ModSecurity Contracts in the South West

ModSecurity (Modsec)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring ModSecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ModSecurity 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 108 152 163
Rank change year-on-year +44 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing ModSecurity 3 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 1.17% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £534 £608
25th Percentile £575 £568 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +55.17%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £700
90th Percentile - £695 -
England median daily rate £600 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.41 -
England median hourly rate - £83.41 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

ModSecurity falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 292 429 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.40% 13.41% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 286 445
10th Percentile £355 £313 £387
25th Percentile £445 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £625
90th Percentile £725 £703 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 50 18
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £49.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

ModSecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing ModSecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for ModSecurity in the South West

ModSecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for ModSecurity in the South West

ModSecurity
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 ModSecurity within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +18 2 £600 - 1
Wiltshire +29 1 - - 1
ModSecurity
England

ModSecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) OPNET
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (33.33%) VMware