IIS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 407 421
Rank change year-on-year -86 +14 +27
Permanent jobs citing IIS 89 119 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.41% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.93% 5.03% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 73 112 305
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,938 £64,750
90th Percentile £69,250 £66,125 £70,000
UK median annual salary £56,250 £49,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -5.71% -4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,264 2,365 6,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.39% 8.09% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,732 1,554 4,618
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -11.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.45%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IIS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IIS

IIS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for IIS in the UK excluding London

IIS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East -21 32 £42,250 -23.18% 10
North of England -38 20 £57,500 +4.46% 7
Midlands -25 18 £67,250 +34.50% 3
East Midlands -21 13 £67,500 +35.00% 1
Yorkshire -37 11 £57,500 -8.00% 3
South West -60 10 £27,000 -32.50% 5
North West 0 8 £60,000 +9.01% 4
West Midlands -39 5 £35,866 +30.42% 2
East of England -38 4 £30,000 -28.57% 3
Wales -31 3 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Scotland -1 2 £29,000 -35.56% 1
North East -39 1 £82,500 +50.00%
IIS
UK

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.37%) Apache
4 2 (2.25%) Confluence
4 2 (2.25%) WordPress
5 1 (1.12%) CMS
5 1 (1.12%) Drupal
5 1 (1.12%) nginx
5 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.37%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.06%) Azure
2 20 (22.47%) AWS
3 18 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.36%) npm
4 11 (12.36%) NuGet
4 11 (12.36%) SonarCloud
5 6 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.74%) PaaS
6 5 (5.62%) IaaS
6 5 (5.62%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.49%) SaaS
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.37%) Cloudflare
8 3 (3.37%) GCP
8 3 (3.37%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) DNS
1 15 (16.85%) Firewall
2 13 (14.61%) DHCP
2 13 (14.61%) VPN
3 10 (11.24%) SAN
3 10 (11.24%) TCP/IP
4 8 (8.99%) NAS
5 7 (7.87%) WAN
6 6 (6.74%) LAN
7 3 (3.37%) HTTPS
7 3 (3.37%) Internet
7 3 (3.37%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (3.37%) SSL
7 3 (3.37%) VLAN
8 2 (2.25%) SSH
9 1 (1.12%) Intranet
9 1 (1.12%) MPLS
9 1 (1.12%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (39.33%) SQL Server
2 16 (17.98%) NoSQL
3 12 (13.48%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (10.11%) Crystal Reports
5 8 (8.99%) MySQL
6 5 (5.62%) Big Data
6 5 (5.62%) Data Mining
6 5 (5.62%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (5.62%) Tableau
7 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (1.12%) Looker
9 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.12%) Power BI
9 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) GitLab
2 3 (3.37%) JIRA
3 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.12%) Gatling
3 1 (1.12%) JMeter
3 1 (1.12%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Legal
4 7 (7.87%) Advertising
5 6 (6.74%) Finance
6 5 (5.62%) Marketing
6 5 (5.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.49%) Banking
8 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Aviation
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (38.20%) Senior
2 21 (23.60%) Analyst
3 20 (22.47%) Support Analyst
4 18 (20.22%) Support Engineer
5 15 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (12.36%) Applications Support
8 10 (11.24%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (11.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (8.99%) Developer
11 7 (7.87%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (7.87%) IT Engineer
11 7 (7.87%) IT Support
11 7 (7.87%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (6.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (5.62%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (5.62%) Senior Manager
13 5 (5.62%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.84%) .NET
2 12 (13.48%) .NET Framework
3 11 (12.36%) Node.js
3 11 (12.36%) React
3 11 (12.36%) YAML
4 10 (11.24%) ASP.NET
5 9 (10.11%) .NET Core
6 8 (8.99%) CSS
6 8 (8.99%) HTML
6 8 (8.99%) JSON
7 6 (6.74%) REST
8 5 (5.62%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (5.62%) Play Framework
9 4 (4.49%) CSS3
9 4 (4.49%) HTML5
9 4 (4.49%) OAuth
9 4 (4.49%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.49%) Web Services
10 3 (3.37%) ADO.NET
10 3 (3.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.62%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.62%) Client/Server
3 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.62%) Replication
4 3 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.37%) Clustering
4 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.37%) Social Media
5 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.25%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.25%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (65.17%) Windows
2 37 (41.57%) Windows Server
3 18 (20.22%) Linux
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.25%) Android
5 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.12%) VMS
6 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.12%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (28.09%) DevOps
3 20 (22.47%) CI/CD
4 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (16.85%) Agile
6 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (13.48%) DevSecOps
7 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (12.36%) Microservices
9 10 (11.24%) Test Automation
10 9 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (10.11%) Software Testing
11 8 (8.99%) Computer Science
11 8 (8.99%) Mathematics
11 8 (8.99%) Migration
11 8 (8.99%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.87%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (7.87%) High Availability
12 7 (7.87%) Process Improvement
12 7 (7.87%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 48 (53.93%) SQL
2 26 (29.21%) PowerShell
3 18 (20.22%) C#
4 11 (12.36%) Bash
5 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.87%) Python
7 5 (5.62%) Java
7 5 (5.62%) PHP
7 5 (5.62%) R
7 5 (5.62%) Scala
8 3 (3.37%) VBA
9 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.12%) DCL
10 1 (1.12%) Delphi
10 1 (1.12%) Tcl
10 1 (1.12%) VB
10 1 (1.12%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.12%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
2 5 (5.62%) Master's Degree
2 5 (5.62%) MBA
3 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) IISP
6 1 (1.12%) ISACA
6 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (10.11%) SLA
3 5 (5.62%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (4.49%) QA
5 3 (3.37%) ISO 9001
6 2 (2.25%) GDPR
6 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (28.09%) Active Directory
2 18 (20.22%) Docker
3 11 (12.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (11.24%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Terraform
2 12 (13.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.74%) VxRail
3 6 (6.74%) WSUS
4 3 (3.37%) Ansible
5 2 (2.25%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.25%) Grafana
5 2 (2.25%) Nagios
6 1 (1.12%) CASB
6 1 (1.12%) Consul
6 1 (1.12%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.12%) Packer
6 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.12%) Puppet
6 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (44.94%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.10%) VMware
3 11 (12.36%) CrowdStrike
3 11 (12.36%) Veeam
4 10 (11.24%) Cisco
5 8 (8.99%) Commvault
5 8 (8.99%) Meraki
5 8 (8.99%) Zerto
6 6 (6.74%) Dell
6 6 (6.74%) HP
6 6 (6.74%) Tenable
7 5 (5.62%) BT
7 5 (5.62%) Citrix
7 5 (5.62%) Databricks
8 4 (4.49%) Dynatrace
9 3 (3.37%) Adobe
9 3 (3.37%) Splunk
10 2 (2.25%) Google
10 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.12%) Duck Creek