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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 465 461
Rank change year-on-year -41 -4 +140
Contract jobs citing IIS 73 99 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.89% 2.46% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 54 126
10th Percentile £305 £363 £350
25th Percentile £371 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £675
90th Percentile £600 £684 £792
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.80% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.18% -70.41%
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 3,854 4,027 4,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 11.04% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 2,492 3,134
10th Percentile £283 £262 £250
25th Percentile £400 £392 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £625
90th Percentile £713 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.85% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 83 138
10th Percentile £17.33 £18.00 £14.83
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £17.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +35.78% +39.74%
75th Percentile £69.25 £64.73 £65.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.45 £75.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £47.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +97.92% +37.14%

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 21 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 21 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 -24 70 £436 -5.84% 88
UK excluding London -51 40 £471 -5.80% 55
London -16 28 £408 +1.88% 39
North of England -28 19 £452 +3.32% 20
North West -3 15 £450 +7.14% 17
Work from Home +2 14 £363 -23.68% 57
East of England -8 7 £550 +61.76% 5
South West -6 5 £350 -37.08% 5
South East -12 5 £600 +3.45% 22
Midlands -35 4 £425 -36.90% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £475 - 3
West Midlands -31 2 £466 -30.77% 1
East Midlands - 2 £325 - 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 30 (41.10%) Apache
2 18 (24.66%) WebSphere
3 11 (15.07%) JBoss
4 10 (13.70%) iPlanet
4 10 (13.70%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (2.74%) Confluence
6 2 (2.74%) nginx
6 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.74%) Skype for Business
6 2 (2.74%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.37%) Appian
7 1 (1.37%) Camunda
7 1 (1.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (1.37%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.37%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Maximo
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.37%) OpenText MBPM
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.92%) AWS
2 11 (15.07%) Azure
3 9 (12.33%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.11%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.74%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.37%) GCP
7 1 (1.37%) GitHub
7 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.37%) n8n
7 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.37%) SaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.07%) DNS
2 10 (13.70%) Internet
2 10 (13.70%) Kerberos
3 5 (6.85%) DHCP
4 4 (5.48%) Firewall
4 4 (5.48%) SMTP
5 2 (2.74%) HTTP
5 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.74%) VPN
6 1 (1.37%) LAN
6 1 (1.37%) Network Security
6 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.37%) VLAN
6 1 (1.37%) VoIP
6 1 (1.37%) WAN
6 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (43.84%) SQL Server
2 23 (31.51%) Oracle Database
3 7 (9.59%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (9.59%) DB2
4 4 (5.48%) OLTP
5 3 (4.11%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.74%) Tableau
7 1 (1.37%) Big Data
7 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (21.92%) Jenkins
2 13 (17.81%) Git
3 11 (15.07%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (15.07%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (10.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.74%) JIRA
6 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (30.14%) Finance
2 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Banking
3 6 (8.22%) Military
4 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Police
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Developer
2 13 (17.81%) C# Developer
3 10 (13.70%) C# WCF Developer
3 10 (13.70%) C# WPF Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (13.70%) WCF Developer
3 10 (13.70%) WPF Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Consultant
4 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Maximo Consultant
6 6 (8.22%) Coordinator
6 6 (8.22%) Security Assurance Coordinator
6 6 (8.22%) Senior
7 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Monitoring Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Software Engineering Manager
10 2 (2.74%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) .NET
2 16 (21.92%) .NET Framework
3 11 (15.07%) OAuth
3 11 (15.07%) OpenID
3 11 (15.07%) SAML
3 11 (15.07%) WinForms
3 11 (15.07%) XML
4 10 (13.70%) LDAP
4 10 (13.70%) WCF
4 10 (13.70%) WPF
5 8 (10.96%) SOAP
5 8 (10.96%) Web Services
6 6 (8.22%) Middleware
7 5 (6.85%) YAML
8 4 (5.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET
10 2 (2.74%) JSON
10 2 (2.74%) MSMQ
10 2 (2.74%) REST
10 2 (2.74%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) PKI
2 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.74%) Derivative
3 2 (2.74%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.74%) OTC Derivatives
3 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.37%) Clustering
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) IBM XIV
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (63.01%) Windows
2 31 (42.47%) Windows Server
3 11 (15.07%) Linux
4 9 (12.33%) Unix
5 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) DevOps
2 23 (31.51%) Agile
3 21 (28.77%) CI/CD
4 15 (20.55%) ITIL
4 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (13.70%) Data Analysis
8 8 (10.96%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (10.96%) Task Automation
8 8 (10.96%) Workflow
9 7 (9.59%) CAFM
9 7 (9.59%) Facilities Management
9 7 (9.59%) ITSM
9 7 (9.59%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (9.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (9.59%) Service Design
9 7 (9.59%) Service Management
9 7 (9.59%) System Testing
10 6 (8.22%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.99%) SQL
2 17 (23.29%) C#
3 15 (20.55%) Python
4 14 (19.18%) PL/SQL
4 14 (19.18%) T-SQL
5 11 (15.07%) Groovy
6 10 (13.70%) VB
6 10 (13.70%) VBA
7 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
8 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
8 8 (10.96%) Shell Script
9 7 (9.59%) Java
10 4 (5.48%) Scala
11 2 (2.74%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.37%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 25 (34.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.81%) Degree
4 7 (9.59%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.22%) IISP
5 6 (8.22%) ISACA
6 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.74%) PMP
8 1 (1.37%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.37%) ISEB
8 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.03%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) SLA
3 2 (2.74%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) COBIT
4 1 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (34.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.70%) Docker
3 9 (12.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (10.96%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (8.22%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.07%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (13.70%) CA Wily
3 9 (12.33%) Progress Chef
4 8 (10.96%) Ansible
4 8 (10.96%) Tivoli
5 5 (6.85%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.11%) WSUS
7 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.74%) NetApp OnCommand
7 2 (2.74%) RSA Archer
7 2 (2.74%) SCCM
7 2 (2.74%) Terraform
7 2 (2.74%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.74%) vMotion
7 2 (2.74%) WMI
8 1 (1.37%) Ambari
8 1 (1.37%) Grafana
8 1 (1.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (41.10%) Microsoft
2 26 (35.62%) Oracle
3 18 (24.66%) IBM
4 13 (17.81%) Citrix
5 11 (15.07%) Broadcom
6 10 (13.70%) AppDynamics
6 10 (13.70%) Splunk
7 9 (12.33%) VMware
8 2 (2.74%) Cisco
8 2 (2.74%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.37%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.37%) Spotify