IIS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 97 104
Rank change year-on-year -61 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing IIS 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.091% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.65% 2.56% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £428 £326 £673
25th Percentile £431 £401 £674
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £838
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -36.12% +103.03%
75th Percentile £469 £596 £1,000
90th Percentile £473 £629 -
England median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -13.95%

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 460 156 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.99% 10.46% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 99 114
10th Percentile £350 £273 £224
25th Percentile £413 £363 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +12.50% -13.51%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £550
90th Percentile £626 £600 £674
England median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.30% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 5
10th Percentile - £34.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.43 £15.65
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +118.63% +4.92%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.80 £55.00
90th Percentile £58.35 £55.50 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.49
% change year-on-year -38.10% +72.17% -38.09%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IIS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

IIS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IIS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IIS

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IIS

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 19 June 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
Warwickshire -15 3 £450 -15.89% 1
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) OLAP
1 1 (33.33%) OLTP
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Application Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Server Hardening
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
1 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) VMware