Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IIS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IIS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 534 463
Rank change year-on-year +55 -71 -104
Permanent jobs citing IIS 480 515 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.51% 0.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.48% 4.45% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 420 422 795
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,050 £33,850
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £66,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,000 £77,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +5.88%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,708 11,567 21,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.80% 11.41% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,116 7,728 11,580
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,653
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.64% +4.10%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £94,375 £96,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IIS.

Salary trend for IIS in the UK

IIS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IIS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IIS in the UK

IIS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IIS within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +85 433 £52,500 -4.55% 52
UK excluding London +33 360 £52,500 - 34
Work from Home +81 271 £60,000 +9.09% 20
Midlands +29 104 £51,250 +7.89% 7
London +45 99 £60,000 -8.40% 15
South East -31 87 £52,500 -4.55% 9
North of England +57 75 £60,000 +20.00% 10
West Midlands +41 71 £52,500 -4.55% 4
North West +27 50 £60,000 +14.29% 6
South West +5 42 £61,500 +95.55% 3
East Midlands -6 33 £50,000 +42.86% 3
Scotland -44 25 £32,500 -38.68% 2
East of England +27 21 £32,000 -41.82% 3
Yorkshire +79 20 £56,250 +27.84% 3
North East -3 5 £35,000 -12.50% 1
Wales -11 4 £49,500 +54.69%
Northern Ireland +23 2 £40,000 +33.33%

