Military Jobs

Military
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 435 383 108
Rank change year-on-year -52 -275 +621
Permanent jobs citing Military 271 662 3,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.67% 3.14%
As % of the General category 0.77% 1.12% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 108 413 193
10th Percentile £33,100 £30,000 £16,800
25th Percentile £47,603 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,084 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% +3.14% +1.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £86,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% +1.63%

All General Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,150 58,962 71,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.54% 59.87% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 18,382 39,636 38,356
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Military as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Military in the UK

Military
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Military.

Salary trend for Military in the UK

Military
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Military over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Military in the UK

Military
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -66 248 £55,000 +5.60% 458
UK excluding London -27 242 £55,000 +5.77% 367
South East +55 123 £55,000 +4.76% 104
Work from Home +97 108 £62,500 +25.00% 490
South West -2 61 £48,918 +6.34% 81
North of England +57 31 £50,055 -3.90% 59
North West -2 24 £50,055 -3.90% 29
London +89 22 £85,000 +3.03% 114
Scotland +136 19 £65,000 +1.40% 18
Yorkshire - 5 - - 24
East of England +34 4 £58,750 +2.17% 56
Midlands -27 4 £68,000 +29.52% 52
North East +51 2 £55,000 - 8
East Midlands +14 2 - - 15
West Midlands -23 2 £68,000 +23.64% 30

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 75 (27.68%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 22 (8.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (7.38%) Simulink
3 18 (6.64%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.37%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.37%) Revit
6 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Maximo
1 3 (1.11%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.02%) AWS
2 5 (1.85%) OCI
3 4 (1.48%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.11%) Azure
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.11%) SaaS
5 1 (0.37%) Asana
5 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.37%) Azure AKS
5 1 (0.37%) Azure App Service
5 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.37%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.37%) Azure Storage
5 1 (0.37%) Dagster
5 1 (0.37%) GCP
5 1 (0.37%) GitHub
5 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.37%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.32%) Link 16
1 9 (3.32%) Tactical Data Link
2 8 (2.95%) VLAN
2 8 (2.95%) VoIP
3 7 (2.58%) RS-232
3 7 (2.58%) RS-485
3 7 (2.58%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.48%) ATM
4 4 (1.48%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.11%) Wireless
6 2 (0.74%) Network Security
6 2 (0.74%) RFID
7 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.37%) BGP
7 1 (0.37%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.37%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.37%) Firewall
7 1 (0.37%) NAS
7 1 (0.37%) RTP
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (27.68%) Data Warehouse
1 75 (27.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 75 (27.68%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.11%) Power BI
2 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (22.14%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.69%) Git
3 7 (2.58%) NDoc
4 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.48%) Subversion
5 3 (1.11%) GitLab
6 2 (0.74%) JIRA
7 1 (0.37%) CMake
7 1 (0.37%) LabVIEW
General
1 102 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 91 (33.58%) Analytical Skills
2 91 (33.58%) Finance
3 78 (28.78%) Organisational Skills
4 36 (13.28%) Electronics
5 25 (9.23%) Aerospace
6 22 (8.12%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.32%) Aviation
8 8 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.58%) Law
9 7 (2.58%) Marketing
10 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.48%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.11%) Retail
14 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.74%) Legal
14 2 (0.74%) Police
14 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 44 (16.24%) Principal Engineer
2 40 (14.76%) Senior
3 37 (13.65%) Systems Engineer
4 34 (12.55%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 27 (9.96%) Field Engineer
6 25 (9.23%) Database Engineer
6 25 (9.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (8.49%) Software Engineer
8 10 (3.69%) Field Service Engineer
8 10 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (2.58%) Analyst
9 7 (2.58%) Principal Software Engineer
10 6 (2.21%) Lead
10 6 (2.21%) Microwave Engineer
10 6 (2.21%) Radar Engineer
11 5 (1.85%) Administrator
11 5 (1.85%) Architect
11 5 (1.85%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (1.85%) Consultant
11 5 (1.85%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.21%) XML
2 3 (1.11%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.11%) SOAP
3 2 (0.74%) .NET
3 2 (0.74%) HTML
3 2 (0.74%) Leaflet
3 2 (0.74%) Middleware
3 2 (0.74%) React
4 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.37%) Bazel
4 1 (0.37%) CSS
4 1 (0.37%) Kafka
4 1 (0.37%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.37%) Node.js
4 1 (0.37%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.61%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.43%) Driving Licence
3 7 (2.58%) CCTV
4 6 (2.21%) Analogue Electronics
4 6 (2.21%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.11%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.11%) Robotics
8 2 (0.74%) CSOC
8 2 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.74%) Lidar
8 2 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.37%) GNSS
9 1 (0.37%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.75%) Linux
2 8 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (2.95%) Windows
3 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Rocky
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (41.33%) Agile
2 91 (33.58%) Data Management
3 83 (30.63%) Analytics
4 80 (29.52%) ITIL
5 79 (29.15%) DevOps
6 78 (28.78%) Customer Experience
7 77 (28.41%) Service Management
8 75 (27.68%) Business Analysis
8 75 (27.68%) Data Integration
8 75 (27.68%) Data Modelling
9 66 (24.35%) Systems Engineering
10 53 (19.56%) Validation
11 51 (18.82%) Requirements Management
12 43 (15.87%) Verification and Validation
13 36 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (12.18%) Mathematics
15 28 (10.33%) Software Engineering
16 27 (9.96%) Physics
17 26 (9.59%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
18 20 (7.38%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.96%) MATLAB
2 20 (7.38%) C
3 19 (7.01%) Python
4 15 (5.54%) R
5 14 (5.17%) C++
6 13 (4.80%) SQL
7 10 (3.69%) Java
8 6 (2.21%) C#
9 5 (1.85%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.85%) Perl
10 4 (1.48%) Rust
11 3 (1.11%) Ada
11 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.37%) Fortran
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.37%) VC++
Qualifications
1 104 (38.38%) Degree
2 77 (28.41%) DBS Check
3 73 (26.94%) Security Cleared
4 59 (21.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (14.76%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.43%) HND
7 11 (4.06%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.06%) HNC
8 10 (3.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (2.95%) CCNA
9 8 (2.95%) CCNP
9 8 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.95%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.58%) GSEC
10 7 (2.58%) SSCP
11 6 (2.21%) CISSP
11 6 (2.21%) PhD
12 5 (1.85%) CISM
12 5 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.58%) MIL-STD-1553
3 6 (2.21%) Def Stans
4 5 (1.85%) GDPR
5 3 (1.11%) GRC
5 3 (1.11%) QA
6 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.74%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.74%) NIST
6 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.74%) PMO
6 2 (0.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.37%) DO-254
7 1 (0.37%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (0.74%) Docker
1 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.37%) Firmware
2 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.48%) Terraform
3 3 (1.11%) Ansible
3 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.37%) OPNET
Vendors
1 83 (30.63%) Oracle
2 26 (9.59%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.90%) Siemens
4 5 (1.85%) Cisco
5 4 (1.48%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.48%) VMware
6 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.74%) BMC
7 2 (0.74%) Citrix
7 2 (0.74%) NetApp
7 2 (0.74%) Palantir
7 2 (0.74%) Remedy
7 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.74%) Splunk
8 1 (0.37%) EMC
8 1 (0.37%) Foundry
8 1 (0.37%) Google
8 1 (0.37%) Xilinx