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

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 96 -
Rank change year-on-year +39 - -
Contract jobs citing SCADA 57 13 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.39% 0.70% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.68% 2.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 37 11 0
10th Percentile £400 £513 -
25th Percentile £425 £602 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £582 £672 -
90th Percentile £800 £688 -
England median daily rate £525 £674 £550
% change year-on-year -22.05% +22.45% +11.11%

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 589 572 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.06% 30.69% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 360 446
10th Percentile £235 £273 £278
25th Percentile £380 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £542 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +3.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £623
90th Percentile £650 £750 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 21 22
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.91 £18.43
25th Percentile £18.97 £15.50 £21.94
Median hourly rate £31.96 £30.88 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +12.27% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £30.00
90th Percentile - £58.75 £52.75
England median hourly rate £31.25 £47.50 £41.04
% change year-on-year -34.22% +15.74% +57.85%

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 August 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 August 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 +17 41 £500 -20.00% 9
Coventry - 13 £600 - 4
Staffordshire - 2 - - 23
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 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (10.53%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.30%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (10.53%) Collibra
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (8.77%) AWS
3 5 (8.77%) GCP
3 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (7.02%) GitHub
5 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) Network Security
2 5 (8.77%) Modbus
3 4 (7.02%) Ethernet
3 4 (7.02%) Firewall
4 3 (5.26%) FTP
4 3 (5.26%) MPLS
4 3 (5.26%) SDH
5 2 (3.51%) 5G
5 2 (3.51%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (3.51%) MQTT
5 2 (3.51%) WAN
6 1 (1.75%) Converged Networks
6 1 (1.75%) Internet
6 1 (1.75%) LAN
6 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (10.53%) Delta Lake
1 6 (10.53%) GIS
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.77%) Power BI
3 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (36.84%) JIRA
2 2 (3.51%) TestPartner
General
1 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Finance
4 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Architect
2 11 (19.30%) Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) Tester
4 7 (12.28%) OAT Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Security Architect
4 7 (12.28%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) IT Architect
5 4 (7.02%) IT Security Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Security Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Systems Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Data Migration Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) Junior
6 3 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (5.26%) QA Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) QA Test Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Control Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) Kafka
2 4 (7.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.32%) Operational Technology
2 9 (15.79%) IoT
2 9 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
4 5 (8.77%) Security Posture
5 4 (7.02%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 3 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.51%) NB-IoT
8 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (22.81%) Network Monitoring
3 12 (21.05%) Test Strategy
4 11 (19.30%) Scenario Testing
5 10 (17.54%) Systems Engineering
6 9 (15.79%) Agile
7 8 (14.04%) Scrum
8 7 (12.28%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (12.28%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 7 (12.28%) Threat Modelling
8 7 (12.28%) User Stories
9 6 (10.53%) Analytics
9 6 (10.53%) Data Governance
9 6 (10.53%) Defect Management
9 6 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (10.53%) Functional Testing
9 6 (10.53%) Performance Testing
9 6 (10.53%) Security Architecture
9 6 (10.53%) Validation
9 6 (10.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
1 6 (10.53%) Python
1 6 (10.53%) SQL
2 3 (5.26%) Bicep
3 1 (1.75%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.26%) CCNA
4 3 (5.26%) CCNP
4 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.26%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) NIST
2 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.77%) GDPR
3 4 (7.02%) NCSC
4 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.26%) QA
5 1 (1.75%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.75%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Terraform
2 3 (5.26%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle
2 6 (10.53%) Databricks
2 6 (10.53%) Informatica
2 6 (10.53%) SAP
3 4 (7.02%) Broadcom
3 4 (7.02%) MuleSoft
3 4 (7.02%) VMware
4 3 (5.26%) HP
5 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.75%) FireEye
5 1 (1.75%) Siemens