Military Contracts in the UK excluding London

Military
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 188 256
Rank change year-on-year -18 +68 +107
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Military 173 200 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.10% 0.80%
As % of the General category 1.84% 2.03% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 59 68
10th Percentile £205 £456 £420
25th Percentile £456 £519 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £622 £743 £650
90th Percentile £650 £766 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 77 45
10th Percentile £33.98 £17.12 £36.62
25th Percentile £60.87 £47.00 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year - +15.06% -13.09%
75th Percentile £88.44 - £66.25
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £82.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.40 £57.66
% change year-on-year +2.53% +9.95% -10.98%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,411 9,853 12,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.29% 54.00% 55.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,648 5,621 7,952
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £358 £363 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 1,121 830
10th Percentile £13.08 £13.75 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.32 £16.00 £15.05
Median hourly rate £22.14 £35.36 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% +41.44% +25.00%
75th Percentile £47.31 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.39 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% +32.73% +16.33%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Military as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Military in the UK excluding London

Military
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Military.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Military

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Military in the UK excluding London

Military
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Military.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Military

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in the UK excluding London

Military
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +14 68 £540 -12.73% 69
East of England +8 32 £294 - 33
North of England -24 31 £625 +17.68% 50
South East -12 27 £550 -9.28% 90
North West -12 25 £625 +22.02% 29
Scotland -2 7 £210 -54.84% 18
West Midlands -3 7 £550 -15.22% 18
Midlands -4 7 £550 -15.22% 28
North East +3 6 - - 4
Wales +5 1 £263 - 5
Military
UK

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (1.73%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Simulink
2 3 (1.73%) 3ds Max
2 3 (1.73%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.73%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.58%) CATIA
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.83%) Azure
2 15 (8.67%) AWS
3 7 (4.05%) Google Workspace
3 7 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.47%) SaaS
5 4 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.31%) Azure Pipelines
5 4 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.31%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.31%) GCP
6 3 (1.73%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.16%) iPaaS
7 2 (1.16%) Serverless
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.83%) Ethernet
1 17 (9.83%) TCP/IP
2 12 (6.94%) Firewall
3 4 (2.31%) 4G
3 4 (2.31%) 5G
3 4 (2.31%) DNS
4 2 (1.16%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.16%) DHCP
4 2 (1.16%) LAN
4 2 (1.16%) Network Security
4 2 (1.16%) VoIP
5 1 (0.58%) BGP
5 1 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.58%) HTTP
5 1 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.58%) OSPF
5 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.58%) VPN
5 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.05%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.73%) MySQL
4 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.58%) GIS
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (10.40%) Eclipse
2 17 (9.83%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.31%) JIRA
4 2 (1.16%) GitLab
4 2 (1.16%) Rational Statemate
5 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.58%) Gatling
5 1 (0.58%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.58%) JMeter
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.58%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.58%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) Subversion
General
1 64 (36.99%) Public Sector
2 50 (28.90%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.25%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (7.51%) Aerospace
5 12 (6.94%) Finance
6 10 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.47%) Fire and Rescue
7 6 (3.47%) Legal
7 6 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.47%) Police
8 4 (2.31%) Aviation
9 3 (1.73%) Automotive
10 2 (1.16%) Banking
10 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.16%) Law
10 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Avionics
11 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (13.29%) Senior
1 23 (13.29%) Software Engineer
2 22 (12.72%) Lead
3 17 (9.83%) C# Software Engineer
3 17 (9.83%) Security Engineer
4 14 (8.09%) C++ Software Engineer
5 13 (7.51%) Architect
6 11 (6.36%) Analyst
6 11 (6.36%) Developer
6 11 (6.36%) Service Manager
7 9 (5.20%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.05%) Service Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.89%) Security Architect
10 5 (2.89%) Test Manager
11 4 (2.31%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (2.31%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.98%) Node.js
2 17 (9.83%) Web Services
3 4 (2.31%) Kafka
4 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.16%) HTML
4 2 (1.16%) JSON
4 2 (1.16%) RESTful
5 1 (0.58%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.58%) CSS
5 1 (0.58%) Express.js
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss Seam
5 1 (0.58%) JSP
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.58%) Pug
5 1 (0.58%) REST
5 1 (0.58%) Sequelize
5 1 (0.58%) XML
5 1 (0.58%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.67%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.20%) PKI
3 6 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.73%) 3D Graphics
4 3 (1.73%) Animation
4 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.73%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.73%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.16%) FPGA
5 2 (1.16%) PMI
5 2 (1.16%) Smartphone
5 2 (1.16%) Social Media
5 2 (1.16%) Verilog
5 2 (1.16%) VHDL
6 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.81%) Windows
2 27 (15.61%) Linux
3 10 (5.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.89%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.73%) Android
6 3 (1.73%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.73%) Solaris
6 3 (1.73%) Unix
6 3 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.58%) VMS
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.12%) Agile
2 25 (14.45%) Software Engineering
3 24 (13.87%) Validation
4 22 (12.72%) CI/CD
5 21 (12.14%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (11.56%) Incident Management
7 19 (10.98%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (10.40%) ITIL
8 18 (10.40%) TDD
8 18 (10.40%) Verification and Validation
9 17 (9.83%) Service Management
9 17 (9.83%) Synthetic Environment
9 17 (9.83%) Unit Testing
9 17 (9.83%) Visualisation
10 16 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (9.25%) Digital Twin
10 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (8.67%) Information Assurance
12 14 (8.09%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.98%) JavaScript
2 18 (10.40%) C++
3 17 (9.83%) C#
4 11 (6.36%) SQL
5 8 (4.62%) Java
6 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.31%) C
7 4 (2.31%) Python
8 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.16%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.16%) SystemVerilog
8 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.58%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 130 (75.14%) Security Cleared
2 82 (47.40%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.76%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.56%) Degree
5 8 (4.62%) CISSP
6 5 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.73%) CISM
9 2 (1.16%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.16%) CCA
9 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.16%) MCSA
9 2 (1.16%) MCSE
9 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.16%) PMP
9 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.14%) NCSC
2 18 (10.40%) NIST
3 17 (9.83%) JSP 440
4 14 (8.09%) NIST 800
5 8 (4.62%) SLA
6 3 (1.73%) QA
7 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.16%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (8.09%) Firmware
2 5 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.73%) Docker
5 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (2.89%) Terraform
2 3 (1.73%) Check_MK
2 3 (1.73%) OPNET
3 2 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.16%) Ansible
3 2 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.58%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.58%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.58%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.20%) VMware
3 8 (4.62%) Google
3 8 (4.62%) Oracle
4 5 (2.89%) Cisco
5 4 (2.31%) Splunk
6 3 (1.73%) Adobe
6 3 (1.73%) Autodesk
6 3 (1.73%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.73%) Juniper
6 3 (1.73%) LogRhythm
6 3 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.16%) Intel
7 2 (1.16%) Microsemi
7 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.16%) Remedy
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.16%) Sun
7 2 (1.16%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.58%) Talend