IIS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 116 120
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 +36
Contract jobs citing IIS 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.14% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.39% 1.08% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £280 -
25th Percentile £525 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +23.08% -40.91%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £338
90th Percentile - £520 -
UK median daily rate £453 £500 £458
% change year-on-year -9.50% +9.29% -12.86%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 216 185 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 9.94% 11.08% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 113 177
10th Percentile £250 £264 £197
25th Percentile £320 £313 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +1.19% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £508 £525
90th Percentile £686 £575 £654
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.20% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £32.38 £30.44 £14.66
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.62 £16.15
Median hourly rate £59.50 £48.68 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.24% +186.32% -43.33%
75th Percentile £64.00 £61.47 £19.17
90th Percentile £66.50 £68.09 £33.05
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £51.25 £32.12
% change year-on-year -31.71% +59.58% -38.83%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

IIS job vacancy trend in Scotland

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing IIS

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing IIS

IIS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Edinburgh -4 3 £550 +37.50% 1
IIS
UK

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Okta