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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 437 452
Rank change year-on-year -96 +15 +93
Contract jobs citing IIS 59 92 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.51% 2.62% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 56 121
10th Percentile £308 £363 £313
25th Percentile £356 £396 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £481 £538 £625
90th Percentile £553 £663 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £515 £490
% change year-on-year -13.01% +5.10% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate - £200.00 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year - +760.22% -68.73%
75th Percentile - - £26.38
90th Percentile - - £26.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £200.00 £25.64
% change year-on-year - +680.03% -

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 3,913 3,511 4,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 11.53% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,701 2,167 2,873
10th Percentile £300 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 69 171
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £22.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £25.28 £41.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.34% +49.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £81.10 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.31 £48.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year -46.10% +103.40% +29.73%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 56 £408 -11.89% 23
UK excluding London -103 33 £448 -13.01% 22
London -33 22 £408 +4.49% 5
Work from Home -34 17 £363 -20.15% 11
North of England -55 12 £453 +6.59% 6
North West -24 10 £452 +6.24% 2
South East -38 7 £640 +25.49% 6
East of England -20 5 £363 - 2
South West -27 5 £350 -24.32% 4
Midlands -59 4 £425 -39.29% 1
West Midlands -54 2 £466 -33.39% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £325 -

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 18 (30.51%) Apache
2 11 (18.64%) JBoss
3 7 (11.86%) iPlanet
3 7 (11.86%) WebSphere
3 7 (11.86%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (8.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (8.47%) Tomcat
5 4 (6.78%) Appian
5 4 (6.78%) WebLogic
6 2 (3.39%) Confluence
6 2 (3.39%) nginx
6 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.69%) Jupyter
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (1.69%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) Azure
2 12 (20.34%) AWS
3 8 (13.56%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.17%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.08%) Mimecast
6 3 (5.08%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.69%) GCP
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.69%) n8n
8 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.69%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.03%) Internet
2 8 (13.56%) DNS
3 7 (11.86%) Firewall
3 7 (11.86%) Kerberos
4 6 (10.17%) DHCP
5 2 (3.39%) HTTP
5 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.69%) LAN
6 1 (1.69%) Network Security
6 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.69%) SSL
6 1 (1.69%) VLAN
6 1 (1.69%) VoIP
6 1 (1.69%) VPN
6 1 (1.69%) WAN
6 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (45.76%) Oracle Database
2 25 (42.37%) SQL Server
3 7 (11.86%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.78%) OLTP
5 3 (5.08%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.69%) Big Data
6 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.25%) Git
3 7 (11.86%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (11.86%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (10.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.08%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.69%) Postman
6 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Banking
2 10 (16.95%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Developer
2 17 (28.81%) C# Developer
3 7 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Senior
4 6 (10.17%) Applications Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Architect
4 6 (10.17%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (10.17%) C# WCF Developer
4 6 (10.17%) C# WPF Developer
4 6 (10.17%) WCF Developer
4 6 (10.17%) WPF Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Switch Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.90%) .NET
2 18 (30.51%) .NET Framework
3 15 (25.42%) WinForms
4 12 (20.34%) WPF
5 9 (15.25%) REST
6 7 (11.86%) LDAP
6 7 (11.86%) OAuth
6 7 (11.86%) OpenID
6 7 (11.86%) SAML
7 6 (10.17%) WCF
8 5 (8.47%) Middleware
9 4 (6.78%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (6.78%) React
9 4 (6.78%) SOAP
9 4 (6.78%) Web Services
10 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
10 3 (5.08%) Vue
11 2 (3.39%) CSS
11 2 (3.39%) JSON
12 1 (1.69%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (10.17%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.78%) N-Tier
4 3 (5.08%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.08%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.69%) Clustering
5 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) IBM XIV
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) PKI
5 1 (1.69%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (76.27%) Windows
2 28 (47.46%) Windows Server
3 7 (11.86%) Linux
3 7 (11.86%) Unix
4 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.59%) Agile
1 21 (35.59%) DevOps
2 15 (25.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
4 12 (20.34%) Data Analysis
5 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (18.64%) ITIL
6 8 (13.56%) Task Automation
7 6 (10.17%) Containerisation
7 6 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (8.47%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (8.47%) OO
8 5 (8.47%) OOP
8 5 (8.47%) PRINCE2
8 5 (8.47%) Server Building
8 5 (8.47%) SOA
9 4 (6.78%) Change Management
9 4 (6.78%) Computer Science
9 4 (6.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) SQL
2 22 (37.29%) C#
3 19 (32.20%) T-SQL
4 17 (28.81%) PL/SQL
5 12 (20.34%) VB
5 12 (20.34%) VBA
6 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
7 7 (11.86%) Groovy
7 7 (11.86%) Java
7 7 (11.86%) Python
8 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
9 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
10 4 (6.78%) Scala
11 3 (5.08%) Bash
12 1 (1.69%) Bicep
12 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Degree
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.69%) ISEB
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.42%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) SLA
3 1 (1.69%) COBIT
3 1 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (30.51%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.95%) Docker
3 6 (10.17%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 6 (10.17%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) Ansible
1 7 (11.86%) CA Single Sign-On
1 7 (11.86%) CA Wily
1 7 (11.86%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (10.17%) Progress Chef
2 6 (10.17%) Tivoli
3 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.08%) SCCM
4 3 (5.08%) WSUS
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.39%) NetApp OnCommand
5 2 (3.39%) Terraform
5 2 (3.39%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.39%) vMotion
6 1 (1.69%) Ambari
6 1 (1.69%) Grafana
6 1 (1.69%) Puppet
6 1 (1.69%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (50.85%) Oracle
2 20 (33.90%) Microsoft
3 17 (28.81%) Citrix
4 8 (13.56%) IBM
5 7 (11.86%) AppDynamics
5 7 (11.86%) Broadcom
5 7 (11.86%) Splunk
6 6 (10.17%) SolarWinds
6 6 (10.17%) VMware
7 5 (8.47%) Cisco
7 5 (8.47%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.69%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow