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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISA Server 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -

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 4,791 3,866 4,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 12.62% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 2,541 3,366
10th Percentile £205 £205 £190
25th Percentile £400 £383 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +8.85% -8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 89 240
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.46 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.47 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% -18.75% -
75th Percentile £70.64 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.80 £78.50 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £37.50 £40.25
% change year-on-year +11.84% -6.83% +54.81%

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 6 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 27 February 2026. 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 - 4 £450 -
North of England - 3 £450 -
North West - 3 £450 -
England - 3 £450 -
Work from Home - 2 - -
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 3 (75.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jasmine
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS3
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
1 3 (75.00%) Jest
1 3 (75.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 3 (75.00%) NestJS
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) Playwright
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) Sass
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Code Coverage
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Thought Leadership
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Adobe
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft