Military Contracts in Central London

Military
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 127 172
Rank change year-on-year +12 +45 -
Contract jobs citing Military 16 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.81% 0.17% 0.054%
As % of the General category 1.14% 0.25% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £456 £677
25th Percentile - £466 £698
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £488 £743
Median % change year-on-year -52.82% -34.34% -
75th Percentile - £516 £783
90th Percentile - £529 £802
London median daily rate £618 £645 £713
% change year-on-year -4.26% -9.47% +36.23%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,403 1,577 2,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 71.18% 65.76% 62.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 1,118 1,654
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% -8.13% +5.26%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £816 £825
London median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 14
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.98 £14.63
25th Percentile £24.85 £20.22 £17.51
Median hourly rate £29.07 £24.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% -14.29% -35.63%
75th Percentile £47.68 £27.50 £48.31
90th Percentile £71.00 £41.60 £57.25
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.92 £31.71
% change year-on-year +21.78% -11.95% -15.44%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Military in Central London

Military
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Military in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Military in Central London

Military
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Military in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Military in Central London

Military
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +17 15 - - 1
Military
London

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud9 IDE
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Slack
3 1 (6.25%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) BGP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) OSPF
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (93.75%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Police
4 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Change and Release Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Change Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Network Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Release Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) CDIO
3 1 (6.25%) CIO
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Report Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) NumPy
1 1 (6.25%) OpenCV
1 1 (6.25%) Pandas
1 1 (6.25%) pydantic
1 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
1 1 (6.25%) SciPy
1 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) CSOC
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Digital Media
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (6.25%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (6.25%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (12.50%) Data Science
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Release Management
3 2 (12.50%) Service Management
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.25%) Coaching
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Line Management
4 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.25%) SDLC
4 1 (6.25%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) CEH
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) CREST Certified
3 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Istio
2 1 (6.25%) Podman
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Apple
2 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Dell
2 1 (6.25%) EMC
2 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.25%) Pega
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Unisys