IIS Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 108 133
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 +32
Contract jobs citing IIS 7 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.19% 2.11% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £401 £560 £417
25th Percentile £558 £725 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £1,000 £469
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +113.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £700 - £508
90th Percentile - - £526
England median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 135 142 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.04% 7.29% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 105 229
10th Percentile £259 £213 £273
25th Percentile £381 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.13% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £540
90th Percentile £625 £645 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £16.55 £14.24 £12.62
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.77 £13.55
Median hourly rate £18.00 £15.65 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% -2.00% -7.42%
75th Percentile £20.24 £35.33 £17.80
90th Percentile £36.39 £47.13 £18.37
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the West Midlands

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IIS in the West Midlands

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the West Midlands

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the West Midlands

IIS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +21 6 £700 -30.00% 4
Warwickshire - 1 £535 - 1
IIS
England

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
1 1 (14.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Tableau
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Legal
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Applications Support
2 3 (42.86%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Software Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Incident Management
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (85.71%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Time Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Tableau Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) VMware