IIS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 112 124
Rank change year-on-year -40 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing IIS 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.18% 0.044%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.41% 1.50% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £453 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% - -
75th Percentile £594 £475 -
90th Percentile £597 - -
South East median daily rate £533 £600 £672
% change year-on-year -11.13% -10.71% +31.12%

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 166 200 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.06% 11.97% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 92 111
10th Percentile £332 £329 £281
25th Percentile £413 £398 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +3.39% +6.67%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £594
90th Percentile £690 £649 £608
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 3
10th Percentile £23.88 £13.25 £18.88
25th Percentile £31.25 £20.85 £23.21
Median hourly rate £33.86 £32.05 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% +3.97% -47.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £54.37
90th Percentile £62.36 £73.20 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £38.11 £32.77 £67.02
% change year-on-year +16.30% -51.10% +16.56%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the Thames Valley

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IIS

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 18 August 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
Buckinghamshire -38 2 £596 +32.39% 1
Berkshire - 2 £463 - 1
IIS
South East

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft