ModSecurity Job Trends in the South East

ModSecurity (Modsec)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring ModSecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 - 294
Rank change year-on-year - - +126
Permanent jobs citing ModSecurity 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.048% - 0.011%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.53% - 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £56,750 - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.11%
75th Percentile £86,875 - £78,750
90th Percentile £112,750 - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

ModSecurity falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 944 2,006 1,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.10% 22.34% 21.19%
Number of salaries quoted 762 1,139 1,502
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

ModSecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

ModSecurity job vacancy trend in the South East

ModSecurity
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ModSecurity

ModSecurity
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing ModSecurity in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ModSecurity in the South East

ModSecurity
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 ModSecurity within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Hampshire - 3 £67,500 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £125,000 - 1
Surrey - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 £125,000 - 1
ModSecurity
England

ModSecurity
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 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LTE
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) VSAT
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Security Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) ERP
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Edge AI
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) LLM
2 1 (20.00%) MLOps
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CISM
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) CCNA
4 1 (20.00%) CISA
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) JSP 440
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Argo
1 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Freshdesk