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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 457 468
Rank change year-on-year -92 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing IIS 74 63 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.76% 1.92% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 45 78
10th Percentile £356 £313 £313
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £569
90th Percentile £660 £550 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile - - £22.96
25th Percentile £19.25 - £23.28
Median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -90.25% +740.34% -62.81%
75th Percentile £19.75 - £25.03
90th Percentile - - £25.76
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 4,193 3,278 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.71% 11.16% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 2,180 2,885
10th Percentile £313 £280 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £684 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 69 160
10th Percentile £15.70 £16.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.03 £22.50 £15.45
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +57.88% -35.00%
75th Percentile £68.50 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.11 £52.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -33.12% +114.29% -10.91%

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 17 May 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 12 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 17 May 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 -105 67 £441 +3.82% 42
UK excluding London -99 38 £450 -13.46% 37
London -56 30 £408 +4.49% 16
Work from Home -22 19 £438 -2.78% 25
South West -20 14 £438 -23.91% 5
South East -62 11 £620 +19.23% 10
East of England -26 5 £363 -20.11% 3
North West -39 4 £300 -7.69% 4
North of England -69 4 £300 -7.69% 8
Scotland +1 2 £550 +37.50% 1
West Midlands -64 2 £450 -30.77% 2
Midlands -70 2 £450 -30.77% 3

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 (10.81%) Apache
2 6 (8.11%) Tomcat
3 4 (5.41%) Appian
3 4 (5.41%) JBoss
3 4 (5.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (5.41%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.08%) Azure
2 12 (16.22%) Entra ID
3 11 (14.86%) AWS
4 9 (12.16%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.05%) Mimecast
7 3 (4.05%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.35%) Figma
8 1 (1.35%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.35%) IaaS
8 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) DNS
1 13 (17.57%) Internet
2 8 (10.81%) DHCP
3 5 (6.76%) Firewall
4 3 (4.05%) HTTPS
4 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.70%) LAN
5 2 (2.70%) SSL
5 2 (2.70%) WAN
5 2 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.35%) HTTP
6 1 (1.35%) NAS
6 1 (1.35%) SAN
6 1 (1.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (58.11%) SQL Server
2 19 (25.68%) Oracle Database
3 8 (10.81%) Relational Database
4 7 (9.46%) Oracle BI EE
4 7 (9.46%) Power BI
4 7 (9.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.70%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.35%) GIS
6 1 (1.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (12.16%) JIRA
2 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.05%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.70%) Git
3 2 (2.70%) Postman
3 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.70%) Vite
4 1 (1.35%) MSI
4 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 27 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.32%) Banking
3 15 (20.27%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Front Office
5 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.05%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.05%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (41.89%) Developer
2 20 (27.03%) C# Developer
3 8 (10.81%) Applications Developer
3 8 (10.81%) C# Application Developer
3 8 (10.81%) Site Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) .NET Developer
5 6 (8.11%) 1st Line Support
6 5 (6.76%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Network Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Senior
6 5 (6.76%) Switch Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Architect
7 4 (5.41%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Junior
8 3 (4.05%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (45.95%) .NET
2 28 (37.84%) .NET Framework
3 15 (20.27%) WinForms
4 12 (16.22%) REST
4 12 (16.22%) WPF
5 8 (10.81%) React
6 6 (8.11%) XML
7 5 (6.76%) JSON
8 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.41%) CSS
8 4 (5.41%) SOAP
8 4 (5.41%) Vue
8 4 (5.41%) Web Services
9 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.05%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.05%) HTML
9 3 (4.05%) SignalR
10 2 (2.70%) Node.js
10 2 (2.70%) SAML
10 2 (2.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (10.81%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (8.11%) Legacy Code
5 5 (6.76%) PKI
6 4 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (5.41%) N-Tier
7 3 (4.05%) Client/Server
8 2 (2.70%) Clustering
8 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.70%) iPhone
9 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.35%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 57 (77.03%) Windows
2 36 (48.65%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.05%) Linux
6 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) Agile
2 24 (32.43%) DevOps
3 23 (31.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (29.73%) ITIL
5 14 (18.92%) Data Analysis
6 13 (17.57%) Change Management
7 11 (14.86%) High Availability
7 11 (14.86%) Incident Response
7 11 (14.86%) Runbook
8 10 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (12.16%) AI
9 9 (12.16%) Analytics
9 9 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (10.81%) Incident Management
10 8 (10.81%) Migration
10 8 (10.81%) PRINCE2
10 8 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (9.46%) OO
11 7 (9.46%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 32 (43.24%) C#
2 31 (41.89%) SQL
3 24 (32.43%) PowerShell
4 21 (28.38%) T-SQL
5 18 (24.32%) PL/SQL
6 13 (17.57%) JavaScript
7 12 (16.22%) VB
7 12 (16.22%) VBA
8 10 (13.51%) Python
9 7 (9.46%) Java
10 6 (8.11%) C++
11 5 (6.76%) Bash
11 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) Degree
4 3 (4.05%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.05%) PMP
5 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (29.73%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) SLA
3 3 (4.05%) GDPR
3 3 (4.05%) GRC
3 3 (4.05%) HIPAA
3 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.05%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.35%) DICOM
4 1 (1.35%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (29.73%) Active Directory
2 11 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.76%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.41%) Docker
5 2 (2.70%) XenApp
5 2 (2.70%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) Ansible
2 5 (6.76%) SCCM
2 5 (6.76%) Terraform
3 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.05%) WSUS
5 2 (2.70%) AirWatch
5 2 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.35%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.35%) vMotion
Vendors
1 31 (41.89%) Oracle
2 19 (25.68%) Citrix
3 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 12 (16.22%) VMware
4 6 (8.11%) SolarWinds
5 5 (6.76%) Cisco
5 5 (6.76%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.70%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.70%) HP
7 2 (2.70%) IBM
7 2 (2.70%) Okta
8 1 (1.35%) Adobe
8 1 (1.35%) Google
8 1 (1.35%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.35%) Progress