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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 100 114
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 +50
Contract jobs citing Military 13 14 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.66% 0.74% 0.20%
As % of the General category 1.05% 1.31% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 2
10th Percentile £519 £416 £524
25th Percentile £528 £513 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £649 £587
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +10.57% +17.35%
75th Percentile £622 £784 £639
90th Percentile £648 - £659
England median daily rate £625 £618 £573
% change year-on-year +1.21% +7.86% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.91 - -
Median hourly rate £37.46 - -
75th Percentile £40.02 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.47 £56.49
% change year-on-year +4.05% +10.59% -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 1,234 1,069 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.74% 56.77% 51.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 661 690
10th Percentile £249 £208 £220
25th Percentile £400 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -0.55% +0.55%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £637
90th Percentile £643 £725 £726
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 52 47
10th Percentile £14.95 £13.00 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.19 £17.13
Median hourly rate £27.21 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% +19.10% +15.76%
75th Percentile £40.02 £29.95 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £42.88 £56.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.07 £29.72
% change year-on-year -24.40% +11.27% +18.88%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 October 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
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 22 October 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
Worcestershire - 6 £550 - 3
Birmingham - 5 £625 - 6
Herefordshire -8 1 £485 -7.62% 2
Shropshire - 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 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) GIS
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Applications Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.69%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (7.69%) Line Management
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Management
3 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) SIEM
3 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) Go
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
1 1 (7.69%) F5
1 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk