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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 492 468
Rank change year-on-year -98 -24 +28
Contract jobs citing IIS 92 68 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.97% 1.92% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 53 52
10th Percentile £404 £304 £333
25th Percentile £423 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% +5.88% -18.66%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £555
90th Percentile £613 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £471 £440
% change year-on-year +16.77% +7.17% -12.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £92.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.79 - -

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 4,670 3,535 4,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.55% 10.77% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,023 2,285 2,616
10th Percentile £286 £278 £265
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £644
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 88 80
10th Percentile £14.79 £15.60 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.43 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -7.57% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.43 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.56 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.77 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.08% -34.46% +17.65%

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 6 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IIS in the UK

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 6 October 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 -112 74 £453 +0.67% 99
London -71 43 £453 +11.04% 41
UK excluding London -111 34 £550 +16.77% 60
Work from Home -56 23 £525 +20.07% 50
South East -51 11 £550 -8.33% 16
East of England -24 7 - - 5
South West -34 5 £558 +65.19% 11
Midlands -40 4 £450 +11.46% 6
West Midlands -45 4 £450 +11.46% 4
Scotland - 4 £513 -
North of England -90 3 £625 +38.89% 21
North West -61 2 - - 19
Yorkshire -40 1 £625 +31.58% 2

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 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.87%) Apache
3 9 (9.78%) Tomcat
4 5 (5.43%) Appian
4 5 (5.43%) Camunda
4 5 (5.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (3.26%) Confluence
5 3 (3.26%) nginx
6 2 (2.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (5.43%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 31 (33.70%) Azure
2 16 (17.39%) AWS
3 11 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.61%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.43%) GCP
6 3 (3.26%) Cloudflare
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.17%) GitHub
7 2 (2.17%) NuGet
7 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.09%) n8n
8 1 (1.09%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.09%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) DNS
2 12 (13.04%) Internet
3 7 (7.61%) HTTP
4 6 (6.52%) HTTPS
5 5 (5.43%) DHCP
6 4 (4.35%) Firewall
6 4 (4.35%) SAN
6 4 (4.35%) SSL
7 3 (3.26%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (2.17%) BIG-IP
8 2 (2.17%) DMZ
8 2 (2.17%) Intranet
8 2 (2.17%) LAN
8 2 (2.17%) NAS
8 2 (2.17%) Network Security
8 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.17%) WAN
9 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.09%) SSH
9 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (55.43%) SQL Server
2 18 (19.57%) Oracle Database
3 14 (15.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (8.70%) MS Access
5 7 (7.61%) Oracle BI EE
5 7 (7.61%) Power BI
5 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.52%) MySQL
7 4 (4.35%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.17%) OLAP
9 2 (2.17%) OLTP
10 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (13.04%) JIRA
2 10 (10.87%) Git
2 10 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.70%) Visual Studio
4 7 (7.61%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (5.43%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.35%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.17%) MSBuild
8 2 (2.17%) NUnit
8 2 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.09%) Postman
9 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.74%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Banking
4 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.52%) Back Office
7 5 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Front Office
8 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.09%) Law
9 1 (1.09%) Legal
9 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (39.13%) Developer
2 21 (22.83%) C# Developer
3 12 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 12 (13.04%) Security Engineer
4 8 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 7 (7.61%) .NET Developer
5 7 (7.61%) 1st Line Support
5 7 (7.61%) Analyst
5 7 (7.61%) Architect
5 7 (7.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 7 (7.61%) Security Analyst
6 6 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Lead
6 6 (6.52%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.43%) BPM Developer
7 5 (5.43%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 5 (5.43%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Lead Software Developer
7 5 (5.43%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.04%) .NET
2 24 (26.09%) .NET Framework
3 18 (19.57%) WinForms
4 17 (18.48%) JSON
5 16 (17.39%) XML
6 13 (14.13%) ASP.NET
7 12 (13.04%) LDAP
7 12 (13.04%) REST
8 10 (10.87%) WPF
9 9 (9.78%) HTML
9 9 (9.78%) Terraform
9 9 (9.78%) XSLT
10 8 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (8.70%) Web Services
11 7 (7.61%) Regular Expression
11 7 (7.61%) WCF
12 5 (5.43%) Apache FOP
12 5 (5.43%) SAML
12 5 (5.43%) YAML
13 4 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.70%) PKI
2 8 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.61%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (7.61%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.61%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.61%) Replication
4 6 (6.52%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.52%) Mobile Payment
4 6 (6.52%) Smartcard
5 5 (5.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Clustering
7 2 (2.17%) CSOC
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 73 (79.35%) Windows
2 30 (32.61%) Windows Server
3 17 (18.48%) Linux
4 9 (9.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.26%) CentOS
6 3 (3.26%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.26%) Unix
6 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.09%) VMS
7 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.70%) DevOps
2 23 (25.00%) ITIL
3 21 (22.83%) AI
4 20 (21.74%) Change Management
5 16 (17.39%) Agile
5 16 (17.39%) Data Analysis
6 15 (16.30%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (16.30%) Runbook
7 13 (14.13%) Computer Science
7 13 (14.13%) Data Protection
8 12 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 12 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (13.04%) Generative AI
8 12 (13.04%) Roadmaps
9 11 (11.96%) Information Security
9 11 (11.96%) PRINCE2
10 10 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (9.78%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (9.78%) Validation
12 8 (8.70%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.30%) C#
2 36 (39.13%) SQL
3 34 (36.96%) PowerShell
4 27 (29.35%) PL/SQL
4 27 (29.35%) T-SQL
5 22 (23.91%) Python
6 18 (19.57%) VBA
7 11 (11.96%) Bash
7 11 (11.96%) JavaScript
8 10 (10.87%) VB
9 8 (8.70%) VB.NET
10 7 (7.61%) XPath
11 5 (5.43%) C++
11 5 (5.43%) VBScript
12 3 (3.26%) Java
13 2 (2.17%) Bicep
13 2 (2.17%) CodeQL
14 1 (1.09%) F#
14 1 (1.09%) Korn
14 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 21 (22.83%) Degree
4 7 (7.61%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.52%) CISA
5 6 (6.52%) CISM
5 6 (6.52%) CISSP
5 6 (6.52%) IISP
6 5 (5.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (5.43%) CCSP
6 5 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.43%) CLAS
6 5 (5.43%) CREST Certified
6 5 (5.43%) PMI Certification
6 5 (5.43%) PMP
7 4 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.09%) CRISC
9 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.30%) QA
2 14 (15.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (13.04%) PCI DSS
4 11 (11.96%) GDPR
4 11 (11.96%) GRC
5 6 (6.52%) ISO 31000
5 6 (6.52%) ISO 9001
5 6 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 6 (6.52%) NIST
6 5 (5.43%) HIPAA
6 5 (5.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (4.35%) SLA
8 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.09%) DICOM
8 1 (1.09%) HL7
8 1 (1.09%) ISO 22301
8 1 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (38.04%) Active Directory
2 20 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (9.78%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.61%) NFS
6 6 (6.52%) Docker
7 5 (5.43%) ISA Server
8 3 (3.26%) Dovecot
8 3 (3.26%) Postfix
9 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (2.17%) XenApp
9 2 (2.17%) XenDesktop
10 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Ansible
1 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.43%) CASB
3 4 (4.35%) SCCM
4 3 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.26%) HAProxy
4 3 (3.26%) WSUS
5 2 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.09%) AirWatch
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.09%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.09%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.09%) vMotion
Vendors
1 36 (39.13%) Oracle
2 29 (31.52%) Microsoft
3 20 (21.74%) VMware
4 19 (20.65%) Citrix
5 8 (8.70%) Cisco
5 8 (8.70%) F5
6 6 (6.52%) Splunk
7 5 (5.43%) Centrify
7 5 (5.43%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (5.43%) Google
7 5 (5.43%) OpenText
7 5 (5.43%) Qualys
7 5 (5.43%) Tripwire
8 3 (3.26%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.26%) IBM
8 3 (3.26%) Juniper
8 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.17%) Okta
9 2 (2.17%) Sitecore