IIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 343 354
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +69
Contract jobs citing IIS 31 32 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.84% 1.90% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 53
10th Percentile £305 £331 £350
25th Percentile £348 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -15.00% +23.76%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £670
UK median daily rate £433 £425 £557
% change year-on-year +1.76% -23.63% +11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +740.34% -62.81% +16.36%

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 1,685 1,688 2,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.98% 9.22% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 1,130 1,575
10th Percentile £233 £225 £199
25th Percentile £350 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £461 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.86% +1.08%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -6.73% +1.46% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 75 107
10th Percentile £14.76 £15.64 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.06 £18.38
Median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +63.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £72.00 £70.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £78.71 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.09 £32.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +32.58% -32.99% +115.56%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the UK excluding London

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IIS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IIS in the UK excluding London

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 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the UK excluding London

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IIS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the UK excluding London

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 14 August 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 -11 11 £325 -42.22% 17
South East +23 8 £600 -10.71% 11
East of England +11 8 £550 +59.42% 3
North West -1 8 £325 -22.62% 10
Yorkshire -16 3 - - 5
Midlands -17 2 £300 -55.36% 13
West Midlands -17 2 £300 -55.36% 9
Scotland -13 1 £550 +41.94% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £520 -
IIS
UK

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (54.84%) Apache
2 11 (35.48%) WebSphere
3 4 (12.90%) JBoss
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (9.68%) iPlanet
4 3 (9.68%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (6.45%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (6.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (3.23%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Maximo
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.23%) OCI
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) DHCP
2 4 (12.90%) SMTP
3 3 (9.68%) Kerberos
4 2 (6.45%) Firewall
4 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.23%) HTTP
5 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
5 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.23%) LAN
5 1 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.23%) SSL
5 1 (3.23%) VoIP
5 1 (3.23%) VPN
5 1 (3.23%) WAN
5 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (48.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (22.58%) DB2
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Tableau
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (12.90%) CA Release Automation
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Consultant
2 7 (22.58%) Maximo Consultant
3 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Software Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Wintel Administrator
6 1 (3.23%) IT Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) Web Services
2 8 (25.81%) .NET
2 8 (25.81%) SOAP
2 8 (25.81%) XML
3 6 (19.35%) .NET Framework
4 4 (12.90%) OAuth
4 4 (12.90%) OpenID
4 4 (12.90%) SAML
4 4 (12.90%) YAML
5 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET
5 3 (9.68%) HTML
5 3 (9.68%) LDAP
5 3 (9.68%) Middleware
5 3 (9.68%) MSMQ
6 1 (3.23%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (3.23%) Ajax
6 1 (3.23%) CSS
6 1 (3.23%) JMS
6 1 (3.23%) JSON
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) PKI
2 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.68%) N-Tier
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Windows
1 18 (58.06%) Windows Server
2 5 (16.13%) Linux
3 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (6.45%) Unix
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.23%) AIX
5 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) DevOps
2 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (35.48%) Agile
4 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
4 9 (29.03%) Service Management
5 8 (25.81%) Service Design
6 7 (22.58%) CAFM
6 7 (22.58%) Facilities Management
6 7 (22.58%) ITIL
6 7 (22.58%) ITSM
6 7 (22.58%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (22.58%) System Testing
6 7 (22.58%) Workflow
7 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (16.13%) Change Management
8 5 (16.13%) Prototyping
9 4 (12.90%) PRINCE2
9 4 (12.90%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) SQL
2 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
2 10 (32.26%) PowerShell
3 7 (22.58%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) Groovy
5 3 (9.68%) VB.NET
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) Java
6 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.23%) VB
7 1 (3.23%) VB6
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
5 3 (9.68%) Degree
5 3 (9.68%) PMP
6 2 (6.45%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (3.23%) A+ Certification
7 1 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) SLA
3 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.68%) Docker
5 2 (6.45%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Ansible
2 4 (12.90%) CA Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.68%) CA Wily
3 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
3 3 (9.68%) WSUS
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (6.45%) NetApp OnCommand
4 2 (6.45%) SCOM
4 2 (6.45%) Tivoli
4 2 (6.45%) vCenter Server
4 2 (6.45%) vMotion
5 1 (3.23%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (38.71%) IBM
3 7 (22.58%) VMware
4 5 (16.13%) Oracle
5 4 (12.90%) Broadcom
6 3 (9.68%) AppDynamics
6 3 (9.68%) Splunk
7 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
7 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.23%) Cisco
8 1 (3.23%) HP
8 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds