The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCADA over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Cheshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Rank 60 65 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.408% 0.124% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.852% 0.676% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £470 £225 £325
% change year-on-year
+108.88% -30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £29.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+24.13% +16.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
162 148 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.04% 18.39% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 88 122
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £14.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -9.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
SCADA
North West

SCADA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SCADA across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Cheshire SCADA Jobs Demand Trend

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SCADA across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire SCADA Hourly Rate Trend

SCADA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 3 - -
SCADA
North West

SCADA
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SCADA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SCADA.

1 3 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (50.00%) HND
1 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) Subversion
1 3 (50.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Development

SCADA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SCADA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SCADA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded C Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) C Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) HND