Military Contracts in the City of London

Military
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 122 163
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 -
Contract jobs citing Military 14 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.84% 0.093% 0.057%
As % of the General category 1.17% 0.14% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £677
25th Percentile - - £698
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £743
75th Percentile - - £783
90th Percentile - - £802
Central London median daily rate £230 - £743

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,197 1,443 2,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 71.85% 66.99% 62.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 1,009 1,548
10th Percentile £332 £338 £372
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -8.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £688 £695 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 12
10th Percentile £18.15 £18.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.67 £20.07 £15.19
Median hourly rate £28.33 £20.82 £20.85
Median % change year-on-year +36.08% -0.18% -45.13%
75th Percentile £41.48 £27.25 £44.93
90th Percentile £89.13 £36.60 £53.65
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £24.40 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.14% -12.86% -26.32%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Military in the City of London

Military
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Military in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Military in the City of London

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud9 IDE
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Slack
3 1 (7.14%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) BGP
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) OSPF
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Police
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Change and Release Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Change Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Release Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) CDIO
3 1 (7.14%) CIO
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Report Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) NumPy
1 1 (7.14%) OpenCV
1 1 (7.14%) Pandas
1 1 (7.14%) pydantic
1 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
1 1 (7.14%) SciPy
1 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) CSOC
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
2 1 (7.14%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (7.14%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (14.29%) Data Science
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Microservices
2 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
2 2 (14.29%) Release Management
2 2 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (7.14%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Management
3 1 (7.14%) QMS
3 1 (7.14%) Security Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CEH
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) CREST Certified
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Istio
2 1 (7.14%) Podman
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Juniper
2 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.14%) Pega
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk