SCADA Contract Job Trends in Central London

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Central London. 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 115 135 155
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.26% 0.086% 0.064%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £496 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -24.91% -
75th Percentile £488 £499 £681
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.59%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 745 714 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.50% 30.67% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 448 692
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -2.29% +3.90%
75th Percentile £689 £725 £738
90th Percentile £790 £838 £849
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 11
10th Percentile £17.02 £19.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.34 £22.90 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.29 £25.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -26.31% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.18 £27.00 £44.54
90th Percentile £89.88 £53.20 £53.00
London median hourly rate £26.50 £31.62 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.19% +14.98% -5.17%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Central London

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCADA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SCADA

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Central London 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
City of London +4 5 £475 -4.52% 1
SCADA
London

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Modbus
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (40.00%) Insider Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Life Science
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (20.00%) AlgoSec
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Tufin