SCADA Contract Job Trends in Bedford

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Bedford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 3.85% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £650 - -

All Generic Skills
Bedford

SCADA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 26.92% 31.58% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £77 - -
25th Percentile £131 - £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £325 £200
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +62.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £448 - £250
90th Percentile £584 - £265
Bedfordshire median daily rate £493 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.40% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £42.56 - -
25th Percentile £44.21 - -
Median hourly rate £48.23 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.75% - -
75th Percentile £53.49 - -
90th Percentile £55.90 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £80.00 £30.95 £55.00
% change year-on-year +158.48% -43.73% +4.76%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SCADA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

SCADA job vacancy trend in Bedford

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware