Military Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Military
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 293 402
Rank change year-on-year +53 +109 +173
Contract jobs citing Military 64 52 75
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.65% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the General category 1.04% 0.58% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 40
10th Percentile £205 £509 £456
25th Percentile £331 £575 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £625 £639
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% -2.15% +27.75%
75th Percentile £469 £678 £738
90th Percentile £518 £789 £828
UK median daily rate £580 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% +14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 22
10th Percentile £56.63 £35.31 £47.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £35.52 £53.52
Median hourly rate £63.75 £51.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £69.69
90th Percentile £90.25 £79.00 £84.57
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.75 £62.89
% change year-on-year +8.79% -4.99% +19.67%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Military falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Military
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Military as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Military trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Military.

Military daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Military
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Military over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Military daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Military.

Military hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Military over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Military hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.81%) AWS
3 4 (6.25%) Azure
4 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.69%) SaaS
4 3 (4.69%) Serverless
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.13%) Route 53
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.56%) Datadog
6 1 (1.56%) GCP
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.19%) TCP/IP
2 7 (10.94%) BGP
2 7 (10.94%) OSPF
3 6 (9.38%) TACACS
3 6 (9.38%) VLAN
4 4 (6.25%) Ethernet
5 3 (4.69%) LAN
5 3 (4.69%) WAN
6 2 (3.13%) DHCP
6 2 (3.13%) DNS
6 2 (3.13%) SNMP
6 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.56%) EIGRP
7 1 (1.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (3.13%) Big Data
3 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.13%) Metadata
3 2 (3.13%) MySQL
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) DTS
4 1 (1.56%) GIS
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) Visual Studio
3 4 (6.25%) Eclipse
4 3 (4.69%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.56%) Axure RP
5 1 (1.56%) GitLab
5 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.56%) JUnit
5 1 (1.56%) Mockito
General
1 39 (60.94%) Public Sector
2 27 (42.19%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.94%) Finance
4 4 (6.25%) Marketing
4 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Automotive
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.13%) Police
7 1 (1.56%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Architect
2 9 (14.06%) Senior
3 8 (12.50%) Developer
4 6 (9.38%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Build Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Portfolio Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Server Build Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Server Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Data Migration Lead
8 2 (3.13%) Lead Software Developer
8 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Node.js
2 4 (6.25%) Web Services
3 2 (3.13%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.56%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.56%) MDX
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (1.56%) Spring
4 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
1 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.13%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.13%) PMI
2 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.13%) Social Media
3 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.56%) Replication
3 1 (1.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Agile
2 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 8 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (9.38%) Data Modelling
4 6 (9.38%) Mentoring
4 6 (9.38%) Project Delivery
4 6 (9.38%) Project Management
4 6 (9.38%) Software Engineering
5 5 (7.81%) Coaching
5 5 (7.81%) DevOps
5 5 (7.81%) Migration
5 5 (7.81%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (7.81%) TDD
5 5 (7.81%) Unit Testing
6 4 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (6.25%) Software Testing
6 4 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) C++
1 7 (10.94%) SQL
2 5 (7.81%) Python
3 4 (6.25%) C#
3 4 (6.25%) Java
3 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.13%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.13%) R
4 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 34 (53.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.88%) Degree
4 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.25%) CISSP
6 2 (3.13%) CISM
6 2 (3.13%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.13%) PMP
7 1 (1.56%) CEH
7 1 (1.56%) CITP
7 1 (1.56%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.25%) NIST
2 3 (4.69%) NCSC
3 2 (3.13%) GRC
3 2 (3.13%) MISRA
3 2 (3.13%) MISRA C
3 2 (3.13%) NIST 800
3 2 (3.13%) PMBOK
4 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.56%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.56%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Functional Safety
3 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Palo Alto
3 4 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco
4 3 (4.69%) Juniper
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.13%) Alteryx
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.13%) Sun
6 1 (1.56%) Adobe
6 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.56%) Concur
6 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.56%) Reuters
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce