SCADA Contracts in London

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 382 470
Rank change year-on-year +36 +88 +104
Contract jobs citing SCADA 7 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.050% 0.085%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - £461 £435
25th Percentile £400 £508 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £688
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.66 -
% change year-on-year +59.41% - -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in London

SCADA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCADA in London.

Daily rate trend for SCADA in London

SCADA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCADA in London.

Hourly rate trend for SCADA in London

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South London - 1 - - 2
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) FactoryTalk
1 1 (14.29%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) AutoCAD
1 3 (42.86%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Design Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Electrical Design Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Electrical Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Instrumentation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) D3.js
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (14.29%) Data Science
2 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
2 1 (14.29%) SDLC
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) MATLAB
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) R
2 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Siemens
2 1 (14.29%) AVEVA
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Rockwell
2 1 (14.29%) SAP