Military Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Military
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 99 120
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 +33
Contract jobs citing Military 9 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.37% 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.78% 0.65% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £502 - £525
25th Percentile £525 £761 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £773 £597
Median % change year-on-year -28.80% +29.45% +19.35%
75th Percentile £638 £784 £661
90th Percentile £678 - £686
England median daily rate £594 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -3.46% +11.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.41 - -
25th Percentile £41.18 - -
Median hourly rate £48.73 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.08 £56.49
% change year-on-year +1.44% +13.43% -13.09%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,156 1,083 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 63.17% 57.00% 51.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 686 724
10th Percentile £220 £213 £250
25th Percentile £386 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £638 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 57 42
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.82 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% +17.63% +23.63%
75th Percentile £40.46 £32.25 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £47.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% +40.00% +10.93%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Military as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Military in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Military in the West Midlands

Military
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Birmingham - 3 £625 - 4
Worcestershire - 3 £550 - 2
Herefordshire - 1 £485 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Military
England

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Communications Manager
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) PMI
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Line Management
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Operations Management
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) SIEM
2 1 (11.11%) Validation
2 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PMBOK
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
1 1 (11.11%) F5
1 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk