SCADA Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in the City of 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 117 121 145
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.29% 0.095% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.32% 0.21%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £475 £498 £663
% change year-on-year -4.52% -24.91% -

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 680 631 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.08% 29.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 383 616
10th Percentile £350 £351 £316
25th Percentile £456 £469 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £596 £603
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -1.16% +0.42%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £836
Central London median daily rate £575 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% -2.29% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.96
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £19.31
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -23.94% -27.55%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £45.64
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £54.58
Central London median hourly rate £26.29 £25.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.93% -26.31% -28.57%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in the City of London

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCADA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SCADA

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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