Military Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Military
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Military 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.44% - 0.81%
As % of the General category 3.41% - 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £743
75th Percentile £622 - £772
90th Percentile - - £789
South East median daily rate £530 £550 £619
% change year-on-year -3.64% -11.11% +1.85%

All General Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 general skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 352 191 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 42.26% 59.87% 59.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 114 140
10th Percentile £345 £203 £200
25th Percentile £435 £331 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £543
90th Percentile £638 £648 £653
South East median daily rate £525 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 5
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.35 £19.63
25th Percentile £17.50 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £14.20 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.45% -52.67% +121.08%
75th Percentile £30.00 £15.59 £36.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £50.18 £37.50
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £18.82 £57.35
% change year-on-year +105.74% -67.18% +9.24%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Military relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Military job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Military
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Military

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Military in Buckinghamshire

Military
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Military

Military
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 9 £615 -
High Wycombe - 3 £425 - 2
Military
South East

Military
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
1 2 (16.67%) SSH
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Content Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Content Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Designer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Cortex
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Information Security
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (16.67%) Business Impact Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Collection
4 2 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) Bicep
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) SSCP
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow