Military Contracts in England

Military
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Military over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 471 654
Rank change year-on-year +127 +183 -119
Contract jobs citing Military 212 178 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the General category 0.99% 0.61% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 91 48
10th Percentile £513 £425 £434
25th Percentile £520 £477 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.44% +18.35%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £619 £600 £548
% change year-on-year +3.13% +9.44% +15.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 38 28
10th Percentile £39.26 £50.88 £43.27
25th Percentile £47.83 £56.29 £49.27
Median hourly rate £59.75 £60.35 £53.96
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +11.84% +16.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.31 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.74 £73.26
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £63.23 £52.89
% change year-on-year -5.90% +19.55% +14.98%

All General Skills
England

Military is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,396 29,018 39,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.20% 59.25% 56.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,789 20,378 27,740
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 948 1,301
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.17%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.72
90th Percentile £65.50 £70.94 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.91 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.06% +54.14% -2.22%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Military in England

Military
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Military in England.

Daily rate trend for Military in England

Military
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Military in England

Military
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Military in England.

Hourly rate trend for Military in England

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in England

Military
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
South West +4 73 £585 +1.30% 107
South East +36 55 £625 +13.64% 147
London +122 44 £645 -9.47% 56
East of England +27 19 - - 61
North of England +45 13 £550 +15.79% 92
North West +33 11 £550 +22.22% 59
Midlands +12 3 £532 -18.23% 77
West Midlands +5 3 £532 -18.23% 35
North East +17 2 - - 9
Military
UK

Military
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (9.91%) Confluence
2 19 (8.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (4.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.77%) Simulink
3 3 (1.42%) Windchill
4 2 (0.94%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.47%) Revit
5 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.94%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.47%) Maximo
4 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (3.77%) Azure
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (1.89%) OCI
3 3 (1.42%) AWS
3 3 (1.42%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (1.42%) Azure Storage
3 3 (1.42%) Power Automate
3 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.47%) Asana
4 1 (0.47%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.47%) GCP
4 1 (0.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.43%) DNS
2 19 (8.96%) DHCP
3 17 (8.02%) Network Security
4 16 (7.55%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.19%) Ethernet
5 11 (5.19%) Firewall
6 9 (4.25%) WAN
7 8 (3.77%) Wireless
8 7 (3.30%) LAN
9 5 (2.36%) VoIP
10 3 (1.42%) 4G
10 3 (1.42%) 5G
10 3 (1.42%) Internet
10 3 (1.42%) Skype
10 3 (1.42%) SMTP
10 3 (1.42%) SNA
11 2 (0.94%) Intranet
11 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.47%) VPN
12 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.94%) GIS
1 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.47%) DTS
2 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (13.68%) JIRA
2 12 (5.66%) Rational DOORS
3 11 (5.19%) Eclipse
3 11 (5.19%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 66 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.85%) Aerospace
5 16 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (6.60%) Finance
7 13 (6.13%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.36%) Aviation
8 5 (2.36%) Electronics
9 4 (1.89%) Automotive
9 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.94%) Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.94%) Law
10 2 (0.94%) Marketing
10 2 (0.94%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (13.68%) Systems Engineer
2 22 (10.38%) Integration Engineer
3 21 (9.91%) Test Engineer
4 20 (9.43%) Senior
4 20 (9.43%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 19 (8.96%) Delivery Manager
6 18 (8.49%) Project Manager
6 18 (8.49%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.60%) Analyst
8 10 (4.72%) C# Software Engineer
9 9 (4.25%) Architect
9 9 (4.25%) C++ Software Engineer
10 8 (3.77%) Security Manager
10 8 (3.77%) SOC Manager
11 7 (3.30%) Developer
11 7 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (2.83%) IT Manager
12 6 (2.83%) Network Engineer
13 5 (2.36%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.60%) Web Services
2 12 (5.66%) Node.js
3 3 (1.42%) SPFx
4 2 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.94%) REST
5 1 (0.47%) CSS
5 1 (0.47%) HTML
5 1 (0.47%) Laravel
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.47%) Sass
5 1 (0.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.43%) PKI
2 13 (6.13%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.66%) Cyber Defence
4 8 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.30%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.42%) Analogue Electronics
7 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.42%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.42%) PMI
8 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.94%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.94%) NHS
9 1 (0.47%) CBDC
9 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.45%) Windows
2 21 (9.91%) Windows Server
3 18 (8.49%) Linux
4 16 (7.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.42%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.94%) Unix
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (34.91%) Agile
2 32 (15.09%) Project Management
3 31 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (11.79%) Validation
5 23 (10.85%) Software Engineering
6 22 (10.38%) Mentoring
7 20 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (8.96%) Decision-Making
8 19 (8.96%) PRINCE2
8 19 (8.96%) Test Scripting
8 19 (8.96%) Verification and Validation
9 18 (8.49%) Roadmaps
10 17 (8.02%) Critical Thinking
10 17 (8.02%) Waterfall
11 16 (7.55%) Configuration Management
11 16 (7.55%) Regression Testing
12 15 (7.08%) Business Case
13 13 (6.13%) CI/CD
13 13 (6.13%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (5.66%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.38%) SQL
2 15 (7.08%) JavaScript
3 14 (6.60%) C#
4 12 (5.66%) C++
5 11 (5.19%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.77%) Python
7 5 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.42%) C
9 2 (0.94%) Ada
9 2 (0.94%) VB
10 1 (0.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.47%) PHP
10 1 (0.47%) R
10 1 (0.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 159 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 117 (55.19%) SC Cleared
3 64 (30.19%) DV Cleared
4 29 (13.68%) Degree
5 18 (8.49%) PMI Certification
5 18 (8.49%) PMP
6 16 (7.55%) MCSA
6 16 (7.55%) MCSE
6 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (7.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (3.77%) CISM
7 8 (3.77%) CISSP
8 6 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.42%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.94%) CCNA
10 2 (0.94%) CCNP
10 2 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.19%) NIST
2 9 (4.25%) NIST 800
3 6 (2.83%) JSP 440
4 5 (2.36%) Def Stans
5 4 (1.89%) SLA
6 3 (1.42%) PMBOK
7 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.94%) DO-178B
7 2 (0.94%) NCSC
7 2 (0.94%) PMO
8 1 (0.47%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.47%) MISRA
8 1 (0.47%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.47%) RMADS
System Software
1 20 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.94%) Firmware
4 2 (0.94%) vSphere
5 1 (0.47%) Docker
5 1 (0.47%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (1.42%) FortiGate
1 3 (1.42%) OPNET
1 3 (1.42%) SCCM
1 3 (1.42%) SCOM
2 2 (0.94%) Kibana
2 2 (0.94%) logstash
3 1 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) Check_MK
3 1 (0.47%) Grafana
3 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.47%) Puppet
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.91%) VMware
3 8 (3.77%) Oracle
4 7 (3.30%) Cisco
5 6 (2.83%) Juniper
5 6 (2.83%) Sparx
6 4 (1.89%) IBM
6 4 (1.89%) Remedy
7 3 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.42%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.42%) Keysight
7 3 (1.42%) PTC
7 3 (1.42%) SAP
7 3 (1.42%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.94%) MathWorks
8 2 (0.94%) Micro Focus
8 2 (0.94%) QinetiQ
8 2 (0.94%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.94%) Splunk
9 1 (0.47%) ESRI