SCADA Contracts in the North West

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 123 148
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 +34
Contract jobs citing SCADA 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.27% 0.084% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 0.32% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £477 - -
90th Percentile £581 - -
England median daily rate £531 £674 £575
% change year-on-year -21.23% +17.13% +19.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £42.80
25th Percentile - - £45.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - £54.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.33% +50.00% -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 705 630 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.03% 26.39% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 392 601
10th Percentile £298 £313 £263
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £735 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 32 43
10th Percentile £21.77 £11.43 £16.32
25th Percentile £26.88 £16.62 £17.05
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -23.24% +82.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £48.09
90th Percentile £79.20 £89.95 £66.80
England median hourly rate £30.25 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -36.32% +18.75% +53.85%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in the North West

SCADA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SCADA in the North West

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCADA in the North West over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in the North West

SCADA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SCADA in the North West

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Manchester - 3 £413 - 21
Merseyside - 2 - - 2
Lancashire - 1 £400 - 6
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (33.33%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Industrial Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (33.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 2 (33.33%) ERP
1 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Attestation
2 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Red Team
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
1 1 (16.67%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) MOM
1 1 (16.67%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) AVEVA
1 3 (50.00%) Siemens
2 2 (33.33%) Rockwell
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Wonderware