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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 446 459
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +83
Contract jobs citing IIS 61 87 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.96% 2.49% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 60 119
10th Percentile £319 £332 £354
25th Percentile £389 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £810
90th Percentile £600 £676 £835
UK median daily rate £510 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.93% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £83.00
Median % change year-on-year +740.34% -71.33% +44.35%
UK median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +740.34% -62.81% +16.36%

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 3,111 3,489 4,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.20% 10.41% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,061 2,484 3,308
10th Percentile £282 £290 £257
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +0.96% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £845 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £505
% change year-on-year -7.32% +1.49% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 98 135
10th Percentile £18.27 £13.86 £16.13
25th Percentile £26.02 £21.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.92% -31.58% +115.91%
75th Percentile £70.73 £70.00 £73.11
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £79.01
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £31.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +41.12% -39.60% +133.33%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -16 31 £408 -4.12% 25
South East +25 9 £600 -10.71% 18
East of England +5 9 £550 +59.42% 3
North of England -9 7 £438 -22.22% 20
North West 0 4 £438 +4.17% 12
Yorkshire -9 3 - - 7
West Midlands -10 3 £418 -37.87% 4
Midlands -12 3 £418 -37.87% 7
South West +26 1 £575 -14.63% 10
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 13 (21.31%) Apache
2 7 (11.48%) WebSphere
3 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (6.56%) SharePoint
4 4 (6.56%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (4.92%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (3.28%) Skype for Business
6 2 (3.28%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.64%) Appian
7 1 (1.64%) Camunda
7 1 (1.64%) nginx
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (6.56%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Maximo
2 1 (1.64%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
2 5 (8.20%) Azure
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.56%) Power Automate
3 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.56%) PowerApps
3 4 (6.56%) ShareGate
4 3 (4.92%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.28%) AWS
5 2 (3.28%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.64%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) DNS
2 11 (18.03%) Internet
3 5 (8.20%) DHCP
3 5 (8.20%) SMTP
4 4 (6.56%) HTTP
5 3 (4.92%) Firewall
6 2 (3.28%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.28%) VoIP
6 2 (3.28%) VPN
7 1 (1.64%) DECT
7 1 (1.64%) FTP
7 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.64%) LAN
7 1 (1.64%) Multicast
7 1 (1.64%) NAS
7 1 (1.64%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.64%) SSL
7 1 (1.64%) VLAN
7 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (62.30%) SQL Server
2 12 (19.67%) Oracle Database
3 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (11.48%) DB2
4 3 (4.92%) Tableau
5 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.28%) MySQL
5 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) JMeter
2 1 (1.64%) LoadRunner
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Finance
3 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.20%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Military
5 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) C# Developer
2 12 (19.67%) C# WPF Developer
2 12 (19.67%) WPF Developer
3 11 (18.03%) C# WCF Developer
3 11 (18.03%) WCF Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Consultant
5 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Maximo Consultant
6 5 (8.20%) Coordinator
6 5 (8.20%) Security Assurance Coordinator
7 4 (6.56%) Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (4.92%) Software Engineering Manager
8 3 (4.92%) Software Manager
9 2 (3.28%) IT Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Monitoring Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) VMWare Administrator
9 2 (3.28%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (36.07%) .NET
2 18 (29.51%) .NET Framework
3 13 (21.31%) XML
4 12 (19.67%) WCF
4 12 (19.67%) WPF
5 11 (18.03%) WinForms
6 10 (16.39%) SOAP
6 10 (16.39%) Web Services
7 4 (6.56%) MSMQ
7 4 (6.56%) YAML
8 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.92%) JSON
8 3 (4.92%) Middleware
9 2 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (3.28%) HTML
9 2 (3.28%) WebSockets
9 2 (3.28%) XSLT
10 1 (1.64%) REST
10 1 (1.64%) RESTful
10 1 (1.64%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) PKI
2 5 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.92%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.28%) Derivative
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (1.64%) Clustering
5 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (60.66%) Windows
2 22 (36.07%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.56%) Linux
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.64%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Agile
2 18 (29.51%) ITIL
3 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (26.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (21.31%) DevOps
6 12 (19.67%) Data Analysis
7 10 (16.39%) Change Management
8 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (14.75%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (14.75%) Service Management
9 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
9 8 (13.11%) Service Design
9 8 (13.11%) Workflow
10 7 (11.48%) CAFM
10 7 (11.48%) Facilities Management
10 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (11.48%) ITSM
10 7 (11.48%) Migration
10 7 (11.48%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (11.48%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) SQL
2 20 (32.79%) PowerShell
3 17 (27.87%) C#
4 13 (21.31%) T-SQL
5 12 (19.67%) PL/SQL
6 11 (18.03%) Python
6 11 (18.03%) VB
6 11 (18.03%) VBA
7 9 (14.75%) JavaScript
8 6 (9.84%) Java
9 3 (4.92%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.64%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.64%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.64%) Perl
10 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.67%) Degree
4 10 (16.39%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.20%) IISP
5 5 (8.20%) ISACA
6 3 (4.92%) PMP
7 2 (3.28%) A+ Certification
7 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.28%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (32.79%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (11.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.28%) vSphere
4 2 (3.28%) XenApp
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.64%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Ansible
2 4 (6.56%) WSUS
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (4.92%) SCOM
4 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.28%) NetApp OnCommand
4 2 (3.28%) SCCM
4 2 (3.28%) vCenter Server
4 2 (3.28%) vMotion
4 2 (3.28%) WMI
5 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.64%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (31.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.95%) Citrix
2 14 (22.95%) Oracle
3 10 (16.39%) IBM
4 9 (14.75%) VMware
5 4 (6.56%) HP
5 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.92%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.28%) Cisco
8 1 (1.64%) Dell
8 1 (1.64%) EMC
8 1 (1.64%) Mitel
8 1 (1.64%) NetApp
8 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.64%) SAP
8 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.64%) Spotify
8 1 (1.64%) Veeam
8 1 (1.64%) Veritas