SCADA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SCADA over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 429 561
Rank change year-on-year +108 +132 -95
Contract jobs citing SCADA 20 39 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.49% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 46
10th Percentile £485 £493 £344
25th Percentile £500 £500 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £650
90th Percentile £770 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

SCADA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCADA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCADA.

SCADA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SCADA over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SCADA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (15.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (15.00%) WAN
3 2 (10.00%) LTE
4 1 (5.00%) GPRS
4 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) SDH
4 1 (5.00%) TETRA
4 1 (5.00%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Electronics
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Author
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Remote Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) SCADA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Author
4 1 (5.00%) Technology Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (15.00%) CCTV
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.00%) Network Design
2 3 (15.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (10.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (10.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (5.00%) Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) ArchiMate
4 1 (5.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Twin
4 1 (5.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (5.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (5.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C#
1 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) CISSP
2 3 (15.00%) CCNA
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISA
3 1 (5.00%) CISM
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) GRC
2 2 (10.00%) ISA99
3 1 (5.00%) GPG13
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (15.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco
1 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (15.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) AVEVA
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) iManage
2 1 (5.00%) NEC