Military Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Military
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Military 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.51% - -
As % of the General category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile £718 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £773 £597
% change year-on-year -28.80% +29.45% +19.35%

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 369 417 428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.23% 58.08% 49.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 278 281
10th Percentile £163 £196 £300
25th Percentile £345 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £650
90th Percentile £639 £750 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 21
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £20.88 £14.54
Median hourly rate £22.05 £47.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.58% +131.71% +13.89%
75th Percentile £26.51 £55.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £28.40 £57.25 £47.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.67 £23.82 £20.97
% change year-on-year +24.54% +13.59% +27.87%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Military as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Military in Birmingham

Military
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Military.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Military

Military
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Military.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Military

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Responsibility
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto