SCADA Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.41% - 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% - 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £536 £661 £538
% change year-on-year -18.91% +22.98% +19.44%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 85 47 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 35.12% 25.54% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 34
10th Percentile £327 £129 £135
25th Percentile £410 £155 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £225 £400
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -43.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £602 £450 £516
90th Percentile £616 £481 £638
UK median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 -
Median hourly rate £15.05 £22.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% - -
75th Percentile £15.33 £23.94 -
90th Percentile £16.14 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -42.00% +11.11% +73.08%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in Northern Ireland

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
County Antrim - 1 £500 -
SCADA
UK

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP