SCADA Engineer
UK

The median SCADA Engineer salary in the UK is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 870 994 1194
Rank change year-on-year +124 +200 -309
Permanent jobs requiring a SCADA Engineer 38 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.004% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.004% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 25 4 10
10th Percentile - £41,525 -
25th Percentile £48,000 £44,563 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £48,625 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% -1.77% -1.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,969 £50,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,888 £51,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

SCADA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SCADA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SCADA Engineer in the UK

SCADA Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SCADA Engineer.

Salary trend for SCADA Engineer in the UK

SCADA Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SCADA Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SCADA Engineer in the UK

SCADA Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
England +166 38 £51,000 +4.88% 8
UK excluding London +49 30 £51,000 +7.37% 6
Midlands - 13 £60,000 - 4
West Midlands - 13 £60,000 - 4
Work from Home +109 10 £51,000 +21.43% 5
North of England +65 10 £51,000 +2.51% 1
Yorkshire - 10 £51,000 -
London +158 8 £72,500 -14.71% 2
South East +9 7 £50,000 +11.73% 1

SCADA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, SCADA Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring SCADA Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) SCADA
2 22 (57.89%) Operational Technology
3 21 (55.26%) Software Engineering
4 18 (47.37%) Systems Engineering
5 14 (36.84%) Degree
6 9 (23.68%) Data Acquisition
6 9 (23.68%) Windows Server
6 9 (23.68%) User Experience
6 9 (23.68%) Marketing
6 9 (23.68%) Hyper-V
6 9 (23.68%) UX Design
6 9 (23.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (23.68%) VMware
6 9 (23.68%) Windows
6 9 (23.68%) Value Proposition
7 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
7 5 (13.16%) C#
7 5 (13.16%) C++
8 4 (10.53%) HNC
8 4 (10.53%) HND
8 4 (10.53%) Rockwell
9 3 (7.89%) Java
9 3 (7.89%) VB
9 3 (7.89%) Oracle
9 3 (7.89%) Aerospace
10 2 (5.26%) Configuration Management
10 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (5.26%) Software Testing
10 2 (5.26%) Wonderware
10 2 (5.26%) QA

SCADA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (5.26%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.68%) Marketing
2 3 (7.89%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Automotive
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 38 (100.00%) SCADA
2 22 (57.89%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
1 9 (23.68%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Software Engineering
2 18 (47.37%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (23.68%) Data Acquisition
3 9 (23.68%) User Experience
3 9 (23.68%) UX Design
3 9 (23.68%) Value Proposition
4 2 (5.26%) Change Control
4 2 (5.26%) Configuration Management
4 2 (5.26%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (5.26%) SDLC
4 2 (5.26%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.63%) Code Quality
5 1 (2.63%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (2.63%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (2.63%) Scrum
5 1 (2.63%) System Testing
5 1 (2.63%) Test Management
5 1 (2.63%) Test Scripting
5 1 (2.63%) Workflow
5 1 (2.63%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) C#
1 5 (13.16%) C++
2 3 (7.89%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) VB
3 2 (5.26%) SQL
4 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) HNC
3 4 (10.53%) HND
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Hyper-V
1 9 (23.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Functional Safety
1 2 (5.26%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) VMware
2 4 (10.53%) Rockwell
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) AVEVA
4 2 (5.26%) Siemens
4 2 (5.26%) Wonderware
5 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat