Modbus Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Modbus
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire citing Modbus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	100	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Modbus	3	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire	0.23%	-	-
As % of the Communications & Networking category	2.36%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£613	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£625	-	-
75^th Percentile	£638	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Yorkshire median daily rate	£625	-	-

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in West Yorkshire.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	127	89	94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire	9.55%	10.08%	12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted	71	57	55
10^th Percentile	£275	£216	£217
25^th Percentile	£388	£305	£364
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£520	£450	£485
Median % change year-on-year	+15.56%	-7.22%	-3.00%
75^th Percentile	£594	£525	£550
90^th Percentile	£650	£553	£658
Yorkshire median daily rate	£500	£485	£420
% change year-on-year	+3.09%	+15.48%	-6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	1	4
10^th Percentile	£24.44	-	£13.18
25^th Percentile	-	£47.50	£14.49
Median hourly rate	£25.77	£50.00	£28.60
Median % change year-on-year	-48.46%	+74.86%	+64.84%
75^th Percentile	£26.72	£52.50	£41.50
90^th Percentile	£27.10	-	-
Yorkshire median hourly rate	£25.77	£15.50	£16.19
% change year-on-year	+66.26%	-4.26%	-26.41%

Modbus Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Modbus Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Modbus within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Leeds	-	3	£625	-	2
Modbus Yorkshire

Modbus Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 12 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Modbus also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Yorkshire region citing Modbus.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Energy Management	100.0%	3
2	Battery Management	66.7%	2
2	Degree	66.7%	2
2	Ethernet	66.7%	2
2	Functional Testing	66.7%	2
2	HNC	66.7%	2
2	HND	66.7%	2
2	Performance Testing	66.7%	2
2	Power Management	66.7%	2
2	TCP/IP	66.7%	2
11	Architectural Patterns	33.3%	1
11	Architecture Governance	33.3%	1
11	Cybersecurity	33.3%	1
11	Due Diligence	33.3%	1
11	Enterprise Architecture	33.3%	1
11	High Availability	33.3%	1
11	Integration Patterns	33.3%	1
11	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	1
11	Network Monitoring	33.3%	1
11	NIST	33.3%	1
11	NIST 800	33.3%	1
11	Operational Resilience	33.3%	1
11	Risk Management	33.3%	1
11	SABSA	33.3%	1
11	Security Architecture	33.3%	1
11	Security Monitoring	33.3%	1
11	TOGAF	33.3%	1
11	Windows	33.3%	1

Modbus Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Ethernet	66.7%	2
1	TCP/IP	66.7%	2