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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 445 453
Rank change year-on-year -68 +8 +125
Contract jobs citing IIS 65 89 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.74% 2.49% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 111
10th Percentile £300 £363 £350
25th Percentile £344 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% -3.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile £489 £529 £654
90th Percentile £660 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £24.39
90th Percentile - - £25.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.78

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 3,746 3,577 4,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 11.04% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,191 2,888
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 75 130
10th Percentile £15.37 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.28 £35.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +45.83% +34.38%
75th Percentile £68.90 £63.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.30 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year -35.98% +91.01% +27.36%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -59 62 £408 -9.44% 28
UK excluding London -71 35 £423 -15.50% 30
London -11 26 £408 +3.16% 3
Work from Home -2 18 £363 -19.44% 12
North of England -39 16 £446 +6.19% 10
North West -12 14 £433 +16.24% 4
East of England -9 6 £363 +11.54%
South West -12 5 £350 -24.32% 4
South East -32 4 £640 +28.00% 12
Midlands -46 4 £425 -39.29% 2
West Midlands -48 2 £466 -33.39%
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £325 - 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 23 (35.38%) Apache
2 12 (18.46%) WebSphere
3 11 (16.92%) JBoss
4 10 (15.38%) iPlanet
4 10 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (3.08%) Confluence
5 2 (3.08%) nginx
5 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
5 2 (3.08%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.54%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.54%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.54%) Maximo
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.62%) AWS
2 14 (21.54%) Azure
3 9 (13.85%) OpenShift
4 8 (12.31%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.62%) Mimecast
6 3 (4.62%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.08%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.54%) GCP
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.54%) n8n
8 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.54%) SaaS
8 1 (1.54%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) Internet
1 10 (15.38%) Kerberos
2 9 (13.85%) DNS
3 7 (10.77%) Firewall
4 6 (9.23%) DHCP
5 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.08%) HTTP
6 2 (3.08%) VPN
7 1 (1.54%) LAN
7 1 (1.54%) Network Security
7 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.54%) SSL
7 1 (1.54%) VLAN
7 1 (1.54%) VoIP
7 1 (1.54%) WAN
7 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (36.92%) Oracle Database
1 24 (36.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) OLTP
3 3 (4.62%) Data Mining
3 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.08%) Tableau
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) Big Data
5 1 (1.54%) DB2
5 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (27.69%) Jenkins
2 13 (20.00%) Git
3 11 (16.92%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (16.92%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (12.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.62%) JIRA
6 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (33.85%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Military
5 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) C# Developer
3 9 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) C# WCF Developer
4 7 (10.77%) C# WPF Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) WCF Developer
4 7 (10.77%) WPF Developer
5 6 (9.23%) Coordinator
5 6 (9.23%) Security Assurance Coordinator
5 6 (9.23%) Senior
6 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Switch Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.62%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.62%) .NET
2 14 (21.54%) .NET Framework
3 12 (18.46%) WinForms
4 11 (16.92%) OAuth
4 11 (16.92%) OpenID
4 11 (16.92%) SAML
5 10 (15.38%) LDAP
6 9 (13.85%) WPF
7 7 (10.77%) WCF
8 5 (7.69%) Middleware
8 5 (7.69%) REST
9 4 (6.15%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
10 3 (4.62%) React
10 3 (4.62%) Vue
10 3 (4.62%) XML
11 2 (3.08%) JSON
11 2 (3.08%) WF
12 1 (1.54%) ActiveMQ
12 1 (1.54%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) PKI
2 6 (9.23%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.62%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.54%) Clustering
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Derivative
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) IBM XIV
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (73.85%) Windows
2 34 (52.31%) Windows Server
3 11 (16.92%) Linux
4 9 (13.85%) Unix
5 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (38.46%) DevOps
2 23 (35.38%) Agile
3 19 (29.23%) ITIL
4 16 (24.62%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (13.85%) Data Analysis
8 8 (12.31%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (12.31%) Task Automation
9 7 (10.77%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (9.23%) Computer Science
10 6 (9.23%) Information Security
10 6 (9.23%) OO
10 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (7.69%) Change Management
11 5 (7.69%) OOP
11 5 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (7.69%) PRINCE2
11 5 (7.69%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.85%) SQL
2 19 (29.23%) C#
3 15 (23.08%) T-SQL
4 14 (21.54%) PL/SQL
5 11 (16.92%) Groovy
6 9 (13.85%) Java
6 9 (13.85%) Python
6 9 (13.85%) VB
6 9 (13.85%) VBA
7 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
7 8 (12.31%) Shell Script
8 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
9 4 (6.15%) Scala
10 3 (4.62%) Bash
11 1 (1.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.00%) Degree
3 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (9.23%) IISP
4 6 (9.23%) ISACA
5 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.54%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.54%) ISEB
7 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) SLA
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) COBIT
4 1 (1.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (32.31%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.00%) Docker
3 8 (12.31%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (9.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (15.38%) CA Wily
3 9 (13.85%) Progress Chef
4 8 (12.31%) Tivoli
5 7 (10.77%) Ansible
6 6 (9.23%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
8 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.62%) SCCM
8 3 (4.62%) WSUS
9 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (3.08%) NetApp OnCommand
9 2 (3.08%) RSA Archer
9 2 (3.08%) Terraform
9 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
9 2 (3.08%) vMotion
10 1 (1.54%) Ambari
10 1 (1.54%) Grafana
10 1 (1.54%) Puppet
10 1 (1.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (40.00%) Oracle
2 25 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 14 (21.54%) Citrix
4 12 (18.46%) IBM
5 11 (16.92%) Broadcom
6 10 (15.38%) AppDynamics
6 10 (15.38%) Splunk
7 6 (9.23%) SolarWinds
7 6 (9.23%) VMware
8 5 (7.69%) Cisco
8 5 (7.69%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.54%) Proofpoint