SCADA Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 543 656
Rank change year-on-year +176 +113 +144
Permanent jobs citing SCADA 48 40 20
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.12% 0.047%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.80% 0.33% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 24 40 18
10th Percentile £47,500 £32,250 £40,950
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £51,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £54,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £78,375 £73,875 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year +12.75% -6.85% +4.29%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,001 12,027 16,410
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.17% 35.55% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,871 9,246 11,842
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

SCADA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCADA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SCADA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SCADA.

SCADA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SCADA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SCADA over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

SCADA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) AutoCAD
2 1 (2.08%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) AWS
1 8 (16.67%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) OCI
3 5 (10.42%) SaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Network Security
2 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.08%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.08%) Modbus
3 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) MS Access
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Legal
5 3 (6.25%) Advertising
5 3 (6.25%) Electronics
6 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Technical Director
3 8 (16.67%) Architect
3 8 (16.67%) Control Systems Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) PLC Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) PLC Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Programme Manager
7 2 (4.17%) SCADA Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Information Officer
8 1 (2.08%) Regulatory Compliance Manager
8 1 (2.08%) Security Compliance Manager
8 1 (2.08%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Data Centre
1 17 (35.42%) Renewable Energy
2 15 (31.25%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.25%) IoT
4 2 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) CCTV
5 1 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
1 8 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 12 (25.00%) Project Management
1 12 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 11 (22.92%) Business Strategy
2 11 (22.92%) Project Delivery
2 11 (22.92%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (18.75%) Agile
3 9 (18.75%) Business Development
3 9 (18.75%) Resource Allocation
3 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 9 (18.75%) Strategic Planning
4 7 (14.58%) Asset Management
4 7 (14.58%) DevOps
4 7 (14.58%) TOGAF
5 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 5 (10.42%) Data Management
7 4 (8.33%) Risk Management
7 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) Ladder Logic
2 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (43.75%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) TOGAF Certification
3 6 (12.50%) HNC
4 3 (6.25%) HND
4 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.17%) PMP
5 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) IEC 61131
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Facebook
1 12 (25.00%) YouTube
2 8 (16.67%) Siemens
2 8 (16.67%) VMware
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.58%) Oracle
4 5 (10.42%) Rockwell
4 5 (10.42%) Wonderware
5 3 (6.25%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat