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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 98 120
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 +60
Contract jobs citing SCADA 46 13 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.20% 0.69% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.67% 2.43% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 2
10th Percentile £402 £593 -
25th Percentile £450 £611 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% -16.67% +141.94%
75th Percentile £608 £672 -
90th Percentile £686 £686 -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +23.66%

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 811 534 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.80% 28.39% 35.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 323 427
10th Percentile £250 £200 £267
25th Percentile £380 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £611
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 19 39
10th Percentile - £19.34 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.45 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +32.39% +21.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £41.34 £67.50
90th Percentile - £55.65 £67.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.45% +3.78% +50.85%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

SCADA job vacancy trend 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 17 November 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 17 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
Warwickshire +19 32 £545 -12.80% 1
Coventry - 6 £450 - 4
Birmingham +1 5 £574 -6.29% 5
Staffordshire - 3 - - 5
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) AWS
2 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (6.52%) AWS Control Tower
3 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 3 (6.52%) GCP
3 3 (6.52%) SaaS
4 1 (2.17%) GitHub
4 1 (2.17%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Network Security
2 4 (8.70%) Firewall
3 3 (6.52%) Ethernet
3 3 (6.52%) FTP
3 3 (6.52%) MPLS
3 3 (6.52%) SDH
4 2 (4.35%) DKIM
4 2 (4.35%) DMARC
4 2 (4.35%) DNS
4 2 (4.35%) NGFW
4 2 (4.35%) NX-OS
4 2 (4.35%) SMTP
4 2 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Power BI
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) NeoLoad
3 2 (4.35%) TestPartner
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Architect
2 6 (13.04%) Analyst
2 6 (13.04%) Test Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Security Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Lead
4 4 (8.70%) Network Security Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Control Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Junior
5 3 (6.52%) QA Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Test Leader
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.35%) IT Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) LDAP
2 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (2.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Operational Technology
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) CentOS
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
1 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.87%) Defect Management
4 5 (10.87%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (10.87%) User Stories
5 4 (8.70%) Agile
5 4 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (8.70%) ITIL
5 4 (8.70%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (8.70%) Network Architecture
5 4 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (8.70%) Scrum
5 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (8.70%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (8.70%) Test Management
5 4 (8.70%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) Bash
1 2 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (2.17%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) CCNP
3 5 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.52%) CCNA
5 3 (6.52%) CISSP
5 3 (6.52%) HNC
6 2 (4.35%) CCIE
7 1 (2.17%) CEH
7 1 (2.17%) CISM
7 1 (2.17%) GCFA
7 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) NIST
2 5 (10.87%) QA
3 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.35%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.35%) Postfix
3 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) FortiGate
1 4 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Broadcom
2 6 (13.04%) VMware
3 3 (6.52%) CheckPoint
3 3 (6.52%) CyberArk
3 3 (6.52%) MuleSoft
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 2 (4.35%) FireEye
4 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.35%) Siemens
5 1 (2.17%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.17%) Foundry
5 1 (2.17%) Rockwell
5 1 (2.17%) Solace
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) Tenable
5 1 (2.17%) Wonderware