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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 455 473
Rank change year-on-year -111 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing IIS 80 68 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.85% 2.05% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 81
10th Percentile £404 £335 £313
25th Percentile £410 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.18%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £569
90th Percentile £613 £589 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -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 4,320 3,317 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 11.20% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 2,189 3,063
10th Percentile £313 £281 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £710 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 70 164
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.35 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £61.58 £69.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.93 £78.88 £72.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.41
% change year-on-year -39.38% +76.28% -38.25%

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 15 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 15 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 -100 69 £450 +2.86% 43
UK excluding London -116 38 £450 -14.29% 31
London -61 33 £445 +12.66% 16
Work from Home -43 16 £450 -10.00% 30
South West -14 14 £438 -23.91% 2
South East -65 11 £500 -5.93% 15
North of England -80 4 £625 +47.06% 6
Scotland -16 3 £550 +37.50%
East of England -33 3 £363 -32.56% 1
North West -43 3 - - 4
Midlands -56 3 £450 -15.89% 6
West Midlands -62 3 £450 -15.89% 2
Yorkshire -54 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 10 (12.50%) Apache
1 10 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 7 (8.75%) Appian
3 6 (7.50%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.00%) JBoss
4 4 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (5.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (5.00%) WebLogic
5 3 (3.75%) Camunda
5 3 (3.75%) nginx
5 3 (3.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) InDesign
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) Azure
2 16 (20.00%) AWS
3 11 (13.75%) Entra ID
4 9 (11.25%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.75%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.25%) Figma
9 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.25%) IaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.25%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.25%) PaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.00%) DNS
2 11 (13.75%) Internet
3 7 (8.75%) DHCP
4 6 (7.50%) Firewall
4 6 (7.50%) HTTPS
5 4 (5.00%) SAN
6 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.50%) BIG-IP
7 2 (2.50%) DMZ
7 2 (2.50%) LAN
7 2 (2.50%) NAS
7 2 (2.50%) WAN
7 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.25%) HTTP
8 1 (1.25%) Intranet
8 1 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.25%) SMTP
8 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (58.75%) SQL Server
2 17 (21.25%) Oracle Database
3 9 (11.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 8 (10.00%) Power BI
4 8 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.50%) MySQL
6 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.75%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.50%) ClickHouse
7 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.50%) OLAP
7 2 (2.50%) OLTP
8 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.25%) GIS
8 1 (1.25%) MS Access
8 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) Postman
3 2 (2.50%) Vite
4 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.25%) MSI
4 1 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.25%) Banking
3 16 (20.00%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.00%) Front Office
6 4 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (41.25%) Developer
2 17 (21.25%) C# Developer
3 8 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 8 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) 1st Line Support
4 7 (8.75%) Applications Developer
4 7 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) C# Application Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Senior
6 5 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Architect
7 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (41.25%) .NET
2 28 (35.00%) .NET Framework
3 12 (15.00%) REST
4 11 (13.75%) WinForms
5 10 (12.50%) WPF
6 8 (10.00%) XML
7 6 (7.50%) JSON
7 6 (7.50%) Web Services
8 5 (6.25%) ASP.NET
8 5 (6.25%) React
8 5 (6.25%) SOAP
9 4 (5.00%) CSS
9 4 (5.00%) HTML
10 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (3.75%) LAMP
10 3 (3.75%) LEMP Stack
10 3 (3.75%) OAuth
10 3 (3.75%) OpenID
10 3 (3.75%) SAML
10 3 (3.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (11.25%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.50%) Legacy Code
4 6 (7.50%) PKI
5 4 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.00%) N-Tier
6 3 (3.75%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.50%) Clustering
7 2 (2.50%) iPhone
7 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (1.25%) PACS
8 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (72.50%) Windows
2 32 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (8.75%) Linux
5 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.75%) CentOS
6 3 (3.75%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.50%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) DevOps
2 23 (28.75%) Agile
3 21 (26.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (25.00%) ITIL
5 19 (23.75%) Change Management
6 15 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 15 (18.75%) Runbook
7 14 (17.50%) AI
8 13 (16.25%) Incident Response
9 11 (13.75%) Generative AI
9 11 (13.75%) High Availability
10 10 (12.50%) Analytics
10 10 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (11.25%) Migration
11 9 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (10.00%) Data Governance
12 8 (10.00%) Incident Management
12 8 (10.00%) PRINCE2
12 8 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) SQL
2 29 (36.25%) C#
3 27 (33.75%) PowerShell
4 21 (26.25%) T-SQL
5 18 (22.50%) PL/SQL
6 11 (13.75%) Python
6 11 (13.75%) VBA
7 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 10 (12.50%) VB
8 6 (7.50%) C++
9 5 (6.25%) Bash
9 5 (6.25%) Java
9 5 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.25%) Bicep
10 1 (1.25%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.25%) VBScript
10 1 (1.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) Degree
4 5 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 5 (6.25%) PMP
5 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (22.50%) QA
2 7 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.25%) GDPR
3 5 (6.25%) GRC
3 5 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 5 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 5 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (5.00%) SLA
5 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.25%) DICOM
6 1 (1.25%) HL7
System Software
1 26 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.75%) Dovecot
3 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.75%) Postfix
4 2 (2.50%) XenApp
4 2 (2.50%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.25%) Docker
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Ansible
2 9 (11.25%) Terraform
3 5 (6.25%) SCCM
4 3 (3.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.75%) HAProxy
4 3 (3.75%) WSUS
5 2 (2.50%) AirWatch
5 2 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.25%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.25%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.25%) vMotion
Vendors
1 32 (40.00%) Oracle
2 16 (20.00%) Citrix
2 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (16.25%) VMware
4 6 (7.50%) Cisco
5 4 (5.00%) IBM
6 3 (3.75%) F5
6 3 (3.75%) HP
6 3 (3.75%) Juniper
6 3 (3.75%) Okta
6 3 (3.75%) OpenText
6 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.25%) Adobe
8 1 (1.25%) Dell
8 1 (1.25%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.25%) Progress