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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 161 208
Rank change year-on-year +19 +47 +28
Contract jobs citing Military 26 19 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.78% 0.40% 0.036%
As % of the General category 1.31% 0.73% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £512 £476 £433
25th Percentile £512 £495 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +11.81% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £494
90th Percentile £698 £743 £498
England median daily rate £575 £632 £578
% change year-on-year -8.95% +9.35% +5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.90 £60.35
% change year-on-year +12.26% -4.06% +13.70%

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 1,987 2,586 3,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.83% 54.99% 55.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,497 2,103
10th Percentile £250 £261 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £582 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 319 96
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.13 £14.13
25th Percentile £15.45 £13.31 £16.79
Median hourly rate £24.50 £16.06 £22.84
Median % change year-on-year +52.55% -29.68% +20.58%
75th Percentile £43.39 £35.00 £35.01
90th Percentile £70.00 £48.75 £53.17
England median hourly rate £27.70 £30.44 £32.00
% change year-on-year -8.99% -4.89% +48.84%

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 30 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 30 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 +14 21 £524 -1.38% 61
North East +1 3 - - 17
Yorkshire - 2 £725 - 56
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 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (3.85%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (15.38%) Google Workspace
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) DHCP
3 2 (7.69%) VoIP
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 21 (80.77%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Avionics
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Service Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Change Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Release Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) cloud-init
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Mac OS
2 3 (11.54%) VMS
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Android
3 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) CentOS
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) ITIL
4 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) ITSM
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.54%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) User Experience
7 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (7.69%) Information Security
7 2 (7.69%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Bash
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) C++
2 1 (3.85%) Go
2 1 (3.85%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.85%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CISM
4 1 (3.85%) CISSP
4 1 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) MISRA
2 1 (3.85%) MISRA C
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
1 3 (11.54%) WSUS
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Grafana
2 2 (7.69%) Packer
2 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.85%) Consul
3 1 (3.85%) Graylog
3 1 (3.85%) HAProxy
3 1 (3.85%) Istio
3 1 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (3.85%) linkerd
3 1 (3.85%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) Rancher
3 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Google
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) Apple
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.85%) ESET
5 1 (3.85%) Okta
5 1 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk