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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 487 478
Rank change year-on-year -107 -9 +20
Contract jobs citing IIS 92 74 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.99% 2.08% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 53 60
10th Percentile £404 £307 £329
25th Percentile £413 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +5.88% -24.44%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £570
90th Percentile £615 £600 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.17% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £92.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £92.11 - -

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 4,618 3,565 4,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.54% 10.90% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,034 2,308 2,765
10th Percentile £289 £278 £275
25th Percentile £404 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £718 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.56% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 93 89
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.44 £25.00 £23.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +18.43% -35.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.20 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £48.56
% change year-on-year -24.58% -11.26% +5.57%

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 6 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IIS in the UK

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 6 September 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 -106 75 £450 - 75
London -59 41 £449 +10.12% 23
UK excluding London -105 37 £450 -5.26% 58
Work from Home -41 23 £480 -4.00% 38
South West -31 12 £438 +29.63% 6
South East -73 7 £550 -8.33% 16
East of England -23 6 - - 18
Scotland -25 4 £513 -6.82% 1
West Midlands -44 4 £450 +11.46% 2
Midlands -54 4 £450 +11.46% 7
North of England -86 4 £625 +40.13% 11
North West -66 3 - - 9
Yorkshire -41 1 £625 +31.58%

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 12 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.52%) Apache
3 5 (5.43%) Appian
3 5 (5.43%) Camunda
3 5 (5.43%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (5.43%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.26%) nginx
5 2 (2.17%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (5.43%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.96%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) AWS
3 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.52%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.26%) Cloudflare
7 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.17%) GCP
8 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.09%) GitHub
9 1 (1.09%) IaaS
9 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.09%) n8n
9 1 (1.09%) NuGet
9 1 (1.09%) PaaS
9 1 (1.09%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.09%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.30%) DNS
2 13 (14.13%) Internet
3 6 (6.52%) DHCP
3 6 (6.52%) HTTP
3 6 (6.52%) HTTPS
4 4 (4.35%) Firewall
4 4 (4.35%) SAN
5 3 (3.26%) LAN
5 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.26%) WAN
6 2 (2.17%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.17%) DMZ
6 2 (2.17%) Intranet
6 2 (2.17%) NAS
6 2 (2.17%) SSL
6 2 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.09%) Network Security
7 1 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (64.13%) SQL Server
2 19 (20.65%) Oracle Database
3 14 (15.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (8.70%) MS Access
5 7 (7.61%) Oracle BI EE
5 7 (7.61%) Power BI
6 6 (6.52%) MySQL
7 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.17%) ClickHouse
10 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.17%) OLAP
10 2 (2.17%) OLTP
11 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (11.96%) Git
2 10 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.87%) JIRA
3 7 (7.61%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (7.61%) Visual Studio
4 6 (6.52%) TeamCity
5 5 (5.43%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.17%) Vite
8 1 (1.09%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.09%) NUnit
8 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.09%) Postman
8 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.74%) Finance
3 15 (16.30%) Banking
4 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.43%) Back Office
6 5 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.35%) Front Office
7 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.09%) Law
9 1 (1.09%) Legal
9 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (42.39%) Developer
2 22 (23.91%) C# Developer
3 9 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 8 (8.70%) Security Engineer
4 8 (8.70%) Site Engineer
4 8 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 7 (7.61%) .NET Developer
5 7 (7.61%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (6.52%) Lead
