Military Contract Job Trends in the South West

Military
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 54 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing Military 109 66 78
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.04% 3.48% 2.76%
As % of the General category 6.66% 6.11% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 21 27
10th Percentile £305 £456 £460
25th Percentile £500 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £681
90th Percentile £665 £688 £758
England median daily rate £590 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 31
10th Percentile £14.00 £30.52 £12.79
25th Percentile £61.25 £46.09 £37.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile - £76.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.80
% change year-on-year - +5.19% +9.39%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,637 1,081 1,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 45.60% 57.01% 50.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 649 882
10th Percentile £302 £213 £231
25th Percentile £413 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £607 £613 £638
90th Percentile £702 £689 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 94 201
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.38 £13.69
25th Percentile £16.63 £15.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £22.57 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.62% -54.87% -11.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.14 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.63 £77.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Military job vacancy trend in the South West

Military
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in the South West over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Military in the South West

Military
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military in the South West over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in the South West

Military
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wiltshire -3 39 £525 -12.50% 15
Bristol -6 24 £550 -13.73% 17
Devon -7 23 £310 -46.17% 3
Somerset - 18 £570 - 6
Gloucestershire -14 5 £590 - 14
Military
England

Military
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.59%) Confluence
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.92%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (12.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (9.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (11.93%) AWS
3 10 (9.17%) Azure
4 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.50%) GitHub
6 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (3.67%) SaaS
7 3 (2.75%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.83%) OCI
8 2 (1.83%) PaaS
8 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.92%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.92%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) Ethernet
1 6 (5.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.59%) DNS
3 3 (2.75%) BGP
3 3 (2.75%) DHCP
3 3 (2.75%) Firewall
3 3 (2.75%) MPLS
3 3 (2.75%) SAN
3 3 (2.75%) VoIP
4 1 (0.92%) DKIM
4 1 (0.92%) Internet
4 1 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.92%) Skype
4 1 (0.92%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) Power BI
2 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.75%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Eclipse
1 6 (5.50%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.67%) JIRA
2 4 (3.67%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (3.67%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (1.83%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.92%) Git
General
1 42 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 41 (37.61%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.93%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.17%) Avionics
5 8 (7.34%) Finance
6 3 (2.75%) Aviation
6 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
8 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (13.76%) Architect
2 14 (12.84%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (8.26%) Senior
4 8 (7.34%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (6.42%) Developer
6 6 (5.50%) Administrator
6 6 (5.50%) C# Software Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Project Officer
6 6 (5.50%) Project Support Officer
6 6 (5.50%) Software Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.50%) Support Officer
7 5 (4.59%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Service Manager
8 4 (3.67%) Data Administrator
8 4 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Service Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.67%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Node.js
2 7 (6.42%) Web Services
3 2 (1.83%) FHIR
3 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.83%) Swagger
4 1 (0.92%) Ajax
4 1 (0.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.92%) Handlebars
4 1 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.92%) JSON
4 1 (0.92%) OAuth
4 1 (0.92%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.92%) OpenID
4 1 (0.92%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.92%) React
4 1 (0.92%) REST
4 1 (0.92%) SAML
4 1 (0.92%) SOAP
4 1 (0.92%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.92%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.67%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.75%) PKI
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.83%) NHS
4 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.83%) Replication
4 2 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.92%) Clustering
5 1 (0.92%) CSOC
5 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.92%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.92%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.92%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.09%) Windows
2 9 (8.26%) Linux
3 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.18%) Agile
2 18 (16.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 15 (13.76%) TOGAF
4 14 (12.84%) Service Delivery
5 13 (11.93%) Project Delivery
5 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
6 12 (11.01%) Risk Management
7 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (9.17%) ArchiMate
8 10 (9.17%) CI/CD
8 10 (9.17%) ITIL
8 10 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (9.17%) Validation
8 10 (9.17%) Verification and Validation
9 9 (8.26%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (7.34%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.42%) Change Control
11 7 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (6.42%) Facilities Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.50%) C#
1 6 (5.50%) C++
1 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (4.59%) Python
3 3 (2.75%) Java
4 1 (0.92%) Bash
4 1 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 85 (77.98%) Security Cleared
2 53 (48.62%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.94%) DV Cleared
4 12 (11.01%) Degree
5 5 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (2.75%) CCNP
7 2 (1.83%) CCNA
7 2 (1.83%) CISSP
7 2 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.83%) MCSE
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.83%) SANS
8 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.92%) CCIE
8 1 (0.92%) CISM
8 1 (0.92%) CLAS
8 1 (0.92%) ISEB
8 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.59%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.59%) NCSC
2 2 (1.83%) DICOM
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
2 2 (1.83%) HL7
2 2 (1.83%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.92%) COBIT
3 1 (0.92%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.92%) GRC
3 1 (0.92%) PMO
3 1 (0.92%) QA
3 1 (0.92%) RMADS
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.75%) Docker
3 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.75%) WSUS
3 2 (1.83%) Argo
4 1 (0.92%) Ansible
4 1 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.17%) Cisco
3 9 (8.26%) BiZZdesign
4 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.59%) IBM
6 4 (3.67%) Oracle
6 4 (3.67%) Remedy
7 3 (2.75%) Juniper
8 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.83%) InterSystems
8 2 (1.83%) VMware
9 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.92%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.92%) Foundry
9 1 (0.92%) McAfee
9 1 (0.92%) webMethods