ISA99 Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring ISA99 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISA99 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.017% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - £700

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 903 472 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.38% 14.75% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 322 400
10th Percentile £349 £260 £300
25th Percentile £402 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -5.70% -
75th Percentile £583 £579 £588
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
England median daily rate £510 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +0.55% -3.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 25 89
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.53 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.14 £10.95
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £12.84
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% +88.32% -68.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.46 £26.66
90th Percentile £72.85 £78.05 £44.75
England median hourly rate £27.88 £32.81 £21.64
% change year-on-year -15.03% +51.62% -49.08%

ISA99
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISA99 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

ISA99 job vacancy trend in the North of England

ISA99
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Yorkshire - 1 - -
ISA99
England

ISA99
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800