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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 304 188
Rank change year-on-year +63 -116 -119
Permanent jobs citing Military 582 252 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.73% 1.35%
As % of the General category 1.60% 1.11% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 332 155 235
10th Percentile £27,283 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,512 £41,250 £43,653
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 £62,500
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 36,332 22,744 29,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.72% 65.85% 53.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22,496 11,124 14,453
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £28,000
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% -2.69%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 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 12 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 +28 171 £65,000 +18.18% 91
North of England +29 155 £40,000 -11.11% 39
North West +38 125 £40,000 -11.11% 20
South West -30 103 £53,188 +25.15% 98
Midlands +22 93 £40,000 -5.88% 46
East Midlands -3 49 £70,000 +64.71% 25
West Midlands -12 44 £40,000 -5.88% 21
East of England 0 31 £55,000 -15.38% 62
Scotland +30 25 £20,000 -61.90% 33
North East -46 18 £80,000 +45.45% 10
Yorkshire - 12 £35,000 - 10
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 13
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
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 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.17%) Apache
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.44%) Simulink
3 15 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.03%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.69%) Windchill
7 3 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.55%) SAP PM
2 6 (1.03%) Primavera
3 3 (0.52%) Odoo
4 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.17%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (4.98%) Power Platform
2 20 (3.44%) Azure
3 17 (2.92%) AWS
4 11 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (1.55%) GitHub
6 5 (0.86%) SaaS
7 4 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (0.69%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.34%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.17%) GCP
10 1 (0.17%) Intacct
10 1 (0.17%) OCI
10 1 (0.17%) Serverless
10 1 (0.17%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.12%) Firewall
2 14 (2.41%) Network Security
3 11 (1.89%) LAN
3 11 (1.89%) VLAN
4 10 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.55%) WAN
6 7 (1.20%) Wireless
7 4 (0.69%) CHAP
7 4 (0.69%) DNS
7 4 (0.69%) NAS
7 4 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.52%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.52%) RFID
8 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 2 (0.34%) Broadband
9 2 (0.34%) DHCP
9 2 (0.34%) HTTP
9 2 (0.34%) Internet
9 2 (0.34%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.64%) Power BI
2 20 (3.44%) Tableau
3 9 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.69%) OLAP
5 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.52%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.17%) Big Data
7 1 (0.17%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.17%) Flink
7 1 (0.17%) GIS
7 1 (0.17%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.17%) Looker
7 1 (0.17%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.17%) Metadata
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 23 (3.95%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (1.55%) JIRA
3 4 (0.69%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.52%) GitLab
4 3 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.52%) JUnit
4 3 (0.52%) NUnit
4 3 (0.52%) Postman
4 3 (0.52%) Selenium
4 3 (0.52%) Snyk
4 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.17%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.17%) ERwin
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 248 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 191 (32.82%) Law
3 164 (28.18%) Finance
4 160 (27.49%) Telecoms
5 148 (25.43%) Aerospace
6 69 (11.86%) Back Office
7 63 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (6.53%) Aviation
8 38 (6.53%) Electronics
9 30 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (4.64%) Manufacturing
11 21 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.92%) Aeronautics
12 17 (2.92%) Billing
12 17 (2.92%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.72%) Avionics
14 7 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.03%) Environmental Health
15 6 (1.03%) Legal
15 6 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 94 (16.15%) Project Manager
2 75 (12.89%) Senior
3 47 (8.08%) Systems Engineer
4 31 (5.33%) Analyst
5 27 (4.64%) Lead
6 25 (4.30%) Business Development Manager
6 25 (4.30%) Business Manager
6 25 (4.30%) Development Manager
6 25 (4.30%) Software Engineer
7 23 (3.95%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 22 (3.78%) Senior Technician
9 20 (3.44%) Test Technician
9 20 (3.44%) Trainee
10 19 (3.26%) Traffic Manager
11 18 (3.09%) Administrator
12 17 (2.92%) Architect
12 17 (2.92%) Trainee Project Manager
13 16 (2.75%) Support Technician
14 15 (2.58%) Field Engineer
14 15 (2.58%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.41%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.55%) PySpark
3 6 (1.03%) React
4 4 (0.69%) .NET
4 4 (0.69%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.69%) RESTful
4 4 (0.69%) Terraform
5 3 (0.52%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.52%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.52%) Node.js
5 3 (0.52%) pytest
5 3 (0.52%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.52%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.34%) JSP
7 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.17%) SAML
7 1 (0.17%) XML
7 1 (0.17%) XSL
7 1 (0.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 110 (18.90%) Driving Licence
2 40 (6.87%) Robotics
3 37 (6.36%) Management Information System
4 35 (6.01%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.06%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
8 11 (1.89%) FPGA
9 10 (1.72%) CMDB
9 10 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 10 (1.72%) Social Media
10 8 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.20%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.20%) Hackathon
11 7 (1.20%) PMI
11 7 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.69%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.61%) Windows
2 13 (2.23%) Linux
3 9 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.52%) Unix
4 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.34%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 65 (11.17%) Software Engineering
4 52 (8.93%) Commercial Awareness
5 50 (8.59%) Business Development
6 48 (8.25%) Customer Service
6 48 (8.25%) Decision-Making
7 47 (8.08%) Agile
8 45 (7.73%) Mathematics
8 45 (7.73%) Systems Engineering
9 39 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 37 (6.36%) Configuration Management
11 36 (6.19%) AI
11 36 (6.19%) ERP
12 35 (6.01%) Project Management
12 35 (6.01%) Visualisation
13 34 (5.84%) Change Management
14 33 (5.67%) ITIL
15 32 (5.50%) Service Delivery
15 32 (5.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (3.95%) MATLAB
2 22 (3.78%) C++
3 13 (2.23%) Python
3 13 (2.23%) SQL
4 12 (2.06%) C
4 12 (2.06%) C#
5 9 (1.55%) Java
5 9 (1.55%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.52%) Ada
8 3 (0.52%) Ada 95
8 3 (0.52%) Go
8 3 (0.52%) Rust
9 2 (0.34%) Bash
9 2 (0.34%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.17%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 155 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 109 (18.73%) SC Cleared
3 103 (17.70%) Degree
4 69 (11.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (11.34%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.61%) HNC
7 19 (3.26%) CISSP
8 16 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (2.58%) ACCA
9 15 (2.58%) CIMA
10 13 (2.23%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.89%) Chartered Engineer
12 10 (1.72%) CCNP
12 10 (1.72%) HND
12 10 (1.72%) NVQ Level 3
13 9 (1.55%) CISM
13 9 (1.55%) City & Guilds
14 8 (1.37%) DBS Check
14 8 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (1.03%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.90%) QA
2 29 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.30%) SLA
4 15 (2.58%) Def Stans
5 10 (1.72%) NIST
6 8 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.37%) GDPR
6 8 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.03%) JSP 440
7 6 (1.03%) NEBOSH
8 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 4 (0.69%) DO-178B
9 4 (0.69%) ISO 9000
10 3 (0.52%) ARP4761
10 3 (0.52%) DO-254
10 3 (0.52%) ECSS
10 3 (0.52%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.52%) MIL-STD-1553
10 3 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (2.58%) Firmware
2 6 (1.03%) Docker
3 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.52%) Grafana
2 3 (0.52%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 52 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.12%) SAP
3 17 (2.92%) Siemens
4 13 (2.23%) Cisco
4 13 (2.23%) Sage
5 10 (1.72%) Civica
5 10 (1.72%) Fortinet
5 10 (1.72%) Oracle
5 10 (1.72%) Palo Alto
6 8 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.37%) VMware
7 7 (1.20%) NEC
8 4 (0.69%) EMC
8 4 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.52%) Foundry
9 3 (0.52%) Thales
10 2 (0.34%) Draytek
10 2 (0.34%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.34%) Sparx
10 2 (0.34%) Ubiquiti