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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 128 149
Rank change year-on-year +63 +21 +39
Contract jobs citing SCADA 52 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.62% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.21% 0.86% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 5 5
10th Percentile £408 - £489
25th Percentile £466 £425 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £689 £475 -
90th Percentile £720 £520 -
England median daily rate £513 £563 £513
% change year-on-year -8.89% +9.76% -6.82%

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 633 817 1,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.95% 30.36% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 529 711
10th Percentile £200 £213 £263
25th Percentile £375 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £740 £700
England median daily rate £535 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 60 45
10th Percentile £13.81 £10.42 £17.11
25th Percentile £14.45 £13.68 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -30.91% +61.76%
75th Percentile £32.84 £28.88 £52.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.21 £22.49
% change year-on-year -3.54% +52.15% -15.15%

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 23 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 23 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 +57 52 £500 +11.11% 63
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 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (11.54%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.38%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (11.54%) Collibra
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) GitHub
5 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.85%) AWS
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.85%) GCP
6 2 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Modbus
2 4 (7.69%) Firewall
3 3 (5.77%) Network Security
4 2 (3.85%) 5G
4 2 (3.85%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.85%) iSCSI
4 2 (3.85%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (3.85%) MQTT
4 2 (3.85%) WAN
5 1 (1.92%) Converged Networks
5 1 (1.92%) Internet
5 1 (1.92%) LAN
5 1 (1.92%) MPLS
5 1 (1.92%) SDH
5 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (11.54%) Delta Lake
1 6 (11.54%) GIS
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database
2 5 (9.62%) Power BI
3 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (40.38%) JIRA
2 3 (5.77%) MSI
General
1 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Architect
1 13 (25.00%) Tester
2 9 (17.31%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) OAT Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Security Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (5.77%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (5.77%) Systems Architect
6 2 (3.85%) IT Architect
6 2 (3.85%) IT Security Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Network Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Technical Writer
7 1 (1.92%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 1 (1.92%) Defect Manager
7 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 1 (1.92%) Network Security Architect
7 1 (1.92%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) Kafka
2 5 (9.62%) Middleware
3 3 (5.77%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Operational Technology
2 11 (21.15%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (17.31%) IoT
4 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.85%) NB-IoT
7 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Windows
3 2 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Network Monitoring
2 12 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
2 12 (23.08%) Test Strategy
3 11 (21.15%) Scenario Testing
4 10 (19.23%) Agile
4 10 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (15.38%) Scrum
6 7 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (13.46%) Functional Testing
6 7 (13.46%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 7 (13.46%) Performance Testing
7 6 (11.54%) Analytics
7 6 (11.54%) Data Governance
7 6 (11.54%) Defect Management
7 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (11.54%) Test Management
7 6 (11.54%) User Stories
7 6 (11.54%) Zero Trust
8 5 (9.62%) Data Mapping
8 5 (9.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Python
2 6 (11.54%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (11.54%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.77%) Bash
4 3 (5.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) CCNP
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.92%) CCNA
5 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
1 5 (9.62%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) NCSC
2 4 (7.69%) NIST
3 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) HP ALM
2 5 (9.62%) Ansible
3 4 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Oracle
2 6 (11.54%) Databricks
2 6 (11.54%) HP
2 6 (11.54%) Informatica
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) SAP
3 5 (9.62%) MuleSoft
3 5 (9.62%) VMware
4 3 (5.77%) Tanium
5 2 (3.85%) Foundry
5 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.92%) Broadcom