SCADA Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in Suffolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 2.74% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £496 - -
East of England median daily rate £540 £452 £425
% change year-on-year +19.47% +6.35% -22.73%

All Generic Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 42 39 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 28.77% 47.56% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 11
10th Percentile £204 £207 -
25th Percentile £431 £225 £105
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £358 £190
Median % change year-on-year +46.85% +88.16% -72.86%
75th Percentile £644 £516 £544
90th Percentile £750 £689 £575
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £15.16 - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - £11.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £14.13
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.72%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £23.31
90th Percentile - - £34.68
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -15.38%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Suffolk

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing SCADA

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Ipswich - 4 £475 - 1
SCADA
East of England

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) ADSL
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Modbus
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) NCSC
3 2 (50.00%) ISA99
3 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware