SCADA Contracts in the Thames Valley

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCADA over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 140 159
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing SCADA 8 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.01% 0.85% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £337 £332
25th Percentile - £500 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +48.81% +1.82%
75th Percentile - £638 £453
90th Percentile - £645 £466
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £435
% change year-on-year +4.55% +26.44% -8.42%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

SCADA is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 795 939 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.75% 31.96% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 618 696
10th Percentile £205 £280 £200
25th Percentile £280 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 24 30
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -21.57%
75th Percentile £59.97 £70.90 £26.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.57
South East median hourly rate £47.19 £51.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.93% +138.37% -33.85%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in the Thames Valley

SCADA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCADA in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SCADA in the Thames Valley

SCADA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCADA in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SCADA in the Thames Valley

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Berkshire -3 8 - - 18
SCADA
South East

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (12.50%) ADSL
3 1 (12.50%) DSL
3 1 (12.50%) GSM
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) LTE
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Graduate
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Graduate Systems Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SCADA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Real Time Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (37.50%) CCTV
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Network Design
1 3 (37.50%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNA
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (37.50%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
1 3 (37.50%) VMware