Modbus Contracts in the UK excluding London

Modbus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Modbus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Modbus 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 328 357 436
Rank change year-on-year +29 +79 -
Contract jobs citing Modbus 8 42 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 1.22% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £425 £377 -
25th Percentile £481 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -26.09% -
75th Percentile £700 £463 £600
90th Percentile £725 - £615
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.07% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 36 9
10th Percentile - - £54.75
25th Percentile - £61.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £72.50
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Modbus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Modbus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Modbus in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Modbus in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Modbus in the UK excluding London

Modbus
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Modbus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Modbus in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Modbus in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Modbus in the UK excluding London

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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 Modbus within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands - 5 £650 - 9
West Midlands - 5 £650 - 5
South East +46 2 £525 +23.53% 33
South West - 1 £575 - 5
Modbus
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Modbus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WinCC
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) MQTT
2 2 (25.00%) Profibus
3 1 (12.50%) 5G
3 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) LoRaWAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IoT Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Siemens Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Operational Technology
1 7 (87.50%) SCADA
2 2 (25.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 2 (25.00%) IoT
3 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) NB-IoT
3 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Edge Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Runbook
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NCSC
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (12.50%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Rockwell
1 2 (25.00%) Siemens
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Wonderware