Military Contracts in England

Military
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 332 464
Rank change year-on-year +61 +132 +195
Contract jobs citing Military 208 210 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.57% 0.38%
As % of the General category 1.33% 0.97% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 91 97
10th Percentile £456 £513 £425
25th Percentile £488 £529 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £785
UK median daily rate £580 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% +14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 55 39
10th Percentile £35.00 £42.00 £51.00
25th Percentile £60.37 £47.83 £56.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £75.63 £65.87 £66.62
90th Percentile £89.32 £80.00 £88.09
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £62.89
% change year-on-year +9.24% -5.39% +19.67%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,610 21,625 29,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.29% 59.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,137 13,933 20,876
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £687
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 1,792 973
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.79
25th Percentile £16.99 £15.49 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.14 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% -9.72% +56.74%
75th Percentile £55.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.31
% change year-on-year -8.33% -12.56% +57.28%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Military in England

Military
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Military in England

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Military in England

Military
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Military in England

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in England

Military
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London +62 60 £618 -4.11% 114
South West +10 52 £575 -2.54% 79
North of England +37 37 £633 +15.08% 58
North West +28 27 £525 -4.55% 27
South East +5 23 £645 +3.20% 99
East of England +29 9 £500 - 55
North East +1 7 - - 7
Midlands +19 4 - - 56
West Midlands +14 4 - - 32
Yorkshire - 3 £725 - 25
Military
UK

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 14 (6.73%) Confluence
3 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.88%) nginx
5 5 (2.40%) Traefik
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.48%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.92%) Simulink
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.44%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.48%) CATIA
5 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.88%) FLEXCUBE
1 6 (2.88%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.44%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.48%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.87%) AWS
2 27 (12.98%) Azure
3 17 (8.17%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.73%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (2.88%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.88%) Google Workspace
7 6 (2.88%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.88%) SaaS
7 6 (2.88%) Serverless
8 5 (2.40%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (2.40%) GitHub
8 5 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.40%) OCI
8 5 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.73%) DNS
2 13 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 11 (5.29%) Firewall
4 9 (4.33%) DHCP
5 7 (3.37%) WAN
6 5 (2.40%) Ethernet
6 5 (2.40%) Network Security
6 5 (2.40%) VoIP
7 4 (1.92%) BGP
7 4 (1.92%) LAN
7 4 (1.92%) OSPF
8 3 (1.44%) Internet
8 3 (1.44%) ISDN
8 3 (1.44%) PBX
8 3 (1.44%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.44%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.44%) VPN
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.96%) SNMP
9 2 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.25%) Power BI
2 10 (4.81%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (1.92%) Big Data
4 4 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.92%) Tableau
5 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.44%) MySQL
5 3 (1.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.44%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (8.17%) JIRA
2 14 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.29%) GitLab
4 6 (2.88%) Eclipse
4 6 (2.88%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.92%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.92%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.44%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.96%) ERwin
7 2 (0.96%) Git
7 2 (0.96%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.96%) Rational Statemate
8 1 (0.48%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.48%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.48%) Mockito
8 1 (0.48%) Rational Team Concert
8 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 125 (60.10%) Public Sector
2 56 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.87%) Finance
4 30 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.29%) Police
6 8 (3.85%) Fire and Rescue
7 7 (3.37%) Legal
7 7 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.88%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.88%) Banking
8 6 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.92%) Law
10 3 (1.44%) Automotive
10 3 (1.44%) Billing
10 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.96%) Advertising
11 2 (0.96%) Aviation
11 2 (0.96%) Electronics
11 2 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (21.15%) Senior
2 25 (12.02%) Developer
3 19 (9.13%) Architect
4 12 (5.77%) Analyst
5 9 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (4.33%) Service Manager
5 9 (4.33%) Software Engineer
6 8 (3.85%) Lead
6 8 (3.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 7 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.37%) Senior Manager
8 6 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (2.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (2.88%) Project Manager
8 6 (2.88%) Senior Developer
8 6 (2.88%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (2.40%) Change Manager
9 5 (2.40%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.77%) Node.js
2 9 (4.33%) CSS
2 9 (4.33%) HTML
3 6 (2.88%) cloud-init
4 5 (2.40%) Kafka
4 5 (2.40%) Keycloak
4 5 (2.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.40%) Web Services
5 3 (1.44%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.44%) JPA
5 3 (1.44%) NumPy
5 3 (1.44%) OpenCV
5 3 (1.44%) Pandas
5 3 (1.44%) pydantic
5 3 (1.44%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.44%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.44%) SciPy
5 3 (1.44%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.96%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.29%) PKI
3 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.40%) Smartphone
4 4 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.44%) IVR
5 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (0.96%) Digital Media
6 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.96%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.96%) FPGA
6 2 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (0.96%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.96%) PMI
6 2 (0.96%) Verilog
6 2 (0.96%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.06%) Windows
2 19 (9.13%) Linux
3 11 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 8 (3.85%) Unix
5 7 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.88%) CentOS
6 6 (2.88%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.40%) VMS
7 5 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.96%) Android
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.96%) Solaris
9 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (32.69%) Agile
2 32 (15.38%) DevOps
2 32 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (14.90%) CI/CD
4 28 (13.46%) ITIL
5 23 (11.06%) Roadmaps
6 19 (9.13%) Project Management
6 19 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (8.65%) Collaborative Working
8 16 (7.69%) Migration
8 16 (7.69%) Software Engineering
9 15 (7.21%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (6.73%) Decision-Making
10 14 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (6.73%) Service Management
11 13 (6.25%) Data Modelling
11 13 (6.25%) ITSM
11 13 (6.25%) Mentoring
11 13 (6.25%) Microservices
11 13 (6.25%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.90%) SQL
2 18 (8.65%) Java
2 18 (8.65%) Python
3 11 (5.29%) JavaScript
3 11 (5.29%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.33%) Bash
4 9 (4.33%) PL/SQL
5 8 (3.85%) C++
5 8 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.37%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.88%) Go
8 5 (2.40%) C#
9 3 (1.44%) C
9 3 (1.44%) Groovy
10 2 (0.96%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.96%) R
10 2 (0.96%) Ruby
10 2 (0.96%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.48%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 147 (70.67%) Security Cleared
2 114 (54.81%) SC Cleared
3 32 (15.38%) Degree
4 30 (14.42%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.37%) CISM
5 7 (3.37%) CISSP
5 7 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.88%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.40%) CCNP
7 5 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.44%) CCNA
9 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.96%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.96%) MBA
10 2 (0.96%) MCSA
10 2 (0.96%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.21%) NCSC
2 10 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.37%) QA
4 6 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.88%) SLA
5 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.40%) NIST
6 3 (1.44%) GDPR
6 3 (1.44%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.96%) GRC
7 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (0.96%) MISRA
7 2 (0.96%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.96%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.96%) PMBOK
7 2 (0.96%) PMO
8 1 (0.48%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.33%) Docker
3 8 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.48%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (8.65%) Terraform
2 15 (7.21%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.85%) Grafana
3 8 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.37%) Packer
5 6 (2.88%) Istio
5 6 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.40%) Ansible
6 5 (2.40%) Consul
6 5 (2.40%) HAProxy
6 5 (2.40%) linkerd
6 5 (2.40%) Rancher
6 5 (2.40%) ZABBIX
7 4 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.92%) WSUS
8 3 (1.44%) OPNET
8 3 (1.44%) Puppet
9 2 (0.96%) SCCM
10 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.50%) Oracle
3 13 (6.25%) VMware
4 10 (4.81%) Cisco
4 10 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.33%) Google
6 8 (3.85%) Apple
6 8 (3.85%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.37%) Splunk
8 6 (2.88%) ESET
9 5 (2.40%) Okta
10 3 (1.44%) Juniper
10 3 (1.44%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.44%) Remedy
11 2 (0.96%) Dell
11 2 (0.96%) EMC
11 2 (0.96%) Intel
11 2 (0.96%) Pega
11 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.96%) Unisys