Modbus Contracts

Modbus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 506 537 686
Rank change year-on-year +31 +149 +165
Contract jobs citing Modbus 14 45 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.10% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.80% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £429 £379 £400
25th Percentile £491 £388 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.07% +2.50%
75th Percentile £628 £456 £573
90th Percentile £720 £463 £603
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +41.18% -26.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 36 10
10th Percentile - - £52.13
25th Percentile - £61.25 £57.19
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

Modbus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Modbus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Modbus in the UK

Modbus
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Modbus.

Daily rate trend for Modbus in the UK

Modbus
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Modbus in the UK

Modbus
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Modbus.

Hourly rate trend for Modbus in the UK

Modbus
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
England +26 13 £500 +17.65% 92
UK excluding London +29 8 £600 +41.18% 96
London +40 5 £500 +17.65% 26
Midlands - 5 £650 - 9
West Midlands - 5 £650 - 5
Work from Home +42 4 £550 +29.41% 20
South East +46 2 £525 +23.53% 28
South West - 1 £575 - 6

Modbus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Siemens NX
1 1 (7.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) MQTT
2 4 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
3 2 (14.29%) Profibus
4 1 (7.14%) 5G
4 1 (7.14%) Internet
4 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MSI
2 1 (7.14%) Qt Creator
General
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) IoT Architect
4 1 (7.14%) IT Architect
4 1 (7.14%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Qt Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Siemens Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) DirectX
2 1 (7.14%) ONNX
2 1 (7.14%) OpenGL
2 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.14%) QML
2 1 (7.14%) Qt
2 1 (7.14%) Qt Quick
2 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.14%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Operational Technology
1 8 (57.14%) SCADA
2 6 (42.86%) IoT
3 2 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (7.14%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
4 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) NB-IoT
4 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
4 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Edge Computing
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Predictive Maintenance
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (7.14%) 3D Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.14%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.14%) Network Management
5 1 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (7.14%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) C++
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CISM
1 1 (7.14%) CISSP
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) NCSC
1 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) NIST 800
3 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (7.14%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Rockwell
1 2 (14.29%) Siemens
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.14%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Wonderware