Modbus Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Modbus
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 300 342 460
Rank change year-on-year +42 +118 +168
Contract jobs citing Modbus 4 3 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.020% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.19% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile £448 - £400
25th Percentile £481 £388 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -17.07% +2.50%
75th Percentile £619 £463 £531
90th Percentile £653 - £605
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.07% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.25
25th Percentile - - £54.38
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £59.38
90th Percentile - - £59.75
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Modbus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Modbus trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Modbus.

Modbus daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Modbus daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Modbus.

Modbus hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Profibus
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (75.00%) SCADA
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (25.00%) Siemens
1 1 (25.00%) Wonderware