Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 16 October 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for IIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IIS over the 6 months to 16 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > England
6 months to
16 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 401 290 297
Rank change year-on-year -111 +7 -45
Permanent jobs citing IIS 843 489 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.77% 1.11% 1.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.67% 7.88% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 637 421 1,191
10th Percentile £32,650 £31,250 £28,946
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%

IIS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

All Application Platform Skills
England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 14,860 6,208 18,694
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 14.09% 14.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,570 5,211 15,098
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £40,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IIS in England

IIS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IIS in England.

Salary trend for IIS in England

IIS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS in England over the 6 months to 16 October 2021.

Salary histogram for IIS in England

IIS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the England region over the 6 months to 16 October 2021. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
London -133 309 £62,500 +4.17% 51
South East -124 152 £50,000 +11.11% 26
Midlands -57 125 £40,000 -5.88% 26
North of England -120 124 £40,000 -11.11% 40
West Midlands -50 95 £40,000 -5.88% 13
East of England -59 63 £41,500 +3.75% 8
North West -103 62 £47,500 -11.21% 24
South West -49 54 £42,500 +3.03% 17
Yorkshire -79 50 £37,750 -9.58% 11
East Midlands -58 30 £47,500 +11.76% 13
North East -30 12 £33,250 -22.67% 5
IIS
UK

For the 6 months to 16 October 2021, IT jobs citing IIS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region with a requirement for IIS.

1 567 (67.26%) Windows
2 473 (56.11%) Azure
3 471 (55.87%) SQL Server
4 428 (50.77%) Microsoft
5 378 (44.84%) Windows Server
6 376 (44.60%) SQL
7 333 (39.50%) Active Directory
8 276 (32.74%) .NET
9 259 (30.72%) C#
10 251 (29.77%) DevOps
11 246 (29.18%) PowerShell
12 242 (28.71%) VMware
13 234 (27.76%) AWS
14 222 (26.33%) Agile Software Development
15 212 (25.15%) Social Skills
16 196 (23.25%) DNS
17 195 (23.13%) Microsoft 365
18 167 (19.81%) VMware Infrastructure
19 164 (19.45%) JavaScript
19 164 (19.45%) Linux
20 161 (19.10%) Firewall
21 160 (18.98%) HTML
21 160 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
22 152 (18.03%) ASP.NET
23 140 (16.61%) CSS
24 125 (14.83%) Web Services
24 125 (14.83%) MVC
25 122 (14.47%) DHCP
26 119 (14.12%) Degree
27 112 (13.29%) AngularJS

IIS
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 98 (11.63%) SharePoint
2 97 (11.51%) Apache
3 49 (5.81%) nginx
4 43 (5.10%) CMS
5 34 (4.03%) MS Exchange
6 33 (3.91%) Sitecore CMS
7 31 (3.68%) Tomcat
8 20 (2.37%) Confluence
8 20 (2.37%) Exchange Server 2013
9 19 (2.25%) Umbraco
10 15 (1.78%) EPiServer
10 15 (1.78%) WordPress
11 13 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.54%) Kentico
12 9 (1.07%) JBoss
12 9 (1.07%) WebLogic
13 8 (0.95%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 8 (0.95%) SAS
14 6 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
14 6 (0.71%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 68 (8.07%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.30%) Sage 200
3 6 (0.71%) Unica
4 4 (0.47%) FastStats
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.24%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 473 (56.11%) Azure
2 234 (27.76%) AWS
3 195 (23.13%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (10.56%) IaaS
4 89 (10.56%) SaaS
5 79 (9.37%) PaaS
6 74 (8.78%) GCP
7 56 (6.64%) Azure Active Directory
8 44 (5.22%) GitHub
9 42 (4.98%) OneDrive
10 35 (4.15%) npm
11 30 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (3.56%) OpenShift
12 29 (3.44%) Power Platform
13 25 (2.97%) Yarn
14 24 (2.85%) Serverless
15 22 (2.61%) Amazon S3
15 22 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (2.25%) Mimecast
17 18 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 196 (23.25%) DNS
2 161 (19.10%) Firewall
3 122 (14.47%) DHCP
4 110 (13.05%) TCP/IP
5 78 (9.25%) HTTP
6 64 (7.59%) LAN
7 63 (7.47%) WAN
8 61 (7.24%) VPN
9 57 (6.76%) VLAN
10 49 (5.81%) SAN
11 43 (5.10%) Internet
12 36 (4.27%) SSL
13 32 (3.80%) Network Security
14 30 (3.56%) VoIP
15 26 (3.08%) MPLS
16 21 (2.49%) FTP
17 16 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
18 15 (1.78%) NAS
18 15 (1.78%) Remote Desktop
19 14 (1.66%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 471 (55.87%) SQL Server
2 67 (7.95%) MySQL
3 55 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 43 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (3.80%) Big Data
5 32 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (3.44%) SQL Server 2012
7 28 (3.32%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.73%) RDBMS
9 21 (2.49%) SQL Server 2016
10 19 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (2.02%) Power BI
11 17 (2.02%) SQL Server 2014
12 15 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.78%) MongoDB
13 14 (1.66%) Redis
14 12 (1.42%) SQL Server 2017
14 12 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 108 (12.81%) Git (software)
2 66 (7.83%) Visual Studio
3 49 (5.81%) Octopus Deploy
4 48 (5.69%) JIRA
5 45 (5.34%) Jenkins
6 35 (4.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 35 (4.15%) TeamCity
7 33 (3.91%) gulp
8 28 (3.32%) GitLab
9 25 (2.97%) webpack
10 16 (1.90%) NUnit
11 11 (1.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 10 (1.19%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.07%) MSTest
14 7 (0.83%) Gradle
14 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.71%) dotCover
15 6 (0.71%) Jasmine
15 6 (0.71%) NCover
15 6 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 212 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 110 (13.05%) Finance
3 68 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (3.68%) Retail
5 29 (3.44%) Manufacturing
6 22 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (2.49%) Marketing
7 21 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (2.25%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.02%) Banking
10 16 (1.90%) Back Office
10 16 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.78%) Law
12 14 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.30%) Games
14 10 (1.19%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.07%) French Language
16 6 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 202 (23.96%) Developer
2 103 (12.22%) Support Engineer
3 83 (9.85%) .NET Developer
4 59 (7.00%) Analyst
4 59 (7.00%) IT Engineer
5 57 (6.76%) C# Developer
6 56 (6.64%) 3rd Line Support
7 54 (6.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 54 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 52 (6.17%) Senior Developer
9 48 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 47 (5.58%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 47 (5.58%) Architect
11 43 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
12 38 (4.51%) Software Developer
13 36 (4.27%) Administrator
13 36 (4.27%) Consultant
14 34 (4.03%) SQL Developer
15 33 (3.91%) Applications Support
15 33 (3.91%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (32.74%) .NET
2 160 (18.98%) HTML
3 152 (18.03%) ASP.NET
4 140 (16.61%) CSS
5 125 (14.83%) Web Services
6 112 (13.29%) AngularJS
7 81 (9.61%) REST
8 72 (8.54%) React
9 69 (8.19%) HTML5
10 68 (8.07%) jQuery
11 64 (7.59%) XML
12 63 (7.47%) .NET Core
13 55 (6.52%) JSON
14 54 (6.41%) CSS3
15 52 (6.17%) .NET Framework
15 52 (6.17%) ASP.NET MVC
16 51 (6.05%) ASP.NET Web API
17 44 (5.22%) WCF
18 43 (5.10%) Node.js
19 35 (4.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.85%) Clustering
