (3.33%) WebSockets
8 2 (3.33%) XML
9 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.67%) jQuery
9 1 (1.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Clustering
2 7 (11.67%) PKI
3 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (76.67%) Windows
2 26 (43.33%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.33%) Linux
4 8 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.33%) CentOS
8 2 (3.33%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (26.67%) ITIL
3 14 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (21.67%) Data Analysis
4 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.33%) Agile
6 10 (16.67%) Change Management
6 10 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 10 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (13.33%) Migration
8 6 (10.00%) DevOps
8 6 (10.00%) High Availability
8 6 (10.00%) Time Management
9 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (8.33%) Patch Management
9 5 (8.33%) Problem Management
9 5 (8.33%) Web Application Development
10 4 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) SQL
2 26 (43.33%) PowerShell
3 22 (36.67%) C#
4 14 (23.33%) T-SQL
5 13 (21.67%) PL/SQL
6 11 (18.33%) VB
6 11 (18.33%) VBA
7 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (10.00%) Shell Script
9 4 (6.67%) Java
10 2 (3.33%) PHP
11 1 (1.67%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.67%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.67%) Perl
11 1 (1.67%) Python
11 1 (1.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 9 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.67%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) MCAD
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) SLA
3 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.67%) HL7
4 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.00%) Hyper-V
3 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (13.33%) vSphere
4 7 (11.67%) XenApp
5 6 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (10.00%) XenDesktop
6 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (5.00%) Docker
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) WSUS
2 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (11.67%) Ansible
3 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (8.33%) Terraform
5 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.67%) NetApp OnCommand
5 4 (6.67%) SCCM
5 4 (6.67%) vCenter Server
5 4 (6.67%) vMotion
6 3 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.33%) Grafana
7 2 (3.33%) Nagios
7 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.33%) Puppet
7 2 (3.33%) SCOM
7 2 (3.33%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.67%) Plesk
8 1 (1.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (31.67%) Citrix
3 15 (25.00%) Oracle
3 15 (25.00%) VMware
4 11 (18.33%) HP
5 8 (13.33%) Dell
6 4 (6.67%) IBM
7 3 (5.00%) Cisco
7 3 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
8 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.67%) EMC
9 1 (1.67%) Mitel
9 1 (1.67%) NetApp
9 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.67%) SAP
9 1 (1.67%) Veeam
9 1 (1.67%) Veritas