Hybrid/Remote IIS Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IIS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 301 314
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +165
Contract jobs citing IIS 16 15 78
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.12% 0.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.45% 1.04% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 61
10th Percentile £300 £355 £350
25th Percentile £306 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.15% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £496 £564 £658
90th Percentile £538 £689 £810
UK median daily rate £415 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -10.27% -7.50% -

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 1,100 1,443 1,743
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.80% 11.89% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 943 1,192
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £850 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 38
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.65 £15.27
25th Percentile £18.58 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -31.82% +14.58%
75th Percentile £43.00 £55.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £65.10 £72.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IIS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

IIS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

IIS
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IIS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IIS

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IIS over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

IIS daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IIS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IIS

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) iPlanet
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) Mimecast
4 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) n8n
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.25%) LAN
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) VLAN
4 1 (6.25%) VoIP
4 1 (6.25%) VPN
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.25%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Financial Institution
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Police
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
2 3 (18.75%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (18.75%) C# Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (18.75%) WinForms
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) LDAP
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) OpenID
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) SAML
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) XSLT
4 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) IBM XIV
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
1 13 (81.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) ITIL
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (18.75%) Change Control
6 3 (18.75%) High Availability
6 3 (18.75%) OO
6 3 (18.75%) OOP
6 3 (18.75%) SDLC
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
7 2 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (12.50%) Server Building
8 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) Groovy
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) IISP
3 1 (6.25%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Docker
4 1 (6.25%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) CA Wily
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) Tivoli
3 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.25%) vMotion
3 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Citrix
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) IBM
4 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
5 1 (6.25%) Broadcom
5 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint
5 1 (6.25%) Splunk