SCADA Contracts in the South West

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 133 155
Rank change year-on-year +23 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing SCADA 4 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% 0.44% 0.059%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 1.40% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +19.15%
England median daily rate £500 £651 £525
% change year-on-year -23.20% +24.00% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.34 - -
Median hourly rate £34.34 - -
75th Percentile £35.34 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.33% +50.00% -

All Generic Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 597 928 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.40% 31.12% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 578 625
10th Percentile £234 £313 £304
25th Percentile £375 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £669
90th Percentile £688 £698 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 144 52
10th Percentile £6.00 £13.69 £19.23
25th Percentile £15.48 £39.38 £60.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% -7.28% +79.76%
75th Percentile £46.75 - £83.40
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.38 £84.84
England median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £40.80
% change year-on-year -28.78% +10.31% +56.90%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in the South West

SCADA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCADA in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SCADA in the South West

SCADA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCADA in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SCADA in the South West

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Devon - 2 - - 4
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 8
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SAP BI Developer
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Developer
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) ETL Development
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ABAP
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) Twitter