MODAF Contract Job Trends in the South West

UK Ministry of Defence Architectural Framework (MODAF)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring MODAF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 113 133
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 +40
Contract jobs citing MODAF 5 1 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.057% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.063% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £663 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -21.43%
75th Percentile £665 £688 £763
90th Percentile £734 - -
England median daily rate £605 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -10.37% +12.50% -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.50 - £56.49
75th Percentile £103.25 - £57.33
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £95.00 £85.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +11.76% +50.47% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

MODAF falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 1,582 2,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.56% 90.30% 84.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 1,016 1,754
10th Percentile £305 £230 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 109 338
10th Percentile £16.50 £25.21 £14.39
25th Percentile £23.33 £55.00 £28.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £66.77
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £77.65
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

MODAF
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MODAF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

MODAF job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MODAF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MODAF

MODAF
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MODAF in the South West over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MODAF in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MODAF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing MODAF

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MODAF within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Somerset - 3 £550 -
Bristol - 2 £770 - 6
MODAF
England

MODAF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (40.00%) TETRA
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (20.00%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 3 (60.00%) UX Research
4 2 (40.00%) ArchiMate
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (60.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) VMware