Military Contracts

Military
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Military over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 491 713
Rank change year-on-year +106 +222 -138
Contract jobs citing Military 220 235 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.39% 0.15%
As % of the General category 0.87% 0.67% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 108 59
10th Percentile £507 £425 £409
25th Percentile £519 £498 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.72% +12.47%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £644
90th Percentile £741 £783 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £576 £536
% change year-on-year +4.12% +7.46% +16.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 62 31
10th Percentile £42.00 £49.09 £36.00
25th Percentile £47.83 £56.29 £46.37
Median hourly rate £59.50 £62.89 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +19.67% +14.00%
75th Percentile £65.87 £69.69 £64.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.00 £72.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £52.82
% change year-on-year - +13.60% +9.81%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Military in the UK

Military
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Military over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Military in the UK

Military
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Military in the UK

Military
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Military over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Military in the UK

Military
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +135 208 £625 +4.17% 508
UK excluding London +56 162 £600 +4.12% 474
South West +5 74 £590 +2.39% 111
South East +35 55 £625 +11.16% 150
Work from Home +108 52 £625 -2.15% 97
London +118 43 £643 -8.14% 52
East of England +27 17 - - 67
North of England +42 11 £550 +15.79% 84
North West +24 9 £550 +22.22% 52
West Midlands +17 3 £532 -18.23% 29
Midlands +9 3 £532 -18.23% 61
Scotland +33 2 £608 +35.00% 15
North East +21 2 - - 9

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 21 (9.55%) Confluence
2 18 (8.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.64%) Simulink
3 3 (1.36%) Windchill
4 2 (0.91%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.45%) Revit
5 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.45%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) Primavera
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (4.09%) Azure
2 5 (2.27%) Power Automate
2 5 (2.27%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (1.82%) Azure Storage
3 4 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.82%) OCI
4 3 (1.36%) AWS
5 1 (0.45%) Asana
5 1 (0.45%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (0.45%) GCP
5 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.64%) DNS
2 18 (8.18%) DHCP
3 16 (7.27%) Network Security
4 11 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.09%) Firewall
6 8 (3.64%) WAN
6 8 (3.64%) Wireless
7 6 (2.73%) Ethernet
7 6 (2.73%) LAN
8 5 (2.27%) SNA
8 5 (2.27%) VoIP
9 3 (1.36%) 4G
9 3 (1.36%) 5G
9 3 (1.36%) Internet
9 3 (1.36%) Skype
9 3 (1.36%) SMTP
10 2 (0.91%) Intranet
10 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.45%) DTS
2 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.45%) GIS
2 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.45%) Power BI
2 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (13.18%) JIRA
2 10 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (2.73%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.73%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 64 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.09%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 14 (6.36%) Finance
6 13 (5.91%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Aviation
9 4 (1.82%) Automotive
9 4 (1.82%) Electronics
10 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Law
11 2 (0.91%) Police
12 1 (0.45%) Digital Economy
12 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.45%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (13.18%) Systems Engineer
2 21 (9.55%) Delivery Manager
2 21 (9.55%) Integration Engineer
2 21 (9.55%) Senior
3 20 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 19 (8.64%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 19 (8.64%) Test Engineer
5 14 (6.36%) Analyst
6 11 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 10 (4.55%) Architect
7 10 (4.55%) Developer
7 10 (4.55%) Security Manager
8 8 (3.64%) Consultant
8 8 (3.64%) SOC Manager
9 7 (3.18%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (3.18%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.18%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (2.73%) IT Manager
11 5 (2.27%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.27%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.55%) Web Services
2 7 (3.18%) Node.js
3 4 (1.82%) SPFx
4 3 (1.36%) REST
5 2 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.45%) CSS
6 1 (0.45%) HTML
6 1 (0.45%) Laravel
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.45%) Sass
6 1 (0.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.64%) PKI
2 12 (5.45%) Cyber Defence
2 12 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (3.18%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (3.18%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.36%) Analogue Electronics
7 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.36%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.36%) PMI
8 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.91%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) CBDC
9 1 (0.45%) GNSS
9 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.64%) Windows
2 20 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (5.91%) Linux
5 3 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.91%) Unix
7 1 (0.45%) Android
7 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.82%) Agile
2 38 (17.27%) Project Management
3 32 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (11.36%) Validation
5 22 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 22 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 22 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 20 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (9.09%) Waterfall
7 19 (8.64%) Verification and Validation
8 18 (8.18%) Roadmaps
8 18 (8.18%) Test Scripting
9 16 (7.27%) Business Case
9 16 (7.27%) Critical Thinking
10 15 (6.82%) Configuration Management
10 15 (6.82%) Data Analysis
10 15 (6.82%) Regression Testing
10 15 (6.82%) Software Engineering
11 14 (6.36%) Project Delivery
12 13 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.55%) SQL
2 13 (5.91%) MATLAB
3 11 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.55%) C#
5 8 (3.64%) C++
5 8 (3.64%) Python
6 7 (3.18%) C
7 6 (2.73%) Ada
8 5 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.91%) VB
10 1 (0.45%) Bash
10 1 (0.45%) Groovy
10 1 (0.45%) PHP
10 1 (0.45%) R
10 1 (0.45%) Ruby
10 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 174 (79.09%) Security Cleared
2 133 (60.45%) SC Cleared
3 66 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 29 (13.18%) Degree
5 22 (10.00%) PMI Certification
5 22 (10.00%) PMP
6 15 (6.82%) MCSA
6 15 (6.82%) MCSE
6 15 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (6.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (4.09%) CISSP
8 8 (3.64%) CISM
9 6 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.36%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.91%) CCNA
11 2 (0.91%) CCNP
11 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.00%) NIST
2 9 (4.09%) NIST 800
3 6 (2.73%) DO-178B
4 5 (2.27%) Def Stans
4 5 (2.27%) IEC 61508
4 5 (2.27%) JSP 440
5 4 (1.82%) QA
6 3 (1.36%) PMBOK
6 3 (1.36%) PMO
6 3 (1.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.91%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.45%) RMADS
System Software
1 19 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.91%) Firmware
4 2 (0.91%) vSphere
5 1 (0.45%) Docker
5 1 (0.45%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (1.36%) OPNET
1 3 (1.36%) SCCM
1 3 (1.36%) SCOM
2 2 (0.91%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.91%) Kibana
2 2 (0.91%) logstash
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Check_MK
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.45%) Puppet
3 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.09%) VMware
3 8 (3.64%) Oracle
4 7 (3.18%) Cisco
5 6 (2.73%) Sparx
6 5 (2.27%) Juniper
7 4 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.82%) Remedy
8 3 (1.36%) IBM
8 3 (1.36%) Keysight
8 3 (1.36%) PTC
8 3 (1.36%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.91%) MathWorks
9 2 (0.91%) Micro Focus
9 2 (0.91%) QinetiQ
9 2 (0.91%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.91%) SAP
9 2 (0.91%) Splunk
10 1 (0.45%) ESRI