Military Contract Job Trends in the South East

Military
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 138 139
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +48
Contract jobs citing Military 70 26 52
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.05% 0.74% 1.06%
As % of the General category 2.04% 1.25% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 18
10th Percentile £503 £518 £519
25th Percentile £513 £550 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £588 £619
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -5.05% +1.85%
75th Percentile £720 £650 £720
90th Percentile £875 £652 £770
England median daily rate £590 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +4.89% -10.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 10 21
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.83 £30.41
25th Percentile £47.19 £33.05 £56.65
Median hourly rate £56.00 £60.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% -1.38% +65.77%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.87 £66.74
90th Percentile £82.33 £89.23 £75.24
England median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% - +15.45%

All General Skills
South East

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 general skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,423 2,075 2,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.16% 59.08% 49.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 1,276 1,390
10th Percentile £254 £200 £215
25th Percentile £413 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £714 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 188 234
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £15.45
25th Percentile £21.07 £14.20 £26.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £18.82 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +152.39% -67.18% +14.70%
75th Percentile £80.04 £51.02 £67.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.24
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Military job vacancy trend in the South East

Military
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Military.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Military

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in the South East over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Military in the South East

Military
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Military.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Military

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military in the South East over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
Hampshire -13 37 £643 +16.82% 48
Thames Valley -24 33 £615 -5.39% 14
Berkshire -22 15 - - 10
Oxfordshire -12 13 - - 4
Buckinghamshire - 5 £615 - 2
Military
England

Military
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.14%) Azure
2 10 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.71%) SaaS
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.43%) AWS
6 1 (1.43%) GCP
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.43%) IaaS
6 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.43%) PaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) Firewall
2 10 (14.29%) DNS
3 6 (8.57%) DHCP
4 5 (7.14%) BGP
4 5 (7.14%) SSH
4 5 (7.14%) WAN
5 4 (5.71%) ATM
5 4 (5.71%) BIG-IP
5 4 (5.71%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (5.71%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (5.71%) Junos
5 4 (5.71%) LAN
5 4 (5.71%) OSPF
5 4 (5.71%) VXLAN
6 3 (4.29%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.86%) Network Security
7 2 (2.86%) Skype
7 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.86%) VPN
8 1 (1.43%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) Power BI
1 3 (4.29%) Spark SQL
1 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.43%) Big Data
2 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.43%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 23 (32.86%) Public Sector
2 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Finance
5 6 (8.57%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Avionics
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) Senior
2 10 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Service Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) IAM Specialist
5 4 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Product Owner
5 4 (5.71%) Security Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Senior Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Service Transition Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Transition Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Finance Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Lead
6 3 (4.29%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Network Specialist
6 3 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Senior Transformation Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) 802.1X
1 4 (5.71%) LDAP
1 4 (5.71%) OAuth
1 4 (5.71%) OAuth2
1 4 (5.71%) OpenID
1 4 (5.71%) SailPoint
1 4 (5.71%) SAML
1 4 (5.71%) Web Services
2 3 (4.29%) PySpark
3 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 10 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.71%) Clustering
3 4 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.71%) PKI
4 2 (2.86%) ARM Cortex
4 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.43%) Windows
2 10 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.71%) Unix
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (18.57%) ITSM
3 12 (17.14%) Service Management
4 11 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (11.43%) Change Control
6 8 (11.43%) High Availability
6 8 (11.43%) Service Delivery
6 8 (11.43%) SIEM
6 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (11.43%) Validation
7 7 (10.00%) Analytics
7 7 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.00%) Information Security
7 7 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.00%) RBAC
7 7 (10.00%) Runbook
8 6 (8.57%) Observability
8 6 (8.57%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.57%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 14 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (4.29%) Bash
3 3 (4.29%) C
3 3 (4.29%) Java
3 3 (4.29%) Lua
3 3 (4.29%) SQL
4 2 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 43 (61.43%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.57%) SC Cleared
3 16 (22.86%) Degree
4 13 (18.57%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.71%) HNC
5 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.43%) CCNA
6 1 (1.43%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.43%) CISM
6 1 (1.43%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) CRISC
6 1 (1.43%) GIAC
6 1 (1.43%) GSEC
6 1 (1.43%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.43%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.43%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.43%) SANS
6 1 (1.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (17.14%) NIST
2 8 (11.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.43%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.43%) ISO 31000
3 1 (1.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.57%) Hyper-V
4 5 (7.14%) Docker
5 2 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) FortiGate
1 4 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.29%) Ansible
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.29%) SCCM
2 3 (4.29%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.86%) VMware
3 7 (10.00%) Oracle
4 6 (8.57%) Cisco
5 5 (7.14%) Juniper
5 5 (7.14%) SAP
6 4 (5.71%) Extreme Networks
6 4 (5.71%) F5
6 4 (5.71%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.71%) Splunk
7 3 (4.29%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (4.29%) CyberArk
7 3 (4.29%) Databricks
7 3 (4.29%) IBM
8 2 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.43%) Meraki
9 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.43%) Workday