IIS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 131 137
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +56
Contract jobs citing IIS 6 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.22% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.88% 3.29% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £286 £464 £298
25th Percentile £303 £542 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £672 £450
Median % change year-on-year -44.20% +49.33% +28.57%
75th Percentile £456 £674 £463
90th Percentile £489 £674 £480
England median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +17.65%

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 320 213 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.49% 7.96% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 132 202
10th Percentile £270 £255 £190
25th Percentile £353 £361 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% +8.65% -19.19%
75th Percentile £534 £525 £550
90th Percentile £588 £626 £661
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile - £14.02 £12.89
25th Percentile - £14.76 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £16.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.06% -13.51% +12.46%
75th Percentile £33.88 £45.50 £19.75
90th Percentile £34.54 £63.20 £21.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -17.65% +55.96% +36.25%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the Midlands

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IIS

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 19 October 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 -15 4 £425 -36.76% 2
East Midlands - 2 £325 - 8
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) n8n
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (16.67%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Software Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Bicep
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Proofpoint