Hybrid/Remote IIS Job Trends

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring IIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 348 346
Rank change year-on-year -41 -2 +57
Permanent jobs citing IIS 31 77 277
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.51% 0.82%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.72% 4.21% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 29 62 219
10th Percentile £25,975 £32,875 £39,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -21.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,875 £64,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £49,212 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.43% -6.67% -4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

IIS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,139 1,830 3,788
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.87% 12.22% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 851 1,191 2,949
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,992 £90,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IIS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IIS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

IIS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IIS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IIS

IIS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IIS over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

IIS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

IIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 15 (48.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.45%) Apache
4 1 (3.23%) Confluence
4 1 (3.23%) Drupal
4 1 (3.23%) nginx
4 1 (3.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.90%) AWS
5 3 (9.68%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Cloudflare
6 2 (6.45%) IaaS
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
6 2 (6.45%) SaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.23%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.23%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) VPN
2 10 (32.26%) Firewall
3 6 (19.35%) DNS
4 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (12.90%) DHCP
6 3 (9.68%) VLAN
7 2 (6.45%) SAN
8 1 (3.23%) MPLS
8 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (77.42%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.23%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Gatling
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
1 1 (3.23%) JMeter
1 1 (3.23%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Law
3 6 (19.35%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Analyst
1 10 (32.26%) Support Analyst
2 8 (25.81%) Senior
3 7 (22.58%) Support Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Developer
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Support Analyst
6 4 (12.90%) Applications Support
6 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Graduate
7 3 (9.68%) Graduate Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Graduate Support Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) IT Support
7 3 (9.68%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior IT Support
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Support Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) CSS
1 6 (19.35%) HTML
2 3 (9.68%) Middleware
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 2 (6.45%) COM
3 2 (6.45%) DCOM
3 2 (6.45%) LDAP
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.23%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.13%) Client/Server
3 4 (12.90%) Clustering
4 3 (9.68%) PKI
5 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
5 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (6.45%) Smartcard
6 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Windows
2 18 (58.06%) Windows Server
3 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (16.13%) Linux
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Case Management
1 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (25.81%) Software Testing
2 7 (22.58%) Customer Service
2 7 (22.58%) Process Improvement
3 6 (19.35%) Application Security
3 6 (19.35%) Data Privacy
3 6 (19.35%) Data Security
3 6 (19.35%) Document Management
3 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (19.35%) Secure Coding
4 4 (12.90%) High Availability
5 3 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.68%) Mathematics
5 3 (9.68%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (9.68%) Physics
6 2 (6.45%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (6.45%) Customer Experience
6 2 (6.45%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 8 (25.81%) T-SQL
4 6 (19.35%) VBA
4 6 (19.35%) VBScript
5 1 (3.23%) PHP
5 1 (3.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) IISP
3 1 (3.23%) ISACA
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (19.35%) SLA
3 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (74.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.23%) Docker
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) CASB
3 1 (3.23%) Consul
3 1 (3.23%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) Packer
3 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (96.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Citrix
3 6 (19.35%) iManage
4 5 (16.13%) VMware
5 3 (9.68%) Veeam
6 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (3.23%) Cisco
7 1 (3.23%) Google
7 1 (3.23%) TOWER Software
7 1 (3.23%) WatchGuard
7 1 (3.23%) Zscaler