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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 477 474
Rank change year-on-year -98 -3 +32
Contract jobs citing IIS 88 68 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.91% 1.91% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 48 70
10th Percentile £404 £359 £332
25th Percentile £416 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +6.38% -10.48%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £575
90th Percentile £613 £591 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -15.91% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -90.25% +740.34% -62.81%
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 -
% change year-on-year -90.25% - -

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 4,601 3,567 4,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.93% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,034 2,328 3,009
10th Percentile £306 £288 £263
25th Percentile £404 £395 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £507
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.57% +1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 87 137
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.79
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.02 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +42.09% -38.10%
75th Percentile £62.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.70 £78.72 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £30.91
% change year-on-year -25.72% +52.43% -22.72%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -95 69 £450 -10.00% 24
London -58 39 £445 +9.20% 3
UK excluding London -114 34 £463 -15.91% 23
Work from Home -43 22 £500 - 11
South West -23 14 £438 -23.91% 2
South East -65 8 £475 -12.84% 7
Scotland -14 5 £550 +37.50% 1
North of England -78 4 £625 +47.06% 6
North West -49 3 - - 4
Midlands -55 3 £450 -15.89% 5
West Midlands -56 3 £450 -15.89% 3
Yorkshire -50 1 £625 - 1

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 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 8 (9.09%) Tomcat
3 7 (7.95%) Apache
3 7 (7.95%) Appian
4 6 (6.82%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (5.68%) Camunda
6 3 (3.41%) nginx
6 3 (3.41%) WebSphere
7 2 (2.27%) JBoss
7 2 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (2.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.14%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (5.68%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.50%) Azure
2 17 (19.32%) AWS
3 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
3 9 (10.23%) Entra ID
4 8 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.41%) Cloudflare
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.14%) Figma
7 1 (1.14%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.14%) IaaS
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.14%) PaaS
7 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.05%) DNS
2 13 (14.77%) Internet
3 6 (6.82%) DHCP
3 6 (6.82%) HTTPS
4 4 (4.55%) SAN
5 3 (3.41%) Firewall
5 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.27%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.27%) DMZ
6 2 (2.27%) Intranet
6 2 (2.27%) LAN
6 2 (2.27%) NAS
6 2 (2.27%) SSL
6 2 (2.27%) WAN
6 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.14%) HTTP
7 1 (1.14%) Network Security
7 1 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.14%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (67.05%) SQL Server
2 20 (22.73%) Oracle Database
3 15 (17.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (9.09%) MS Access
4 8 (9.09%) Oracle BI EE
4 8 (9.09%) Power BI
5 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.82%) MySQL
7 4 (4.55%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.27%) ClickHouse
9 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.27%) OLAP
9 2 (2.27%) OLTP
10 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.14%) GIS
10 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Git
2 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.23%) JIRA
3 8 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 7 (7.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (5.68%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.55%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.27%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.27%) Postman
7 2 (2.27%) Vite
8 1 (1.14%) MSI
8 1 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 31 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.59%) Finance
3 18 (20.45%) Banking
4 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.55%) Front Office
7 4 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.14%) Legal
9 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (50.00%) Developer
2 22 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 9 (10.23%) .NET Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 7 (7.95%) 1st Line Support
5 7 (7.95%) Lead
6 6 (6.82%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (6.82%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Applications Developer
7 5 (5.68%) BPM Developer
7 5 (5.68%) C# Application Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Lead Software Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Senior
7 5 (5.68%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (51.14%) .NET
2 33 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 19 (21.59%) WinForms
4 16 (18.18%) XML
5 14 (15.91%) ASP.NET
6 12 (13.64%) JSON
7 11 (12.50%) HTML
7 11 (12.50%) REST
7 11 (12.50%) WPF
8 10 (11.36%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (10.23%) XSLT
10 7 (7.95%) WCF
11 5 (5.68%) Apache FOP
11 5 (5.68%) Web Services
12 4 (4.55%) React
12 4 (4.55%) SOAP
13 3 (3.41%) ADO.NET
13 3 (3.41%) CSS
13 3 (3.41%) LAMP
13 3 (3.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (10.23%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.95%) PKI
5 6 (6.82%) Legacy Code
5 6 (6.82%) Replication
6 4 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) Clustering
7 2 (2.27%) iPhone
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.27%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.14%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 67 (76.14%) Windows
2 31 (35.23%) Windows Server
3 9 (10.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (9.09%) Linux
5 6 (6.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.41%) CentOS
6 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.27%) Unix
7 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) DevOps
2 21 (23.86%) Agile
2 21 (23.86%) Change Management
2 21 (23.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (20.45%) Data Analysis
3 18 (20.45%) ITIL
4 16 (18.18%) AI
5 15 (17.05%) Runbook
6 13 (14.77%) Generative AI
6 13 (14.77%) Incident Response
7 11 (12.50%) High Availability
7 11 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (11.36%) Analytics
8 10 (11.36%) OO
8 10 (11.36%) OOP
8 10 (11.36%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (11.36%) Workflow
9 9 (10.23%) Migration
10 8 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (9.09%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.59%) C#
1 41 (46.59%) SQL
2 31 (35.23%) T-SQL
3 30 (34.09%) PL/SQL
4 28 (31.82%) PowerShell
5 19 (21.59%) VBA
6 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 12 (13.64%) Python
7 11 (12.50%) VB
8 8 (9.09%) VB.NET
9 7 (7.95%) XPath
10 6 (6.82%) C++
11 5 (5.68%) Bash
11 5 (5.68%) Java
11 5 (5.68%) VBScript
12 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
13 1 (1.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.77%) Degree
4 5 (5.68%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.68%) PMP
5 4 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.73%) QA
2 7 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.68%) GDPR
3 5 (5.68%) GRC
3 5 (5.68%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.68%) PCI DSS
3 5 (5.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (5.68%) SLA
4 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.14%) DICOM
5 1 (1.14%) HL7
System Software
1 26 (29.55%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.41%) Dovecot
3 3 (3.41%) Postfix
4 2 (2.27%) Docker
4 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.27%) XenApp
4 2 (2.27%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Terraform
2 8 (9.09%) Ansible
3 5 (5.68%) SCCM
4 3 (3.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.41%) HAProxy
4 3 (3.41%) WSUS
5 2 (2.27%) AirWatch
5 2 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.14%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.14%) vMotion
Vendors
1 42 (47.73%) Oracle
2 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
3 20 (22.73%) Citrix
4 13 (14.77%) VMware
5 5 (5.68%) OpenText
6 4 (4.55%) IBM
6 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.41%) Cisco
7 3 (3.41%) F5
7 3 (3.41%) HP
7 3 (3.41%) Juniper
7 3 (3.41%) Okta
7 3 (3.41%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.27%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.27%) Sitecore
9 1 (1.14%) Adobe
9 1 (1.14%) Dell
9 1 (1.14%) Google
9 1 (1.14%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.14%) Progress