IIS Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 145 204 187
Rank change year-on-year +59 -17 +35
Contract jobs citing IIS 14 1 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.018% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.55% 0.26% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 27
10th Percentile £350 - £370
25th Percentile £463 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £438 £510
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -14.22% +23.64%
75th Percentile £538 £444 £606
90th Percentile £540 - £711
England median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 308 379 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.23% 6.82% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 244 459
10th Percentile £263 £225 £230
25th Percentile £401 £325 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -10.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £608 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 25
10th Percentile £25.33 £16.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £38.53 £22.61 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -36.94% +177.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £76.50 £77.51
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the South East

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for IIS in the South East

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the South East

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the South East

IIS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the South East 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
Thames Valley - 8 £538 - 9
Berkshire - 6 £532 - 4
Hampshire +28 3 £500 +14.29% 1
Surrey - 3 £350 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £550 - 2
IIS
England

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
1 5 (35.71%) NetScaler
1 5 (35.71%) SMTP
2 4 (28.57%) HTTP
3 3 (21.43%) HTTPS
3 3 (21.43%) SSL
4 2 (14.29%) Firewall
4 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.14%) FTP
5 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Korean Language
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) BizTalk Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Web Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Web Hosting Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) LAMP
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.14%) EDI
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) MSMQ
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) WCF
3 1 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Clustering
1 5 (35.71%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (21.43%) Linux
5 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (14.29%) Windows 7
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
2 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
2 3 (21.43%) Service Design
2 3 (21.43%) Software Distribution
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (14.29%) Security Hardening
4 1 (7.14%) B2B
4 1 (7.14%) Change Management
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (7.14%) Line Management
4 1 (7.14%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Server Management
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) vSphere
2 5 (35.71%) XenApp
2 5 (35.71%) XenDesktop
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) WSUS
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (21.43%) SCCM
4 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Citrix
2 5 (35.71%) Dell
2 5 (35.71%) HP
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) SAP