Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 509 508
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 -53
Contract jobs citing IIS 107 199 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.58% 3.16% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 156 269
10th Percentile £313 £360 £298
25th Percentile £363 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £619
90th Percentile £693 £835 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £22.96 £48.80 £47.25
25th Percentile £23.28 £54.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.81% +21.90% +13.51%
75th Percentile £25.03 £73.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £25.76 £79.20 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,143 6,291 11,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 10.91% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 4,415 7,567
10th Percentile £256 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 147 226
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.09 £13.94
25th Percentile £15.43 £19.38 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +83.67% +8.89%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.47 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -11.04% +44.74% -1.45%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IIS.

Daily rate trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IIS.

Hourly rate trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +31 89 £450 -14.29% 54
London +46 53 £450 -25.00% 19
UK excluding London +11 41 £450 -14.29% 35
Work from Home +47 31 £563 +1.35% 28
East of England +30 20 £425 -27.66% 1
North of England +30 10 £563 +7.14% 9
Scotland +43 7 £325 -31.58% 5
Yorkshire +25 6 £563 +12.50% 5
North West +30 4 £550 -4.35% 3
West Midlands +19 3 £1,000 +113.33% 4
Midlands +14 3 £1,000 +172.11% 6
South East -9 1 £438 -14.22% 9

