IIS Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring IIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 182 174
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +88
Permanent jobs citing IIS 2 28 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.032% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.83% 5.79% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 18
10th Percentile £53,310 £45,605 £35,125
25th Percentile £54,524 £47,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,123 £51,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% +7.89% -15.56%
75th Percentile £63,798 £53,750 £67,188
90th Percentile £65,057 £58,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 241 484 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.82% 9.59% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 158 273 274
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,800 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,313 £35,982 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -4.55%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the North West

IIS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IIS

IIS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Lancashire +14 1 £63,247 +20.47% 1
Manchester +4 1 £55,000 - 4
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Samsung