Military Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Military
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 64 85
Rank change year-on-year -15 +21 +32
Contract jobs citing Military 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.23% 0.26% 0.078%
As % of the General category 0.41% 0.56% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £613 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +38.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £475
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -16.00% +38.89% -10.00%

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 490 355 751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 55.81% 46.04% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 206 471
10th Percentile £220 £268 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £622
90th Percentile £641 £638 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 16
10th Percentile £18.48 £15.49 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £20.56 £16.82
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +66.67% +4.28%
75th Percentile £81.25 £40.00 £22.04
90th Percentile - £42.50 £28.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +12.50% +6.95%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Military job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Military
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Military

Military
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Military

Military
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Leeds -16 2 £525 -16.00% 5
Military
Yorkshire

Military
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk