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 have cited Military over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 108 743
Rank change year-on-year -280 +635 -103
Permanent jobs citing Military 663 3,267 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 3.15% 0.34%
As % of the General category 1.12% 4.61% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 416 198 176
10th Percentile £30,000 £16,800 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,375 £38,175 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £50,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £69,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £49,200
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -6.29%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -246 634 £52,084 -0.79% 498
UK excluding London -236 606 £52,000 +4.00% 456
Work from Home -24 210 £50,000 -2.91% 140
South West -80 204 £46,000 -12.38% 103
South East -131 186 £53,750 -20.37% 137
Midlands -133 114 £52,500 +25.00% 68
West Midlands -102 76 £55,000 +6.80% 32
North of England -263 59 £52,084 +210.02% 84
North West -167 58 £52,084 +210.02% 51
London -74 43 £82,500 +57.14% 49
East Midlands -99 38 £50,000 +197.62% 36
East of England -168 26 £57,500 +15.00% 62
Scotland -169 15 £64,100 +73.24% 12
Northern Ireland +7 2 - - 1
North East -97 1 - - 10

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 11 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.51%) IIS
2 10 (1.51%) SAS
3 4 (0.60%) Moodle
4 2 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 123 (18.55%) Microsoft Office
2 108 (16.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.56%) Simulink
5 5 (0.75%) OrCAD
5 5 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.60%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.60%) Windchill
7 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.45%) SPSS
8 2 (0.30%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.30%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (2.87%) AWS
2 14 (2.11%) SaaS
3 13 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (1.51%) Azure
5 6 (0.90%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.75%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (0.45%) Dropbox
8 2 (0.30%) Canva
8 2 (0.30%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.30%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.15%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.33%) Network Security
2 16 (2.41%) Firewall
3 15 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.81%) Wireless
5 11 (1.66%) WAN
6 10 (1.51%) Ethernet
7 9 (1.36%) 4G
7 9 (1.36%) LAN
8 8 (1.21%) 3G
8 8 (1.21%) BGP
9 7 (1.06%) ADSL
9 7 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.06%) LTE
9 7 (1.06%) RS-232
9 7 (1.06%) VSAT
10 6 (0.90%) Cisco IPT
10 6 (0.90%) SDH
11 5 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.75%) SAN
11 5 (0.75%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.66%) Relational Database
2 9 (1.36%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.21%) Tableau
4 6 (0.90%) Power BI
5 3 (0.45%) Big Data
5 3 (0.45%) EDRMS
6 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.30%) MySQL
6 2 (0.30%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 18 (2.71%) Rational DOORS
1 18 (2.71%) Subversion
2 17 (2.56%) CMake
3 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.75%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.60%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.30%) VectorCAST
8 1 (0.15%) GDB
General
1 116 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.46%) Aerospace
3 61 (9.20%) Finance
4 59 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (8.75%) Aviation
6 45 (6.79%) Electronics
7 43 (6.49%) Telecoms
8 41 (6.18%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.77%) Retail
10 24 (3.62%) Marketing
11 23 (3.47%) Law
12 19 (2.87%) Legal
13 17 (2.56%) Police
14 15 (2.26%) Games
15 11 (1.66%) Automotive
15 11 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.51%) Multimedia
16 10 (1.51%) Public Sector
17 5 (0.75%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 108 (16.29%) Senior
2 90 (13.57%) Graduate
3 83 (12.52%) Software Engineer
4 57 (8.60%) Consultant
5 45 (6.79%) Security Consultant
6 41 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
7 38 (5.73%) Analyst
8 37 (5.58%) Systems Engineer
9 32 (4.83%) Developer
10 31 (4.68%) Lead
11 29 (4.37%) Technical Engineer
12 28 (4.22%) Architect
13 27 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 26 (3.92%) Technical Support
15 24 (3.62%) Support Engineer
16 23 (3.47%) Incident Manager
16 23 (3.47%) Vulnerability Manager
17 22 (3.32%) Technical Support Engineer
18 21 (3.17%) C++ Software Engineer
19 19 (2.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.62%) XML
2 20 (3.02%) Qt
3 18 (2.71%) MFC
4 17 (2.56%) STL
5 15 (2.26%) .NET
5 15 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (1.66%) SGML
7 7 (1.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 6 (0.90%) ModSecurity
9 4 (0.60%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.60%) DAO
9 4 (0.60%) Flash
9 4 (0.60%) GTK
9 4 (0.60%) React
10 2 (0.30%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.30%) Blazor
10 2 (0.30%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (0.30%) wxWidgets
11 1 (0.15%) QML
11 1 (0.15%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 87 (13.12%) Onboarding
2 61 (9.20%) Management Information System
3 45 (6.79%) Algorithms
4 33 (4.98%) Cyber Defence
4 33 (4.98%) Security Operations Centre
5 27 (4.07%) Driving Licence
6 17 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 12 (1.81%) Analogue Electronics
9 11 (1.66%) CESG
10 10 (1.51%) FPGA
11 9 (1.36%) Virtual Reality
12 7 (1.06%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
12 7 (1.06%) Life Science
12 7 (1.06%) Oculus
12 7 (1.06%) Robotics
13 6 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.22%) Windows
2 79 (11.92%) Linux
3 18 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.41%) Unix
5 14 (2.11%) Mac OS X
6 10 (1.51%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.45%) Android
10 2 (0.30%) Solaris
10 2 (0.30%) VMS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (19.61%) Customer Service
2 118 (17.80%) Agile
3 117 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 113 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (15.38%) Logistics
6 101 (15.23%) Creative Thinking
7 99 (14.93%) Software Engineering
8 96 (14.48%) Data Analysis
9 93 (14.03%) Information Security
10 88 (13.27%) Process Improvement
11 87 (13.12%) Performance Metrics
12 86 (12.97%) Contingency Planning
12 86 (12.97%) Customer Experience
13 72 (10.86%) Mathematics
14 63 (9.50%) Computer Science
15 62 (9.35%) Incident Management
16 59 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
17 58 (8.75%) Project Management
18 56 (8.45%) Systems Engineering
19 49 (7.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 59 (8.90%) Python
2 53 (7.99%) C#
3 48 (7.24%) Java
4 40 (6.03%) C++
5 35 (5.28%) C
6 31 (4.68%) JavaScript
7 25 (3.77%) MATLAB
8 16 (2.41%) SQL
9 15 (2.26%) Haskell
10 12 (1.81%) R
11 6 (0.90%) Ada
12 5 (0.75%) Bash
12 5 (0.75%) VBA
13 4 (0.60%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.30%) Ada 83
15 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 266 (40.12%) Degree
2 250 (37.71%) Security Cleared
3 105 (15.84%) SC Cleared
4 75 (11.31%) DV Cleared
5 46 (6.94%) CISSP
6 44 (6.64%) CISM
7 37 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (3.02%) HNC
10 15 (2.26%) GCIA
10 15 (2.26%) GCIH
11 14 (2.11%) GREM
11 14 (2.11%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.51%) CISMP
12 10 (1.51%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.51%) IISP
13 7 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.90%) Chartered Engineer
14 6 (0.90%) CISA
14 6 (0.90%) GCSC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.39%) NIST
2 28 (4.22%) NIST 800
3 13 (1.96%) JSP 440
4 12 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.66%) SLA
6 10 (1.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 10 (1.51%) RMADS
7 8 (1.21%) NCSC
8 7 (1.06%) CDISC
8 7 (1.06%) DO-254
9 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.60%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.60%) JTAG
10 4 (0.60%) QA
11 3 (0.45%) HAZOP
11 3 (0.45%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.30%) DO-178B
12 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 20 (3.02%) vSphere
2 16 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.81%) Firmware
4 11 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (0.75%) SELinux
2 4 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 4 (0.60%) SCCM
3 3 (0.45%) Backup Exec
4 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.15%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (0.15%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.47%) Cisco
3 16 (2.41%) Dell
4 15 (2.26%) SolarWinds
4 15 (2.26%) Tanium
4 15 (2.26%) Tripwire
5 13 (1.96%) VMware
6 7 (1.06%) Thales
7 6 (0.90%) HP
7 6 (0.90%) iManage
8 5 (0.75%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.60%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.60%) IBM
9 4 (0.60%) Intel
9 4 (0.60%) Mentor Graphics
9 4 (0.60%) Meraki
9 4 (0.60%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.60%) Siemens
9 4 (0.60%) SIMUL8
9 4 (0.60%) Xilinx