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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 466 480
Rank change year-on-year -99 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing IIS 83 68 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.89% 2.03% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 50 80
10th Percentile £404 £335 £313
25th Percentile £413 £385 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £556 £548 £570
90th Percentile £613 £589 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £535 £450
% change year-on-year -15.89% +18.89% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile - - £23.07
25th Percentile £19.25 - £23.54
Median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -90.25% +740.34% -62.81%
75th Percentile £19.75 - £24.41
90th Percentile - - £25.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.50 £200.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -90.25% +716.33% -

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 4,399 3,358 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 11.23% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,945 2,216 3,086
10th Percentile £313 £289 £261
25th Percentile £405 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -2.15%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 73 165
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.56 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £60.25 £70.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.63 £79.75 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.06 £30.83
% change year-on-year -34.03% +72.12% -36.44%

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 June 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 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 June 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 -94 71 £450 +2.86% 27
UK excluding London -95 38 £450 -15.89% 24
London -58 35 £445 +11.25% 7
Work from Home -46 17 £450 -10.00% 18
South West -16 14 £438 -23.91% 2
South East -68 11 £500 -7.06% 7
North of England -76 4 £625 +47.06% 6
Scotland -5 3 £550 +37.50%
East of England -30 3 £363 -34.09% 2
North West -43 3 - - 5
West Midlands -58 3 £450 -15.89% 2
Midlands -59 3 £450 -15.89% 5
Yorkshire -57 1 £625 -

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 10 (12.05%) Apache
1 10 (12.05%) Tomcat
2 9 (10.84%) Appian
3 6 (7.23%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (7.23%) SharePoint
4 5 (6.02%) Camunda
5 4 (4.82%) JBoss
5 4 (4.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (4.82%) WebLogic
6 3 (3.61%) nginx
6 3 (3.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) InDesign
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (6.02%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 28 (33.73%) Azure
2 16 (19.28%) AWS
3 12 (14.46%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.84%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.61%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.20%) Figma
9 1 (1.20%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.20%) IaaS
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.20%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.20%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.20%) PaaS
9 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.20%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.28%) DNS
2 11 (13.25%) Internet
3 7 (8.43%) DHCP
4 6 (7.23%) Firewall
4 6 (7.23%) HTTPS
5 4 (4.82%) SAN
6 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.41%) BIG-IP
7 2 (2.41%) DMZ
7 2 (2.41%) LAN
7 2 (2.41%) NAS
7 2 (2.41%) SSL
7 2 (2.41%) WAN
7 2 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.20%) HTTP
8 1 (1.20%) Intranet
8 1 (1.20%) Network Security
8 1 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (59.04%) SQL Server
2 19 (22.89%) Oracle Database
3 9 (10.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (9.64%) Oracle BI EE
4 8 (9.64%) Power BI
4 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.23%) MySQL
6 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.61%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.41%) ClickHouse
7 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.41%) OLAP
7 2 (2.41%) OLTP
8 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.20%) GIS
8 1 (1.20%) MS Access
8 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) JIRA
2 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.61%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) Postman
3 2 (2.41%) Vite
4 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.20%) MSI
4 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Banking
3 16 (19.28%) Finance
4 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.82%) Front Office
6 4 (4.82%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (42.17%) Developer
2 17 (20.48%) C# Developer
3 8 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Site Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) 1st Line Support
4 7 (8.43%) Applications Developer
4 7 (8.43%) C# Application Developer
5 6 (7.23%) Senior
6 5 (6.02%) BPM Developer
6 5 (6.02%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.02%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Architect
7 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (42.17%) .NET
2 30 (36.14%) .NET Framework
3 12 (14.46%) REST
4 11 (13.25%) WinForms
5 10 (12.05%) WPF
6 8 (9.64%) XML
7 6 (7.23%) JSON
7 6 (7.23%) Web Services
8 5 (6.02%) ASP.NET
8 5 (6.02%) React
8 5 (6.02%) SOAP
9 4 (4.82%) CSS
9 4 (4.82%) HTML
10 3 (3.61%) Entity Framework
10 3 (3.61%) LAMP
10 3 (3.61%) OAuth
10 3 (3.61%) OpenID
10 3 (3.61%) SAML
10 3 (3.61%) SignalR
10 3 (3.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (13.25%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (9.64%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (8.43%) PKI
5 6 (7.23%) Legacy Code
6 4 (4.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.82%) N-Tier
7 3 (3.61%) Client/Server
8 2 (2.41%) Clustering
8 2 (2.41%) iPhone
8 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Licensing
9 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (73.49%) Windows
2 33 (39.76%) Windows Server
3 9 (10.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (8.43%) Linux
5 6 (7.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.61%) CentOS
6 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.94%) DevOps
2 24 (28.92%) Agile
3 21 (25.30%) Change Management
3 21 (25.30%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (25.30%) ITIL
4 17 (20.48%) Data Analysis
5 16 (19.28%) AI
6 15 (18.07%) Runbook
7 13 (15.66%) Generative AI
7 13 (15.66%) Incident Response
8 11 (13.25%) High Availability
9 10 (12.05%) Analytics
9 10 (12.05%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (10.84%) Migration
10 9 (10.84%) OO
10 9 (10.84%) OOP
10 9 (10.84%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (10.84%) Workflow
11 8 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (9.64%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.96%) SQL
2 31 (37.35%) C#
3 28 (33.73%) PowerShell
4 23 (27.71%) T-SQL
5 20 (24.10%) PL/SQL
6 11 (13.25%) Python
6 11 (13.25%) VBA
7 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
7 10 (12.05%) VB
8 6 (7.23%) C++
9 5 (6.02%) Bash
9 5 (6.02%) Java
9 5 (6.02%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.20%) Bicep
10 1 (1.20%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.20%) VBScript
10 1 (1.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.46%) Degree
4 5 (6.02%) PMI Certification
4 5 (6.02%) PMP
5 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) QA
2 7 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.02%) GDPR
3 5 (6.02%) GRC
3 5 (6.02%) HIPAA
3 5 (6.02%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (6.02%) SLA
4 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.20%) DICOM
5 1 (1.20%) HL7
System Software
1 27 (32.53%) Active Directory
2 13 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.61%) Dovecot
3 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.61%) Postfix
4 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.41%) XenApp
4 2 (2.41%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.20%) Docker
5 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (13.25%) Ansible
2 9 (10.84%) Terraform
3 5 (6.02%) SCCM
4 3 (3.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.61%) HAProxy
4 3 (3.61%) WSUS
5 2 (2.41%) AirWatch
5 2 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.20%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.20%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.20%) vMotion
Vendors
1 34 (40.96%) Oracle
2 18 (21.69%) Citrix
3 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
4 13 (15.66%) VMware
5 6 (7.23%) Cisco
6 5 (6.02%) OpenText
7 4 (4.82%) IBM
7 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.61%) F5
8 3 (3.61%) HP
8 3 (3.61%) Juniper
8 3 (3.61%) Okta
8 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.61%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.41%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.20%) Adobe
10 1 (1.20%) Dell
10 1 (1.20%) Hitachi
10 1 (1.20%) Progress