ISA Server Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ISA Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISA Server 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -

All System Software Skills
North West

ISA Server falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 344 260 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.13% 11.20% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 145 277
10th Percentile £200 £186 £197
25th Percentile £328 £363 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £548 £566 £538
90th Percentile £641 £626 £644
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 31
10th Percentile - £17.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.88
Median hourly rate £18.94 £22.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.28% +16.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69.00 £26.59 £44.49
90th Percentile £74.26 £32.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £31.86 £50.00 £40.16
% change year-on-year -36.28% +24.49% +60.65%

ISA Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISA Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

ISA Server job vacancy trend in the North West

ISA Server
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ISA Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ISA Server

ISA Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ISA Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ISA Server

ISA Server
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISA Server within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 November 2025. 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
Manchester - 1 £450 -
ISA Server
England

ISA Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jasmine
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) NestJS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk