SCADA Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 4.84% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £625 £750
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +154.24%

All Generic Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30 28 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 48.39% 23.33% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 26
10th Percentile £137 - £400
25th Percentile £140 £125 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £350 £510
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -31.37% +20.00%
75th Percentile £453 £475 £572
90th Percentile £485 £508 £626
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.32% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - £35.16 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £37.01 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.72 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +77.02% -53.54%
75th Percentile £31.00 £45.05 £28.75
90th Percentile - £47.27 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £27.53 £24.60
% change year-on-year +8.98% +11.90% +29.47%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing SCADA

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Stafford - 2 - - 1
SCADA
West Midlands

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 3 (100.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) IEC 61131
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Siemens
2 1 (33.33%) Rockwell
2 1 (33.33%) Wonderware