IIS Contracts

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IIS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 456 484
Rank change year-on-year +8 +28 +41
Contract jobs citing IIS 71 116 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.18% 2.74% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 83 163
10th Percentile £313 £313 £361
25th Percentile £385 £363 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £700
90th Percentile £575 £688 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £519
% change year-on-year +16.67% -13.25% +29.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £22.96 £48.80
25th Percentile - £23.28 £54.50
Median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +740.34% -62.81% +21.90%
75th Percentile - £25.03 £73.50
90th Percentile - £25.76 £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £200.00 £24.50 -
% change year-on-year +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 3,250 4,228 6,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.14% 9.86% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,151 2,947 4,276
10th Percentile £289 £257 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.82% +0.39%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 159 147
10th Percentile £16.86 £13.20 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.39 £15.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.16 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.07% -42.55% +128.26%
75th Percentile £66.00 £49.04 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.61 £27.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year +94.84% -38.86% +143.24%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IIS.

Daily rate trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IIS.

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Top 14 Contract 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 31 May 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 +14 65 £425 -10.53% 122
UK excluding London +49 40 £525 +16.67% 84
London +17 28 £400 -11.11% 44
South East +55 15 £525 -21.17% 20
Work from Home +27 14 £450 -20.00% 95
North of England +18 9 £375 -33.33% 43
North West +14 7 £375 -31.82% 33
East of England +9 6 £538 +53.57% 6
West Midlands +11 5 £593 -29.25% 3
Midlands +11 5 £593 -29.25% 3
South West +44 2 £575 -14.63% 4
Yorkshire +10 2 - - 10
Scotland +1 2 £400 +23.08% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £520 - 2

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.49%) Apache
2 5 (7.04%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.63%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (5.63%) Tomcat
4 3 (4.23%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (4.23%) Confluence
4 3 (4.23%) nginx
4 3 (4.23%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.63%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Maximo
2 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.31%) Azure
2 7 (9.86%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) Entra ID
3 6 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.63%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.63%) PowerApps
5 4 (5.63%) ShareGate
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub
6 3 (4.23%) Nutanix
6 3 (4.23%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.41%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (32.39%) DNS
2 13 (18.31%) DHCP
2 13 (18.31%) Internet
3 9 (12.68%) SMTP
4 7 (9.86%) Firewall
5 6 (8.45%) HTTP
5 6 (8.45%) NetScaler
6 5 (7.04%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.23%) HTTPS
8 2 (2.82%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (2.82%) SSL
8 2 (2.82%) VoIP
9 1 (1.41%) DECT
9 1 (1.41%) FTP
9 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.41%) LAN
9 1 (1.41%) Network Security
9 1 (1.41%) VLAN
9 1 (1.41%) WAN
9 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (54.93%) SQL Server
2 14 (19.72%) Oracle Database
3 5 (7.04%) MySQL
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.23%) DB2
6 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.82%) Tableau
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Git
1 5 (7.04%) JIRA
2 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.82%) GitLab
3 2 (2.82%) JMeter
4 1 (1.41%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.41%) NUnit
4 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.41%) Subversion
General
1 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.04%) Finance
4 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.23%) Legal
5 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Korean Language
6 1 (1.41%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Developer
2 15 (21.13%) C# Developer
3 13 (18.31%) C# WPF Developer
3 13 (18.31%) WPF Developer
4 12 (16.90%) C# WCF Developer
4 12 (16.90%) WCF Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Administrator
5 5 (7.04%) Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) VMWare Administrator
5 5 (7.04%) Wintel Administrator
6 4 (5.63%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Maximo Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (38.03%) .NET
2 20 (28.17%) .NET Framework
3 14 (19.72%) WCF
3 14 (19.72%) WPF
4 12 (16.90%) WinForms
5 7 (9.86%) Web Services
6 6 (8.45%) HTML
6 6 (8.45%) SOAP
7 5 (7.04%) Middleware
7 5 (7.04%) XML
8 4 (5.63%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.63%) MSMQ
9 3 (4.23%) REST
10 2 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (2.82%) LAMP
10 2 (2.82%) LDAP
10 2 (2.82%) WebSockets
10 2 (2.82%) YAML
11 1 (1.41%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (1.41%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) PKI
2 8 (11.27%) Clustering
3 5 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.82%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 53 (74.65%) Windows
2 33 (46.48%) Windows Server
3 13 (18.31%) Linux
4 11 (15.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (12.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (12.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (8.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.82%) CentOS
7 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.41%) AIX
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.41%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (25.35%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (22.54%) Agile
3 16 (22.54%) ITIL
4 14 (19.72%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (18.31%) Data Analysis
6 12 (16.90%) DevOps
7 11 (15.49%) Change Management
8 10 (14.08%) Migration
8 10 (14.08%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
9 9 (12.68%) Incident Management
10 8 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.86%) High Availability
12 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (8.45%) Patch Management
12 6 (8.45%) Time Management
13 5 (7.04%) Problem Management
13 5 (7.04%) Resource Management
13 5 (7.04%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) SQL
2 30 (42.25%) PowerShell
3 22 (30.99%) C#
4 14 (19.72%) PL/SQL
4 14 (19.72%) T-SQL
4 14 (19.72%) VB
5 12 (16.90%) VBA
6 11 (15.49%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.45%) Java
7 6 (8.45%) Python
7 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.82%) Perl
8 2 (2.82%) PHP
8 2 (2.82%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.82%) VBScript
9 1 (1.41%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.41%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.41%) Bash
9 1 (1.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.27%) Degree
3 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.82%) PMP
4 2 (2.82%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.41%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.41%) MCAD
5 1 (1.41%) MCSA
5 1 (1.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.54%) QA
2 6 (8.45%) SLA
3 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.41%) HL7
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (43.66%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.90%) Hyper-V
2 12 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (12.68%) vSphere
4 7 (9.86%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (9.86%) XenApp
5 6 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (8.45%) XenDesktop
6 4 (5.63%) Docker
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) WSUS
2 11 (15.49%) Ansible
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (9.86%) Terraform
5 5 (7.04%) NetApp OnCommand
5 5 (7.04%) SCCM
5 5 (7.04%) vCenter Server
5 5 (7.04%) vMotion
6 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.63%) SCOM
7 3 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.82%) Grafana
8 2 (2.82%) Nagios
8 2 (2.82%) Packer
8 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.82%) Puppet
8 2 (2.82%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (43.66%) Microsoft
2 21 (29.58%) Citrix
3 20 (28.17%) VMware
4 18 (25.35%) Oracle
5 11 (15.49%) HP
6 9 (12.68%) Dell
7 8 (11.27%) IBM
8 5 (7.04%) Cisco
9 3 (4.23%) Dynatrace
9 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.23%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.82%) CyberArk
10 2 (2.82%) Veeam
11 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
11 1 (1.41%) Commvault
11 1 (1.41%) EMC
11 1 (1.41%) Mitel
11 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.41%) SAP
11 1 (1.41%) SonicWALL