IIS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 301 318
Rank change year-on-year -59 +17 +87
Contract jobs citing IIS 33 56 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.77% 3.42% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 69
10th Percentile £305 £396 £343
25th Percentile £331 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £508 £537 £700
90th Percentile £660 £700 -
UK median daily rate £408 £458 £500
% change year-on-year -11.07% -8.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
UK median hourly rate - - £22.00
% change year-on-year - - -70.41%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,865 1,638 1,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.27% 10.92% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 951 1,245
10th Percentile £213 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £349 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £564 £555 £594
90th Percentile £669 £638 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 60 104
10th Percentile £14.91 £16.98 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.89 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +88.89% +28.57%
75th Percentile £70.95 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year -22.26% +32.63% +42.84%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the UK excluding London

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IIS

IIS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 of England -40 16 £446 +6.19% 12
North West -17 14 £433 +16.24% 6
South West -12 5 £350 -24.32% 7
East of England -18 4 £456 +40.38% 5
South East -35 4 £640 +28.00% 13
Midlands -44 4 £425 -39.29% 6
West Midlands -38 2 £466 -33.39% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £325 - 5
IIS
UK

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (60.61%) Apache
2 13 (39.39%) WebSphere
3 11 (33.33%) JBoss
4 10 (30.30%) iPlanet
4 10 (30.30%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (6.06%) Tomcat
6 1 (3.03%) Confluence
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (3.03%) nginx
6 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 7 (21.21%) Azure
4 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Mimecast
6 2 (6.06%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) n8n
7 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) Kerberos
2 7 (21.21%) DNS
3 5 (15.15%) DHCP
4 4 (12.12%) Firewall
5 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.06%) VPN
7 1 (3.03%) Internet
7 1 (3.03%) LAN
7 1 (3.03%) Network Security
7 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.03%) SSL
7 1 (3.03%) VLAN
7 1 (3.03%) VoIP
7 1 (3.03%) WAN
7 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle Database
2 8 (24.24%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) Data Mining
3 3 (9.09%) OLTP
3 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.06%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Git
2 11 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 11 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
2 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (24.24%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Maximo Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Switch Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) OAuth
1 11 (33.33%) OpenID
1 11 (33.33%) SAML
2 10 (30.30%) LDAP
3 4 (12.12%) Middleware
4 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 3 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (9.09%) React
4 3 (9.09%) REST
4 3 (9.09%) Vue
4 3 (9.09%) XML
5 2 (6.06%) SOAP
5 2 (6.06%) Web Services
6 1 (3.03%) .NET
6 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.03%) CSS
6 1 (3.03%) HTML
6 1 (3.03%) JSON
6 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) IBM XIV
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (81.82%) Windows
2 24 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 11 (33.33%) Linux
4 8 (24.24%) Unix
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) DevOps
2 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (24.24%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (24.24%) ITIL
4 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Task Automation
7 3 (9.09%) Clean Code
7 3 (9.09%) Data Collection
7 3 (9.09%) High Availability
7 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning
7 3 (9.09%) Patch Management
7 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.09%) Prototyping
7 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (9.09%) Secure Coding
7 3 (9.09%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Groovy
2 8 (24.24%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
3 7 (21.21%) Java
4 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
6 4 (12.12%) C#
6 4 (12.12%) SQL
7 3 (9.09%) Bash
7 3 (9.09%) Scala
8 1 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) ISEB
4 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) COBIT
2 1 (3.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (57.58%) Active Directory
2 12 (36.36%) Docker
3 8 (24.24%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 5 (15.15%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (12.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (6.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (30.30%) CA Wily
3 9 (27.27%) Progress Chef
4 8 (24.24%) Tivoli
5 6 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
7 3 (9.09%) Ansible
7 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (9.09%) SCCM
7 3 (9.09%) WSUS
8 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (6.06%) NetApp OnCommand
8 2 (6.06%) vCenter Server
8 2 (6.06%) vMotion
9 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (39.39%) IBM
3 11 (33.33%) Broadcom
3 11 (33.33%) Oracle
4 10 (30.30%) AppDynamics
4 10 (30.30%) Splunk
5 6 (18.18%) VMware
6 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.06%) Cisco
7 2 (6.06%) Citrix
7 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.03%) Proofpoint