IIS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 85 96
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +38
Contract jobs citing IIS 3 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.26% 0.085% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.50% 0.75% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £380 - £313
25th Percentile £410 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £420 £350
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% +20.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £528 £430 £490
90th Percentile £556 - £550
North West median daily rate £448 £420 £350
% change year-on-year +6.67% +20.00% -18.84%

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 120 134 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.54% 11.45% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 94 83
10th Percentile £313 £206 £256
25th Percentile £353 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £571
90th Percentile £600 £588 £662
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile - £16.12 £13.79
25th Percentile £19.75 £16.20 £15.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.63 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% +21.15% +17.72%
75th Percentile £35.50 £36.56 £34.06
90th Percentile £76.00 £43.88 £52.63
North West median hourly rate £46.29 £25.03 £18.50
% change year-on-year +84.94% +35.30% +5.71%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

IIS job vacancy trend in Manchester

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in Manchester

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IIS

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) iPlanet
1 2 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
1 2 (66.67%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (33.33%) IBM XIV
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CA Single Sign-On
1 2 (66.67%) CA Wily
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Broadcom
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) VMware