SCADA Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 95 125
Rank change year-on-year +45 +30 +41
Contract jobs citing SCADA 60 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.88% 0.78% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.30% 2.48% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 14 3
10th Percentile £400 £425 -
25th Percentile £425 £447 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £616 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% +23.25% -28.57%
75th Percentile £690 £663 -
90th Percentile £800 £683 -
England median daily rate £548 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -12.40% +19.05% -3.23%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 531 646 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.35% 31.30% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 397 494
10th Percentile £214 £270 £277
25th Percentile £389 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £625
90th Percentile £650 £750 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 44 23
10th Percentile £18.87 £10.42 £18.60
25th Percentile £28.59 £14.51 £21.83
Median hourly rate £33.91 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.71% -18.18% +58.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £40.81 £36.88
90th Percentile - £58.75 £56.75
England median hourly rate £32.75 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -12.66% +36.36% +3.77%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in the West Midlands

SCADA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SCADA in the West Midlands

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCADA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in the West Midlands

SCADA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SCADA in the West Midlands

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Warwickshire +15 34 £496 -19.51% 13
Coventry - 14 £600 - 3
Birmingham - 8 £689 - 10
Staffordshire - 2 - - 17
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (10.00%) Collibra
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (8.33%) AWS
3 5 (8.33%) GCP
3 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.00%) GitHub
5 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Network Security
2 5 (8.33%) Modbus
3 4 (6.67%) Firewall
4 2 (3.33%) 5G
4 2 (3.33%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.33%) iSCSI
4 2 (3.33%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (3.33%) MQTT
4 2 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) Converged Networks
5 1 (1.67%) Internet
5 1 (1.67%) LAN
5 1 (1.67%) MPLS
5 1 (1.67%) SDH
5 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 6 (10.00%) GIS
2 5 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (41.67%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) MSI
3 2 (3.33%) TestPartner
General
1 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Architect
2 13 (21.67%) Tester
3 11 (18.33%) Analyst
4 8 (13.33%) Security Architect
5 7 (11.67%) OAT Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.67%) IT Architect
6 4 (6.67%) IT Security Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Test Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Data Migration Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
7 3 (5.00%) QA Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) QA Test Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Systems Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Control Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) Middleware
2 6 (10.00%) Kafka
3 3 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 11 (18.33%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (15.00%) IoT
4 8 (13.33%) Product Ownership
5 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
6 5 (8.33%) Security Posture
7 4 (6.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
9 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
9 2 (3.33%) NB-IoT
10 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) VMS
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Network Monitoring
2 15 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 14 (23.33%) Scenario Testing
3 14 (23.33%) Systems Engineering
4 13 (21.67%) Agile
4 13 (21.67%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (18.33%) Scrum
6 10 (16.67%) User Stories
7 9 (15.00%) Defect Management
8 8 (13.33%) Test Management
9 7 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (11.67%) Functional Testing
9 7 (11.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
9 7 (11.67%) Performance Testing
9 7 (11.67%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (11.67%) Threat Modelling
10 6 (10.00%) Analytics
10 6 (10.00%) Data Governance
10 6 (10.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 6 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 6 (10.00%) SQL
3 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.00%) Bash
4 3 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (1.67%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 19 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.67%) CCNA
4 1 (1.67%) CCNP
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) NIST
2 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.33%) GDPR
3 4 (6.67%) NCSC
4 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.00%) QA
5 2 (3.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.67%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) HP ALM
2 5 (8.33%) Ansible
3 4 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Oracle
2 7 (11.67%) MuleSoft
3 6 (10.00%) Databricks
3 6 (10.00%) HP
3 6 (10.00%) Informatica
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) SAP
4 5 (8.33%) VMware
5 3 (5.00%) Tanium
6 2 (3.33%) Foundry
6 2 (3.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.67%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.67%) Siemens