Modbus Job Trends in the South East

Modbus
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Modbus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 267 375
Rank change year-on-year -27 +108 +3
Permanent jobs citing Modbus 5 5 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.034% 0.064% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.41% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 18
10th Percentile £45,500 £61,125 £31,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +55.26% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,188 £52,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,375 £71,125
England median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

Modbus falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,352 1,216 2,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.32% 15.50% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 892 741 1,892
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

Modbus
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Modbus relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Modbus job vacancy trend in the South East

Modbus
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Modbus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Modbus

Modbus
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Modbus in the South East over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Modbus in the South East

Modbus
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Modbus within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +21 5 £70,000 +12.00% 5
Berkshire - 4 £75,000 - 4
Oxfordshire -7 1 £35,000 -44.00% 1
Modbus
England

Modbus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) MQTT
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) gRPC
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) IoT
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) ERP
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) QMS
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Control
4 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft