Modbus Contracts in England

Modbus
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Modbus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Modbus over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 498 628
Rank change year-on-year +26 +130 +153
Contract jobs citing Modbus 13 44 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.12% 0.050%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 0.88% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 3
10th Percentile £425 £379 -
25th Percentile £481 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £644 £456 £500
90th Percentile £725 £463 £560
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.07% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 36 10
10th Percentile - - £52.13
25th Percentile - £61.25 £57.19
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £70.63
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Modbus falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Modbus
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Modbus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Modbus in England

Modbus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Modbus in England

Modbus
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Modbus in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Modbus in England

Modbus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Modbus in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Modbus within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +40 5 £500 +17.65% 27
Midlands - 5 £650 - 9
West Midlands - 5 £650 - 5
South East +46 2 £525 +23.53% 33
South West - 1 £575 - 5
Modbus
UK

Modbus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.69%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Siemens NX
1 1 (7.69%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) MQTT
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) Profibus
4 1 (7.69%) 5G
4 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
4 1 (7.69%) Internet
4 1 (7.69%) LoRaWAN
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MSI
2 1 (7.69%) Qt Creator
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IoT Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Qt Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Siemens Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) DirectX
2 1 (7.69%) ONNX
2 1 (7.69%) OpenGL
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) QML
2 1 (7.69%) Qt
2 1 (7.69%) Qt Quick
2 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.69%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Operational Technology
1 7 (53.85%) SCADA
2 6 (46.15%) IoT
3 2 (15.38%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (7.69%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) NB-IoT
4 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) Edge Computing
3 2 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (15.38%) Predictive Maintenance
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
4 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Vision
4 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
4 1 (7.69%) Generative AI
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.69%) Runbook
4 1 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
4 1 (7.69%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) C++
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CISM
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NCSC
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NIST 800
3 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (7.69%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Rockwell
1 2 (15.38%) Siemens
2 1 (7.69%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Wonderware