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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 466 494
Rank change year-on-year -36 +28 +114
Contract jobs citing IIS 70 96 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.91% 2.39% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 52 108
10th Percentile £302 £347 £354
25th Percentile £355 £363 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -11.21% +9.74%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £700
90th Percentile £600 £675 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.40% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.48
25th Percentile - - £23.20
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £24.39
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -67.20%
75th Percentile - - £25.59
90th Percentile - - £26.30
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 3,656 4,018 4,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.86% 10.98% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 2,502 3,264
10th Percentile £286 £263 £250
25th Percentile £390 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £699 £810 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.94% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 73 148
10th Percentile £16.47 £18.33 £15.94
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £19.22
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +28.70% +43.75%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £74.01 £74.00 £76.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +103.70% +52.37%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 -29 67 £450 -2.70% 53
UK excluding London -34 42 £453 -9.40% 45
London -15 23 £408 - 18
North of England -16 21 £450 +2.97% 8
North West -8 16 £448 +6.67% 5
Work from Home +25 12 £404 -16.10% 25
South East -5 6 £600 -9.09% 13
East of England -12 6 £550 +61.76% 4
Midlands -24 5 £375 -44.20% 8
Yorkshire - 5 £475 - 1
South West +6 4 £338 -48.08% 6
West Midlands -24 3 £425 -36.76% 2
East Midlands - 2 £325 - 6

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 29 (41.43%) Apache
2 18 (25.71%) WebSphere
3 11 (15.71%) JBoss
4 10 (14.29%) iPlanet
4 10 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (2.86%) Confluence
6 2 (2.86%) nginx
6 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.86%) Skype for Business
6 2 (2.86%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.43%) Appian
7 1 (1.43%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.43%) Camunda
7 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (1.43%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Maximo
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.43%) OpenText MBPM
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.86%) AWS
2 10 (14.29%) Azure
3 9 (12.86%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.86%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.86%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.43%) GCP
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.43%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.43%) n8n
6 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.43%) SaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) DNS
2 10 (14.29%) Kerberos
3 8 (11.43%) Internet
4 5 (7.14%) DHCP
5 4 (5.71%) SMTP
6 3 (4.29%) Firewall
7 2 (2.86%) HTTP
7 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.86%) VPN
8 1 (1.43%) LAN
8 1 (1.43%) Network Security
8 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.43%) VLAN
8 1 (1.43%) VoIP
8 1 (1.43%) WAN
8 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 19 (27.14%) Oracle Database
3 7 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (10.00%) DB2
4 4 (5.71%) OLTP
5 3 (4.29%) Data Mining
5 3 (4.29%) Tableau
6 1 (1.43%) Big Data
6 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.57%) Git
3 11 (15.71%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (15.71%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (11.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.86%) JIRA
6 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (30.00%) Finance
2 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Military
4 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Police
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) Developer
2 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) C# Developer
3 8 (11.43%) C# WCF Developer
3 8 (11.43%) C# WPF Developer
3 8 (11.43%) Consultant
3 8 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) WCF Developer
3 8 (11.43%) WPF Developer
4 7 (10.00%) Maximo Consultant
5 6 (8.57%) Coordinator
5 6 (8.57%) Security Assurance Coordinator
5 6 (8.57%) Senior
6 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Administrator
8 3 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Software Engineering Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.86%) .NET
2 13 (18.57%) .NET Framework
3 11 (15.71%) OAuth
3 11 (15.71%) OpenID
3 11 (15.71%) SAML
3 11 (15.71%) XML
4 10 (14.29%) LDAP
5 9 (12.86%) Web Services
6 8 (11.43%) SOAP
6 8 (11.43%) WCF
6 8 (11.43%) WinForms
6 8 (11.43%) WPF
7 7 (10.00%) Middleware
8 5 (7.14%) YAML
9 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
9 4 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (4.29%) MSMQ
11 2 (2.86%) HTML
11 2 (2.86%) JSON
11 2 (2.86%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) PKI
2 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.29%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.86%) Derivative
3 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.86%) OTC Derivatives
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
4 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) IBM XIV
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) Replication
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (60.00%) Windows
2 31 (44.29%) Windows Server
3 11 (15.71%) Linux
4 9 (12.86%) Unix
5 4 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.86%) DevOps
2 21 (30.00%) Agile
3 18 (25.71%) CI/CD
4 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (21.43%) ITIL
6 10 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (11.43%) Data Analysis
7 8 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (11.43%) Service Management
7 8 (11.43%) Task Automation
7 8 (11.43%) Workflow
8 7 (10.00%) CAFM
8 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (10.00%) Facilities Management
8 7 (10.00%) ITSM
8 7 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (10.00%) Service Design
8 7 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) SQL
2 15 (21.43%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) C#
4 11 (15.71%) Groovy
4 11 (15.71%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.86%) PL/SQL
5 9 (12.86%) T-SQL
6 8 (11.43%) Shell Script
6 8 (11.43%) VB
6 8 (11.43%) VBA
7 7 (10.00%) Java
8 4 (5.71%) Scala
9 3 (4.29%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.57%) Degree
4 7 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.57%) IISP
5 6 (8.57%) ISACA
6 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.29%) PMP
8 1 (1.43%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.43%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.86%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (37.14%) Active Directory
2 10 (14.29%) Docker
2 10 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.43%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 7 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.71%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (14.29%) CA Wily
3 9 (12.86%) Progress Chef
4 8 (11.43%) Tivoli
5 7 (10.00%) Ansible
6 5 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (5.71%) WSUS
8 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
8 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (4.29%) NetApp OnCommand
8 3 (4.29%) vCenter Server
8 3 (4.29%) vMotion
9 2 (2.86%) Grafana
9 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.86%) RSA Archer
9 2 (2.86%) SCCM
9 2 (2.86%) Terraform
9 2 (2.86%) WMI
10 1 (1.43%) SCOM
10 1 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (44.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (30.00%) Oracle
3 19 (27.14%) IBM
4 11 (15.71%) Broadcom
5 10 (14.29%) AppDynamics
5 10 (14.29%) Citrix
5 10 (14.29%) Splunk
5 10 (14.29%) VMware
6 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.43%) Cisco
7 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.43%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.43%) Spotify