Military Contracts in Manchester

Military
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 91 117
Rank change year-on-year +24 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Military 12 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.30% 0.33% 0.053%
As % of the General category 2.29% 0.68% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £515 -
25th Percentile - £528 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -
75th Percentile - £688 £475
90th Percentile - £770 -
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -43.75%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 524 731 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 56.59% 48.19% 49.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 477 647
10th Percentile £250 £313 £304
25th Percentile £375 £388 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +2.83%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £588
90th Percentile £676 £675 £659
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 62 39
10th Percentile - £12.27 £14.52
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £19.63
Median hourly rate £19.77 £21.73 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -13.10% +38.89%
75th Percentile £40.31 £31.50 £37.30
90th Percentile £72.75 £59.75 £45.05
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Military in Manchester

Military
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Military in Manchester

Military
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Military in Manchester

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
4 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 12 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Portfolio Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) cloud-init
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) VMS
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) CentOS
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) ITSM
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Go
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) Packer
2 2 (16.67%) WSUS
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Graylog
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow