SCADA Contract Job Trends 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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 101 118
Rank change year-on-year +38 +17 +53
Contract jobs citing SCADA 59 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.22% 0.68% 0.097%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.43% 2.39% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 11 2
10th Percentile £400 £591 -
25th Percentile £438 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +100.00%
75th Percentile £651 £672 -
90th Percentile £800 £688 -
England median daily rate £540 £630 £563
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +28.57%

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 700 544 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.23% 28.42% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 330 424
10th Percentile £233 £208 £293
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% +2.25%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £606
90th Percentile £663 £750 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 17 34
10th Percentile - £15.35 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.50 £21.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.88 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +12.27% +37.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £64.06
90th Percentile - £57.85 £68.38
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SCADA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SCADA

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCADA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in the West Midlands

SCADA
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SCADA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing SCADA

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 19 September 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 +21 41 £500 -20.00% 4
Coventry - 14 £600 - 3
Staffordshire - 3 - - 12
Birmingham - 1 - - 4
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 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (10.17%) Collibra
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (8.47%) AWS
3 5 (8.47%) GCP
3 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (6.78%) GitHub
5 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.08%) SaaS
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.39%) Serverless
7 1 (1.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Network Security
2 5 (8.47%) Firewall
3 4 (6.78%) Ethernet
3 4 (6.78%) Modbus
4 3 (5.08%) FTP
4 3 (5.08%) MPLS
4 3 (5.08%) SDH
4 3 (5.08%) VPN
5 2 (3.39%) 5G
5 2 (3.39%) DNS
5 2 (3.39%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (3.39%) MQTT
5 2 (3.39%) NGFW
5 2 (3.39%) WAN
6 1 (1.69%) Internet
6 1 (1.69%) LAN
6 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (10.17%) Delta Lake
1 6 (10.17%) GIS
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.47%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (30.51%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) TestPartner
General
1 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.69%) Finance
3 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Architect
2 11 (18.64%) Analyst
3 9 (15.25%) Security Architect
4 7 (11.86%) OAT Analyst
4 7 (11.86%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Network Security Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Tester
6 4 (6.78%) Administrator
6 4 (6.78%) IT Architect
6 4 (6.78%) IT Security Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Security Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Systems Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Test Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Control Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Network Architect
7 3 (5.08%) QA Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) QA Test Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) Kafka
2 3 (5.08%) LDAP
3 2 (3.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Operational Technology
2 9 (15.25%) IoT
3 7 (11.86%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
4 6 (10.17%) Onboarding
5 5 (8.47%) Security Posture
6 4 (6.78%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 3 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
8 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (3.39%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.03%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (16.95%) Test Strategy
3 9 (15.25%) Network Monitoring
3 9 (15.25%) Scenario Testing
4 8 (13.56%) Zero Trust
5 7 (11.86%) Agile
5 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (11.86%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 7 (11.86%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (10.17%) Analytics
6 6 (10.17%) Data Governance
6 6 (10.17%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (10.17%) Network Architecture
6 6 (10.17%) Scrum
6 6 (10.17%) Security Architecture
6 6 (10.17%) Systems Engineering
7 5 (8.47%) Application Security
7 5 (8.47%) Cloud Security
7 5 (8.47%) Design Patterns
7 5 (8.47%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.17%) Kusto Query Language
1 6 (10.17%) Python
1 6 (10.17%) SQL
2 3 (5.08%) Bicep
3 1 (1.69%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.25%) Degree
4 5 (8.47%) CCNP
4 5 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.08%) CCNA
5 3 (5.08%) HNC
6 2 (3.39%) CCIE
6 2 (3.39%) CISSP
7 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) NIST
2 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.47%) GDPR
3 4 (6.78%) NCSC
4 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.08%) QA
5 2 (3.39%) IEC 61131
6 1 (1.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Terraform
2 2 (3.39%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.69%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.86%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) Databricks
3 6 (10.17%) Informatica
3 6 (10.17%) SAP
4 4 (6.78%) Broadcom
4 4 (6.78%) VMware
5 3 (5.08%) CheckPoint
5 3 (5.08%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.39%) FireEye
6 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.39%) Siemens
7 1 (1.69%) HP
7 1 (1.69%) Rockwell
7 1 (1.69%) Wonderware