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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 472 489
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 +123
Contract jobs citing IIS 75 101 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.10% 2.46% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 110
10th Percentile £308 £331 £350
25th Percentile £394 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £425 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -24.78% +18.95%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £769
90th Percentile £600 £675 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -6.17% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £32.40
25th Percentile - - £40.84
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £54.89
Median % change year-on-year - -56.64% -4.54%
75th Percentile - - £68.95
90th Percentile - - £77.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.78
% change year-on-year - - -53.43%

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 3,566 4,108 5,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 10.74% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,310 2,704 3,481
10th Percentile £277 £264 £256
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £643
90th Percentile £706 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 161
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +141.38%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £46.09
% change year-on-year -21.68% +5.36% +142.58%

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
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 September 2025.

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 14 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 September 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 +12 72 £450 +5.88% 58
UK excluding London +5 44 £475 -6.17% 53
London +2 28 £408 +8.67% 13
North of England +1 21 £450 -20.00% 12
North West 0 16 £448 +6.67% 8
South East +20 8 £600 -10.71% 17
Work from Home -7 8 £496 -11.82% 32
East of England +4 6 £550 +60.58% 3
Yorkshire -11 5 £475 -15.56% 2
South West +17 4 £338 -48.08% 3
West Midlands -15 3 £404 -39.92% 4
Midlands -16 3 £404 -39.92% 12
Scotland -8 1 £550 +35.38% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £520 -

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 28 (37.33%) Apache
2 18 (24.00%) WebSphere
3 11 (14.67%) JBoss
4 10 (13.33%) iPlanet
4 10 (13.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
6 4 (5.33%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (4.00%) nginx
8 2 (2.67%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (2.67%) Skype for Business
8 2 (2.67%) Tomcat
9 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
9 1 (1.33%) Appian
9 1 (1.33%) Camunda
9 1 (1.33%) Confluence
9 1 (1.33%) Jupyter
9 1 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.33%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Maximo
2 1 (1.33%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) AWS
2 10 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.33%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.33%) PowerApps
4 4 (5.33%) ShareGate
5 3 (4.00%) Azure
5 3 (4.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.67%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.33%) OCI
7 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.33%) DNS
2 10 (13.33%) Kerberos
3 9 (12.00%) Internet
4 7 (9.33%) DHCP
5 5 (6.67%) SMTP
6 3 (4.00%) Firewall
6 3 (4.00%) HTTP
6 3 (4.00%) VPN
7 2 (2.67%) HTTPS
7 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.67%) VLAN
7 2 (2.67%) VoIP
8 1 (1.33%) DECT
8 1 (1.33%) NAS
8 1 (1.33%) Network Security
8 1 (1.33%) SAN
8 1 (1.33%) SNMP
8 1 (1.33%) SSL
8 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.33%) SQL Server
2 19 (25.33%) Oracle Database
3 7 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (9.33%) DB2
4 4 (5.33%) OLTP
4 4 (5.33%) Tableau
5 3 (4.00%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.33%) Big Data
7 1 (1.33%) MySQL
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Git
2 12 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (14.67%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (10.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.33%) JIRA
5 1 (1.33%) JMeter
5 1 (1.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.33%) Subversion
General
1 22 (29.33%) Finance
2 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.00%) Military
5 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (16.00%) Developer
2 9 (12.00%) C# Developer
2 9 (12.00%) C# WCF Developer
2 9 (12.00%) C# WPF Developer
2 9 (12.00%) Consultant
2 9 (12.00%) WCF Developer
2 9 (12.00%) WPF Developer
3 7 (9.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (9.33%) Maximo Consultant
4 6 (8.00%) Coordinator
4 6 (8.00%) Security Assurance Coordinator
4 6 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Analyst
6 3 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Software Engineering Manager
6 3 (4.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) .NET
2 16 (21.33%) .NET Framework
3 11 (14.67%) OAuth
3 11 (14.67%) OpenID
3 11 (14.67%) SAML
3 11 (14.67%) Web Services
3 11 (14.67%) XML
4 10 (13.33%) LDAP
5 9 (12.00%) Middleware
5 9 (12.00%) SOAP
5 9 (12.00%) WCF
5 9 (12.00%) WinForms
5 9 (12.00%) WPF
6 4 (5.33%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (5.33%) YAML
7 3 (4.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.00%) HTML
7 3 (4.00%) MSMQ
8 2 (2.67%) JSON
8 2 (2.67%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) PKI
2 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.00%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.67%) Derivative
4 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.67%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.33%) Clustering
5 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.33%) IBM XIV
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (61.33%) Windows
2 34 (45.33%) Windows Server
3 15 (20.00%) Linux
4 8 (10.67%) Unix
5 6 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.67%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.33%) AIX
8 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.67%) Agile
2 25 (33.33%) DevOps
3 21 (28.00%) ITIL
4 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (24.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (13.33%) Change Management
8 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (12.00%) Data Analysis
8 9 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (12.00%) Service Management
8 9 (12.00%) Workflow
9 8 (10.67%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (10.67%) Migration
9 8 (10.67%) Problem Management
9 8 (10.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (10.67%) Service Design
10 7 (9.33%) ITSM
10 7 (9.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) SQL
2 16 (21.33%) PowerShell
2 16 (21.33%) Python
3 14 (18.67%) C#
4 11 (14.67%) Groovy
4 11 (14.67%) PL/SQL
4 11 (14.67%) VB
5 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.33%) T-SQL
6 9 (12.00%) Java
6 9 (12.00%) VBA
7 8 (10.67%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.33%) Scala
9 3 (4.00%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.33%) Bash
10 1 (1.33%) Perl
10 1 (1.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 31 (41.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.67%) Degree
4 9 (12.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.00%) IISP
5 6 (8.00%) ISACA
6 3 (4.00%) PMP
7 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.67%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (1.33%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.67%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (37.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (13.33%) Docker
4 8 (10.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 8 (10.67%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (8.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (13.33%) CA Wily
3 9 (12.00%) Progress Chef
4 8 (10.67%) Ansible
4 8 (10.67%) Tivoli
5 6 (8.00%) WSUS
6 5 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (5.33%) NetApp OnCommand
7 4 (5.33%) vCenter Server
7 4 (5.33%) vMotion
8 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
9 2 (2.67%) Grafana
9 2 (2.67%) RSA Archer
9 2 (2.67%) SCCM
9 2 (2.67%) SCOM
9 2 (2.67%) WMI
10 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (41.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (30.67%) Oracle
3 20 (26.67%) IBM
4 13 (17.33%) VMware
5 11 (14.67%) Broadcom
5 11 (14.67%) Citrix
6 10 (13.33%) AppDynamics
6 10 (13.33%) Splunk
7 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.67%) Cisco
8 2 (2.67%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.67%) HP
9 1 (1.33%) EMC
9 1 (1.33%) Mitel
9 1 (1.33%) NetApp
9 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.33%) Spotify
9 1 (1.33%) Veeam
9 1 (1.33%) Veritas