MODAF Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

UK Ministry of Defence Architectural Framework (MODAF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MODAF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 357 360
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +120
Contract jobs citing MODAF 21 8 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.048% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.057% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 16
10th Percentile £86 - £538
25th Percentile £86 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.24%
75th Percentile - - £975
90th Percentile £573 - £1,106
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £700
% change year-on-year +1.94% -26.43% +8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 27
10th Percentile £88.88 - £52.23
25th Percentile £90.38 £35.64 -
Median hourly rate £91.00 £38.27 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +137.78% -32.25% -2.52%
75th Percentile £91.50 £40.91 £57.33
90th Percentile - - £76.25
UK median hourly rate £91.00 £38.27 £56.49
% change year-on-year +137.78% -32.25% -4.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,332 14,078 18,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.21% 84.15% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,330 8,071 11,946
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £367 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,738 894 1,289
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.26 £18.53 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -31.42% -24.83% +48.81%
75th Percentile £43.72 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%

MODAF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MODAF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

MODAF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MODAF
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MODAF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MODAF

MODAF
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MODAF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MODAF in the UK excluding London

MODAF
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MODAF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MODAF

MODAF
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MODAF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
East of England -5 12 £86 -
South East - 5 - - 17
South West -1 4 £550 - 6
MODAF
UK

MODAF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) IaaS
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) NAS
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
1 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
General
1 13 (61.90%) Military
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Lead
1 12 (57.14%) Security Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (4.76%) MODAF Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) CMDB
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Key Management
2 12 (57.14%) GAP Analysis
2 12 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 12 (57.14%) Information Assurance
2 12 (57.14%) Patch Management
2 12 (57.14%) SABSA
2 12 (57.14%) Security Management
3 8 (38.10%) TOGAF
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) ITIL
5 6 (28.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
7 3 (14.29%) IT Strategy
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (14.29%) UX Research
7 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bicep
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (90.48%) Security Cleared
2 16 (76.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) Degree
4 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) CISSP
6 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.76%) PhD
6 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (76.19%) NCSC
2 13 (61.90%) JSP 440
2 13 (61.90%) NIST
3 12 (57.14%) NIST 800
4 3 (14.29%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (9.52%) COBIT
5 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (4.76%) VMware