SCADA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SCADA in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SCADA over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 385 464
Rank change year-on-year +68 +79 +8
Contract jobs citing SCADA 49 25 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 0.38% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 30
10th Percentile £513 £353 £306
25th Percentile £595 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.18% +22.22% +3.57%
75th Percentile £700 £694 £523
90th Percentile - £750 £548
UK median daily rate £625 £538 £458
% change year-on-year +16.28% +17.49% -10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year +42.86% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,965 6,502 9,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.67% 31.48% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,726 4,193 6,450
10th Percentile £209 £213 £210
25th Percentile £363 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 384 384
10th Percentile £15.69 £16.50 £13.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.96 £16.96
Median hourly rate £40.00 £46.18 £25.96
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% +77.89% +29.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.55 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.06 £78.25 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £37.75 £43.79 £29.50
% change year-on-year -13.80% +48.45% +18.00%

SCADA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SCADA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SCADA in the UK excluding London

SCADA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SCADA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SCADA in the UK excluding London

SCADA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCADA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SCADA in the UK excluding London

SCADA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SCADA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SCADA in the UK excluding London

SCADA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCADA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +22 19 £625 -16.67% 61
West Midlands +16 13 £625 -16.67% 26
South West - 13 £675 - 8
Scotland +37 12 £700 +75.00% 21
South East +37 7 £672 +22.18% 34
North of England +29 6 £450 - 48
East Midlands +6 6 - - 35
North West +21 2 - - 20
North East - 2 £450 - 14
Yorkshire - 2 £688 - 14
SCADA
UK

SCADA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Smallworld
3 1 (2.04%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.33%) Azure
2 7 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) ADSL
2 1 (2.04%) DSL
2 1 (2.04%) GSM
2 1 (2.04%) LAN
2 1 (2.04%) LTE
2 1 (2.04%) Network Security
2 1 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) GIS
2 3 (6.12%) MySQL
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) JIRA
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Automotive
3 2 (4.08%) Electronics
3 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (38.78%) Architect
2 10 (20.41%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Control Systems Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Business Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Operations Business Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Grid Architect
7 3 (6.12%) SCADA Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior
8 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Technical Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Technical Project Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Manager
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Project Manager
9 1 (2.04%) Network Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) ADO
1 4 (8.16%) SOAP
2 3 (6.12%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Operational Technology
2 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.12%) IoT
4 2 (4.08%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (4.08%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.04%) CMDB
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
1 11 (22.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) Agile
2 13 (26.53%) Customer Requirements
3 11 (22.45%) GAP Analysis
4 9 (18.37%) DevOps
4 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
5 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.24%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.20%) Business Analysis
7 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
7 5 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (10.20%) Unit Testing
8 4 (8.16%) Business Case
8 4 (8.16%) Business Process Improvement
8 4 (8.16%) Cyber Resilience
8 4 (8.16%) MoSCoW
8 4 (8.16%) Process Improvement
8 4 (8.16%) Project Delivery
8 4 (8.16%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.16%) SWOT Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Perl
3 4 (8.16%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) Degree
3 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.20%) HND
5 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) IEC 61131
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) NIST
3 1 (2.04%) ISA99
3 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) ISA Server
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.20%) Siemens
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) ESRI
6 1 (2.04%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.04%) Rockwell