SCADA Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 68 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% 0.18% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 434 221 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.01% 39.75% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 135 68
10th Percentile £353 £320 £400
25th Percentile £425 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.94% -19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £521 £609
90th Percentile £694 £600 £647
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +17.65% -18.27% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate £13.69 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% -63.64% -
75th Percentile - - £41.88
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% -

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SCADA

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SCADA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SCADA

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISA99
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) NIST 800