2 52 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 45 (5.34%) Public Cloud
3 45 (5.34%) User Experience
4 36 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 31 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (3.56%) Linux Command Line
8 28 (3.32%) PKI
9 27 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (2.85%) Cloud Native
11 20 (2.37%) Cyberthreat
12 13 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
13 12 (1.42%) iPhone
13 12 (1.42%) Private Cloud
14 11 (1.30%) Replication
15 10 (1.19%) Equities
16 8 (0.95%) PMI
17 6 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
18 5 (0.59%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 567 (67.26%) Windows
2 378 (44.84%) Windows Server
3 164 (19.45%) Linux
4 92 (10.91%) Windows Server 2012
5 76 (9.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 74 (8.78%) Windows 10
7 48 (5.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 46 (5.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 27 (3.20%) Android
10 21 (2.49%) Apple iOS
11 18 (2.14%) Unix
11 18 (2.14%) Windows 7
12 15 (1.78%) CentOS
13 13 (1.54%) Mac OS X
14 10 (1.19%) VMS
15 9 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 8 (0.95%) SUSE
16 8 (0.95%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 8 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
17 6 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (29.77%) DevOps
2 222 (26.33%) Agile Software Development
3 160 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (14.83%) MVC
5 90 (10.68%) Web Development
6 89 (10.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 76 (9.02%) ITIL
8 72 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 71 (8.42%) Computer Science
10 69 (8.19%) Mentoring
11 65 (7.71%) Continuous Integration
12 59 (7.00%) Migration
12 59 (7.00%) Project Management
13 57 (6.76%) Project Delivery
14 54 (6.41%) Change Management
15 53 (6.29%) Scrum
15 53 (6.29%) TDD
16 51 (6.05%) Test Automation
16 51 (6.05%) Unit Testing
17 50 (5.93%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 376 (44.60%) SQL
2 259 (30.72%) C#
3 246 (29.18%) PowerShell
4 164 (19.45%) JavaScript
5 78 (9.25%) Python
6 73 (8.66%) T-SQL
7 55 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 53 (6.29%) PHP
9 52 (6.17%) Java
10 46 (5.46%) Bash Shell
11 28 (3.32%) ES6
12 24 (2.85%) C
13 21 (2.49%) Perl
14 19 (2.25%) VB
15 16 (1.90%) VBA
16 14 (1.66%) C++
17 11 (1.30%) VB.NET
18 10 (1.19%) PL/SQL
19 9 (1.07%) Ruby
20 8 (0.95%) Korn
Qualifications
1 119 (14.12%) Degree
2 71 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 49 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (3.32%) IISP
6 26 (3.08%) CISSP
7 25 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.97%) MCSA
7 25 (2.97%) MCSE
8 24 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (2.49%) CEH
9 21 (2.49%) CISM
10 15 (1.78%) CCNA
10 15 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.95%) SANS
12 7 (0.83%) CCNP
12 7 (0.83%) CISA
12 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.13%) SLA
2 27 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.85%) QA
4 15 (1.78%) NCSC
5 13 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.54%) PMO
6 10 (1.19%) NIST
7 9 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.83%) ISO 22301
10 6 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.36%) GDPR
11 3 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.36%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 333 (39.50%) Active Directory
2 167 (19.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (11.98%) Hyper-V
4 84 (9.96%) VMware ESXi
5 67 (7.95%) Docker
6 46 (5.46%) vSphere
7 32 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
8 20 (2.37%) XenApp
9 17 (2.02%) NFS
10 16 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (1.66%) XenDesktop
12 12 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.83%) Terminal Services
14 6 (0.71%) Ceph
15 5 (0.59%) iptables
15 5 (0.59%) KVM
16 4 (0.47%) Firmware
17 3 (0.36%) DFS Replication
17 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.36%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 67 (7.95%) Terraform
2 63 (7.47%) Kubernetes
3 61 (7.24%) Puppet
4 60 (7.12%) Ansible
5 56 (6.64%) Opscode Chef
6 55 (6.52%) Microsoft Clustering
6 55 (6.52%) SCCM
7 50 (5.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (3.91%) WSUS
9 25 (2.97%) Hadoop YARN
10 24 (2.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (1.66%) Nagios
12 14 (1.66%) ZABBIX
13 13 (1.54%) HAProxy
14 12 (1.42%) Backup Exec
14 12 (1.42%) Rancher
14 12 (1.42%) vCenter Server
15 11 (1.30%) Prometheus
16 10 (1.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 428 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 242 (28.71%) VMware
3 53 (6.29%) Oracle
4 51 (6.05%) Cisco
5 49 (5.81%) Google
6 40 (4.74%) Citrix
7 35 (4.15%) Veeam
8 34 (4.03%) Sitecore
9 23 (2.73%) Palo Alto
10 20 (2.37%) SonicWALL
11 19 (2.25%) Dell
11 19 (2.25%) Sophos
12 14 (1.66%) IBM
13 13 (1.54%) Aruba
14 12 (1.42%) Sage
15 11 (1.30%) HP
16 10 (1.19%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.19%) Fidessa
17 9 (1.07%) NetIQ
17 9 (1.07%) Percona