ISA99 (Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISA99 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ISA99 over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 - 843
Rank change year-on-year - - -148
Contract jobs citing ISA99 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - 0.002%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.064% - 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £519
25th Percentile - - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £556
75th Percentile - - £580
90th Percentile - - £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ISA99 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,209 7,946 11,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 13.38% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,933 5,456 8,062
10th Percentile £295 £275 £294
25th Percentile £401 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.27% +8.07%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 230 304
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.28 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.55 £16.44
Median hourly rate £20.61 £36.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.16% +31.82% +30.64%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.73 £66.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -48.57% +66.27% -

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISA99 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISA99 in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISA99.

Daily rate trend for ISA99 in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISA99 within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 4 £700 - 1
London - 3 £700 -
Work from Home - 2 £700 -
UK excluding London - 1 £700 - 1
South West - 1 £700 - 1

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Modbus
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (75.00%) SCADA
3 1 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (25.00%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (25.00%) IoT
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CISA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) ForeScout
1 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto