IIS Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IIS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.93% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
North West median daily rate £446 £420 £350
% change year-on-year +6.19% +20.00% -28.21%

All Application Platform Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 30 6 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 14.02% 4.03% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 9
10th Percentile £167 £260 £421
25th Percentile £223 £275 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £300 £650
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -53.85% +52.94%
75th Percentile £550 £325 £688
90th Percentile £577 £340 -
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £455
% change year-on-year -5.56% -1.15% +1.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £45.63 £20.35 -
25th Percentile £56.59 £22.01 -
Median hourly rate £64.57 £24.76 -
Median % change year-on-year +160.76% - -
75th Percentile £74.26 £25.03 -
90th Percentile - £25.19 -
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £24.76 £17.50
% change year-on-year +90.31% +41.49% -

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

IIS job vacancy trend in Lancashire

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in Lancashire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in Lancashire

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing IIS

IIS
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Preston - 1 £300 -
IIS
North West

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Maximo Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CAFM
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Facilities Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) IBM