Modbus Job Trends in Staffordshire

Modbus
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Modbus skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Modbus 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.61% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.99% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 - -
75th Percentile £32,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 - £50,000

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 302 103 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 30.66% 19.66% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 41 83 115
10th Percentile - £32,100 £26,100
25th Percentile £27,694 £32,500 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% -5.88% +0.59%
75th Percentile £46,250 £51,251 £50,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £53,738 £53,750
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -5.56%

Modbus
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Modbus job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Modbus
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Modbus.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Modbus

Modbus
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Modbus within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Tamworth - 1 £31,500 - 1
Modbus
West Midlands

Modbus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (33.33%) WinCC
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Operational Technology
1 5 (83.33%) SCADA
2 3 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
3 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (16.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Red Team
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Domain Models
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 2 (33.33%) Presales
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Data Entry
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Forensics
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (33.33%) IEC 61508
2 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Rockwell
1 2 (33.33%) Siemens
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce