IIS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 94 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing IIS 8 0 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% - 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.59% - 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 18
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £513 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £505
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.64%
75th Percentile £540 - £534
90th Percentile £546 - £574
South East median daily rate £520 £438 £510
% change year-on-year +18.86% -14.22% +23.64%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 143 190 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.46% 7.07% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 113 218
10th Percentile £324 £201 £240
25th Percentile £408 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £563
90th Percentile £650 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £436 £488
% change year-on-year +14.61% -10.51% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile £23.09 £17.50 £39.00
25th Percentile £26.45 £22.61 £55.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £24.43 £71.10
Median % change year-on-year +31.19% -65.64% +255.48%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £79.19
90th Percentile - £65.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +57.14% -36.94% +177.50%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the Thames Valley

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for IIS in the Thames Valley

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the Thames Valley

IIS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 6 £532 - 8
Buckinghamshire - 2 £550 - 6
IIS
South East

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) NetScaler
1 5 (62.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
1 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Developer
1 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) EDI
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) MSMQ
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) WCF
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Clustering
1 5 (62.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (12.50%) B2B
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) ActionScript
3 1 (12.50%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) vSphere
1 5 (62.50%) XenApp
1 5 (62.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (62.50%) WSUS
2 2 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Dell
2 5 (62.50%) HP
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (12.50%) SAP