ModSecurity Contract Job Trends in the South West

ModSecurity (Modsec)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring ModSecurity 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 133 112 146
Rank change year-on-year -21 +34 +25
Contract jobs citing ModSecurity 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.21% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 0.55% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £534
25th Percentile £523 £575 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £568 £625 £688
90th Percentile £575 - £695
England median daily rate £545 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -9.17% -7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
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 432 361 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.89% 20.61% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 226 329
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £409 £461 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £582 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £734 £707
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 27 55
10th Percentile £61.25 - £43.75
25th Percentile £62.75 £61.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile - £66.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

ModSecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

ModSecurity job vacancy trend in the South West

ModSecurity
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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 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
Wiltshire - 5 £545 - 1
Bristol - 1 £570 - 2
ModSecurity
England

ModSecurity
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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Mocha
General
1 5 (83.33%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Coordinator
1 5 (83.33%) Security Assurance Coordinator
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Express.js
1 1 (16.67%) Jest
1 1 (16.67%) JWT
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) NestJS
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Agile
1 1 (16.67%) API Development
1 1 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
1 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
1 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (16.67%) Microservices
1 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
1 1 (16.67%) Service Design
1 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) CESG Certified Professional
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) JSP 440
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform