SCADA Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.080% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £400 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 421 366 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.84% 35.33% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 221 312
10th Percentile £227 £200 £234
25th Percentile £350 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -3.23% -7.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £550
90th Percentile £622 £688 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £464 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -7.25% +1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 24
10th Percentile £19.75 £20.05 £12.49
25th Percentile £21.03 £24.25 £21.14
Median hourly rate £46.25 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +25.00% -50.48%
75th Percentile £67.19 £33.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.63 - £77.25
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £27.50 £26.66
% change year-on-year +65.31% +3.15% -3.75%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Manchester

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SCADA

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SCADA

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens