SCADA Job Trends in the East Midlands

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 114 122
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +42
Permanent jobs citing SCADA 11 14 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.44% 0.63% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 2.05% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 5
10th Percentile £42,950 £33,904 -
25th Percentile - £42,625 £58,730
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £61,439
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -15.36% +11.71%
75th Percentile £48,750 £57,000 £82,671
90th Percentile £50,000 £57,700 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £61,220
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.99% +16.61%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

SCADA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 770 683 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.60% 30.90% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 435 291 427
10th Percentile £25,600 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £39,375 £32,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.02% -9.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SCADA
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SCADA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SCADA

SCADA
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCADA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SCADA in the East Midlands

SCADA
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 5 £45,000 - 4
Derbyshire -15 3 £45,750 +27.10% 9
Northamptonshire +2 2 £47,500 -17.39% 4
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 1
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) NAS
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Industrial Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Project Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) CCTV
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Network Design
2 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 2 (18.18%) Logistics
2 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
3 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (9.09%) TestOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) C++
1 2 (18.18%) Ladder Logic
1 2 (18.18%) VB
1 2 (18.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) HND
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) MOM
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) AVEVA
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) VMware
1 1 (9.09%) Wonderware