SCADA Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Ipswich. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 5.06% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £496 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £475 - -

All Generic Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 28 21 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 35.44% 48.84% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 9
10th Percentile £481 £190 -
25th Percentile £513 £422 £105
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £190
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +136.84% -72.86%
75th Percentile £734 £648 £538
90th Percentile £750 £725 £560
Suffolk median daily rate £525 £358 £190
% change year-on-year +46.85% +88.16% -72.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.38
25th Percentile £19.00 - £22.94
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £29.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +82.81%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £35.94
90th Percentile - - £39.73
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 - £14.13
% change year-on-year - - -11.72%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Ipswich

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing SCADA

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 2 (50.00%) ADSL
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Modbus
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) NCSC
3 2 (50.00%) ISA99
3 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware