SCADA Contract Job Trends in Kent

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 0.52% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 41 43 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 21.13% 42.57% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 36 51
10th Percentile £154 £165 -
25th Percentile £263 £204 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £235 £333
Median % change year-on-year +87.77% -29.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £465 £362 £378
90th Percentile £575 £575 £438
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.70% +0.70% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 - £11.45
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.54%
75th Percentile £14.25 - £35.75
90th Percentile - - £42.42
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £47.81 £43.86
% change year-on-year +46.43% +9.01% -3.62%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Kent

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SCADA

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SCADA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SCADA

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Kent region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Dartford - 1 £800 - 2
SCADA
South East

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) FactoryTalk
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) EAM
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) PLM
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AVEVA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens