Military Contracts

Military
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 325 460
Rank change year-on-year +29 +135 +202
Contract jobs citing Military 274 254 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.66% 0.39%
As % of the General category 1.30% 1.14% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 88 73
10th Percentile £388 £451 £419
25th Percentile £488 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +1.15%
75th Percentile £673 £750 £652
90th Percentile £698 £777 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 80 59
10th Percentile £33.61 £22.25 £41.11
25th Percentile £61.12 £47.83 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.40 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +10.58% -9.33%
75th Percentile £88.78 £65.00 £69.71
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year - +15.26% -11.72%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,037 22,260 30,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.49% 57.40% 58.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,056 13,993 20,961
10th Percentile £275 £290 £312
25th Percentile £400 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,152 1,365 1,033
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.23 £17.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%
75th Percentile £50.75 £58.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.48 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £38.12 £25.00
% change year-on-year -41.92% +52.48% +25.00%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Military as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Military in the UK

Military
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Military.

Daily rate trend for Military in the UK

Military
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Military in the UK

Military
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Military.

Hourly rate trend for Military in the UK

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in the UK

Military
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +22 258 £550 -12.00% 404
UK excluding London -13 172 £540 -10.00% 312
Work from Home +30 68 £501 -12.83% 153
London +35 67 £625 -7.41% 113
South West +10 67 £540 -10.93% 73
East of England +10 32 £294 - 37
North of England -18 29 £625 +17.68% 56
South East -1 28 £569 -8.08% 91
North West -10 23 £625 +22.02% 31
Scotland -9 8 £210 -54.84% 21
West Midlands +2 7 £550 -15.22% 21
Midlands -3 7 £550 -15.22% 34
North East +1 6 - - 6
Wales +5 1 £263 - 6

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (3.65%) Confluence
2 6 (2.19%) IIS
3 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.73%) WordPress
5 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.46%) Simulink
3 3 (1.09%) 3ds Max
3 3 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.09%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) CATIA
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.11%) FLEXCUBE
1 14 (5.11%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.79%) AWS
2 36 (13.14%) Azure
3 11 (4.01%) SaaS
4 10 (3.65%) GCP
4 10 (3.65%) GitHub
4 10 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.92%) Amazon S3
6 8 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (2.92%) Google Workspace
7 7 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.82%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.46%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.09%) IaaS
12 2 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.73%) dbt
12 2 (0.73%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.76%) TCP/IP
2 17 (6.20%) Firewall
3 16 (5.84%) Ethernet
4 8 (2.92%) BGP
4 8 (2.92%) OSPF
5 7 (2.55%) Network Security
6 6 (2.19%) TACACS
6 6 (2.19%) VLAN
7 5 (1.82%) VPN
8 4 (1.46%) 4G
8 4 (1.46%) 5G
8 4 (1.46%) DNS
8 4 (1.46%) LAN
9 3 (1.09%) Internet
9 3 (1.09%) VoIP
9 3 (1.09%) WAN
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.73%) DHCP
10 2 (0.73%) HTTP
10 2 (0.73%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.01%) MongoDB
2 8 (2.92%) Power BI
3 6 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.09%) MySQL
5 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.36%) GIS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.36%) Redis
6 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.36%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (6.20%) Eclipse
2 16 (5.84%) Visual Studio
3 15 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.11%) JIRA
5 6 (2.19%) GitLab
6 4 (1.46%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.46%) Git
7 3 (1.09%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (0.73%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.73%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.73%) Mockito
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.73%) Rational Statemate
8 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) JMeter
9 1 (0.36%) Mocha
9 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 122 (44.53%) Public Sector
2 88 (32.12%) Social Skills
3 45 (16.42%) Finance
4 36 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.84%) Banking
5 16 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (4.74%) Aerospace
6 13 (4.74%) Police
7 11 (4.01%) Fire and Rescue
8 10 (3.65%) Legal
9 6 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.19%) Marketing
10 5 (1.82%) Aviation
11 4 (1.46%) Law
12 3 (1.09%) Automotive
12 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Advertising
14 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (15.69%) Senior
2 32 (11.68%) Architect
2 32 (11.68%) Developer
3 29 (10.58%) Software Engineer
4 27 (9.85%) Lead
5 20 (7.30%) Security Engineer
6 16 (5.84%) C# Software Engineer
7 15 (5.47%) Analyst
7 15 (5.47%) Service Manager
8 13 (4.74%) C++ Software Engineer
8 13 (4.74%) Security Architect
9 11 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.01%) Senior Architect
10 10 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (2.92%) Coordinator
11 8 (2.92%) IT Manager
11 8 (2.92%) Security Assurance Coordinator
11 8 (2.92%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.55%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.03%) Node.js
2 18 (6.57%) Web Services
3 9 (3.28%) HTML
4 8 (2.92%) CSS
5 6 (2.19%) Kafka
6 4 (1.46%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.09%) Express.js
7 3 (1.09%) REST
8 2 (0.73%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.73%) JAX-RS
8 2 (0.73%) Jinja
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.73%) RESTful
8 2 (0.73%) SOAP
9 1 (0.36%) JSP
9 1 (0.36%) Middleware
9 1 (0.36%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (0.36%) XML
9 1 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.93%) PKI
2 17 (6.20%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.82%) CSOC
4 5 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.09%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (1.09%) Animation
6 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.09%) Smartphone
6 3 (1.09%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.73%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.87%) Windows
2 28 (10.22%) Linux
3 10 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.82%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.46%) Android
7 3 (1.09%) Solaris
7 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.73%) Unix
9 1 (0.36%) VMS
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (29.56%) Agile
2 49 (17.88%) CI/CD
3 40 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (14.23%) Software Engineering
5 36 (13.14%) DevOps
5 36 (13.14%) Roadmaps
6 34 (12.41%) ITIL
6 34 (12.41%) Microservices
7 31 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (8.39%) Continuous Delivery
8 23 (8.39%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (8.39%) Incident Management
8 23 (8.39%) Validation
9 22 (8.03%) Computer Science
9 22 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (8.03%) TDD
10 20 (7.30%) Project Management
10 20 (7.30%) Service Management
11 19 (6.93%) Migration
12 18 (6.57%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.95%) SQL
2 29 (10.58%) Java
3 22 (8.03%) JavaScript
4 19 (6.93%) C++
5 17 (6.20%) C#
6 16 (5.84%) Python
7 15 (5.47%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.65%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.55%) Bash
10 5 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.46%) C
12 3 (1.09%) Groovy
12 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.73%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.73%) Perl
13 2 (0.73%) PHP
13 2 (0.73%) Ruby
13 2 (0.73%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (0.73%) VBScript
14 1 (0.36%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 209 (76.28%) Security Cleared
2 138 (50.36%) SC Cleared
3 47 (17.15%) Degree
4 37 (13.50%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.47%) CISSP
6 7 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.19%) IISP
7 6 (2.19%) ISACA
8 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.46%) CISM
9 4 (1.46%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.46%) OSCP
10 2 (0.73%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.73%) CCA
10 2 (0.73%) CEH
10 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.73%) PMP
10 2 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.85%) NCSC
2 18 (6.57%) NIST
3 17 (6.20%) JSP 440
4 14 (5.11%) NIST 800
5 8 (2.92%) SLA
6 6 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.19%) QA
7 4 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.73%) GDPR
9 2 (0.73%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.11%) Firmware
2 7 (2.55%) Docker
3 5 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (5.11%) Terraform
2 8 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.19%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.82%) Grafana
5 4 (1.46%) Ansible
6 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.09%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.09%) OPNET
7 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.73%) Nmap
8 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.36%) Kiali
8 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
8 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.39%) Oracle
3 12 (4.38%) Google
4 11 (4.01%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.65%) Splunk
6 9 (3.28%) VMware
7 8 (2.92%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.19%) Cisco
9 4 (1.46%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.46%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.46%) Juniper
10 3 (1.09%) Adobe
10 3 (1.09%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.73%) Apple
11 2 (0.73%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.73%) Intel
11 2 (0.73%) Remedy
11 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.73%) Sun