SCADA Contracts in the Midlands

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 72 125 154
Rank change year-on-year +53 +29 +39
Contract jobs citing SCADA 39 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.04% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.72% 0.93% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 5 7
10th Percentile £418 - £491
25th Percentile £488 £425 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £690 £475 £575
90th Percentile £725 £520 £690
England median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in the Midlands

SCADA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SCADA in the Midlands

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCADA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in the Midlands

SCADA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SCADA in the Midlands

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +46 39 £550 +22.22% 67
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.13%) AWS
1 2 (5.13%) Azure
1 2 (5.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Modbus
2 3 (7.69%) Network Security
3 2 (5.13%) 5G
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) iSCSI
3 2 (5.13%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (5.13%) MQTT
3 2 (5.13%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Converged Networks
4 1 (2.56%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.56%) Internet
4 1 (2.56%) LAN
4 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) JIRA
2 3 (7.69%) MSI
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Tester
2 10 (25.64%) Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Security Architect
5 4 (10.26%) OAT Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Systems Architect
7 2 (5.13%) IT Architect
7 2 (5.13%) IT Security Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Network Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Writer
8 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) IoT Architect
8 1 (2.56%) IT Manager
8 1 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
8 1 (2.56%) Network Security Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Security Technical Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Middleware
2 3 (7.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Operational Technology
2 7 (17.95%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
4 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
4 4 (10.26%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 3 (7.69%) IoT
6 2 (5.13%) NB-IoT
6 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Windows
3 2 (5.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (28.21%) Systems Engineering
3 10 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
4 9 (23.08%) Test Strategy
5 6 (15.38%) Agile
5 6 (15.38%) Functional Testing
5 6 (15.38%) Performance Testing
6 5 (12.82%) Change Management
6 5 (12.82%) Defect Management
6 5 (12.82%) Scrum
6 5 (12.82%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (12.82%) Test Assurance
6 5 (12.82%) Test Management
6 5 (12.82%) User Stories
7 4 (10.26%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 3 (7.69%) Security Operations
8 3 (7.69%) Software Delivery
8 3 (7.69%) Software Deployment
8 3 (7.69%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.26%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) CCNP
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) NCSC
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Ansible
1 5 (12.82%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) HP
1 5 (12.82%) MuleSoft
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle
1 5 (12.82%) VMware
2 3 (7.69%) Tanium
3 2 (5.13%) Foundry
3 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.56%) Broadcom