ModSecurity Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ModSecurity (Modsec)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ModSecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 577 533
Rank change year-on-year +65 -44 +252
Permanent jobs citing ModSecurity 11 2 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.005% 0.049%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 0.028% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 13
10th Percentile £53,250 - £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71,875 £47,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,500 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,848 7,214 7,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.34% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,952 4,073 5,744
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

ModSecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ModSecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ModSecurity job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ModSecurity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ModSecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ModSecurity

ModSecurity
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ModSecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for ModSecurity in the UK excluding London

ModSecurity
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 ModSecurity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
South East - 6 £68,750 -
South West +20 5 £57,500 +27.78% 9
ModSecurity
UK

ModSecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
1 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
1 3 (27.27%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (27.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) OCI
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
1 4 (36.36%) LTE
1 4 (36.36%) Network Security
1 4 (36.36%) VSAT
1 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Discoverer
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle APEX
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
3 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
5 2 (18.18%) Electronics
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
5 2 (18.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Technical Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Technical Support
1 4 (36.36%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Security Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle ADF
1 3 (27.27%) WebCenter
2 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
1 4 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
1 4 (36.36%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (36.36%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
1 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
1 4 (36.36%) Statistics
1 4 (36.36%) Virtual Environments
1 4 (36.36%) Web Filtering
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) CCNA
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (36.36%) JNCIA
4 3 (27.27%) CISM
4 3 (27.27%) CISSP
5 1 (9.09%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) JSP 440
1 2 (18.18%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
2 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Freshdesk
2 3 (27.27%) IFS
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) SAP