SCADA Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 100 77 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.18% 0.16% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £650 - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 483 234 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.29% 38.05% 28.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 142 79
10th Percentile £353 £316 £213
25th Percentile £413 £362 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £520
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -18.27% -9.57%
75th Percentile £588 £524 £594
90th Percentile £688 £609 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £14.61 - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £20.60 £15.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -63.64% -
75th Percentile £22.20 - £41.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.72 £18.51 £14.63
% change year-on-year +44.35% +26.56% -32.76%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SCADA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SCADA

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SCADA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SCADA

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
Sheffield -30 2 £700 - 4
SCADA
Yorkshire

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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