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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 558 649
Rank change year-on-year +3 +91 +198
Contract jobs citing ISA Server 13 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the System Software category 0.33% 0.023% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile £533 - £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 £630 - £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 3,885 4,408 6,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 11.45% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,454 2,959 4,355
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £625
90th Percentile £670 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £472
% change year-on-year - +0.71% +4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 113 269
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.44 £19.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £80.00 £59.88 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.05 £74.65 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +136.36% -31.25% +100.00%

ISA Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISA Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISA Server 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 3 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 18 September 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
England +28 13 £600 +14.29% 4
UK excluding London +5 13 £600 +14.29% 4
South East - 13 £600 - 3

ISA Server
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 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 13 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 13 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
1 13 (100.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DDNS
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) SAN
1 13 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Support
1 13 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 13 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Content Management
1 13 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 13 (100.00%) Enterprise Search
1 13 (100.00%) High Availability
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (100.00%) Brightmail
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft