SCADA Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in the East of England. 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 88 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing SCADA 7 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.53% - 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £273 - £635
25th Percentile £303 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.71%
75th Percentile £483 - £750
90th Percentile £598 - £765
England median daily rate £543 £628 £550
% change year-on-year -13.55% +14.09% +22.22%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 436 352 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.26% 23.62% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 158 326
10th Percentile £196 £204 £181
25th Percentile £375 £298 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £572 £600
90th Percentile £700 £647 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 47 75
10th Percentile £13.84 £28.50 £21.55
25th Percentile £21.65 £46.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +53.45%
75th Percentile £73.13 £73.50 £69.38
90th Percentile £84.50 £85.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £46.03
% change year-on-year -47.69% +24.59% +77.04%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in the East of England

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SCADA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SCADA

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in the East of England

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SCADA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SCADA

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 6 £320 - 10
Bedfordshire - 1 £650 - 1
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (42.86%) FactoryTalk
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
1 1 (14.29%) Modbus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
1 3 (42.86%) SDLC
1 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Test Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
1 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
1 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Rockwell
1 3 (42.86%) Siemens