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 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 275 212
Rank change year-on-year -9 -63 -174
Permanent jobs citing Military 468 321 724
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.93% 1.21%
As % of the General category 1.37% 1.39% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 247 153 267
10th Percentile £27,577 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £44,250 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% -14.29% -13.93%

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 34,064 23,128 32,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.24% 66.86% 54.03%
Number of salaries quoted 21,049 11,335 18,232
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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
North of England +17 142 £40,000 -11.11% 55
South East -20 128 £65,000 +18.18% 117
North West +26 112 £40,000 -11.11% 37
South West -61 80 £50,000 +11.11% 111
Midlands +25 76 £40,000 -5.88% 44
East Midlands +6 43 £70,000 +64.71% 22
West Midlands -1 33 £40,000 -5.88% 22
Scotland +15 22 £20,000 -61.90% 31
North East -37 20 £80,000 +45.45% 11
East of England -18 18 £32,123 -46.46% 68
Yorkshire -20 10 £35,000 - 12
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 9
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 7 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.21%) Apache
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.63%) Simulink
3 13 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.85%) Windchill
6 1 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (4.06%) SAP PM
2 5 (1.07%) Primavera
3 4 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (5.77%) Power Platform
2 15 (3.21%) Azure
3 12 (2.56%) AWS
4 8 (1.71%) GitHub
4 8 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (0.85%) OpenShift
6 3 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (0.64%) SaaS
7 2 (0.43%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.21%) GCP
8 1 (0.21%) Intacct
8 1 (0.21%) OCI
8 1 (0.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.27%) Firewall
2 14 (2.99%) LAN
3 11 (2.35%) VLAN
4 10 (2.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (2.14%) Network Security
4 10 (2.14%) WAN
5 7 (1.50%) VoIP
6 5 (1.07%) Structured Cabling
6 5 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.07%) Wireless
7 4 (0.85%) DNS
7 4 (0.85%) RFID
8 2 (0.43%) Broadband
8 2 (0.43%) DHCP
8 2 (0.43%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.43%) HTTP
8 2 (0.43%) Internet
8 2 (0.43%) PPP
8 2 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.41%) Tableau
2 26 (5.56%) Power BI
3 9 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.85%) OLAP
5 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.64%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.21%) Big Data
7 1 (0.21%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.21%) Flink
7 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.21%) Looker
7 1 (0.21%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.21%) Metadata
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.21%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (4.06%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (1.92%) JIRA
3 4 (0.85%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.64%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.64%) GitLab
4 3 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.64%) JUnit
4 3 (0.64%) NUnit
4 3 (0.64%) Postman
4 3 (0.64%) Selenium
4 3 (0.64%) Snyk
4 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.21%) ERwin
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 223 (47.65%) Social Skills
2 173 (36.97%) Law
3 148 (31.62%) Telecoms
4 143 (30.56%) Finance
5 108 (23.08%) Aerospace
6 83 (17.74%) Back Office
7 64 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
8 33 (7.05%) Aviation
9 31 (6.62%) Electronics
10 27 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (3.63%) Billing
12 16 (3.42%) Manufacturing
13 15 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.56%) Aeronautics
15 11 (2.35%) Avionics
15 11 (2.35%) Public Sector
16 6 (1.28%) Environmental Health
16 6 (1.28%) Marketing
17 5 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.07%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 89 (19.02%) Project Manager
2 59 (12.61%) Senior
3 37 (7.91%) Systems Engineer
4 30 (6.41%) Analyst
5 23 (4.91%) Software Engineer
6 20 (4.27%) Trainee
7 19 (4.06%) Administrator
7 19 (4.06%) Lead
7 19 (4.06%) Traffic Manager
8 17 (3.63%) Senior Technician
8 17 (3.63%) Trainee Project Manager
9 16 (3.42%) Business Development Manager
9 16 (3.42%) Business Manager
9 16 (3.42%) Development Manager
9 16 (3.42%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (3.21%) Field Engineer
10 15 (3.21%) Performance Analyst
10 15 (3.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 14 (2.99%) Performance Manager
12 13 (2.78%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.14%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.92%) PySpark
3 5 (1.07%) React
4 4 (0.85%) .NET
4 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.85%) RESTful
5 3 (0.64%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.64%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.64%) Node.js
5 3 (0.64%) pytest
5 3 (0.64%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.64%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.43%) JSP
7 1 (0.21%) JSON
7 1 (0.21%) SAML
7 1 (0.21%) SGML
7 1 (0.21%) XML
7 1 (0.21%) XSL
7 1 (0.21%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 104 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 30 (6.41%) Management Information System
3 29 (6.20%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.91%) Robotics
5 12 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.14%) CMDB
6 10 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 10 (2.14%) Social Media
7 8 (1.71%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (1.71%) Private Cloud
7 8 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.50%) FPGA
8 7 (1.50%) Hackathon
8 7 (1.50%) PMI
9 5 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.85%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.85%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.13%) Windows
2 12 (2.56%) Linux
3 9 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (11.32%) Commercial Awareness
3 52 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 49 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (9.40%) Visualisation
6 41 (8.76%) Business Development
7 38 (8.12%) Agile
8 36 (7.69%) Customer Service
8 36 (7.69%) Mathematics
9 35 (7.48%) Configuration Management
9 35 (7.48%) Data Governance
9 35 (7.48%) Decision-Making
10 34 (7.26%) Data Development
11 33 (7.05%) Service Delivery
11 33 (7.05%) Systems Engineering
12 32 (6.84%) AI
13 30 (6.41%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 29 (6.20%) ITIL
15 27 (5.77%) Project Management
16 23 (4.91%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (3.63%) MATLAB
2 15 (3.21%) C++
3 11 (2.35%) C#
3 11 (2.35%) Python
4 10 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.92%) Java
5 9 (1.92%) SQL
6 8 (1.71%) C
7 6 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.64%) Go
10 2 (0.43%) Ada
10 2 (0.43%) Ada 95
10 2 (0.43%) Bash
10 2 (0.43%) Rust
11 1 (0.21%) Fortran
11 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 117 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 85 (18.16%) Degree
3 82 (17.52%) SC Cleared
4 66 (14.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (10.90%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.06%) HNC
7 17 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (3.21%) ACCA
8 15 (3.21%) CIMA
9 14 (2.99%) CISSP
10 13 (2.78%) PMI Certification
11 11 (2.35%) CCNP
12 9 (1.92%) Chartered Engineer
12 9 (1.92%) HND
13 8 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.50%) CCNA
15 6 (1.28%) PMP
16 5 (1.07%) City & Guilds
16 5 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (1.07%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.19%) QA
2 24 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.85%) SLA
4 11 (2.35%) Def Stans
5 8 (1.71%) GDPR
6 7 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.50%) NIST
7 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 4 (0.85%) DO-178B
8 4 (0.85%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.85%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.64%) ECSS
9 3 (0.64%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.64%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.43%) COSHH
10 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.43%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.21%) NCSC
11 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (3.42%) Firmware
2 5 (1.07%) Docker
3 3 (0.64%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.85%) Terraform
3 3 (0.64%) Grafana
3 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) OpenView
4 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.05%) SAP
3 14 (2.99%) Cisco
3 14 (2.99%) Siemens
4 10 (2.14%) Fortinet
4 10 (2.14%) Oracle
4 10 (2.14%) Palo Alto
5 8 (1.71%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.71%) VMware
6 7 (1.50%) HP
7 4 (0.85%) EMC
7 4 (0.85%) NEC
7 4 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.85%) Sparx
8 3 (0.64%) Sage
9 2 (0.43%) Draytek
9 2 (0.43%) IBM
9 2 (0.43%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.43%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.21%) Atlassian