Modbus Jobs in the UK excluding London

Modbus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Modbus skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Modbus over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 704 732
Rank change year-on-year +200 +28 +73
Permanent jobs citing Modbus 75 58 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.077% 0.028%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.05% 0.59% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 50 45 14
10th Percentile £43,675 £34,350 £32,325
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £69,000 £64,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,144 9,866 10,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.00% 13.17% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,355 7,111 4,601
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,000 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

Modbus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Modbus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Modbus in the UK excluding London

Modbus
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Modbus in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Modbus in the UK excluding London

Modbus
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Modbus in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Modbus in the UK excluding London

Modbus
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Modbus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Midlands +77 23 £52,000 -0.95% 11
North of England +56 19 £46,000 -20.00% 14
Yorkshire - 16 £46,000 - 6
East Midlands +49 15 £52,000 -0.95% 2
Wales - 10 £76,250 - 8
Scotland +117 9 £66,000 +7.32% 12
West Midlands +62 8 £55,000 +10.00% 9
East of England +47 6 - - 1
South West - 5 £55,000 - 6
South East +59 4 £85,000 +88.89% 28
North West +4 3 - - 7
Modbus
UK

Modbus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (14.67%) WinCC
Applications
1 11 (14.67%) EPLAN
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) Azure
2 2 (2.67%) AWS
3 1 (1.33%) AWS IoT
3 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) Profibus
2 23 (30.67%) Ethernet
3 21 (28.00%) RS-485
4 18 (24.00%) TCP/IP
5 16 (21.33%) MQTT
6 10 (13.33%) Network Security
7 9 (12.00%) Wireless
8 7 (9.33%) Bluetooth
8 7 (9.33%) LoRaWAN
8 7 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (8.00%) RS-232
9 6 (8.00%) ZigBee
10 5 (6.67%) ADSL
10 5 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (6.67%) Firewall
10 5 (6.67%) MPLS
10 5 (6.67%) VPN
10 5 (6.67%) WAN
11 3 (4.00%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.33%) RDBMS
1 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.67%) Subversion
4 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.00%) Manufacturing
3 19 (25.33%) Electronics
4 17 (22.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (14.67%) Retail
6 10 (13.33%) Finance
7 6 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.67%) Marketing
10 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.33%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 19 (25.33%) Senior
2 19 (25.33%) Systems Engineer
3 15 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 14 (18.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 13 (17.33%) Automation Engineer
6 12 (16.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 12 (16.00%) Firmware Engineer
6 12 (16.00%) Lead
7 11 (14.67%) Process Engineer
8 10 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 9 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (10.67%) Developer
10 8 (10.67%) Lead Developer
10 8 (10.67%) Senior Firmware Engineer
11 6 (8.00%) Control Systems Engineer
11 6 (8.00%) Firmware Developer
11 6 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 5 (6.67%) Presales Engineer
12 5 (6.67%) Presales Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) .NET
2 2 (2.67%) CSS
3 1 (1.33%) Node-RED
Miscellaneous
1 35 (46.67%) SCADA
2 19 (25.33%) IoT
3 18 (24.00%) Device Driver
4 12 (16.00%) Operational Technology
5 11 (14.67%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (10.67%) Product Ownership
7 5 (6.67%) Biopharmaceutical
7 5 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (5.33%) Analogue Electronics
8 4 (5.33%) CAN bus
8 4 (5.33%) Industry 4.0
9 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
10 2 (2.67%) Driving Licence
10 2 (2.67%) NB-IoT
10 2 (2.67%) Raspberry Pi
11 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 1 (1.33%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (1.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.33%) Linux
2 12 (16.00%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (13.33%) Unix
3 10 (13.33%) Windows
4 6 (8.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.67%) Mentoring
2 21 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (21.33%) Validation
4 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.33%) Agile
6 12 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.00%) Computer Science
7 11 (14.67%) CAD
7 11 (14.67%) Risk Assessment
8 10 (13.33%) API Development
8 10 (13.33%) Computer Architecture
8 10 (13.33%) Decarbonisation
8 10 (13.33%) Network Design
8 10 (13.33%) Product Strategy
8 10 (13.33%) Technical Debt
8 10 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (13.33%) Verification and Validation
9 8 (10.67%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (10.67%) Continuous Deployment
9 8 (10.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.67%) C
2 30 (40.00%) C++
3 11 (14.67%) C#
4 7 (9.33%) Ladder Logic
5 5 (6.67%) Python
6 4 (5.33%) SQL
7 2 (2.67%) Embedded C
7 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (30.67%) Degree
2 15 (20.00%) HNC
3 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.00%) Master's Degree
6 5 (6.67%) CCDA
6 5 (6.67%) CCDP
6 5 (6.67%) CCNA
6 5 (6.67%) CCNP
6 5 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.33%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) HND
8 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) IEC 61508
1 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.33%) JTAG
1 1 (1.33%) NCSC
1 1 (1.33%) NIST
1 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 31 (41.33%) Firmware
2 19 (25.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Wonderware InTouch
2 5 (6.67%) Ansible
2 5 (6.67%) CASB
2 5 (6.67%) Functional Safety
2 5 (6.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 23 (30.67%) Siemens
2 18 (24.00%) Allen-Bradley
3 12 (16.00%) Google
4 11 (14.67%) Wonderware
5 10 (13.33%) Rockwell
6 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (6.67%) Aerohive Networks
7 5 (6.67%) Cisco
7 5 (6.67%) Ekahau
7 5 (6.67%) Extreme Networks
7 5 (6.67%) Fortinet
7 5 (6.67%) Juniper
7 5 (6.67%) Meraki
7 5 (6.67%) Palo Alto
7 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.33%) AVEVA
9 3 (4.00%) VMware
10 2 (2.67%) Atmel
10 2 (2.67%) SAP
11 1 (1.33%) NVIDIA