IIS Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring IIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 281 305
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 +5
Permanent jobs citing IIS 34 31 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.34% 5.02% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 19 28 61
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,125 £33,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £43,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,021 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% -4.31% +15.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £66,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -8.49% -7.83%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 784 618 1,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.74% 6.56% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 664 420 1,024
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £26,325
25th Percentile £33,750 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,625 £75,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -10.43%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the North of England

IIS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IIS

IIS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for IIS in the North of England

IIS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
North West -8 21 £57,500 +4.46% 5
Yorkshire -29 13 £55,000 -12.00%
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
2 3 (8.82%) CMS
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.82%) Algolia
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.82%) Storyblok
6 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.94%) Firebase
7 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (61.76%) DNS
2 18 (52.94%) DHCP
2 18 (52.94%) TCP/IP
3 12 (35.29%) Firewall
4 11 (32.35%) VPN
5 7 (20.59%) SAN
5 7 (20.59%) VLAN
6 6 (17.65%) LAN
6 6 (17.65%) NAS
6 6 (17.65%) WAN
7 3 (8.82%) HTTPS
7 3 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (73.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (17.65%) MySQL
3 3 (8.82%) Redis
3 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.88%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.88%) Looker
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) GitLab
2 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Support Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Senior
3 7 (20.59%) Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.82%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) C# Software Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) IT Manager
6 3 (8.82%) IT Support
6 3 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior C# Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Middleware
2 7 (20.59%) .NET
2 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
2 7 (20.59%) CSS
2 7 (20.59%) HTML
3 6 (17.65%) Entity Framework
4 4 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 4 (11.76%) JSON
5 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (8.82%) CSS3
5 3 (8.82%) JWT
5 3 (8.82%) LINQ
5 3 (8.82%) Node.js
5 3 (8.82%) OAuth
5 3 (8.82%) OAuth2
5 3 (8.82%) OpenAPI
5 3 (8.82%) React
5 3 (8.82%) REST
5 3 (8.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) Learning Management System
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Windows
1 22 (64.71%) Windows Server
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (8.82%) Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.88%) Android
4 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (32.35%) Change Management
2 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (32.35%) Server Management
3 8 (23.53%) Business Continuity
3 8 (23.53%) High Availability
3 8 (23.53%) Server Building
3 8 (23.53%) Server Monitoring
3 8 (23.53%) System Testing
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (20.59%) ITIL
5 6 (17.65%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (17.65%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.76%) Agile
6 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (11.76%) MVC
6 4 (11.76%) Scrum
6 4 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) SQL
2 15 (44.12%) PowerShell
3 7 (20.59%) C#
3 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) SLA
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (44.12%) Hyper-V
3 13 (38.24%) Active Directory
4 6 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) WSUS
2 6 (17.65%) VxRail
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 21 (61.76%) VMware
3 13 (38.24%) Veeam
4 9 (26.47%) Dell
4 9 (26.47%) HP
5 7 (20.59%) Cisco
6 6 (17.65%) Commvault
6 6 (17.65%) Meraki
6 6 (17.65%) Tenable
6 6 (17.65%) Zerto
7 3 (8.82%) Aruba
7 3 (8.82%) CheckPoint
7 3 (8.82%) NetApp
7 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
7 3 (8.82%) SonicWALL
7 3 (8.82%) Splunk
8 2 (5.88%) Google
9 1 (2.94%) WatchGuard