IIS Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 339 344
Rank change year-on-year -81 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing IIS 42 22 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.16% 0.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.03% 1.42% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 29
10th Percentile - £320 £327
25th Percentile £404 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £408 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.04% -4.12% -34.11%
75th Percentile £531 £495 £575
90th Percentile £613 £688 £695
England median daily rate £464 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +3.11% +5.88% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.48 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -11.13%

All Application Platform Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,068 1,548 2,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.08% 11.56% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 1,063 1,365
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £424 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £750
90th Percentile £712 £775 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 23
10th Percentile £19.03 £22.25 £17.26
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.36 £22.40
Median hourly rate £35.82 £33.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +40.76% -13.45%
75th Percentile £57.00 £52.19 £36.88
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.70 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.01% -17.65% +47.83%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IIS job vacancy trend in London

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in London

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IIS

IIS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the London region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Central London -15 8 £500 - 4
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) Appian
1 5 (11.90%) Camunda
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) NuGet
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) Internet
2 6 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 4 (9.52%) DNS
4 3 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (7.14%) SSL
5 2 (4.76%) Intranet
5 2 (4.76%) SAN
6 1 (2.38%) DMZ
6 1 (2.38%) NAS
6 1 (2.38%) Network Security
6 1 (2.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 16 (38.10%) Oracle Database
3 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.38%) MS Access
5 1 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) TeamCity
2 4 (9.52%) Artifactory
2 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) MSBuild
4 2 (4.76%) NUnit
4 2 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Finance
3 11 (26.19%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Front Office
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Developer
2 15 (35.71%) C# Developer
3 5 (11.90%) BPM Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Project Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Junior
5 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Build Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Junior Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Junior Software Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.76%) SQL Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (57.14%) .NET
2 20 (47.62%) .NET Framework
3 11 (26.19%) REST
4 10 (23.81%) WinForms
5 9 (21.43%) WPF
6 7 (16.67%) XML
7 5 (11.90%) ASP.NET
8 4 (9.52%) Terraform
8 4 (9.52%) Web Services
9 3 (7.14%) SAML
9 3 (7.14%) XSLT
10 2 (4.76%) ADO.NET
10 2 (4.76%) Ajax
10 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 2 (4.76%) HTML
10 2 (4.76%) LDAP
10 2 (4.76%) OAuth
10 2 (4.76%) OpenID
10 2 (4.76%) SOAP
10 2 (4.76%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (7.14%) PKI
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.76%) Replication
6 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (2.38%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.38%) PACS
6 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 32 (76.19%) Windows
2 9 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 6 (14.29%) Linux
4 3 (7.14%) Unix
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.38%) VMS
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) DevOps
2 15 (35.71%) Data Analysis
3 13 (30.95%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) Change Management
4 11 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (21.43%) Runbook
6 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 8 (19.05%) OO
6 8 (19.05%) OOP
7 7 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 7 (16.67%) Incident Response
8 6 (14.29%) AI
8 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.29%) Generative AI
8 6 (14.29%) Information Security
8 6 (14.29%) PRINCE2
8 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 6 (14.29%) Web Application Development
9 5 (11.90%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) C#
2 24 (57.14%) SQL
3 19 (45.24%) PL/SQL
4 17 (40.48%) T-SQL
5 10 (23.81%) VBA
6 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
6 9 (21.43%) Python
6 9 (21.43%) VB
7 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.14%) Bash
8 3 (7.14%) C++
9 2 (4.76%) CodeQL
10 1 (2.38%) Bicep
10 1 (2.38%) F#
10 1 (2.38%) Korn
10 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.38%) VB.NET
10 1 (2.38%) VBScript
10 1 (2.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) PMI Certification
2 5 (11.90%) PMP
3 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.38%) CCSP
4 1 (2.38%) CISA
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CISM
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) CLAS
4 1 (2.38%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.38%) IISP
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) QA
2 8 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (16.67%) PCI DSS
4 6 (14.29%) GDPR
4 6 (14.29%) GRC
5 5 (11.90%) HIPAA
5 5 (11.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.38%) DICOM
6 1 (2.38%) HL7
6 1 (2.38%) ISO 31000
6 1 (2.38%) ISO 9001
6 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (2.38%) NCSC
6 1 (2.38%) NIST
6 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) Docker
4 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) ISA Server
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) CASB
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) Oracle
2 16 (38.10%) Citrix
3 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.90%) OpenText
5 3 (7.14%) CyberArk
5 3 (7.14%) VMware
6 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) Sitecore
6 2 (4.76%) Splunk
7 1 (2.38%) Becrypt
7 1 (2.38%) Centrify
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco
7 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.38%) F5
7 1 (2.38%) Google
7 1 (2.38%) Hitachi
7 1 (2.38%) Progress
7 1 (2.38%) Qualys
7 1 (2.38%) Tripwire