ISA Server Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
UK

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 563 648
Rank change year-on-year 0 +85 +172
Contract jobs citing ISA Server 11 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the System Software category 0.27% 0.023% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £596 - £603
25th Percentile - £513 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £538 £656
90th Percentile £641 - £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,139 4,312 6,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.31% 11.66% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,641 2,788 4,241
10th Percentile £208 £216 £198
25th Percentile £379 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £669 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 88 260
10th Percentile £15.09 £16.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.41 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.75 £50.00 £47.86
Median % change year-on-year -46.50% +4.47% +115.11%
75th Percentile £67.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £78.25 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% +105.13%

ISA Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ISA Server job vacancy trend in the UK

ISA Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ISA Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

ISA Server
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 25 October 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
UK excluding London -12 11 £600 +14.29%
England +8 10 £600 +14.29%
South East - 10 £600 -
Work from Home +15 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

ISA Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (90.91%) Exchange Server 2003
1 10 (90.91%) Exchange Server 2007
1 10 (90.91%) Exchange Server 2010
1 10 (90.91%) Exchange Server 2013
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (90.91%) Office Communications Server
1 10 (90.91%) SharePoint
1 10 (90.91%) SharePoint Server
1 10 (90.91%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) DDNS
1 10 (90.91%) DHCP
1 10 (90.91%) DNS
1 10 (90.91%) SAN
1 10 (90.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Exchange Engineer
1 10 (90.91%) Exchange Support
1 10 (90.91%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
1 10 (90.91%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Architectural Design
1 10 (90.91%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Content Management
1 10 (90.91%) Enterprise Content Management
1 10 (90.91%) Enterprise Search
1 10 (90.91%) High Availability
1 10 (90.91%) ITIL
2 1 (9.09%) Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
2 1 (9.09%) ETL
2 1 (9.09%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) DV Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
1 10 (90.91%) Brightmail
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft