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 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 143 124
Rank change year-on-year -29 -19 +50
Contract jobs citing Military 59 26 52
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.89% 0.73% 1.22%
As % of the General category 1.65% 1.25% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 7
10th Percentile £394 £481 £410
25th Percentile £463 £514 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £544 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.12% -11.22% +2.08%
75th Percentile £634 £555 £708
90th Percentile £646 £581 £771
England median daily rate £575 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.83% +10.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 27
10th Percentile £46.25 £31.47 £30.41
25th Percentile £51.25 £33.05 £55.87
Median hourly rate £66.56 £40.44 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.61% -34.25% +15.73%
75th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £63.71
90th Percentile £82.50 £88.87 £75.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.15
% change year-on-year - +2.93% +11.79%

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 3,568 2,086 2,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 54.08% 58.20% 53.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,795 1,319 1,288
10th Percentile £263 £200 £218
25th Percentile £408 £329 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% -4.70% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £670 £683
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 200 128
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £14.52
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.03 £26.19
Median hourly rate £32.81 £20.40 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% -64.05% +8.09%
75th Percentile £67.50 £38.42 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.31 £73.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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
Thames Valley -13 40 £572 +9.04% 11
Hampshire -24 18 £550 - 38
Buckinghamshire - 18 £572 - 7
Oxfordshire - 14 - -
Berkshire -19 8 - - 4
Surrey -18 1 £620 - 7
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 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) Entra ID
3 4 (6.78%) AWS
3 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (6.78%) SaaS
4 3 (5.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (5.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.39%) Serverless
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.69%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.69%) GCP
6 1 (1.69%) GitHub
6 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.69%) IaaS
6 1 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) Firewall
2 5 (8.47%) SSH
3 3 (5.08%) DHCP
3 3 (5.08%) DNS
3 3 (5.08%) Network Security
3 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.08%) VPN
3 3 (5.08%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.39%) Skype
5 1 (1.69%) BGP
5 1 (1.69%) Modbus
5 1 (1.69%) MPLS
5 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Spark SQL
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) Big Data
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 24 (40.68%) Public Sector
2 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.17%) Finance
6 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Aerospace
7 3 (5.08%) Legal
7 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) Senior
2 9 (15.25%) Analyst
2 9 (15.25%) Lead
3 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (6.78%) IAM Specialist
4 4 (6.78%) Security Analyst
5 3 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (3.39%) Applications Support
6 2 (3.39%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Architect
6 2 (3.39%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Commercial Manager
6 2 (3.39%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) PySpark
1 5 (8.47%) Terraform
2 4 (6.78%) ARM Templates
2 4 (6.78%) LDAP
2 4 (6.78%) OAuth
2 4 (6.78%) OAuth2
2 4 (6.78%) OpenID
2 4 (6.78%) SailPoint
2 4 (6.78%) SAML
2 4 (6.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Onboarding
2 9 (15.25%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.47%) Operational Technology
4 3 (5.08%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.69%) IoT
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.17%) Linux
4 3 (5.08%) Unix
5 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (20.34%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (18.64%) Computer Science
3 11 (18.64%) ITSM
4 10 (16.95%) Analytics
5 9 (15.25%) Information Security
5 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (15.25%) Validation
6 8 (13.56%) Agile
6 8 (13.56%) Change Control
6 8 (13.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 8 (13.56%) RBAC
7 7 (11.86%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.86%) Quality Management
7 7 (11.86%) Service Management
7 7 (11.86%) SIEM
7 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.17%) DevOps
8 6 (10.17%) Risk Management
8 6 (10.17%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) PowerShell
2 16 (27.12%) Python
3 4 (6.78%) Bash
3 4 (6.78%) SQL
4 3 (5.08%) Bicep
4 3 (5.08%) C
4 3 (5.08%) Java
4 3 (5.08%) Lua
5 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 49 (83.05%) Security Cleared
2 36 (61.02%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) Degree
4 9 (15.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.08%) CISSP
6 3 (5.08%) SSCP
7 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.69%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.69%) CISM
8 1 (1.69%) CRISC
8 1 (1.69%) GIAC
8 1 (1.69%) GSEC
8 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) NIST
2 12 (20.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (15.25%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.39%) NCSC
5 1 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.69%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (1.69%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.69%) ISO 31000
5 1 (1.69%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.03%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.08%) Docker
4 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (8.47%) SCCM
2 4 (6.78%) Ansible
2 4 (6.78%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Databricks
2 5 (8.47%) VMware
3 3 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (5.08%) IBM
4 2 (3.39%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (3.39%) Cisco
4 2 (3.39%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.39%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Juniper
5 1 (1.69%) Meraki
5 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.69%) SAP