Military Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Military
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Military in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Military over the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 314 174
Rank change year-on-year +79 -140 -62
Permanent jobs citing Military 621 256 767
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.75% 1.41%
As % of the General category 1.63% 1.13% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 354 154 227
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £43,080
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -12.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 37,992 22,558 29,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.32% 65.79% 53.76%
Number of salaries quoted 23,265 11,025 13,465
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.06%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,700 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.42% -5.79% -5.00%

Military
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Military relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Military job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Military
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Military.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Military

Military
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Military in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Military in the UK excluding London

Military
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Military within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
South East +24 186 £65,000 +18.18% 171
North of England +18 160 £42,500 -5.56% 63
North West +29 127 £42,500 -5.56% 33
South West -25 114 £55,000 +29.41% 124
Midlands +13 95 £41,250 -2.94% 71
East Midlands +9 52 £70,000 +64.71% 29
West Midlands -19 43 £40,000 -5.88% 42
East of England 0 37 £55,000 -15.38% 103
Scotland +25 25 £20,000 -61.90% 63
North East -47 20 £80,000 +45.45% 15
Yorkshire -29 13 £35,000 - 15
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 11
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 8
Military
UK

Military
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.86%) Simulink
3 18 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.97%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.64%) Windchill
7 1 (0.16%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.45%) SAP PM
2 6 (0.97%) Primavera
3 3 (0.48%) Odoo
4 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.16%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (5.15%) Power Platform
2 20 (3.22%) Azure
3 17 (2.74%) AWS
4 12 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (1.45%) GitHub
6 5 (0.81%) SaaS
7 4 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (0.64%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.32%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.16%) GCP
10 1 (0.16%) Intacct
10 1 (0.16%) OCI
10 1 (0.16%) Serverless
10 1 (0.16%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.86%) Firewall
2 14 (2.25%) Network Security
3 12 (1.93%) LAN
3 12 (1.93%) VLAN
4 10 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (1.61%) WAN
5 8 (1.29%) Wireless
6 4 (0.64%) CHAP
6 4 (0.64%) DNS
6 4 (0.64%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.64%) NAS
6 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.64%) VoIP
7 3 (0.48%) RFID
7 3 (0.48%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.32%) HTTP
8 2 (0.32%) Internet
8 2 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.32%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.83%) Power BI
2 20 (3.22%) Tableau
3 9 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.64%) OLAP
5 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.48%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.16%) Big Data
7 1 (0.16%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.16%) Flink
7 1 (0.16%) GIS
7 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.16%) Looker
7 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.16%) Metadata
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (4.19%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (1.77%) JIRA
3 4 (0.64%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.48%) GitLab
4 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.48%) JUnit
4 3 (0.48%) NUnit
4 3 (0.48%) Postman
4 3 (0.48%) Selenium
4 3 (0.48%) Snyk
4 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.16%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.16%) ERwin
General
1 259 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 195 (31.40%) Law
3 177 (28.50%) Telecoms
4 173 (27.86%) Finance
5 154 (24.80%) Aerospace
6 70 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (10.95%) Back Office
8 47 (7.57%) Electronics
9 38 (6.12%) Aviation
10 31 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (4.99%) Manufacturing
11 20 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (3.06%) Public Sector
13 17 (2.74%) Aeronautics
14 11 (1.77%) Avionics
15 10 (1.61%) Legal
16 9 (1.45%) Billing
17 8 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (1.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 92 (14.81%) Project Manager
2 82 (13.20%) Senior
3 54 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
4 30 (4.83%) Analyst
4 30 (4.83%) Lead
5 28 (4.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 26 (4.19%) Software Engineer
7 24 (3.86%) Senior Technician
8 21 (3.38%) Architect
9 20 (3.22%) Administrator
9 20 (3.22%) Business Development Manager
9 20 (3.22%) Business Manager
9 20 (3.22%) Development Manager
10 19 (3.06%) Test Technician
11 18 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
11 18 (2.90%) Support Technician
12 17 (2.74%) Field Engineer
13 16 (2.58%) Consultant
13 16 (2.58%) IT Support
14 15 (2.42%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.25%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.45%) PySpark
3 6 (0.97%) React
4 4 (0.64%) .NET
4 4 (0.64%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.64%) Node.js
4 4 (0.64%) RESTful
4 4 (0.64%) Terraform
5 3 (0.48%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.48%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.48%) pytest
5 3 (0.48%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.48%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.32%) JSP
7 1 (0.16%) SAML
7 1 (0.16%) Web Services
7 1 (0.16%) XML
7 1 (0.16%) XSL
7 1 (0.16%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 118 (19.00%) Driving Licence
2 42 (6.76%) Management Information System
2 42 (6.76%) Robotics
3 31 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 16 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.09%) FPGA
7 12 (1.93%) Embedded Systems
7 12 (1.93%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.61%) CMDB
8 10 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 10 (1.61%) Social Media
9 8 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.13%) Hackathon
10 7 (1.13%) PMI
10 7 (1.13%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.81%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.81%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.19%) Windows
2 17 (2.74%) Linux
3 10 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.48%) Unix
6 2 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.32%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 67 (10.79%) Software Engineering
4 53 (8.53%) Agile
4 53 (8.53%) Commercial Awareness
5 51 (8.21%) Systems Engineering
6 50 (8.05%) Customer Service
6 50 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (7.89%) Mathematics
8 48 (7.73%) Decision-Making
9 45 (7.25%) Business Development
9 45 (7.25%) ERP
10 44 (7.09%) Change Management
11 41 (6.60%) Project Management
12 39 (6.28%) Configuration Management
12 39 (6.28%) Visualisation
13 38 (6.12%) Validation
14 36 (5.80%) AI
15 35 (5.64%) ITIL
15 35 (5.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.51%) MATLAB
2 24 (3.86%) C++
3 15 (2.42%) SQL
4 14 (2.25%) C
4 14 (2.25%) Python
5 13 (2.09%) C#
6 10 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.45%) Java
8 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.48%) Ada
10 3 (0.48%) Ada 95
10 3 (0.48%) Go
10 3 (0.48%) Rust
11 2 (0.32%) Bash
11 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.16%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.16%) Fortran
12 1 (0.16%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 167 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 117 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 116 (18.68%) Degree
4 73 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (10.79%) DV Cleared
6 24 (3.86%) HNC
7 19 (3.06%) CISSP
8 16 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (2.42%) ACCA
9 15 (2.42%) CIMA
10 14 (2.25%) HND
11 13 (2.09%) Chartered Engineer
11 13 (2.09%) PMI Certification
12 11 (1.77%) NVQ Level 3
13 10 (1.61%) CCNP
13 10 (1.61%) City & Guilds
14 9 (1.45%) CISM
14 9 (1.45%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.97%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.09%) QA
2 29 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.86%) SLA
4 18 (2.90%) Def Stans
5 10 (1.61%) NIST
6 9 (1.45%) NEBOSH
7 8 (1.29%) GDPR
7 8 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.97%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.97%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 4 (0.64%) ARP4761
10 4 (0.64%) DO-178B
10 4 (0.64%) DO-254
10 4 (0.64%) IEC 61508
10 4 (0.64%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.64%) ISO 9000
11 3 (0.48%) ECSS
11 3 (0.48%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (2.58%) Firmware
2 6 (0.97%) Docker
3 5 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (0.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.48%) Grafana
2 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.03%) SAP
3 21 (3.38%) Siemens
4 18 (2.90%) Sage
5 15 (2.42%) Cisco
5 15 (2.42%) Civica
6 10 (1.61%) Fortinet
6 10 (1.61%) Oracle
6 10 (1.61%) Palo Alto
6 10 (1.61%) VMware
7 8 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.13%) NEC
9 5 (0.81%) EMC
10 4 (0.64%) Foundry
10 4 (0.64%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.48%) Thales
12 2 (0.32%) MikroTik
12 2 (0.32%) Palantir
12 2 (0.32%) Sparx
12 2 (0.32%) Ubiquiti