IIS Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > South West

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 144 232
Rank change year-on-year -53 +88 +10
Permanent jobs citing IIS 10 14 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.47% 4.70% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 29
10th Percentile £26,250 - £36,500
25th Percentile £26,813 £37,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £40,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -34.96% +95.55%
75th Percentile £44,431 £42,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £50,900 £55,180 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 288 298 902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.74% 11.01% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 194 211 724
10th Percentile £25,400 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,951 £32,500 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% +2.37%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,250 £70,000 £67,675
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -11.50%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the South West

IIS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IIS

IIS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for IIS in the South West

IIS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Bristol -12 4 £27,000 -22.86% 1
Devon - 3 £26,500 - 2
Dorset - 2 - -
Cornwall - 1 £47,000 -
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (10.00%) Drupal
3 1 (10.00%) nginx
3 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Gatling
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) JMeter
1 1 (10.00%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Trainer
2 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Active Listening
3 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) ISMS
4 2 (20.00%) Key Management
4 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Register
4 2 (20.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) ISO 9001
3 2 (20.00%) GDPR
3 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Consul
1 1 (10.00%) Packer
1 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) TOWER Software