Modbus Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Modbus
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Modbus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 130 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Modbus 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.035% 0.075% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £585 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% - -
England median daily rate £650 £475 -
% change year-on-year +36.84% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 390 357 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.65% 13.39% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 203 299
10th Percentile £166 £178 £205
25th Percentile £285 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.45% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £513 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 29
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.06 £17.05
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.10 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.20 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.97% -12.00% +55.19%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £44.00 £40.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -41.61% -0.65% +36.12%

Modbus
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Modbus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Modbus job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Modbus
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Modbus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Modbus

Modbus
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Modbus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Modbus

Modbus
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Modbus within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 9
Modbus
England

Modbus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) OAT Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP