SCADA Job Trends in the Midlands

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 208 211
Rank change year-on-year +34 +3 +116
Permanent jobs citing SCADA 50 43 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.65% 0.62% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 1.83% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 33 12 5
10th Percentile £38,600 - -
25th Percentile - £30,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% +85.19%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £66,625 £62,500
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%

All Generic Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,820 2,350 1,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.61% 33.70% 37.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 1,002 1,346
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £40,875 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £64,750 £67,500 £63,884
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SCADA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SCADA
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SCADA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SCADA

SCADA
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCADA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SCADA in the Midlands

SCADA
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +38 41 £45,000 +2.86% 6
East Midlands -1 9 £47,500 -4.52% 13
SCADA
England

SCADA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 7 (14.00%) WinCC
2 4 (8.00%) FactoryTalk
3 2 (4.00%) ArchestrA
4 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.00%) AWS
1 1 (2.00%) Azure
1 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) Modbus
2 10 (20.00%) Firewall
3 6 (12.00%) Profibus
4 4 (8.00%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.00%) NAS
5 1 (2.00%) SAN
5 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 15 (30.00%) Manufacturing
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
2 14 (28.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 14 (28.00%) Legal
3 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Advertising
5 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Electronics
6 3 (6.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Control Systems Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Lead
5 5 (10.00%) Senior
5 5 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Technical Support
5 5 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) SCADA Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Renewable Energy
2 11 (22.00%) Driving Licence
3 10 (20.00%) Operational Technology
4 5 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 4 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.00%) CCTV
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.00%) Replication
7 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.00%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (28.00%) Incident Management
2 14 (28.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 9 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (14.00%) Customer Service
4 7 (14.00%) Network Design
5 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
6 5 (10.00%) Business Development
6 5 (10.00%) Commercial Awareness
6 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.00%) B2B
7 4 (8.00%) B2B Sales
7 4 (8.00%) Data Entry
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.00%) Mathematics
7 4 (8.00%) Presales
7 4 (8.00%) Project Management
7 4 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.00%) Telesales
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) Ladder Logic
2 2 (4.00%) C
2 2 (4.00%) C#
2 2 (4.00%) C++
2 2 (4.00%) Python
2 2 (4.00%) SQL
2 2 (4.00%) VB
2 2 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) HNC
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.00%) HND
6 1 (2.00%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) QA
2 6 (12.00%) IEC 61508
3 5 (10.00%) IEC 61131
4 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.00%) NIST
4 3 (6.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Functional Safety
2 1 (2.00%) MOM
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.00%) Rockwell
2 12 (24.00%) Siemens
3 7 (14.00%) VMware
4 3 (6.00%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (4.00%) AVEVA
5 2 (4.00%) Wonderware
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow