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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 119 100
Rank change year-on-year -40 -19 +22
Contract jobs citing Military 18 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.51% 0.69% 0.74%
As % of the General category 0.94% 1.09% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £519 £416
25th Percentile £663 £528 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £649
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.22% +10.57%
75th Percentile £688 £622 £784
90th Percentile - £648 -
England median daily rate £575 £594 £618
% change year-on-year -3.16% -3.85% +11.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £19.11 £48.73 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.78% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.15
% change year-on-year - +2.93% +11.79%

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 1,907 1,188 1,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.73% 63.02% 57.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 748 674
10th Percentile £315 £240 £204
25th Percentile £406 £392 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 92 53
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.39 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £27.21 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +14.23% +11.83%
75th Percentile £33.99 £40.25 £31.31
90th Percentile £51.13 £50.00 £47.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 10 October 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
Birmingham +7 8 £675 +8.00% 5
Coventry - 4 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 8
Warwickshire - 2 - - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) BGP
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) OSPF
1 1 (5.56%) RIP
1 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 3 (16.67%) Metadata
2 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (5.56%) PowerCenter
3 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 14 (77.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation Specialist
2 2 (11.11%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Junior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) HR Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Security Advisor
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) CAN bus
2 1 (5.56%) CMDB
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) AIX
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Coaching
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Lakehouse
6 2 (11.11%) RBAC
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Secrets Management
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Ada
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.56%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Databricks
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow