IEC 61131 Contracts in the UK excluding London

IEC 61131
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IEC 61131 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IEC 61131 over the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IEC 61131 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.077% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

IEC 61131 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,608 2,702 3,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.25% 14.10% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 1,538 2,137
10th Percentile £235 £245 £256
25th Percentile £363 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £588
90th Percentile £650 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 292 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.50 £13.30 £18.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -28.57% +59.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £86.05 £70.00 £79.83
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £25.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.40% -34.21% +46.15%

IEC 61131
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IEC 61131 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IEC 61131 in the UK excluding London

IEC 61131
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IEC 61131 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IEC 61131 in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IEC 61131 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IEC 61131 in the UK excluding London

IEC 61131
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IEC 61131 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Midlands - 1 - - 11
South East - 1 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 8
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IEC 61131
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WinCC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
1 1 (50.00%) Profibus
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) SCADA
2 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Ladder Logic
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Siemens
2 1 (50.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (50.00%) VMware