IIS Job Trends in England

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring IIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 537 425
Rank change year-on-year +11 -112 +68
Permanent jobs citing IIS 102 118 353
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.26% 0.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.33% 2.79% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 91 79 307
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,768 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,448 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,557 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.61% +8.64% -7.83%

All Application Platform Skills
England

IIS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,060 4,222 6,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.25% 9.43% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,188 2,511 5,526
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £34,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,749 £110,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -9.09%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IIS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

IIS job vacancy trend in England

IIS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IIS

IIS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS in England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

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 11 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +10 31 £35,000 -36.36% 7
Midlands +30 29 £39,000 -2.50% 2
West Midlands +32 20 £39,000 -3.47% 2
London +29 18 £67,500 -6.90% 3
East Midlands -15 9 £65,000 +62.50%
South West -6 8 £38,500 -29.12% 4
North of England -32 8 £56,250 +7.14% 6
East of England +10 4 £30,000 -53.85% 1
Yorkshire -26 4 £53,750 -2.27% 4
North West +2 3 £55,000 +4.76% 2
North East -9 1 £82,500 +57.14%
IIS
UK

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.86%) Apache
2 7 (6.86%) Confluence
2 7 (6.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.86%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.98%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.98%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.98%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.98%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 58 (56.86%) Azure
2 33 (32.35%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (19.61%) SaaS
4 18 (17.65%) AWS
5 9 (8.82%) GCP
5 9 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.88%) npm
6 6 (5.88%) NuGet
6 6 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.88%) SonarCloud
7 5 (4.90%) PaaS
7 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.90%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.92%) IaaS
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.94%) GitHub
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.59%) DNS
2 15 (14.71%) DHCP
2 15 (14.71%) VPN
3 14 (13.73%) Firewall
4 8 (7.84%) TCP/IP
5 7 (6.86%) Internet
6 5 (4.90%) WAN
7 4 (3.92%) LAN
7 4 (3.92%) VLAN
8 3 (2.94%) Kerberos
8 3 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.96%) NAS
9 2 (1.96%) SAN
9 2 (1.96%) VoIP
9 2 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.96%) Wireless
10 1 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.98%) IPsec
10 1 (0.98%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (67.65%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (10.78%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.86%) MySQL
5 6 (5.88%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.90%) Big Data
6 5 (4.90%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.90%) Tableau
7 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Git
2 9 (8.82%) JIRA
3 7 (6.86%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.90%) GitLab
6 4 (3.92%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.98%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.98%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.98%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.71%) Finance
3 14 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.88%) Marketing
5 5 (4.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.94%) Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Law
6 3 (2.94%) Legal
7 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.98%) Electronics
8 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (25.49%) Support Engineer
2 24 (23.53%) Senior
3 17 (16.67%) IT Support
4 16 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (15.69%) IT Engineer
5 15 (14.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 15 (14.71%) Software Support Engineer
6 12 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 11 (10.78%) Technical Support
8 10 (9.80%) Support Specialist
9 9 (8.82%) Analyst
10 8 (7.84%) Applications Support
10 8 (7.84%) Developer
10 8 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.84%) Support Analyst
11 7 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.86%) Technical Engineer
11 7 (6.86%) Technical Support Engineer
12 6 (5.88%) Applications Specialist
12 6 (5.88%) Applications Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (44.12%) .NET
2 19 (18.63%) .NET Framework
3 17 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 13 (12.75%) Entity Framework
5 12 (11.76%) WinForms
6 10 (9.80%) LAMP
6 10 (9.80%) YAML
7 8 (7.84%) REST
8 7 (6.86%) React
9 6 (5.88%) .NET Core
9 6 (5.88%) Node.js
9 6 (5.88%) SOAP
10 5 (4.90%) Kafka
10 5 (4.90%) Play Framework
10 5 (4.90%) Web Services
11 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (3.92%) CSS
11 4 (3.92%) HTML
11 4 (3.92%) Middleware
12 3 (2.94%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.90%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.90%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.90%) Replication
4 4 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.92%) Clustering
5 3 (2.94%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.94%) PKI
6 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.98%) CMDB
7 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.98%) Eurex
7 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 56 (54.90%) Windows
2 34 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 30 (29.41%) Linux
4 14 (13.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (7.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (3.92%) Windows 10
9 3 (2.94%) Android
9 3 (2.94%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.94%) Unix
10 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.98%) Solaris
11 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (48.04%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (43.14%) DevOps
3 29 (28.43%) CI/CD
4 27 (26.47%) Computer Science
5 26 (25.49%) Agile
6 17 (16.67%) CRM
7 13 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (12.75%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (9.80%) Customer Experience
9 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (9.80%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.82%) Containerisation
10 9 (8.82%) ITIL
10 9 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (8.82%) SDLC
11 8 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (7.84%) Migration
11 8 (7.84%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (50.98%) SQL
2 38 (37.25%) PowerShell
3 36 (35.29%) C#
4 21 (20.59%) JavaScript
5 18 (17.65%) Python
6 17 (16.67%) PHP
7 15 (14.71%) T-SQL
8 12 (11.76%) Bash
8 12 (11.76%) Java
9 5 (4.90%) R
9 5 (4.90%) Scala
9 5 (4.90%) VB
10 3 (2.94%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.96%) Delphi
11 2 (1.96%) VB6
12 1 (0.98%) DCL
12 1 (0.98%) Perl
12 1 (0.98%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 34 (33.33%) Degree
2 21 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (10.78%) Master's Degree
4 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.90%) MBA
5 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.94%) MCSA
7 3 (2.94%) MCSE
7 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.96%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.96%) MCITP
8 2 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.98%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.98%) ACMT
9 1 (0.98%) MCDST
9 1 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.98%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.94%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) SLA
3 2 (1.96%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 20 (19.61%) Active Directory
2 17 (16.67%) Docker
3 11 (10.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (7.84%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.80%) Terraform
3 6 (5.88%) Ansible
3 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.90%) Puppet
5 4 (3.92%) Progress Chef
5 4 (3.92%) WSUS
6 3 (2.94%) Grafana
6 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.98%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.98%) Ambari
8 1 (0.98%) Autotask
8 1 (0.98%) CASB
8 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.98%) SCCM
8 1 (0.98%) SCOM
8 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.98%) VxRail
8 1 (0.98%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (50.98%) Microsoft
2 23 (22.55%) Oracle
3 14 (13.73%) VMware
4 12 (11.76%) Sage
4 12 (11.76%) Xamarin
5 10 (9.80%) Salesforce
6 7 (6.86%) Google
6 7 (6.86%) Red Hat
7 6 (5.88%) Cisco
7 6 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (5.88%) Dynatrace
8 5 (4.90%) Apple
8 5 (4.90%) BT
8 5 (4.90%) Databricks
8 5 (4.90%) Zoho
9 4 (3.92%) Atlassian
9 4 (3.92%) HubSpot
9 4 (3.92%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.94%) Samsung
10 3 (2.94%) Veeam