SCADA Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

SCADA Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median SCADA Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SCADA Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
Scotland median daily rate £488 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 602 776 1,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 94.17% 95.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 426 709
10th Percentile £268 £173 £213
25th Percentile £413 £309 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -7.37% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £597 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 38 11
10th Percentile - £13.59 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.71
Median hourly rate £27.35 £18.07 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +51.40% +1.95% -11.40%
75th Percentile £63.13 £20.49 £30.74
90th Percentile £74.00 £51.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.71 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +8.71% +2.31% -32.94%

SCADA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured SCADA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SCADA Engineer in Edinburgh

SCADA Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 9 August 2025, SCADA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring SCADA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Siemens
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Modbus
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

SCADA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Siemens
17 SCADA Engineer jobs in Scotland