IIS Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 171 213
Rank change year-on-year -9 +42 +4
Permanent jobs citing IIS 13 5 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.15% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.02% 1.75% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 41
10th Percentile £35,462 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -33.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £48,750 £42,250 £88,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -8.49% -7.83%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 259 286 686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.23% 8.51% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 202 205 523
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -8.63%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £62,200
90th Percentile £72,000 £73,750 £75,772
England median annual salary £50,051 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.00% +10.00% -11.50%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

IIS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IIS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IIS

IIS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for IIS in the West Midlands

IIS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Warwickshire +1 7 £37,500 -11.76%
Birmingham -8 5 £57,500 - 2
Staffordshire -2 1 £35,866 +30.42%
IIS
England

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (30.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (23.08%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) HTTP
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Support
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) IT Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) IT Support
3 3 (23.08%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Junior
3 3 (23.08%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Junior Data Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Junior IT Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Junior IT Support
3 3 (23.08%) Junior Support Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Junior Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) COM
1 4 (30.77%) DCOM
1 4 (30.77%) LDAP
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
2 4 (30.77%) PKI
2 4 (30.77%) Smartcard
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Social Media
4 1 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Case Management
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Experience
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Runbook
4 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Mathematics
4 3 (23.08%) Social Media Management
4 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) PHP
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) VBA
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Delphi
3 1 (7.69%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) IISP
2 1 (7.69%) ISACA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Salesforce
3 3 (23.08%) Adobe