SCADA Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.53% - 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.36% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £659 - -
90th Percentile £699 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £588 - -

All Generic Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 119 25 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 45.59% 15.72% 15.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 18 19
10th Percentile £331 £351 £338
25th Percentile £359 £356 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £448 £445
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +0.56% +1.14%
75th Percentile £473 £569 £493
90th Percentile £550 £575 £508
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.71%
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.42 £23.43 £20.76
% change year-on-year -8.60% +12.89% +18.19%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCADA in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in Northamptonshire

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Northampton - 3 £550 - 3
Towcester - 1 £700 -
SCADA
East Midlands

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Automotive
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) ERP Manager
2 1 (25.00%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (50.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Cutover Planning
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 4 (100.00%) PMP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree