ModSecurity Contracts

ModSecurity (Modsec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ModSecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ModSecurity over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 702 847
Rank change year-on-year +113 +145 -173
Contract jobs citing ModSecurity 5 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.023% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.056% 0.10% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 7
10th Percentile £534 £603 £546
25th Percentile £568 £681 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £670
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +4.48% +32.15%
75th Percentile £688 - £719
90th Percentile £695 - £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +45.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.41 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.41 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ModSecurity is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,875 13,886 24,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 23.26% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,163 10,138 17,667
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 153 241
10th Percentile £21.01 £31.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.84 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.81% +30.61% +8.89%

ModSecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ModSecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ModSecurity in the UK

ModSecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ModSecurity.

Daily rate trend for ModSecurity in the UK

ModSecurity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ModSecurity over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ModSecurity in the UK

ModSecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ModSecurity.

Hourly rate trend for ModSecurity in the UK

ModSecurity
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ModSecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 5 £650 -7.14% 7
UK excluding London +58 5 £650 -7.14% 9
South West +16 5 £650 -3.70% 2

ModSecurity
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Office Automation Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) ArchiMate
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) NsoIT
2 3 (60.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) CESG Certified Professional
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (20.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) OPNET
2 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft