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 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 315 445
Rank change year-on-year +38 +130 +166
Contract jobs citing Military 245 227 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.67% 0.40%
As % of the General category 1.39% 1.17% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 69 74
10th Percentile £461 £458 £421
25th Percentile £488 £519 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £562
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.76% +7.05%
75th Percentile £667 £688 £675
90th Percentile £697 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.91% +1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 82 42
10th Percentile £33.05 £22.85 £45.88
25th Percentile £60.56 £47.21 £50.34
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +9.31% -4.25%
75th Percentile £86.19 £65.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £84.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.65 £62.55
% change year-on-year +5.43% -1.43% +12.02%

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 17,655 19,365 26,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.94% 57.37% 59.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,269 12,489 18,825
10th Percentile £281 £300 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 943 1,312 967
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.31 £17.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +27.07% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £60.00 £59.65
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.25 £70.31
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +25.00% +22.45%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +40 67 £625 -7.41% 111
South West +25 65 £550 +2.33% 90
East of England +18 27 £294 - 50
North of England -9 27 £575 +8.26% 49
South East -6 26 £588 -3.09% 95
North West -3 21 £575 +12.26% 26
West Midlands +6 7 £550 +4.76% 17
Midlands -6 7 £550 +4.76% 34
North East +3 6 - - 4
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 11 (4.49%) Confluence
2 6 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.04%) IIS
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.63%) Simulink
3 3 (1.22%) 3ds Max
3 3 (1.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.22%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.41%) CATIA
5 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.71%) FLEXCUBE
1 14 (5.71%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 42 (17.14%) AWS
2 34 (13.88%) Azure
3 11 (4.49%) SaaS
4 10 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.67%) GCP
5 9 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.27%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.27%) GitHub
6 8 (3.27%) Google Workspace
7 6 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.04%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (1.63%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.22%) IaaS
10 3 (1.22%) OCI
10 3 (1.22%) Serverless
11 2 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.94%) Firewall
2 16 (6.53%) TCP/IP
3 14 (5.71%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.04%) DNS
4 5 (2.04%) Network Security
4 5 (2.04%) VPN
5 4 (1.63%) 4G
5 4 (1.63%) 5G
6 3 (1.22%) BGP
6 3 (1.22%) DHCP
6 3 (1.22%) Internet
6 3 (1.22%) OSPF
6 3 (1.22%) VoIP
6 3 (1.22%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.82%) DMVPN
7 2 (0.82%) HTTP
7 2 (0.82%) SSL
8 1 (0.41%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.90%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.67%) Power BI
3 7 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.63%) MySQL
5 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.82%) Metadata
6 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.82%) Tableau
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (6.12%) Eclipse
1 15 (6.12%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.71%) JIRA
2 14 (5.71%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.04%) GitLab
4 3 (1.22%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.22%) Git
4 3 (1.22%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (0.82%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.82%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.82%) Mockito
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.82%) Rational Statemate
5 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.41%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.41%) Rational Team Concert
6 1 (0.41%) Snyk
6 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 114 (46.53%) Public Sector
2 66 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 42 (17.14%) Finance
4 32 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.71%) Banking
5 14 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.90%) Police
7 11 (4.49%) Fire and Rescue
8 10 (4.08%) Aerospace
8 10 (4.08%) Legal
9 6 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.04%) Aviation
11 4 (1.63%) Law
11 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.22%) Automotive
12 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.82%) Advertising
14 1 (0.41%) Avionics
14 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (16.73%) Senior
2 30 (12.24%) Developer
3 29 (11.84%) Architect
4 27 (11.02%) Software Engineer
5 23 (9.39%) Lead
6 17 (6.94%) Security Engineer
7 15 (6.12%) Service Manager
8 14 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
9 12 (4.90%) Analyst
9 12 (4.90%) Security Architect
10 11 (4.49%) C++ Software Engineer
10 11 (4.49%) Senior Architect
11 10 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
11 10 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.27%) IT Manager
12 8 (3.27%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.86%) Coordinator
13 7 (2.86%) Security Assurance Coordinator
13 7 (2.86%) Service Delivery Manager
13 7 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.76%) Node.js
2 16 (6.53%) Web Services
3 7 (2.86%) CSS
3 7 (2.86%) HTML
4 6 (2.45%) Kafka
5 4 (1.63%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.82%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.82%) Express.js
7 2 (0.82%) JAX-RS
7 2 (0.82%) Jinja
8 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.41%) JBoss Seam
8 1 (0.41%) JSON
8 1 (0.41%) Loki
8 1 (0.41%) Nunjucks
8 1 (0.41%) Pug
8 1 (0.41%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.41%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.35%) PKI
2 17 (6.94%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.04%) CSOC
4 5 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.22%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (1.22%) Animation
6 3 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.22%) Smartphone
6 3 (1.22%) Vector Graphics
6 3 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.82%) FPGA
7 2 (0.82%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.82%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.29%) Windows
2 22 (8.98%) Linux
3 11 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.04%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.22%) Android
7 3 (1.22%) Solaris
7 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.82%) VMS
9 1 (0.41%) Unix
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.20%) Agile
2 43 (17.55%) CI/CD
3 37 (15.10%) Software Engineering
4 32 (13.06%) DevOps
4 32 (13.06%) Microservices
4 32 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (13.06%) Roadmaps
5 29 (11.84%) ITIL
6 28 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (8.98%) Validation
8 21 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (8.16%) Continuous Delivery
9 20 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (8.16%) Migration
10 19 (7.76%) Project Management
10 19 (7.76%) TDD
11 18 (7.35%) Incident Management
11 18 (7.35%) Service Management
12 17 (6.94%) Computer Science
12 17 (6.94%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.84%) Java
1 29 (11.84%) SQL
2 17 (6.94%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.53%) C++
3 16 (6.53%) PL/SQL
4 15 (6.12%) C#
4 15 (6.12%) Python
5 10 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.86%) Bash
7 3 (1.22%) C
7 3 (1.22%) Groovy
7 3 (1.22%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.22%) Ruby
7 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.82%) Perl
8 2 (0.82%) PHP
8 2 (0.82%) SystemVerilog
8 2 (0.82%) VBScript
9 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 185 (75.51%) Security Cleared
2 127 (51.84%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.10%) Degree
4 34 (13.88%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.71%) CISSP
6 7 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.04%) CISM
7 5 (2.04%) IISP
7 5 (2.04%) ISACA
8 4 (1.63%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.63%) OSCP
9 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.82%) CCNP
10 2 (0.82%) CEH
10 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.82%) MCSA
10 2 (0.82%) MCSE
10 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.80%) NCSC
2 15 (6.12%) NIST
3 14 (5.71%) JSP 440
4 11 (4.49%) NIST 800
5 7 (2.86%) QA
5 7 (2.86%) SLA
6 6 (2.45%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.82%) GDPR
9 2 (0.82%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.41%) GRC
10 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (4.08%) Firmware
2 6 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.45%) Docker
2 6 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (5.31%) Terraform
2 7 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.63%) Grafana
5 3 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.22%) Ansible
5 3 (1.22%) Check_MK
5 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.22%) OPNET
6 2 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.82%) Nmap
7 1 (0.41%) Kiali
7 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.41%) Puppet
7 1 (0.41%) SCCM
7 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.80%) Oracle
3 12 (4.90%) Google
4 10 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.08%) Splunk
4 10 (4.08%) VMware
5 6 (2.45%) Cisco
6 5 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.63%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.63%) Juniper
8 3 (1.22%) Adobe
8 3 (1.22%) Autodesk
8 3 (1.22%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.82%) Apple
9 2 (0.82%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.82%) ESET
9 2 (0.82%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.82%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.82%) Veracode