SCADA Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 83 65
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 +2
Contract jobs citing SCADA 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.18% 0.14% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.32% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.93%
75th Percentile £625 - £675
90th Percentile £655 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +5.00% -28.57% +51.35%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 415 316 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.49% 42.99% 28.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 157 145
10th Percentile £275 £285 £303
25th Percentile £363 £368 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £453
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +2.65% -13.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £639 £583 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -7.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 3
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.58 £18.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.30 £19.05
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.97 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +120.13% +1.94% +35.10%
75th Percentile - £24.38 £31.82
90th Percentile - £57.50 £39.15
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £19.97 £18.13
% change year-on-year +50.23% +10.15% +2.31%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SCADA

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCADA in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in Glasgow

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Author
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler