Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IIS over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 480 527
Rank change year-on-year +12 +47 -51
Contract jobs citing IIS 110 204 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.36% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.64% 3.29% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 160 260
10th Percentile £313 £355 £299
25th Percentile £350 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £613
90th Percentile £689 £835 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £519 £413
% change year-on-year -13.25% +25.76% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £22.96 £48.80 £47.25
25th Percentile £23.28 £54.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.81% +21.90% +13.51%
75th Percentile £25.03 £73.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £25.76 £79.20 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

IIS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,171 6,207 11,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.83% 10.96% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,914 4,345 7,555
10th Percentile £256 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +0.78% +7.37%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 151 220
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.13 £13.83
25th Percentile £15.48 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.16 £50.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.68% +108.33% +10.96%
75th Percentile £51.91 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.36% +66.67% +2.63%

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 22 May 2024.

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 12 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 22 May 2024. 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 +26 93 £450 -14.29% 57
London +52 55 £450 -26.53% 19
UK excluding London -1 42 £450 -13.25% 38
Work from Home +48 30 £563 -2.17% 23
East of England +29 22 £350 -22.22% 2
North of England +39 10 £563 +7.14% 7
Scotland +44 6 £325 -31.58% 3
Yorkshire +19 6 £563 +12.50% 5
North West +22 4 £550 -4.35% 2
West Midlands +20 3 £1,000 +113.33% 7
Midlands +14 3 £1,000 +172.11% 12
South East -16 1 £438 -14.22% 10

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 15 (13.64%) Tomcat
2 14 (12.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (11.82%) SharePoint
4 10 (9.09%) Apache
5 6 (5.45%) WebSphere
6 5 (4.55%) JBoss
7 3 (2.73%) WebLogic
7 3 (2.73%) WordPress
8 2 (1.82%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.91%) CMS
9 1 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.91%) nginx
9 1 (0.91%) WildFly
Applications
1 16 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.91%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.91%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 41 (37.27%) Azure
2 24 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.09%) AWS
4 10 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.45%) GitHub
6 4 (3.64%) PaaS
7 3 (2.73%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.73%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.73%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.82%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.82%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.91%) IaaS
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.91%) OCI
9 1 (0.91%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.18%) Internet
2 16 (14.55%) DNS
3 11 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 9 (8.18%) Firewall
5 8 (7.27%) NAS
5 8 (7.27%) SAN
6 7 (6.36%) VPN
7 6 (5.45%) DHCP
8 5 (4.55%) H.323
8 5 (4.55%) HTTP
8 5 (4.55%) Wireless
8 5 (4.55%) Wireshark
9 4 (3.64%) Network Security
10 3 (2.73%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (2.73%) iSCSI
10 3 (2.73%) LAN
11 2 (1.82%) Extranet
11 2 (1.82%) IPsec
11 2 (1.82%) VLAN
11 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 7 (6.36%) DB2
4 4 (3.64%) Big Data
4 4 (3.64%) MySQL
4 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.73%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.82%) DTS
6 2 (1.82%) Power BI
7 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Git
2 8 (7.27%) JIRA
3 7 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.55%) Fiddler
5 4 (3.64%) Vagrant
6 3 (2.73%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.73%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.73%) Selenium
6 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.82%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.91%) GitLab
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.91%) Subversion
General
1 26 (23.64%) Finance
2 24 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.45%) Banking
5 6 (5.45%) Legal
5 6 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) French Language
7 1 (0.91%) German Language
7 1 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (17.27%) Developer
2 12 (10.91%) Support Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 11 (10.00%) Architect
3 11 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 11 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (9.09%) C# WCF Developer
4 10 (9.09%) C# WPF Developer
4 10 (9.09%) WCF Developer
4 10 (9.09%) WPF Developer
5 9 (8.18%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (8.18%) Applications Support Engineer
5 9 (8.18%) Web Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Administrator
8 6 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support
8 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (45.45%) .NET
2 28 (25.45%) .NET Framework
3 15 (13.64%) Web Services
4 11 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 11 (10.00%) WinForms
4 11 (10.00%) WPF
5 10 (9.09%) WCF
6 8 (7.27%) CSS
6 8 (7.27%) HTML
7 6 (5.45%) JSON
7 6 (5.45%) SAML
8 5 (4.55%) REST
9 4 (3.64%) LDAP
10 3 (2.73%) EJB
10 3 (2.73%) J2EE
10 3 (2.73%) JSP
10 3 (2.73%) LAMP
10 3 (2.73%) Servlets
10 3 (2.73%) XHTML
10 3 (2.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.73%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.27%) Clustering
2 8 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.55%) IVR
5 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.73%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.73%) PKI
5 3 (2.73%) Replication
5 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.82%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.82%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 82 (74.55%) Windows
2 37 (33.64%) Windows Server
3 27 (24.55%) Linux
4 17 (15.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (11.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (9.09%) Unix
6 10 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (8.18%) VMS
8 7 (6.36%) CentOS
8 7 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (5.45%) Debian
9 6 (5.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (3.64%) AIX
10 4 (3.64%) Solaris
11 3 (2.73%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.73%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.91%) Android
12 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.91%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.73%) DevOps
2 21 (19.09%) Agile
3 17 (15.45%) Migration
4 14 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (11.82%) Change Management
5 13 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (10.91%) Load Balancing
7 11 (10.00%) Data Analysis
8 10 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 10 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (9.09%) Scrum
8 10 (9.09%) SDLC
9 9 (8.18%) Software Deployment
10 8 (7.27%) Microservices
10 8 (7.27%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.36%) Capacity Management
11 7 (6.36%) High Availability
11 7 (6.36%) Proactive Maintenance
11 7 (6.36%) Release Management
12 6 (5.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.91%) SQL
2 35 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 25 (22.73%) C#
4 16 (14.55%) VB
5 13 (11.82%) T-SQL
6 11 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 11 (10.00%) VBA
7 6 (5.45%) Java
7 6 (5.45%) Python
8 3 (2.73%) VBScript
9 1 (0.91%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.36%) MCSA
4 7 (6.36%) MCSE
5 6 (5.45%) RHCT
6 4 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.73%) CISSP
7 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.73%) SANS
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.91%) CCIE
9 1 (0.91%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.64%) QA
2 5 (4.55%) SLA
3 3 (2.73%) GRC
4 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.82%) NIST
4 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (46.36%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.91%) Hyper-V
2 12 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.18%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.36%) Docker
5 6 (5.45%) KVM
6 5 (4.55%) vSphere
7 2 (1.82%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.91%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.91%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.91%) XenApp
8 1 (0.91%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (16.36%) SCCM
2 16 (14.55%) SCOM
3 6 (5.45%) Ansible
3 6 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.64%) Puppet
5 4 (3.64%) Tivoli
6 3 (2.73%) Netcool
6 3 (2.73%) SCVMM
6 3 (2.73%) Terraform
6 3 (2.73%) WSUS
7 2 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.82%) Control-M
7 2 (1.82%) Kibana
7 2 (1.82%) logstash
7 2 (1.82%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.82%) Packer
7 2 (1.82%) VxRail
8 1 (0.91%) vRealize
Vendors
1 37 (33.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (25.45%) Oracle
3 20 (18.18%) Citrix
4 19 (17.27%) VMware
5 14 (12.73%) F5
6 13 (11.82%) Red Hat
7 12 (10.91%) IBM
8 7 (6.36%) AppDynamics
8 7 (6.36%) Avaya
9 5 (4.55%) Verint
10 4 (3.64%) Cisco
10 4 (3.64%) SAP
10 4 (3.64%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.73%) CyberArk
11 3 (2.73%) Pega
11 3 (2.73%) ProCurve
11 3 (2.73%) Splunk
11 3 (2.73%) Synology
11 3 (2.73%) Veeam
11 3 (2.73%) Zerto