SCADA Contracts in Reading

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 86 83
Rank change year-on-year +34 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing SCADA 8 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.85% 1.59% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile £550 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.81%
75th Percentile £630 - £644
90th Percentile £650 - £648
Berkshire median daily rate £550 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +48.81%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 315 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 26.43% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 190 223
10th Percentile £300 £205 £347
25th Percentile £419 £213 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £608 £654
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £42.31 £45.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.89 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -13.01% +169.23%
75th Percentile - £63.29 £79.19
90th Percentile - £69.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in Reading

SCADA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCADA in Reading.

Daily rate trend for SCADA in Reading

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP WM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) GIS
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Consultant
1 5 (62.50%) Solutions Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Cartography
1 2 (25.00%) Logistics
1 2 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Perl
1 5 (62.50%) PL/SQL
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
1 2 (25.00%) Virgin Media