IIS Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 104 130 152
Rank change year-on-year +26 +22 +33
Contract jobs citing IIS 7 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.11% 0.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.89% 1.46% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £401 £560 £346
25th Percentile £558 £725 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £1,000 £368
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +172.11% -2.00%
75th Percentile £700 - £388
90th Percentile - - £431
England median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 180 205 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.40% 7.44% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 144 323
10th Percentile £250 £147 £209
25th Percentile £363 £298 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £375 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -17.58% +1.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £540
90th Percentile £588 £638 £619
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 9
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.47 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.94 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £39.53 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.20% +113.68% -7.50%
75th Percentile £20.24 £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile £32.36 - £34.93
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the Midlands

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IIS in the Midlands

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the Midlands

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the Midlands

IIS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +18 7 £675 -32.50% 6
IIS
England

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
1 1 (14.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Tableau
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Legal
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Applications Support
2 3 (42.86%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Software Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Incident Management
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (85.71%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Time Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Tableau Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) VMware