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 14 (13.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (13.08%) Tomcat
2 13 (12.15%) SharePoint
3 11 (10.28%) Apache
4 7 (6.54%) WebSphere
5 5 (4.67%) JBoss
6 3 (2.80%) WebLogic
6 3 (2.80%) WordPress
7 2 (1.87%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.93%) CMS
8 1 (0.93%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.93%) nginx
8 1 (0.93%) WildFly
Applications
1 15 (14.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.32%) Azure
2 24 (22.43%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.35%) AWS
4 10 (9.35%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.61%) GitHub
6 4 (3.74%) PaaS
7 3 (2.80%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.80%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.80%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.87%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.87%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.93%) OCI
9 1 (0.93%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.69%) Internet
2 17 (15.89%) DNS
3 12 (11.21%) TCP/IP
4 9 (8.41%) Firewall
4 9 (8.41%) SAN
5 8 (7.48%) NAS
6 7 (6.54%) VPN
7 6 (5.61%) DHCP
8 5 (4.67%) H.323
8 5 (4.67%) HTTP
8 5 (4.67%) Network Security
8 5 (4.67%) Wireless
8 5 (4.67%) Wireshark
9 3 (2.80%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (2.80%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.80%) LAN
10 2 (1.87%) DKIM
10 2 (1.87%) DMARC
10 2 (1.87%) Extranet
10 2 (1.87%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (34.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.35%) Oracle Database
3 7 (6.54%) DB2
4 4 (3.74%) Big Data
4 4 (3.74%) MySQL
5 3 (2.80%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.87%) DTS
6 2 (1.87%) Power BI
7 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Git
2 8 (7.48%) JIRA
3 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.67%) Fiddler
5 4 (3.74%) Vagrant
6 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.80%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.80%) Selenium
6 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.93%) GitLab
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 25 (23.36%) Finance
2 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.61%) Legal
5 6 (5.61%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.67%) Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) French Language
8 1 (0.93%) German Language
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (16.82%) Developer
2 11 (10.28%) Architect
3 10 (9.35%) C# Developer
3 10 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Support Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Applications Support
4 9 (8.41%) C# WCF Developer
4 9 (8.41%) C# WPF Developer
4 9 (8.41%) WCF Developer
4 9 (8.41%) Web Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) WPF Developer
5 8 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Administrator
6 7 (6.54%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) 3rd Line Support
7 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (46.73%) .NET
2 27 (25.23%) .NET Framework
3 14 (13.08%) Web Services
4 11 (10.28%) ASP.NET
5 10 (9.35%) WinForms
5 10 (9.35%) WPF
6 9 (8.41%) WCF
7 8 (7.48%) CSS
7 8 (7.48%) HTML
8 6 (5.61%) JSON
8 6 (5.61%) SAML
9 5 (4.67%) REST
10 4 (3.74%) LDAP
11 3 (2.80%) EJB
11 3 (2.80%) J2EE
11 3 (2.80%) JSP
11 3 (2.80%) LAMP
11 3 (2.80%) Servlets
11 3 (2.80%) XHTML
11 3 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.48%) Clustering
3 6 (5.61%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.67%) IVR
5 4 (3.74%) PKI
6 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.80%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.80%) Replication
6 3 (2.80%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.87%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.87%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 78 (72.90%) Windows
2 35 (32.71%) Windows Server
3 27 (25.23%) Linux
4 17 (15.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (12.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (9.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (8.41%) Unix
7 9 (8.41%) VMS
8 7 (6.54%) CentOS
8 7 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (5.61%) Debian
9 6 (5.61%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (3.74%) AIX
10 4 (3.74%) Solaris
11 3 (2.80%) Ubuntu
12 2 (1.87%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.93%) Android
13 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.93%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.71%) DevOps
2 21 (19.63%) Agile
3 17 (15.89%) Migration
4 13 (12.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (11.21%) Load Balancing
6 11 (10.28%) Change Management
7 10 (9.35%) CI/CD
7 10 (9.35%) Data Analysis
7 10 (9.35%) Scrum
7 10 (9.35%) SDLC
8 9 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (8.41%) Software Deployment
9 8 (7.48%) Microservices
9 8 (7.48%) Software Engineering
10 7 (6.54%) Capacity Management
10 7 (6.54%) High Availability
10 7 (6.54%) Information Security
10 7 (6.54%) Proactive Maintenance
11 6 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.32%) SQL
2 36 (33.64%) PowerShell
3 24 (22.43%) C#
4 15 (14.02%) VB
5 12 (11.21%) T-SQL
6 11 (10.28%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.35%) PL/SQL
7 10 (9.35%) VBA
8 7 (6.54%) Java
9 6 (5.61%) Python
10 3 (2.80%) VBScript
11 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Degree
2 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) MCSA
3 7 (6.54%) MCSE
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) RHCT
5 4 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.80%) CISSP
6 3 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.80%) SANS
7 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.93%) CCIE
8 1 (0.93%) CCNP
8 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.08%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) GRC
2 3 (2.80%) SLA
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) NIST
3 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (44.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.21%) Hyper-V
2 12 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.54%) Docker
3 7 (6.54%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.61%) KVM
5 5 (4.67%) vSphere
6 2 (1.87%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.87%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.93%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.93%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.93%) XenApp
7 1 (0.93%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (16.82%) SCCM
2 16 (14.95%) SCOM
3 7 (6.54%) Ansible
4 6 (5.61%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.74%) Puppet
6 4 (3.74%) Tivoli
7 3 (2.80%) Netcool
7 3 (2.80%) SCVMM
7 3 (2.80%) Terraform
7 3 (2.80%) WSUS
8 2 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.87%) Control-M
8 2 (1.87%) Kibana
8 2 (1.87%) logstash
8 2 (1.87%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.87%) Packer
8 2 (1.87%) VxRail
9 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (34.58%) Microsoft
2 27 (25.23%) Oracle
3 19 (17.76%) Citrix
4 18 (16.82%) VMware
5 15 (14.02%) F5
6 12 (11.21%) IBM
6 12 (11.21%) Red Hat
7 7 (6.54%) AppDynamics
7 7 (6.54%) Avaya
8 5 (4.67%) Verint
9 4 (3.74%) Cisco
9 4 (3.74%) SAP
9 4 (3.74%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.80%) Aruba
10 3 (2.80%) CyberArk
10 3 (2.80%) Pega
10 3 (2.80%) ProCurve
10 3 (2.80%) Splunk
10 3 (2.80%) Synology
10 3 (2.80%) Veeam