Military Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Military
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 59 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Military 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.28% 0.31% -
As % of the General category 0.50% 0.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -16.00% +38.89% -10.00%

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 404 299 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 57.06% 45.86% 56.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 175 375
10th Percentile £289 £343 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £638 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.22 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.13 £18.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +56.97% -2.56%
75th Percentile £27.63 £40.00 £21.64
90th Percentile £28.30 - £22.08
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +62.50% +6.95%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Military job vacancy trend in Leeds

Military
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Military

Military
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Military

Military
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk