SCADA Contracts with Work from Home 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 contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 423 563
Rank change year-on-year +105 +140 -70
Contract jobs citing SCADA 23 34 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.45% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 49
10th Percentile £496 £495 £363
25th Percentile £500 £503 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £588 £491
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +19.65% +3.37%
75th Percentile £679 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £608 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +15.71% +5.00% -4.76%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

SCADA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SCADA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SCADA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SCADA.

SCADA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SCADA over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

SCADA daily rate 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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (13.04%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (13.04%) WAN
3 2 (8.70%) LTE
4 1 (4.35%) GPRS
4 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.35%) Network Security
4 1 (4.35%) SDH
4 1 (4.35%) TETRA
4 1 (4.35%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Electronics
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Architect
2 2 (8.70%) Analyst
2 2 (8.70%) Applications Support
2 2 (8.70%) Consultant
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (8.70%) Security Consultant
2 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (4.35%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Author
3 1 (4.35%) Lead
3 1 (4.35%) Remote Support Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) SCADA Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Senior
3 1 (4.35%) Support Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Technical Author
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Operational Technology
2 3 (13.04%) CCTV
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (17.39%) DevOps
1 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (13.04%) Network Design
2 3 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (8.70%) Agile
3 2 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (8.70%) TOGAF
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security
4 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.35%) Data Security
4 1 (4.35%) Incident Response
4 1 (4.35%) Project Delivery
4 1 (4.35%) Project Management
4 1 (4.35%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (4.35%) Scrum
4 1 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.35%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (4.35%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) C#
1 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) CCNA
2 3 (13.04%) CCNP
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.04%) CISSP
2 3 (13.04%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) CISA
4 1 (4.35%) CISM
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) GRC
2 2 (8.70%) ISA99
3 1 (4.35%) GPG13
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (13.04%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
2 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco
2 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) AVEVA
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) iManage
3 1 (4.35%) NEC