SCADA Job Trends in Edinburgh

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SCADA 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.42% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -17.24% +95.27%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 335 369 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.44% 39.17% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 153 176 355
10th Percentile £26,500 £36,250 £31,005
25th Percentile £30,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,840 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -7.60%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

SCADA
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SCADA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SCADA

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (20.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Swing
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) System Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Siemens