IIS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 172 159 193
Rank change year-on-year -13 +34 +44
Contract jobs citing IIS 21 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.50% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.96% 1.27% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 5
10th Percentile £305 £414 £419
25th Percentile £313 £421 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £437 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -8.96% +23.08%
75th Percentile £488 £448 £530
90th Percentile £575 £452 £607
England median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £24.39
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -67.20%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 530 394 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.64% 9.67% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 231 287
10th Percentile £237 £238 £200
25th Percentile £332 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £477 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% +12.24% -5.56%
75th Percentile £519 £565 £575
90th Percentile £575 £645 £653
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 23
10th Percentile £27.13 £26.56 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.50 £28.45 £16.44
Median hourly rate £43.26 £33.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.09% +50.00% -51.38%
75th Percentile £63.40 £38.44 £22.53
90th Percentile £70.73 £44.63 £26.17
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 North of England

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the North of England

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the North of England

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IIS

IIS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the North of England 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
North West -2 16 £448 +6.67% 5
Yorkshire - 5 £475 - 1
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (76.19%) Apache
2 13 (61.90%) WebSphere
3 11 (52.38%) JBoss
4 10 (47.62%) iPlanet
4 10 (47.62%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) VoIP
2 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Oracle Database
2 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
3 2 (9.52%) DB2
3 2 (9.52%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Bitbucket Server
1 11 (52.38%) CA Release Automation
1 11 (52.38%) Git
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Software Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Maximo Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) VMWare Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) OAuth
1 11 (52.38%) OpenID
1 11 (52.38%) SAML
2 10 (47.62%) LDAP
3 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 3 (14.29%) Middleware
3 3 (14.29%) MSMQ
4 2 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (9.52%) SOAP
4 2 (9.52%) Web Services
4 2 (9.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) N-Tier
2 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) IBM XIV
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 11 (52.38%) Linux
4 8 (38.10%) Unix
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (23.81%) Task Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Budgeting
5 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (14.29%) Focus Group
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (14.29%) People Management
5 3 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Groovy
2 8 (38.10%) Shell Script
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) VB.NET
5 2 (9.52%) Java
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) Scala
5 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) PMP
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 9 (42.86%) Docker
3 8 (38.10%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
6 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (47.62%) CA Wily
3 9 (42.86%) Progress Chef
4 8 (38.10%) Tivoli
5 5 (23.81%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (9.52%) SCCM
7 1 (4.76%) Ansible
7 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (4.76%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (4.76%) Terraform
7 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
7 1 (4.76%) vMotion
7 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (61.90%) IBM
3 11 (52.38%) Broadcom
4 10 (47.62%) AppDynamics
4 10 (47.62%) Oracle
4 10 (47.62%) Splunk
5 2 (9.52%) VMware
6 1 (4.76%) Citrix