SCADA Contract Job Trends in Perthshire

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Scotland > Perthshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Perthshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing SCADA 2 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Perthshire 11.76% - 40.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 18.18% - 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £733 - £510
25th Percentile £738 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £766 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile £789 - £710
Scotland median daily rate £588 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +17.50% -28.57% +75.00%

All Generic Skills
Perthshire

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 Perthshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Perthshire 64.71% 42.86% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 13
10th Percentile £413 £565 £503
25th Percentile £488 £569 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £734 £625 -
90th Percentile £786 - £720
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -7.50%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Perthshire

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Perthshire

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Perthshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Perthshire citing SCADA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Perthshire citing SCADA

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Perthshire 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Support Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared