IIS Contracts

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 479 491
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +64
Contract jobs citing IIS 70 106 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.98% 2.38% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 72 148
10th Percentile £338 £331 £356
25th Percentile £385 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £725
90th Percentile £588 £699 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.60% - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £23.07 £48.80
25th Percentile - £23.54 £54.50
Median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +740.34% -62.81% +21.90%
75th Percentile - £24.41 £73.50
90th Percentile - £25.52 £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £200.00 £24.50 -
% change year-on-year +716.33% - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,537 4,453 6,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.11% 10.28% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,292 3,096 4,140
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £643
90th Percentile £717 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 157 163
10th Percentile £17.56 £13.51 £16.32
25th Percentile £26.39 £16.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.69% -38.83% +130.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.74 £74.18 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £33.56 £46.75
% change year-on-year +56.45% -28.22% +133.75%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England +24 64 £450 -7.69% 246
UK excluding London +55 39 £538 +7.60% 185
London 0 27 £404 -7.71% 77
South East +51 14 £539 -19.79% 41
Work from Home +16 12 £500 -11.11% 132
North of England +5 9 £425 -24.44% 65
East of England +22 8 £550 +41.94% 16
North West - 6 £425 - 36
Midlands +11 4 £535 -36.12% 25
West Midlands +5 4 £535 -36.12% 10
Yorkshire +2 3 - - 25
Scotland +5 2 £400 +23.08% 5
South West +37 1 £575 -14.63% 22
Northern Ireland - 1 £520 - 6

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (21.43%) Apache
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.57%) WebSphere
3 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.71%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (5.71%) Tomcat
4 3 (4.29%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (4.29%) Confluence
5 2 (2.86%) nginx
5 2 (2.86%) Skype for Business
6 1 (1.43%) Appian
6 1 (1.43%) Camunda
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.71%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Maximo
2 1 (1.43%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.71%) Azure
2 6 (8.57%) AWS
2 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 5 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (5.71%) Nutanix
4 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.71%) PowerApps
4 4 (5.71%) ShareGate
5 3 (4.29%) GitHub
5 3 (4.29%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.43%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.00%) DNS
2 12 (17.14%) Internet
3 10 (14.29%) DHCP
3 10 (14.29%) SMTP
4 6 (8.57%) Firewall
5 5 (7.14%) HTTP
5 5 (7.14%) NetScaler
5 5 (7.14%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.86%) HTTPS
6 2 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (2.86%) VoIP
7 1 (1.43%) DECT
7 1 (1.43%) FTP
7 1 (1.43%) LAN
7 1 (1.43%) Multicast
7 1 (1.43%) SNMP
7 1 (1.43%) SSL
7 1 (1.43%) VPN
7 1 (1.43%) WAN
7 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (61.43%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.57%) Oracle Database
3 6 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.57%) DB2
4 4 (5.71%) MySQL
5 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.86%) Tableau
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) JIRA
3 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.86%) JMeter
5 1 (1.43%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.43%) NUnit
5 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.00%) Finance
4 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Korean Language
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
7 1 (1.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Developer
2 13 (18.57%) C# Developer
2 13 (18.57%) C# WPF Developer
2 13 (18.57%) WPF Developer
3 12 (17.14%) C# WCF Developer
3 12 (17.14%) WCF Developer
4 8 (11.43%) Consultant
5 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Maximo Consultant
7 5 (7.14%) Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (4.29%) IT Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Software Engineering Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Software Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) IT Support
9 2 (2.86%) Monitoring Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) VMWare Administrator
9 2 (2.86%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (40.00%) .NET
2 21 (30.00%) .NET Framework
3 14 (20.00%) WCF
3 14 (20.00%) WPF
4 12 (17.14%) WinForms
5 11 (15.71%) Web Services
6 10 (14.29%) SOAP
6 10 (14.29%) XML
7 5 (7.14%) HTML
7 5 (7.14%) Middleware
7 5 (7.14%) MSMQ
8 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.71%) YAML
9 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (2.86%) JSON
9 2 (2.86%) LAMP
9 2 (2.86%) REST
9 2 (2.86%) WebSockets
9 2 (2.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) PKI
2 7 (10.00%) Clustering
3 5 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.29%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Derivative
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (71.43%) Windows
2 32 (45.71%) Windows Server
3 12 (17.14%) Linux
4 8 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (8.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.86%) CentOS
7 2 (2.86%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.43%) AIX
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (28.57%) Agile
3 17 (24.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (22.86%) DevOps
5 13 (18.57%) Data Analysis
5 13 (18.57%) ITIL
6 11 (15.71%) Change Management
6 11 (15.71%) CI/CD
7 10 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (11.43%) Incident Management
9 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (11.43%) Migration
9 8 (11.43%) Service Management
9 8 (11.43%) Workflow
10 7 (10.00%) Service Design
11 6 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (8.57%) ITSM
11 6 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (8.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) SQL
2 30 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 19 (27.14%) C#
4 14 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 14 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 14 (20.00%) VB
5 12 (17.14%) Python
5 12 (17.14%) VBA
6 11 (15.71%) JavaScript
7 7 (10.00%) Java
8 5 (7.14%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.29%) VB.NET
10 2 (2.86%) Perl
10 2 (2.86%) PHP
10 2 (2.86%) VBScript
11 1 (1.43%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.43%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.43%) Bash
11 1 (1.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.43%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (4.29%) PMP
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.86%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.43%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) MCAD
7 1 (1.43%) MCSA
7 1 (1.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (28.57%) QA
2 4 (5.71%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.43%) HL7
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (38.57%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (12.86%) Hyper-V
4 8 (11.43%) vSphere
5 6 (8.57%) XenApp
6 5 (7.14%) XenDesktop
7 4 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (4.29%) Docker
8 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
10 1 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) Ansible
2 10 (14.29%) WSUS
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (8.57%) Terraform
5 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.71%) SCCM
5 4 (5.71%) SCOM
6 2 (2.86%) Grafana
6 2 (2.86%) Nagios
6 2 (2.86%) NetApp OnCommand
6 2 (2.86%) Packer
6 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.86%) vMotion
6 2 (2.86%) WMI
6 2 (2.86%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (38.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (30.00%) Citrix
3 18 (25.71%) Oracle
3 18 (25.71%) VMware
4 11 (15.71%) IBM
5 10 (14.29%) HP
6 8 (11.43%) Dell
7 5 (7.14%) Cisco
8 3 (4.29%) Dynatrace
8 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.29%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.86%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.86%) Veeam
10 1 (1.43%) Commvault
10 1 (1.43%) EMC
10 1 (1.43%) Mitel
10 1 (1.43%) NetApp
10 1 (1.43%) SAP
10 1 (1.43%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.43%) Veritas