Military Contracts in the South West

Military
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 38 128
Rank change year-on-year -22 +90 -13
Contract jobs citing Military 75 144 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.10% 4.56% 1.37%
As % of the General category 5.95% 9.66% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 46 25
10th Percentile £456 £462 £428
25th Percentile £553 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £554 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% +5.48% +0.48%
75th Percentile £744 £675 £638
90th Percentile £753 £700 £715
England median daily rate £618 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.64% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 56 17
10th Percentile - £48.32 £53.78
25th Percentile £12.79 £56.28 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +20.37%
75th Percentile £73.13 £69.62 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.00 £67.45
England median hourly rate £61.75 £56.91 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.50% -12.45% +20.37%

All General Skills
South West

Military falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,260 1,490 1,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 52.04% 47.15% 50.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 1,007 1,355
10th Percentile £220 £287 £284
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £633
90th Percentile £730 £725 £718
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 164 152
10th Percentile £12.79 £15.61 £16.73
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.00 £35.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.33 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% -9.45% +26.32%
75th Percentile £70.25 £68.94 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.00 £74.90
England median hourly rate £32.29 £30.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year +7.62% +18.81% +32.89%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Military as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Military in the South West

Military
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Military in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Military in the South West

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in the South West over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Military in the South West

Military
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Military in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Military in the South West

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military in the South West over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +13 29 £526 +125.86% 14
Wiltshire +12 29 £625 +13.64% 5
Gloucestershire +14 11 £750 +19.24% 8
Devon - 3 £650 - 5
Somerset -7 1 - - 1
Military
England

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (8.00%) Confluence
2 5 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.67%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) FrameMaker
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (4.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (4.00%) AWS
2 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (4.00%) Serverless
3 2 (2.67%) Azure
3 2 (2.67%) IaaS
3 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) Ethernet
1 9 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (10.67%) WAN
3 5 (6.67%) Skype
4 4 (5.33%) ISDN
4 4 (5.33%) LAN
4 4 (5.33%) NAS
4 4 (5.33%) PBX
4 4 (5.33%) SAN
4 4 (5.33%) SD-WAN
4 4 (5.33%) Unified Communications
4 4 (5.33%) VoIP
5 3 (4.00%) DHCP
5 3 (4.00%) DNS
6 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (4.00%) Redis
2 2 (2.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (12.00%) Visual Studio
2 7 (9.33%) JIRA
3 4 (5.33%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (2.67%) Git
4 2 (2.67%) GitLab
4 2 (2.67%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (1.33%) Axure RP
5 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.33%) GoogleTest
5 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (29.33%) Public Sector
1 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Finance
3 10 (13.33%) Fire and Rescue
3 10 (13.33%) Police
3 10 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 9 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Marketing
6 4 (5.33%) Billing
6 4 (5.33%) Electronics
6 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (13.33%) Software Engineer
2 9 (12.00%) Architect
2 9 (12.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 9 (12.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (10.67%) Help Desk Operator
4 6 (8.00%) Chief Architect
4 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Service Manager
6 4 (5.33%) IT Manager
6 4 (5.33%) IT Services Manager
6 4 (5.33%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.00%) Senior
7 3 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) Node.js
1 9 (12.00%) Web Services
2 3 (4.00%) Kafka
2 3 (4.00%) RESTful
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.33%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) PKI
2 6 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.33%) Clustering
4 4 (5.33%) Fat Client
4 4 (5.33%) IVR
4 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.33%) Thin Client
5 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.67%) Windows
2 15 (20.00%) Linux
3 8 (10.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.67%) CentOS
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (26.67%) Agile
2 14 (18.67%) Validation
3 12 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (14.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 11 (14.67%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (14.67%) Project Management
5 10 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 10 (13.33%) Visualisation
6 9 (12.00%) Digital Twin
6 9 (12.00%) ITIL
6 9 (12.00%) Synthetic Environment
6 9 (12.00%) TDD
6 9 (12.00%) Unit Testing
6 9 (12.00%) Verification and Validation
7 8 (10.67%) Customer Service
7 8 (10.67%) Systems Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) DevOps
8 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (13.33%) C++
3 9 (12.00%) C#
4 8 (10.67%) SQL
5 4 (5.33%) Java
5 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.00%) Go
6 3 (4.00%) Python
7 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 1 (1.33%) C
8 1 (1.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 49 (65.33%) Security Cleared
2 41 (54.67%) SC Cleared
3 21 (28.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.33%) Degree
5 6 (8.00%) CCNA
5 6 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.67%) CCNP
7 3 (4.00%) MCSA
7 3 (4.00%) MCSE
7 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.67%) IISP
8 2 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.33%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.33%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) JSP 440
2 2 (2.67%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) MISRA
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
3 4 (5.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 4 (5.33%) SCCM
2 3 (4.00%) Terraform
3 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.67%) Puppet
4 1 (1.33%) OPNET
4 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.67%) VMware
3 5 (6.67%) Cisco
4 4 (5.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.67%) Remedy
5 2 (2.67%) YouTube
6 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) Xerox