Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IIS over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 505 531
Rank change year-on-year -80 +26 -45
Permanent jobs citing IIS 141 467 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.14% 4.37% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 126 396 381
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,625 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% +17.02%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,875 £73,750 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -0.94% +17.78%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,495 10,683 10,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.04% 10.18% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,838 7,100 7,362
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,800
% change year-on-year +7.36% -11.09% +6.22%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IIS.

Salary trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2025. 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
England -62 135 £49,000 -6.67% 349
UK excluding London -18 121 £47,500 -9.52% 321
Work from Home -50 81 £50,000 -16.67% 176
South East +35 32 £60,000 +14.29% 88
East of England +50 29 £42,000 +31.25% 44
North of England +5 27 £55,043 -8.26% 91
London +28 19 £49,000 -12.89% 63
North West -19 18 £55,043 -8.26% 54
South West +91 14 £40,000 -34.96% 31
Midlands -22 14 £50,000 - 49
East Midlands +9 9 £50,000 - 18
Yorkshire +44 8 £62,500 +19.05% 31
West Midlands +1 5 £27,500 -47.62% 27
Wales +44 3 £50,000 +1.01% 8
Scotland +90 2 £41,250 -14.95% 15
North East +44 1 £55,000 +57.14% 6

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (18.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (13.48%) SharePoint
3 13 (9.22%) Apache
3 13 (9.22%) Tomcat
4 6 (4.26%) CMS
5 5 (3.55%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.71%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.71%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (13.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.71%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) iTrent
2 1 (0.71%) Magento
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 72 (51.06%) Azure
2 54 (38.30%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (31.21%) AWS
4 23 (16.31%) SaaS
5 19 (13.48%) Entra ID
6 14 (9.93%) GitHub
7 11 (7.80%) Cloudflare
8 9 (6.38%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (6.38%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.96%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.55%) IaaS
10 5 (3.55%) Nutanix
10 5 (3.55%) PaaS
11 4 (2.84%) Firebase
11 4 (2.84%) Mimecast
12 3 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.13%) Google Workspace
12 3 (2.13%) npm
12 3 (2.13%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.13%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 55 (39.01%) DNS
2 39 (27.66%) DHCP
3 38 (26.95%) Firewall
4 15 (10.64%) TCP/IP
5 14 (9.93%) VPN
6 12 (8.51%) VLAN
7 11 (7.80%) VoIP
8 10 (7.09%) ADSL
8 10 (7.09%) SSL
9 9 (6.38%) DMARC
10 8 (5.67%) FTP
11 7 (4.96%) SAN
12 6 (4.26%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (2.84%) SMTP
14 3 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (1.42%) DMZ
15 2 (1.42%) HTTP
15 2 (1.42%) Internet
15 2 (1.42%) NAS
15 2 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (74.47%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.80%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (7.80%) MySQL
2 11 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.09%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (6.38%) Data Hub
4 9 (6.38%) SQL CLR
5 8 (5.67%) GIS
6 7 (4.96%) Power BI
7 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.71%) DB2
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (16.31%) Git
2 11 (7.80%) Jasmine
3 10 (7.09%) NUnit
3 10 (7.09%) TeamCity
4 8 (5.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (3.55%) JIRA
6 3 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.13%) JMeter
6 3 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.13%) Vite
7 1 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.71%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (43.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.60%) Finance
3 20 (14.18%) Back Office
4 15 (10.64%) Local Government
5 10 (7.09%) Advertising
6 9 (6.38%) Czech Language
6 9 (6.38%) Games
6 9 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (5.67%) Retail
8 5 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.42%) Law
10 2 (1.42%) Legal
10 2 (1.42%) Marketing
11 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Police
11 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (20.57%) Developer
2 27 (19.15%) Senior
3 25 (17.73%) Analyst
4 20 (14.18%) IT Support
5 19 (13.48%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (13.48%) Support Analyst
6 18 (12.77%) Applications Support
7 17 (12.06%) 3rd Line Support
7 17 (12.06%) Support Engineer
8 15 (10.64%) .NET Developer
9 11 (7.80%) Administrator
9 11 (7.80%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 10 (7.09%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 10 (7.09%) IT Analyst
