IIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for IIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IIS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 348 392
Rank change year-on-year +7 +44 -34
Contract jobs citing IIS 47 99 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.66% 3.73% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 82 99
10th Percentile £313 £356 £275
25th Percentile £350 £431 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £445
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +17.98% -1.11%
75th Percentile £572 £650 £550
90th Percentile £775 £724 £653
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47.25
25th Percentile £22.75 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £26.25 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.81% +21.90% +13.51%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

IIS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,764 2,653 3,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 11.11% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,902 2,678
10th Percentile £208 £203 £185
25th Percentile £319 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £548
90th Percentile £650 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 102 139
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.01 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.56 £15.02
Median hourly rate £23.63 £26.48 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +43.14% -2.63%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.44 £36.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% +77.78% +5.14%

IIS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IIS in the UK excluding London

IIS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IIS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IIS in the UK excluding London

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the UK excluding London

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IIS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the UK excluding London

IIS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +25 21 £425 -41.38% 4
Scotland +49 12 £325 -31.58% 2
North of England +32 10 £563 +7.14% 12
Yorkshire +25 6 £563 +12.50% 4
North West +28 4 £550 -4.35% 7
Midlands +20 3 £1,000 +172.11% 7
West Midlands +17 3 £1,000 +113.33% 4
South East -12 1 £438 -14.22% 3
IIS
UK

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (21.28%) Tomcat
2 9 (19.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (14.89%) Apache
3 7 (14.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.26%) WordPress
5 1 (2.13%) Confluence
5 1 (2.13%) EPiServer
5 1 (2.13%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.38%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.26%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) TCP/IP
2 8 (17.02%) SAN
3 6 (12.77%) DNS
3 6 (12.77%) H.323
3 6 (12.77%) HTTP
4 4 (8.51%) LAN
4 4 (8.51%) NAS
4 4 (8.51%) WAN
5 3 (6.38%) DHCP
5 3 (6.38%) Wireshark
6 2 (4.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (4.26%) Firewall
6 2 (4.26%) iSCSI
6 2 (4.26%) VLAN
6 2 (4.26%) VPN
6 2 (4.26%) Wireless
7 1 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (2.13%) Internet
7 1 (2.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) Big Data
3 2 (4.26%) MariaDB
3 2 (4.26%) MySQL
3 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Legal
3 6 (12.77%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.64%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Support Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Applications Support
2 7 (14.89%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Web Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (12.77%) Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Data Centre Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Data Migration Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Lead Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Migration Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Systems Support Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Technical Support
4 4 (8.51%) Web Applications Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Web Applications Support
4 4 (8.51%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.17%) .NET
2 6 (12.77%) .NET Framework
3 5 (10.64%) CSS
3 5 (10.64%) HTML
4 4 (8.51%) JSON
4 4 (8.51%) REST
5 3 (6.38%) SAML
5 3 (6.38%) Web Services
5 3 (6.38%) XHTML
6 2 (4.26%) ADSI
6 2 (4.26%) LAMP
7 1 (2.13%) .NET Remoting
7 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.77%) IVR
3 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.51%) Clustering
5 3 (6.38%) Low-Code
6 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.26%) Replication
7 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.13%) PKI
7 1 (2.13%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 35 (74.47%) Windows
2 26 (55.32%) Windows Server
3 15 (31.91%) Linux
4 12 (25.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (19.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (17.02%) VMS
7 7 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (12.77%) CentOS
8 6 (12.77%) Debian
8 6 (12.77%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (4.26%) Ubuntu
10 1 (2.13%) Android
10 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) Load Balancing
2 12 (25.53%) DevOps
3 8 (17.02%) Migration
4 7 (14.89%) Agile
4 7 (14.89%) Change Management
4 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (10.64%) Capacity Management
5 5 (10.64%) Proactive Maintenance
5 5 (10.64%) WFM
5 5 (10.64%) Workforce Optimisation
6 4 (8.51%) Asset Management
6 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.51%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (6.38%) API Management
7 3 (6.38%) Design Patterns
7 3 (6.38%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.38%) Microservices
7 3 (6.38%) Organisational Awareness
7 3 (6.38%) Prototyping
7 3 (6.38%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) PowerShell
2 12 (25.53%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) Python
4 5 (10.64%) C#
4 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.51%) Java
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) MCSA
2 6 (12.77%) MCSE
2 6 (12.77%) RHCT
3 4 (8.51%) CCNA
3 4 (8.51%) CCNP
3 4 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (61.70%) Active Directory
2 9 (19.15%) Hyper-V
3 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (12.77%) KVM
5 4 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.38%) vSphere
7 1 (2.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) SCCM
2 9 (19.15%) SCOM
3 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.13%) Ansible
5 1 (2.13%) vRealize
5 1 (2.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (31.91%) VMware
3 13 (27.66%) Red Hat
4 10 (21.28%) F5
5 6 (12.77%) Avaya
5 6 (12.77%) Citrix
6 5 (10.64%) Verint
7 3 (6.38%) IBM
7 3 (6.38%) Nintex
7 3 (6.38%) Pega
7 3 (6.38%) SAP
8 2 (4.26%) Aruba
8 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.26%) ProCurve
8 2 (4.26%) Synology
8 2 (4.26%) Veeam
8 2 (4.26%) Zerto
9 1 (2.13%) CA
9 1 (2.13%) Oracle