IIS Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring IIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 221 219
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +18
Permanent jobs citing IIS 32 13 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.23% 0.23% 0.65%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.67% 2.74% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 55
10th Percentile - £25,775 £34,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,250 - £78,250
England median annual salary £48,500 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -7.62% -10.26%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 417 475 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.96% 8.31% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 333 332 549
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £31,000 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +3.53% -11.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,398
England median annual salary £50,588 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.02% - -4.35%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

IIS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IIS

IIS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for IIS in the Midlands

IIS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
West Midlands -24 17 £37,500 -11.76% 4
East Midlands -23 15 £65,000 +30.00% 2
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (21.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) Apache
2 3 (9.38%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.38%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) Entra ID
3 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.63%) npm
3 5 (15.63%) NuGet
3 5 (15.63%) SonarCloud
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.13%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) IaaS
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) Firewall
2 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) HTTP
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) SSL
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Support Engineer
2 15 (46.88%) Technical Engineer
2 15 (46.88%) Technical Support
2 15 (46.88%) Technical Support Engineer
3 10 (31.25%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
4 8 (25.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) Senior
5 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Security Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Security Support Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Analyst
7 4 (12.50%) Azure Security Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
8 3 (9.38%) Junior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) .NET
2 5 (15.63%) LDAP
2 5 (15.63%) Node.js
2 5 (15.63%) React
2 5 (15.63%) YAML
3 4 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 4 (12.50%) COM
3 4 (12.50%) DCOM
3 4 (12.50%) Middleware
4 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
4 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET
4 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (9.38%) CSS
4 3 (9.38%) HTML
4 3 (9.38%) JSON
5 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.13%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) PKI
2 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 4 (12.50%) Smartcard
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (9.38%) Social Media
5 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.13%) Clustering
6 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Windows
2 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
3 9 (28.13%) Linux
4 3 (9.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.13%) Android
5 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (28.13%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps
5 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
5 6 (18.75%) Migration
6 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.63%) DevSecOps
6 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Load Balancing
6 5 (15.63%) Microservices
6 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Case Management
7 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.50%) Customer Experience
7 4 (12.50%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.75%) C#
4 5 (15.63%) Bash
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.38%) PHP
5 3 (9.38%) VBA
6 1 (3.13%) Delphi
6 1 (3.13%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) IISP
3 1 (3.13%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Docker
3 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.13%) vSphere
5 1 (3.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
3 4 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (9.38%) Adobe
4 3 (9.38%) SonicWALL
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.13%) Mitel
5 1 (3.13%) Sophos