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 18 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	110	171	226
Rank change year-on-year	+61	+55	-8
Permanent jobs citing SCADA	203	63	45
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands	1.29%	1.14%	0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	5.42%	2.77%	1.74%
Number of salaries quoted	58	39	19
10^th Percentile	£35,000	£43,500	£30,000
25^th Percentile	£42,813	£45,000	£49,375
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£47,500	£57,500
Median % change year-on-year	+10.53%	-17.39%	+8.62%
75^th Percentile	£67,500	£55,000	£61,875
90^th Percentile	£80,000	-	£67,750
England median annual salary	£56,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+1.82%	-8.33%	+4.35%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	3,744	2,277	2,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands	23.71%	41.12%	28.31%
Number of salaries quoted	2,347	1,152	996
10^th Percentile	£29,750	£26,250	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£36,250	£31,031	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£47,500	£45,000	£54,500
Median % change year-on-year	+5.56%	-17.43%	+3.81%
75^th Percentile	£62,500	£62,500	£66,536
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£75,900	£78,750
England median annual salary	£55,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-	-8.33%	-4.00%

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 Salary Trend in the Midlands

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 18 October 2026.

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 18 October 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
East Midlands	+64	116	£52,250	+10.00%	62
West Midlands	-13	87	£56,170	+12.34%	77
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SCADA Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing SCADA also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region with a requirement for SCADA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Degree	64.5%	131
2	Preventative Maintenance	46.8%	95
3	NVQ Level 3	41.4%	84
4	Mechatronics	37.4%	76
5	Line Management	36.9%	75
6	Proactive Maintenance	35.0%	71
7	Technical Leadership	28.6%	58
8	City & Guilds	22.7%	46
9	Customer Requirements	22.2%	45
9	Validation	22.2%	45
11	Cybersecurity	21.7%	44
12	Modbus	20.7%	42
13	Problem-Solving	16.7%	34
14	NEC	15.3%	31
14	Order Management	15.3%	31
16	Computer Science	14.8%	30
16	Siemens	14.8%	30
18	Test Automation	14.3%	29
19	Continuous Improvement	13.3%	27
20	Ethernet	12.3%	25
20	Profibus	12.3%	25
22	Project Management	11.8%	24
23	Data Acquisition	10.8%	22
23	Decarbonisation	10.8%	22
23	Programme Delivery	10.8%	22
23	Security Cleared	10.8%	22
23	Verification and Validation	10.8%	22
28	Project Delivery	9.9%	20
28	Root Cause Analysis	9.9%	20
30	EPLAN	9.4%	19

SCADA Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Onboarding	42.9%	87
2	Robotics	33.0%	67
3	Driving Licence	8.9%	18
4	Renewable Energy	4.9%	10
5	Client/Server	4.4%	9
6	FMCG	3.9%	8
6	Legacy Systems	3.9%	8
8	Operational Technology	3.4%	7
9	IoT	2.0%	4
10	Distributed Systems	1.5%	3
10	Enterprise Software	1.5%	3
12	Enterprise Storage	1.0%	2
13	CCTV	0.5%	1
13	Hybrid Cloud	0.5%	1
13	Industrial Internet of Things	0.5%	1
13	Industry 4.0	0.5%	1
13	NB-IoT	0.5%	1