IIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for IIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IIS over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 342 400
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 -32
Contract jobs citing IIS 46 97 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.65% 3.81% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 79 100
10th Percentile £313 £360 £275
25th Percentile £342 £438 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £411
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +24.62% -6.00%
75th Percentile £570 £622 £550
90th Percentile £676 £719 £651
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47.25
25th Percentile £22.75 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £26.25 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.81% +21.90% +50.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

IIS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,734 2,543 3,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.44% 11.05% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,798 2,696
10th Percentile £213 £203 £185
25th Percentile £325 £338 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 98 145
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.31 £15.04
Median hourly rate £28.76 £36.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% +95.95% -2.63%
75th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £52.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -42.55% +130.77% +6.68%

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 27 May 2024.

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 27 May 2024. 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
East of England +30 21 £350 -22.22% 7
North of England +40 9 £563 +7.14% 8
West Midlands +22 8 £675 +44.00% 6
Midlands +22 8 £675 +83.67% 11
Scotland +43 6 £325 -31.58% 5
Yorkshire +21 6 £563 +12.50% 6
South East -10 5 £666 +30.59% 18
North West +34 3 £550 -4.35% 1
South West -16 3 £674 +18.16% 3
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 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (19.57%) Tomcat
2 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (8.70%) Apache
4 2 (4.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) PTC Creo
2 1 (2.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) TCP/IP
2 5 (10.87%) Kerberos
3 4 (8.70%) DNS
3 4 (8.70%) H.323
3 4 (8.70%) HTTP
3 4 (8.70%) NAS
3 4 (8.70%) SAN
3 4 (8.70%) Wireshark
4 3 (6.52%) DHCP
5 2 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.35%) Firewall
5 2 (4.35%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.35%) VLAN
5 2 (4.35%) VPN
5 2 (4.35%) Wireless
6 1 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (4.35%) MariaDB
3 2 (4.35%) MySQL
3 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Fiddler
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Legal
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Support Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Applications Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Applications Support
2 8 (17.39%) Applications Support Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (13.04%) Wintel Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Web Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Administrator
5 4 (8.70%) Data Centre Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Data Migration Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) SharePoint Administrator
5 4 (8.70%) Technical Support
6 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Pega Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Systems Support Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Web Applications Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Web Applications Support
6 3 (6.52%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) .NET
2 7 (15.22%) .NET Framework
3 5 (10.87%) CSS
3 5 (10.87%) HTML
3 5 (10.87%) LDAP
4 4 (8.70%) SAML
4 4 (8.70%) Web Services
5 3 (6.52%) JSON
5 3 (6.52%) REST
5 3 (6.52%) XHTML
6 2 (4.35%) ADSI
6 2 (4.35%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.22%) Replication
2 7 (15.22%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (13.04%) PKI
4 4 (8.70%) Clustering
4 4 (8.70%) IVR
4 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.52%) Low-Code
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.17%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 36 (78.26%) Windows
2 22 (47.83%) Windows Server
3 13 (28.26%) Linux
4 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (19.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (17.39%) VMS
7 7 (15.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (13.04%) CentOS
8 6 (13.04%) Debian
8 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
11 1 (2.17%) Android
11 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
11 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) DevOps
2 9 (19.57%) Migration
3 8 (17.39%) Change Management
3 8 (17.39%) Load Balancing
4 6 (13.04%) Agile
4 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (13.04%) Validation
5 5 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (8.70%) Asset Management
6 4 (8.70%) Capacity Management
6 4 (8.70%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (8.70%) Problem Management
6 4 (8.70%) Release Management
6 4 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (8.70%) Security Patching
6 4 (8.70%) WFM
6 4 (8.70%) Workforce Optimisation
7 3 (6.52%) OO
7 3 (6.52%) OOD
7 3 (6.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.87%) C#
3 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) Python
5 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (13.04%) MCSA
4 6 (13.04%) MCSE
4 6 (13.04%) RHCT
5 5 (10.87%) OSCP
6 4 (8.70%) Degree
6 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (67.39%) Active Directory
2 9 (19.57%) Hyper-V
3 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.04%) KVM
5 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.52%) vSphere
7 1 (2.17%) Terminal Services
7 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) SCCM
1 8 (17.39%) SCOM
2 4 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.17%) vRealize
4 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.09%) VMware
3 11 (23.91%) Red Hat
4 6 (13.04%) CA
4 6 (13.04%) Citrix
5 5 (10.87%) F5
6 4 (8.70%) Avaya
6 4 (8.70%) Verint
7 3 (6.52%) IBM
7 3 (6.52%) Nintex
7 3 (6.52%) Pega
7 3 (6.52%) SAP
8 2 (4.35%) Aruba
8 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.35%) ProCurve
8 2 (4.35%) Synology
8 2 (4.35%) Veeam
8 2 (4.35%) Zerto
9 1 (2.17%) Oracle