7 5 (5.43%) BPM Developer
7 5 (5.43%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Lead Software Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.43%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Junior
8 4 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (48.91%) .NET
2 32 (34.78%) .NET Framework
3 19 (20.65%) WinForms
4 16 (17.39%) JSON
4 16 (17.39%) XML
5 14 (15.22%) ASP.NET
6 11 (11.96%) HTML
6 11 (11.96%) WPF
7 10 (10.87%) ASP.NET Web API
7 10 (10.87%) REST
8 9 (9.78%) Terraform
8 9 (9.78%) XSLT
9 7 (7.61%) LDAP
9 7 (7.61%) WCF
10 6 (6.52%) Regular Expression
11 5 (5.43%) Apache FOP
12 4 (4.35%) Web Services
12 4 (4.35%) YAML
13 3 (3.26%) ADO.NET
13 3 (3.26%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (9.78%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.52%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (6.52%) Legacy Code
3 6 (6.52%) PKI
3 6 (6.52%) Replication
4 5 (5.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Clustering
7 2 (2.17%) CSOC
7 2 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.17%) iPhone
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.17%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.17%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 76 (82.61%) Windows
2 36 (39.13%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.87%) Linux
3 10 (10.87%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.26%) CentOS
5 3 (3.26%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.17%) Unix
6 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.09%) VMS
7 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.87%) DevOps
2 20 (21.74%) AI
3 19 (20.65%) Change Management
3 19 (20.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (19.57%) Agile
5 17 (18.48%) Data Analysis
5 17 (18.48%) ITIL
5 17 (18.48%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (17.39%) Runbook
7 14 (15.22%) Incident Response
8 12 (13.04%) Generative AI
9 10 (10.87%) High Availability
9 10 (10.87%) OO
9 10 (10.87%) OOP
9 10 (10.87%) Roadmaps
9 10 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (9.78%) Computer Science
10 9 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (9.78%) Data Protection
10 9 (9.78%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.57%) C#
2 38 (41.30%) SQL
3 35 (38.04%) PowerShell
4 28 (30.43%) PL/SQL
4 28 (30.43%) T-SQL
5 20 (21.74%) Python
6 19 (20.65%) VBA
7 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
8 11 (11.96%) VB
9 8 (8.70%) VB.NET
10 7 (7.61%) XPath
11 6 (6.52%) Bash
12 5 (5.43%) C++
12 5 (5.43%) VBScript
13 3 (3.26%) Java
14 2 (2.17%) Bicep
14 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
15 1 (1.09%) CodeQL
15 1 (1.09%) F#
15 1 (1.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 26 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.39%) Degree
4 5 (5.43%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.43%) PMP
5 4 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.17%) CCSP
6 2 (2.17%) CISA
6 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.17%) CISM
6 2 (2.17%) CISSP
6 2 (2.17%) CLAS
6 2 (2.17%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.17%) IISP
6 2 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.74%) QA
2 10 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.70%) PCI DSS
4 7 (7.61%) GDPR
4 7 (7.61%) GRC
5 5 (5.43%) HIPAA
5 5 (5.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (5.43%) SLA
6 2 (2.17%) ISO 31000
6 2 (2.17%) ISO 9001
6 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (2.17%) NIST
7 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.09%) DICOM
7 1 (1.09%) HL7
System Software
1 30 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 19 (20.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (9.78%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.52%) NFS
6 3 (3.26%) Docker
6 3 (3.26%) Dovecot
6 3 (3.26%) Postfix
7 2 (2.17%) ISA Server
7 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.17%) XenApp
7 2 (2.17%) XenDesktop
8 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (7.61%) Ansible
2 5 (5.43%) SCCM
3 3 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (3.26%) HAProxy
3 3 (3.26%) WSUS
4 2 (2.17%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.17%) CASB
4 2 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.09%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (1.09%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.09%) vMotion
Vendors
1 37 (40.22%) Oracle
2 24 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 20 (21.74%) Citrix
4 19 (20.65%) VMware
5 5 (5.43%) Cisco
5 5 (5.43%) F5
5 5 (5.43%) OpenText
6 3 (3.26%) HP
6 3 (3.26%) IBM
6 3 (3.26%) Juniper
6 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.17%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.17%) Centrify
7 2 (2.17%) Google
7 2 (2.17%) Okta
7 2 (2.17%) Qualys
7 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.17%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.17%) Splunk
7 2 (2.17%) Tripwire