IIS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 288 301 376
Rank change year-on-year +13 +75 +94
Contract jobs citing IIS 16 44 101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.42% 2.82% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 77
10th Percentile £381 £350 £384
25th Percentile £400 £403 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +5.95% +13.51%
75th Percentile £528 £688 £810
90th Percentile £540 £830 £835
UK median daily rate £450 £439 £525
% change year-on-year +2.51% -16.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate £200.00 £23.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year +740.34% -62.81% +21.90%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

IIS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

IIS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IIS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IIS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IIS.

IIS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IIS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IIS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IIS.

IIS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
3 3 (18.75%) SMTP
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
4 2 (12.50%) HTTP
4 2 (12.50%) NetScaler
4 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.25%) FTP
5 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
5 1 (6.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) NUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) ICT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
3 2 (12.50%) MSMQ
3 2 (12.50%) WCF
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.25%) EDI
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) HTML5
4 1 (6.25%) jQuery
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) WPF
4 1 (6.25%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 12 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Linux
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (6.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Agile
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) OOP
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) OO
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Web Application Development
4 1 (6.25%) MVVM
4 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 2 (12.50%) VBScript
6 1 (6.25%) ActionScript
6 1 (6.25%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) MCAD
2 1 (6.25%) MCSA
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) HL7
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) vSphere
3 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 2 (12.50%) XenApp
4 2 (12.50%) XenDesktop
5 1 (6.25%) Docker
5 1 (6.25%) Terminal Services
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) WSUS
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (12.50%) Packer
4 2 (12.50%) SCCM
4 2 (12.50%) SCOM
5 1 (6.25%) Nagios
5 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) Citrix
3 4 (25.00%) Dell
4 3 (18.75%) HP
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle
5 2 (12.50%) CyberArk
5 2 (12.50%) IBM
5 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.25%) Commvault
6 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (6.25%) SonicWALL
6 1 (6.25%) Veeam