10 10 (7.09%) IT Support Analyst
10 10 (7.09%) Senior Developer
10 10 (7.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.38%) C# Developer
11 9 (6.38%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (38.30%) .NET
2 27 (19.15%) HTML
3 26 (18.44%) CSS
4 24 (17.02%) ASP.NET
5 23 (16.31%) .NET Core
6 18 (12.77%) JSON
7 17 (12.06%) .NET Framework
7 17 (12.06%) XML
8 14 (9.93%) AngularJS
8 14 (9.93%) HTML5
9 12 (8.51%) React
9 12 (8.51%) REST
10 11 (7.80%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (7.80%) CSS3
10 11 (7.80%) Vue
11 10 (7.09%) Jest
11 10 (7.09%) RESTful
11 10 (7.09%) SOAP
12 9 (6.38%) Dapper ORM
12 9 (6.38%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Management Information System
2 18 (12.77%) Private Cloud
3 15 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (9.93%) Client/Server
5 13 (9.22%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (6.38%) Mobile App
6 9 (6.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 8 (5.67%) Data Centre
8 6 (4.26%) Clustering
8 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.55%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.84%) Online Games
10 4 (2.84%) PKI
11 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.42%) 3D Graphics
12 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.42%) N-Tier
12 2 (1.42%) Robotics
13 1 (0.71%) Replication
13 1 (0.71%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 88 (62.41%) Windows
2 66 (46.81%) Windows Server
3 37 (26.24%) Linux
4 13 (9.22%) Unix
5 10 (7.09%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.84%) CentOS
8 3 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.42%) Solaris
10 1 (0.71%) Android
10 1 (0.71%) Debian
10 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.71%) VMS
10 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.62%) ITIL
1 46 (32.62%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (28.37%) Agile
3 30 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
3 30 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (16.31%) Project Management
5 20 (14.18%) High Availability
5 20 (14.18%) MVC
6 19 (13.48%) Customer Service
6 19 (13.48%) Project Delivery
6 19 (13.48%) Service Management
7 18 (12.77%) Change Management
7 18 (12.77%) CI/CD
7 18 (12.77%) Data Privacy
7 18 (12.77%) ITSM
8 17 (12.06%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (12.06%) Information Security
9 16 (11.35%) Asset Management
9 16 (11.35%) DevOps
10 15 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 69 (48.94%) SQL
2 46 (32.62%) PowerShell
3 39 (27.66%) C#
4 38 (26.95%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.51%) Java
5 12 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.38%) Python
6 9 (6.38%) VBA
7 8 (5.67%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.26%) Bash
9 4 (2.84%) PHP
10 3 (2.13%) Bicep
10 3 (2.13%) VB
10 3 (2.13%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.71%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (14.89%) Degree
2 11 (7.80%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.26%) A+ Certification
4 6 (4.26%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.13%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.42%) CISM
8 2 (1.42%) CISSP
8 2 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.42%) PMP
8 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (7.09%) SLA
3 4 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.13%) NIST
5 2 (1.42%) NCSC
5 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.71%) GDPR
6 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 65 (46.10%) Active Directory
2 29 (20.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (12.06%) Hyper-V
4 10 (7.09%) vSphere
5 6 (4.26%) Terminal Services
6 5 (3.55%) Docker
7 3 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.42%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.71%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.71%) Forefront TMG
9 1 (0.71%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.71%) LXC
9 1 (0.71%) Samba
Systems Management
1 31 (21.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (13.48%) Terraform
3 15 (10.64%) Ansible
4 10 (7.09%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (6.38%) SCCM
6 6 (4.26%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.55%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.42%) SCOM
9 1 (0.71%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.71%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.71%) WMI
Vendors
1 93 (65.96%) Microsoft
2 40 (28.37%) VMware
3 28 (19.86%) Oracle
4 15 (10.64%) Cisco
5 10 (7.09%) Dell
5 10 (7.09%) Rollbar
6 8 (5.67%) HP
6 8 (5.67%) NetApp
7 7 (4.96%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.84%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.84%) Veeam
9 3 (2.13%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.13%) Okta
9 3 (2.13%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.42%) Aderant
10 2 (1.42%) Adobe
10 2 (1.42%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.42%) iManage
10 2 (1.42%) Intapp
10 2 (1.42%) Salesforce