SCADA Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.66% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £266 - -
25th Percentile £286 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile £399 - -
East of England median daily rate £366 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +64.71%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 121 85 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 33.43% 20.14% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 40 71
10th Percentile £245 £272 £225
25th Percentile £379 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £650 £591 £538
90th Percentile £764 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £501 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £26.25 £22.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £46.25 £37.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% -4.17% +81.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +53.45%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SCADA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SCADA

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCADA in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in Cambridgeshire

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SCADA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SCADA

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. 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
Peterborough - 3 - - 8
Cambridge - 1 £413 - 2
SCADA
East of England

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (50.00%) FactoryTalk
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
1 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 3 (50.00%) Siemens