IIS Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 372 456
Rank change year-on-year +65 +84 -135
Contract jobs citing IIS 44 100 168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.81% 3.36% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 75 135
10th Percentile £350 £400 £293
25th Percentile £406 £421 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £810 £572
90th Percentile £830 £835 £623
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £47.25
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.81% +21.90% +13.51%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,565 2,980 5,473
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.09% 11.38% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 2,097 3,950
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £381 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.56% +9.15%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £613
90th Percentile £788 £744 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 72 72
10th Percentile £16.39 £18.15 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.58 £22.16 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.16 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +57.14% +29.82%
75th Percentile £45.41 £70.94 £54.19
90th Percentile £70.75 £86.24 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £38.00 £21.93
% change year-on-year -25.00% +73.28% -2.53%

IIS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IIS trend for jobs with a WFH option

IIS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing IIS over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 8 (18.18%) Apache
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (11.36%) Tomcat
3 5 (11.36%) WebSphere
4 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
4 3 (6.82%) WebLogic
5 2 (4.55%) Confluence
5 2 (4.55%) nginx
5 2 (4.55%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (2.27%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (2.27%) EPiServer
6 1 (2.27%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (2.27%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.82%) GitHub
6 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (38.64%) DNS
2 9 (20.45%) Network Security
3 6 (13.64%) SAN
4 5 (11.36%) Firewall
5 4 (9.09%) DHCP
5 4 (9.09%) SSL
5 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.82%) H.323
6 3 (6.82%) HTTP
6 3 (6.82%) LAN
6 3 (6.82%) WAN
7 2 (4.55%) Internet
7 2 (4.55%) NAS
7 2 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (4.55%) VLAN
8 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
8 1 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (2.27%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.09%) Big Data
3 3 (6.82%) DB2
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.55%) DTS
4 2 (4.55%) Power BI
4 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.27%) MySQL
5 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) Git
3 3 (6.82%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.27%) GitLab
5 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (43.18%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Legal
5 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Architect
1 7 (15.91%) Lead
2 6 (13.64%) Developer
2 6 (13.64%) Wintel Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Data Centre Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Migration Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Data Migration Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Server Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 3 (6.82%) CyberArk Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Lead Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Applications Tester
6 2 (4.55%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (38.64%) .NET
2 6 (13.64%) .NET Framework
3 5 (11.36%) ASP.NET
3 5 (11.36%) Web Services
3 5 (11.36%) XML
4 4 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 4 (9.09%) LDAP
5 3 (6.82%) EJB
5 3 (6.82%) J2EE
5 3 (6.82%) JSP
5 3 (6.82%) REST
5 3 (6.82%) Servlets
6 2 (4.55%) .NET Remoting
6 2 (4.55%) ADSI
6 2 (4.55%) JSON
6 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.27%) Middleware
7 1 (2.27%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (2.27%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Clustering
2 5 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.82%) IVR
4 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (81.82%) Windows
2 20 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 10 (22.73%) Linux
3 10 (22.73%) VMS
4 8 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.27%) CentOS
8 1 (2.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Migration
2 10 (22.73%) DevOps
3 7 (15.91%) Information Security
3 7 (15.91%) RBAC
3 7 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (13.64%) Change Management
4 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
4 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
4 6 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (11.36%) Agile
5 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (11.36%) Proactive Maintenance
5 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.09%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (9.09%) Runbook
6 4 (9.09%) Storage Management
6 4 (9.09%) Time Management
7 3 (6.82%) Load Balancing
7 3 (6.82%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 17 (38.64%) SQL
3 6 (13.64%) C#
4 5 (11.36%) Python
4 5 (11.36%) VB
5 4 (9.09%) Java
6 3 (6.82%) Bash
7 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.27%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.27%) VBA
8 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (6.82%) CCNA
2 3 (6.82%) CCNP
2 3 (6.82%) CISSP
2 3 (6.82%) SANS
2 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) MCSA
4 1 (2.27%) MCSE
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) GRC
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 27 (61.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.27%) Docker
4 1 (2.27%) vSphere
4 1 (2.27%) XenApp
4 1 (2.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) SCCM
2 4 (9.09%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Kibana
3 2 (4.55%) logstash
3 2 (4.55%) Packer
3 2 (4.55%) SCOM
3 2 (4.55%) WSUS
4 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Salt
4 1 (2.27%) SCOrch
4 1 (2.27%) SCVMM
4 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) Oracle
4 4 (9.09%) F5
5 3 (6.82%) Avaya
5 3 (6.82%) Citrix
5 3 (6.82%) CyberArk
5 3 (6.82%) IBM
5 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.82%) Verint
6 2 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.55%) Varonis
7 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.27%) CA
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco
7 1 (2.27%) IronPort