IIS Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 439 447
Rank change year-on-year -119 +8 +83
Contract jobs citing IIS 58 82 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.39% 2.42% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 112
10th Percentile £334 - £313
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +8.11% -11.48%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £591
90th Percentile £636 £573 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £518 £460
% change year-on-year -15.46% +12.50% -9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.25% +809.09% -65.63%
75th Percentile £19.75 - £24.13
90th Percentile - - £25.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -90.25% +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 4,165 3,390 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.44% 11.68% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,882 2,247 2,859
10th Percentile £305 £263 £250
25th Percentile £404 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £453 £450
% change year-on-year +4.86% +0.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 78 168
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.58 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.27 £23.80 £15.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.51
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +54.50% +21.55%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.75 £67.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £54.88 £23.88
% change year-on-year -25.28% +129.84% +8.52%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the UK

IIS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

IIS
Top 13 Contract Job 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 27 March 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
England -121 54 £408 -9.44% 43
UK excluding London -114 34 £438 -15.46% 40
London -73 21 £408 +4.49% 8
Work from Home -37 18 £394 -12.50% 19
South West -13 12 £438 -10.30% 3
South East -57 10 £600 +17.65% 16
East of England -29 5 £363 -30.95% 6
North West -36 3 £300 -29.41% 6
Midlands -71 3 £375 -46.43% 2
North of England -71 3 £300 -29.41% 12
East Midlands - 2 £325 -
Scotland -10 1 £550 +8.37% 2
West Midlands -65 1 £425 -39.29% 2

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (13.79%) Apache
2 6 (10.34%) Tomcat
3 4 (6.90%) Appian
3 4 (6.90%) JBoss
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (6.90%) WebLogic
4 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.72%) Confluence
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.72%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) InDesign
2 1 (1.72%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (41.38%) Azure
2 14 (24.14%) Entra ID
3 9 (15.52%) AWS
3 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.17%) Mimecast
5 3 (5.17%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.72%) Figma
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.72%) IaaS
7 1 (1.72%) n8n
7 1 (1.72%) PaaS
7 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.72%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) Internet
2 9 (15.52%) DNS
3 6 (10.34%) Firewall
4 4 (6.90%) DHCP
5 2 (3.45%) HTTP
5 2 (3.45%) LAN
5 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.45%) WAN
6 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.72%) SMTP
6 1 (1.72%) SSL
6 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (58.62%) SQL Server
2 18 (31.03%) Oracle Database
3 7 (12.07%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) ClickHouse
4 1 (1.72%) GIS
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.72%) Power BI
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.17%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) Postman
3 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.72%) MSI
4 1 (1.72%) Vite
4 1 (1.72%) webpack
General
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Banking
3 8 (13.79%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.17%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Front Office
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Developer
2 17 (29.31%) C# Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Applications Developer
3 8 (13.79%) C# Application Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Site Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) .NET Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Switch Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (51.72%) .NET
2 27 (46.55%) .NET Framework
3 14 (24.14%) WinForms
4 11 (18.97%) WPF
5 9 (15.52%) REST
6 6 (10.34%) React
7 4 (6.90%) CSS
7 4 (6.90%) JSON
7 4 (6.90%) SOAP
7 4 (6.90%) Web Services
8 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET
8 3 (5.17%) Entity Framework
8 3 (5.17%) Vue
8 3 (5.17%) WCF
9 2 (3.45%) HTML
9 2 (3.45%) LINQ
9 2 (3.45%) Material-UI
9 2 (3.45%) RESTful
9 2 (3.45%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (12.07%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (12.07%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (10.34%) Legacy Code
4 4 (6.90%) N-Tier
5 3 (5.17%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) PKI
7 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.72%) iPhone
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (79.31%) Windows
2 29 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.17%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Agile
1 24 (41.38%) DevOps
2 22 (37.93%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (22.41%) ITIL
4 12 (20.69%) Data Analysis
5 9 (15.52%) CI/CD
5 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) High Availability
6 8 (13.79%) Incident Response
6 8 (13.79%) Migration
7 7 (12.07%) Incident Management
7 7 (12.07%) OO
7 7 (12.07%) OOP
7 7 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.34%) Graceful Degradation
8 6 (10.34%) Runbook
8 6 (10.34%) Service-Level Objective
9 5 (8.62%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.00%) SQL
2 25 (43.10%) C#
3 21 (36.21%) T-SQL
4 18 (31.03%) PL/SQL
5 17 (29.31%) PowerShell
6 11 (18.97%) VB
6 11 (18.97%) VBA
7 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
8 5 (8.62%) Java
9 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
10 3 (5.17%) Bash
10 3 (5.17%) Python
11 2 (3.45%) Bicep
12 1 (1.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (34.48%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) COBIT
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.90%) Docker
3 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Ansible
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.17%) SCCM
4 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.72%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 24 (41.38%) Oracle
2 15 (25.86%) Citrix
3 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
4 6 (10.34%) SolarWinds
5 5 (8.62%) Cisco
5 5 (8.62%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.45%) VMware
8 1 (1.72%) Adobe
8 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.72%) Google
8 1 (1.72%) HP
8 1 (1.72%) IBM
8 1 (1.72%) Okta
8 1 (1.72%) Proofpoint