ISA99 Contract Job Trends in the East of England

ISA99 (Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring ISA99 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISA99 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.10% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - £700
% change year-on-year - - +2.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

ISA99 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 322 155 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.89% 15.58% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 90 122
10th Percentile £299 £259 £258
25th Percentile £413 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +12.37% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £597
90th Percentile £675 £691 £674
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -4.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 21 32
10th Percentile £16.12 £17.35 -
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.22 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £35.00 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% +121.66% -10.34%
75th Percentile £20.09 £73.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £32.79 £88.00 £45.80
England median hourly rate £25.94 £32.66 £24.97
% change year-on-year -20.56% +30.78% -38.35%

ISA99
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISA99 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Suffolk - 2 - -
ISA99
England

ISA99
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware