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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 84 110
Rank change year-on-year -60 +26 +19
Contract jobs citing Military 14 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.83% 0.21%
As % of the General category 0.91% 1.34% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile - £396 £518
25th Percentile £538 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.42% -16.10%
75th Percentile £581 £784 £605
90th Percentile - - £646
England median daily rate £675 £618 £634
% change year-on-year +9.31% -2.60% +10.26%

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 general skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,534 820 1,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.01% 61.84% 55.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 543 740
10th Percentile £300 £200 £238
25th Percentile £400 £353 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £581 £597 £610
90th Percentile £675 £689 £716
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 35 108
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.95 £11.06
25th Percentile £16.05 £14.70 £13.90
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -8.12% +10.68%
75th Percentile £27.50 £23.24 £37.81
90th Percentile £47.50 £30.68 £57.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.90 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.10% +18.86% -22.39%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Military job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Military
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
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
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 14 March 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
Worcestershire - 8 £563 - 1
Birmingham -25 5 - - 1
Coventry - 1 - -
Military
England

Military
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
1 1 (7.14%) Looker
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Performance Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (7.14%) CRM
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (7.14%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (7.14%) Data Collection
3 1 (7.14%) Data Deduplication
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.14%) Service Design
3 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce