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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 449 471
Rank change year-on-year -53 +22 +134
Contract jobs citing IIS 70 101 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.88% 2.51% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 56 120
10th Percentile £304 £363 £346
25th Percentile £382 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £677
90th Percentile £600 £681 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.40% +2.04% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.48
25th Percentile - - £23.20
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £24.39
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -67.20%
75th Percentile - - £25.59
90th Percentile - - £26.30
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 3,717 4,028 4,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 11.11% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,489 2,501 3,243
10th Percentile £288 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £463 £470
% change year-on-year +0.54% -1.60% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 79 147
10th Percentile £16.47 £19.88 £15.44
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.18 £18.81
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% +34.15%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.36 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -30.00% +86.71% +48.78%

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 10 November 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 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 10 November 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 -31 67 £450 -2.70% 67
UK excluding London -47 40 £473 -5.40% 45
London -2 25 £408 -1.21% 32
North of England -15 21 £450 +2.97% 9
North West +3 16 £448 +6.67% 8
Work from Home +4 11 £425 -10.53% 51
South West 0 5 £350 -37.08% 5
South East -8 5 £600 -9.09% 17
East of England -16 5 £550 +61.76% 6
Yorkshire - 5 £475 - 1
Midlands -30 4 £425 -36.90% 4
West Midlands -34 2 £466 -30.77%
East Midlands - 2 £325 - 4

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 28 (40.00%) Apache
2 18 (25.71%) WebSphere
3 11 (15.71%) JBoss
4 10 (14.29%) iPlanet
4 10 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (2.86%) Confluence
6 2 (2.86%) nginx
6 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.86%) Skype for Business
6 2 (2.86%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.43%) Appian
7 1 (1.43%) Camunda
7 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (1.43%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.43%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Maximo
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.43%) OpenText MBPM
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.86%) AWS
2 10 (14.29%) Azure
3 9 (12.86%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.86%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.43%) GCP
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.43%) n8n
6 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.43%) SaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.29%) DNS
1 10 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 9 (12.86%) Internet
3 4 (5.71%) DHCP
3 4 (5.71%) SMTP
4 2 (2.86%) Firewall
4 2 (2.86%) HTTP
4 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.86%) VPN
5 1 (1.43%) LAN
5 1 (1.43%) Network Security
5 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.43%) VLAN
5 1 (1.43%) VoIP
5 1 (1.43%) WAN
5 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 21 (30.00%) Oracle Database
3 7 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (10.00%) DB2
4 4 (5.71%) OLTP
5 3 (4.29%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.86%) Tableau
7 1 (1.43%) Big Data
7 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.57%) Git
3 11 (15.71%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (15.71%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (11.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.86%) JIRA
6 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (31.43%) Finance
2 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Military
4 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Police
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (20.00%) Developer
2 10 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 9 (12.86%) C# WCF Developer
3 9 (12.86%) C# WPF Developer
3 9 (12.86%) WCF Developer
3 9 (12.86%) WPF Developer
4 8 (11.43%) Consultant
4 8 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Maximo Consultant
6 6 (8.57%) Coordinator
6 6 (8.57%) Security Assurance Coordinator
6 6 (8.57%) Senior
7 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Administrator
9 3 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Software Engineering Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.86%) .NET
2 14 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 11 (15.71%) OAuth
3 11 (15.71%) OpenID
3 11 (15.71%) SAML
3 11 (15.71%) XML
4 10 (14.29%) LDAP
5 9 (12.86%) WCF
5 9 (12.86%) WinForms
5 9 (12.86%) WPF
6 8 (11.43%) SOAP
6 8 (11.43%) Web Services
7 6 (8.57%) Middleware
8 5 (7.14%) YAML
9 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
9 4 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (4.29%) MSMQ
11 2 (2.86%) JSON
11 2 (2.86%) REST
11 2 (2.86%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) PKI
2 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.29%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.86%) Derivative
3 2 (2.86%) OTC Derivatives
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
4 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) IBM XIV
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (60.00%) Windows
2 29 (41.43%) Windows Server
3 11 (15.71%) Linux
4 9 (12.86%) Unix
5 4 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) DevOps
2 20 (28.57%) Agile
3 19 (27.14%) CI/CD
4 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.00%) ITIL
6 10 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (12.86%) Data Analysis
7 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (11.43%) Task Automation
8 8 (11.43%) Workflow
9 7 (10.00%) CAFM
9 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.00%) Facilities Management
9 7 (10.00%) ITSM
9 7 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (10.00%) Service Design
9 7 (10.00%) Service Management
9 7 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) SQL
2 15 (21.43%) Python
3 14 (20.00%) C#
4 11 (15.71%) Groovy
4 11 (15.71%) PL/SQL
4 11 (15.71%) T-SQL
5 9 (12.86%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.86%) VB
5 9 (12.86%) VBA
6 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.43%) Shell Script
7 7 (10.00%) Java
8 4 (5.71%) Scala
9 3 (4.29%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.14%) Degree
4 7 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.57%) IISP
5 6 (8.57%) ISACA
6 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.29%) PMP
8 1 (1.43%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.43%) ISEB
8 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.29%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) COBIT
4 1 (1.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 10 (14.29%) Docker
2 10 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.43%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 7 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (14.29%) CA Wily
3 9 (12.86%) Progress Chef
4 8 (11.43%) Tivoli
5 6 (8.57%) Ansible
6 5 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (5.71%) WSUS
8 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (4.29%) NetApp OnCommand
8 3 (4.29%) vCenter Server
8 3 (4.29%) vMotion
9 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
9 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.86%) RSA Archer
9 2 (2.86%) SCCM
9 2 (2.86%) Terraform
9 2 (2.86%) WMI
10 1 (1.43%) Ambari
10 1 (1.43%) Puppet
10 1 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (32.86%) Oracle
3 18 (25.71%) IBM
4 11 (15.71%) Broadcom
4 11 (15.71%) Citrix
5 10 (14.29%) AppDynamics
5 10 (14.29%) Splunk
5 10 (14.29%) VMware
6 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.43%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.43%) Spotify