Military Contracts in the North of England

Military
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in the North of 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 132 169 210
Rank change year-on-year +37 +41 +22
Contract jobs citing Military 37 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.12% 0.23% 0.035%
As % of the General category 1.89% 0.43% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £512 £515 £433
25th Percentile £513 £528 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.08% +15.79% -35.59%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £494
90th Percentile - £770 £498
England median daily rate £601 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -3.80% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £11.59 £48.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -76.13% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +13.04%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,953 2,587 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.15% 54.76% 55.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,520 2,211
10th Percentile £256 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £501
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% -1.15% +5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £663 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 311 92
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.13 £14.56
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.22 £16.06 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.00% -37.02% +36.18%
75th Percentile £41.97 £28.22 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £48.75 £53.31
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.14 £33.39
% change year-on-year -8.76% -9.72% +56.74%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Military in the North of England

Military
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Military in the North of England

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Military in the North of England

Military
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Military in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +28 27 £525 -4.55% 27
North East +1 7 - - 7
Yorkshire - 3 £725 - 25
Military
England

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (18.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.41%) nginx
3 2 (5.41%) Traefik
4 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Entra ID
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (13.51%) Google Workspace
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.11%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) DNS
2 4 (10.81%) DHCP
3 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.41%) Big Data
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) GitLab
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) ERwin
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (5.41%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.70%) Git
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (2.70%) Maven
4 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 29 (78.38%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Avionics
4 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Senior
2 5 (13.51%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Service Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
5 2 (5.41%) IT Support
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) cloud-init
2 2 (5.41%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.41%) Node.js
3 1 (2.70%) CSS
3 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) React
3 1 (2.70%) RESTful
3 1 (2.70%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Smartphone
2 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) PKI
4 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Mac OS
3 4 (10.81%) Linux
3 4 (10.81%) VMS
3 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.11%) CentOS
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.11%) Unix
5 2 (5.41%) Android
5 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Agile
1 13 (35.14%) DevOps
2 10 (27.03%) ITIL
3 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.62%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.51%) Change Management
6 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (13.51%) ITSM
7 4 (10.81%) Data Modelling
7 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) Microservices
7 4 (10.81%) Project Management
8 3 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (8.11%) Business Case
8 3 (8.11%) Cloud Security
8 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
8 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Bash
1 4 (10.81%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) Go
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) C++
3 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (40.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.41%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) DBS Check
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.70%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CISM
5 1 (2.70%) CISSP
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) NCSC
2 2 (5.41%) MISRA
2 2 (5.41%) MISRA C
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) GRC
3 1 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.81%) Packer
2 4 (10.81%) WSUS
3 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Consul
4 2 (5.41%) HAProxy
4 2 (5.41%) Istio
4 2 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (5.41%) linkerd
4 2 (5.41%) Rancher
4 2 (5.41%) ZABBIX
5 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.70%) Graylog
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) Google
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) VMware
4 2 (5.41%) Apple
4 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.41%) ESET
4 2 (5.41%) Okta
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
5 1 (2.70%) Adobe
5 1 (2.70%) Pega
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow