IIS Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IIS over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 350 474
Rank change year-on-year +42 +124 -110
Contract jobs citing IIS 30 101 152
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.42% 0.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.80% 3.80% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 80 126
10th Percentile £400 £400 £324
25th Percentile £475 £463 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +44.44% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £835 £575
90th Percentile £788 - £624
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -18.18% +11.11% +6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £47.25
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.81% +21.90% +50.00%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,670 2,656 5,463
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.30% 11.13% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,874 3,985
10th Percentile £300 £325 £324
25th Percentile £400 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.57% +9.89%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £625
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.83% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 87
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £15.77
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £31.14 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.39% +10.00% +92.31%
75th Percentile £45.41 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £30.83 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -41.29% +128.26% +15.00%

IIS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IIS trend for jobs with a WFH option

IIS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IIS.

IIS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IIS over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

IIS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IIS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IIS.

IIS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IIS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
2 3 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.67%) CMS
3 2 (6.67%) JBoss
3 2 (6.67%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (6.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.33%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (3.33%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.33%) nginx
4 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) Network Security
3 3 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (6.67%) NAS
4 2 (6.67%) SAN
4 2 (6.67%) VLAN
5 1 (3.33%) Firewall
5 1 (3.33%) Internet
5 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Big Data
1 4 (13.33%) DB2
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (6.67%) Vagrant
4 1 (3.33%) Git
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (56.67%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
3 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 6 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
1 6 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Data Migration Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) Server Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.67%) CyberArk Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) .NET
2 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (13.33%) LDAP
4 3 (10.00%) Web Services
5 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.67%) ADSI
5 2 (6.67%) EJB
5 2 (6.67%) J2EE
5 2 (6.67%) JSP
5 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.67%) Servlets
5 2 (6.67%) XML
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) HATEOAS
6 1 (3.33%) React
6 1 (3.33%) REST
6 1 (3.33%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (3.33%) WinForms
6 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Clustering
2 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (90.00%) Windows
2 14 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 8 (26.67%) Linux
4 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (20.00%) VMS
5 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (13.33%) Unix
8 2 (6.67%) AIX
8 2 (6.67%) CentOS
8 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (6.67%) Rocky
8 2 (6.67%) Solaris
8 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Migration
2 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps
2 5 (16.67%) Information Security
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (10.00%) Agile
3 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (10.00%) High Availability
3 3 (10.00%) Time Management
4 2 (6.67%) BCP
4 2 (6.67%) Change Management
4 2 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce
4 2 (6.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (6.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (6.67%) ITIL
4 2 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (6.67%) Release Management
4 2 (6.67%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 13 (43.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.67%) VB
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.33%) VBA
5 1 (3.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.67%) CISSP
2 2 (6.67%) SANS
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.33%) MCSA
3 1 (3.33%) MCSE
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GRC
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.67%) NIST
1 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.33%) Docker
4 1 (3.33%) vSphere
4 1 (3.33%) XenApp
4 1 (3.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Kibana
2 2 (6.67%) logstash
2 2 (6.67%) Packer
2 2 (6.67%) SCCM
2 2 (6.67%) Tivoli
2 2 (6.67%) WSUS
3 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.33%) Puppet
3 1 (3.33%) Salt
3 1 (3.33%) SCOM
3 1 (3.33%) SCOrch
3 1 (3.33%) SCVMM
3 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) IBM
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) Citrix
4 2 (6.67%) AppDynamics
4 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.67%) F5
4 2 (6.67%) Sitecore
4 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.33%) CA
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.33%) IronPort
5 1 (3.33%) Varonis