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 55 (11.46%) SharePoint
2 51 (10.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (9.58%) CMS
3 46 (9.58%) Umbraco
4 43 (8.96%) Apache
5 40 (8.33%) Tomcat
6 38 (7.92%) Sitecore CMS
7 36 (7.50%) Headless CMS
7 36 (7.50%) Kentico
8 10 (2.08%) WebSphere
9 9 (1.88%) WordPress
10 8 (1.67%) WebLogic
11 7 (1.46%) JBoss
11 7 (1.46%) WildFly
12 6 (1.25%) nginx
13 5 (1.04%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.83%) ColdFusion
15 2 (0.42%) Liferay
15 2 (0.42%) Moodle
15 2 (0.42%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 36 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.83%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.21%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (4.38%) NEC Housing
2 15 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.46%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.83%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 293 (61.04%) Azure
2 104 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (16.67%) AWS
4 72 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (7.50%) Kontent
6 30 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 28 (5.83%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (4.38%) GCP
8 21 (4.38%) SaaS
9 18 (3.75%) Entra ID
10 14 (2.92%) OneDrive
11 13 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (2.08%) GitHub
13 9 (1.88%) IaaS
14 8 (1.67%) Power Automate
15 7 (1.46%) Google Analytics
15 7 (1.46%) PaaS
16 6 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (1.25%) Nutanix
17 4 (0.83%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 123 (25.63%) Firewall
2 122 (25.42%) DNS
3 76 (15.83%) WAN
4 67 (13.96%) DHCP
5 46 (9.58%) SAN
6 37 (7.71%) SSL
7 34 (7.08%) TCP/IP
7 34 (7.08%) VPN
8 24 (5.00%) Internet
9 22 (4.58%) iSCSI
10 17 (3.54%) LAN
11 13 (2.71%) Fibre Channel
11 13 (2.71%) SD-WAN
11 13 (2.71%) SNMP
12 12 (2.50%) Wireless
12 12 (2.50%) WLAN
13 11 (2.29%) NAS
14 8 (1.67%) HTTP
15 7 (1.46%) FTP
16 5 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (53.96%) SQL Server
2 37 (7.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 35 (7.29%) Oracle Database
4 30 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 27 (5.63%) NoSQL
6 26 (5.42%) Power BI
7 16 (3.33%) MySQL
8 15 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.04%) Redis
13 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (0.42%) DB2
14 2 (0.42%) DTS
15 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
15 1 (0.21%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 48 (10.00%) Git
2 44 (9.17%) Visual Studio
3 28 (5.83%) Jasmine
3 28 (5.83%) Karma Test Runner
4 22 (4.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 18 (3.75%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.50%) JIRA
7 10 (2.08%) MSBuild
7 10 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.83%) FitNesse
9 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.83%) Selenium
9 4 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.83%) Subversion
9 4 (0.83%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.42%) Bower
11 2 (0.42%) gulp
11 2 (0.42%) Moq
General
1 101 (21.04%) Finance
2 71 (14.79%) Social Skills
3 41 (8.54%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.83%) Law
6 22 (4.58%) Local Government
7 21 (4.38%) Police
8 19 (3.96%) Aerospace
9 17 (3.54%) Marketing
10 14 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.50%) Banking
11 12 (2.50%) Legal
12 10 (2.08%) Aviation
12 10 (2.08%) Military
12 10 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.04%) Electronics
14 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 163 (33.96%) Developer
2 107 (22.29%) Senior
3 72 (15.00%) C# Developer
3 72 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
4 70 (14.58%) .NET Developer
5 46 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 43 (8.96%) Applications Developer
6 43 (8.96%) Consultant
7 41 (8.54%) Senior Developer
8 40 (8.33%) Applications Support
9 39 (8.13%) .NET Applications Developer
9 39 (8.13%) C# .NET Developer
10 38 (7.92%) Senior .NET Developer
11 36 (7.50%) ASP.NET Developer
11 36 (7.50%) C# Application Developer
11 36 (7.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 36 (7.50%) CMS Developer
12 34 (7.08%) Senior .NET Applications Developer
12 34 (7.08%) Senior C# .NET Developer
12 34 (7.08%) Senior C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (40.63%) .NET
2 144 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 117 (24.38%) REST
4 86 (17.92%) Web Services
5 82 (17.08%) AngularJS
6 77 (16.04%) React
7 76 (15.83%) HTML
8 72 (15.00%) XML
9 70 (14.58%) ASP.NET MVC
9 70 (14.58%) CSS
10 68 (14.17%) JSON
11 58 (12.08%) .NET Core
12 57 (11.88%) .NET Framework
13 45 (9.38%) SOAP
14 41 (8.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 38 (7.92%) RESTful
16 37 (7.71%) jQuery
17 36 (7.50%) Next.js
18 33 (6.88%) Sass
19 28 (5.83%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 75 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
2 65 (13.54%) Clustering
3 53 (11.04%) Public Cloud
4 30 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 26 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.71%) CMDB
7 13 (2.71%) Replication
8 12 (2.50%) CESG
8 12 (2.50%) PMI
9 10 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.88%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.46%) PKI
12 6 (1.25%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.25%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.25%) IoT
13 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 214 (44.58%) Windows
2 111 (23.13%) Linux
3 105 (21.88%) Windows Server
4 31 (6.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (4.58%) Solaris
5 22 (4.58%) Unix
6 21 (4.38%) VMS
7 20 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (2.29%) Ubuntu
9 10 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.67%) Windows 10
11 6 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (1.04%) CentOS
13 4 (0.83%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.63%) Debian
15 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.21%) Android
16 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (27.92%) DevOps
3 86 (17.92%) Continuous Integration
3 86 (17.92%) MVC
4 74 (15.42%) High Availability
5 67 (13.96%) Web Development
6 63 (13.13%) Agile
6 63 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 60 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 56 (11.67%) CRM
8 56 (11.67%) Customer Service
9 51 (10.63%) Project Management
10 49 (10.21%) API Development
10 49 (10.21%) E-Commerce
11 44 (9.17%) TDD
12 42 (8.75%) ERP
13 41 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (8.54%) Deployment Automation
13 41 (8.54%) Presales
14 40 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 256 (53.33%) SQL
2 170 (35.42%) C#
3 133 (27.71%) JavaScript
4 86 (17.92%) PowerShell
5 78 (16.25%) T-SQL
6 42 (8.75%) Java
7 38 (7.92%) VB.NET
8 34 (7.08%) TypeScript
9 31 (6.46%) VB
10 28 (5.83%) VB6
11 25 (5.21%) XAML
12 23 (4.79%) Shell Script
13 13 (2.71%) PL/SQL
14 10 (2.08%) PHP
15 9 (1.88%) Python
16 7 (1.46%) XPath
17 6 (1.25%) C
17 6 (1.25%) C++
18 4 (0.83%) CFML
19 2 (0.42%) Bash
Qualifications
1 103 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 78 (16.25%) Degree
3 37 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.50%) CISMP
7 12 (2.50%) IISP
7 12 (2.50%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.08%) MCSE
9 9 (1.88%) CCNA
9 9 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (1.25%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.83%) CCA
12 4 (0.83%) CCDA
12 4 (0.83%) Citrix Certification
12 4 (0.83%) MCSA
13 3 (0.63%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.75%) QA
2 25 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.13%) NIST
4 12 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 12 (2.50%) JSP 440
4 12 (2.50%) NIST 800
5 11 (2.29%) RMADS
6 10 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.08%) SLA
7 6 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.42%) PMO
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.21%) FISMA
9 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) HITRUST
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 150 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 103 (21.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (7.71%) VMware NSX
4 31 (6.46%) Hyper-V
5 27 (5.63%) vSphere
6 13 (2.71%) Docker
6 13 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.88%) Forefront TMG
7 9 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.88%) VMware Workstation
8 8 (1.67%) VMware Server
9 6 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.04%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.63%) KVM
12 2 (0.42%) Firmware
13 1 (0.21%) Samba
13 1 (0.21%) Shibboleth
13 1 (0.21%) Varnish
13 1 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (5.83%) SCOM
2 24 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (4.17%) WSUS
4 15 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 15 (3.13%) ZABBIX
5 12 (2.50%) Opsgenie
5 12 (2.50%) VxRail
6 11 (2.29%) SCCM
7 10 (2.08%) Ansible
7 10 (2.08%) Terraform
8 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (1.46%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.04%) Pingdom
10 5 (1.04%) SCOrch
11 4 (0.83%) PowerCLI
11 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.83%) vRealize
11 4 (0.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 4 (0.83%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 320 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 145 (30.21%) VMware
3 47 (9.79%) Oracle
4 38 (7.92%) Sitecore
5 36 (7.50%) Optimizely
6 27 (5.63%) Cisco
7 22 (4.58%) Dell
8 21 (4.38%) NEC
8 21 (4.38%) SolarWinds
9 20 (4.17%) Veeam
10 18 (3.75%) NetApp
11 14 (2.92%) Aruba
11 14 (2.92%) Fortinet
12 13 (2.71%) CheckPoint
12 13 (2.71%) Citrix
12 13 (2.71%) Dynatrace
12 13 (2.71%) HP
13 11 (2.29%) Palo Alto
13 11 (2.29%) Zerto
14 10 (2.08%) Anaplan