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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 327 174
Rank change year-on-year +79 -153 -113
Permanent jobs citing Military 546 241 778
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.70% 1.40%
As % of the General category 1.54% 1.07% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 311 150 241
10th Percentile £27,577 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,080
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -9.84%

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 35,565 22,455 29,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.47% 65.57% 52.68%
Number of salaries quoted 22,071 10,955 14,622
10th Percentile £28,875 £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% -2.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 8 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 8 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 +16 157 £65,000 +18.18% 115
North of England +24 150 £40,000 -11.11% 57
North West +33 119 £40,000 -11.11% 39
South West -38 96 £51,375 +20.88% 118
Midlands +22 90 £40,000 -5.88% 38
East Midlands -2 48 £70,000 +64.71% 20
West Midlands -5 42 £40,000 -5.88% 18
East of England -5 27 £44,500 -31.54% 89
Scotland +20 24 £20,000 -61.90% 45
North East -45 19 £80,000 +45.45% 8
Yorkshire - 12 £35,000 - 15
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 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 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.66%) Simulink
3 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.10%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.73%) Windchill
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.56%) SAP PM
2 6 (1.10%) Primavera
3 3 (0.55%) Odoo
4 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (5.13%) Power Platform
2 19 (3.48%) Azure
3 16 (2.93%) AWS
4 9 (1.65%) GitHub
4 9 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (0.92%) SaaS
6 4 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (0.73%) OpenShift
7 3 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.37%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.18%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.18%) GCP
9 1 (0.18%) Intacct
9 1 (0.18%) OCI
9 1 (0.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.21%) Firewall
2 13 (2.38%) Network Security
3 11 (2.01%) LAN
3 11 (2.01%) VLAN
4 10 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.65%) WAN
6 5 (0.92%) Wireless
7 4 (0.73%) DNS
7 4 (0.73%) RFID
7 4 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.55%) VoIP
9 2 (0.37%) Broadband
9 2 (0.37%) CHAP
9 2 (0.37%) DHCP
9 2 (0.37%) HTTP
9 2 (0.37%) Internet
9 2 (0.37%) PPP
9 2 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.76%) Power BI
2 25 (4.58%) Tableau
3 9 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.73%) OLAP
5 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.55%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.18%) Big Data
7 1 (0.18%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.18%) Flink
7 1 (0.18%) GIS
7 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.18%) Looker
7 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.18%) Metadata
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 23 (4.21%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (1.65%) JIRA
3 4 (0.73%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.55%) GitLab
4 3 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.55%) JUnit
4 3 (0.55%) NUnit
4 3 (0.55%) Postman
4 3 (0.55%) Selenium
4 3 (0.55%) Snyk
4 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.18%) ERwin
5 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 239 (43.77%) Social Skills
2 182 (33.33%) Law
3 157 (28.75%) Finance
4 153 (28.02%) Telecoms
5 135 (24.73%) Aerospace
6 78 (14.29%) Back Office
7 66 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (6.96%) Aviation
9 31 (5.68%) Electronics
10 29 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 19 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (3.11%) Billing
12 17 (3.11%) Public Sector
13 15 (2.75%) Aeronautics
14 11 (2.01%) Avionics
15 6 (1.10%) Environmental Health
15 6 (1.10%) Marketing
16 5 (0.92%) General Ledger
16 5 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (16.85%) Project Manager
2 72 (13.19%) Senior
3 47 (8.61%) Systems Engineer
4 31 (5.68%) Analyst
5 25 (4.58%) Business Development Manager
5 25 (4.58%) Business Manager
5 25 (4.58%) Development Manager
6 24 (4.40%) Lead
6 24 (4.40%) Software Engineer
7 23 (4.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 21 (3.85%) Senior Technician
9 20 (3.66%) Trainee
10 19 (3.48%) Test Technician
10 19 (3.48%) Traffic Manager
11 17 (3.11%) Trainee Project Manager
12 16 (2.93%) Field Engineer
13 15 (2.75%) Administrator
13 15 (2.75%) Architect
13 15 (2.75%) Performance Analyst
13 15 (2.75%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.38%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.65%) PySpark
3 6 (1.10%) React
4 4 (0.73%) .NET
4 4 (0.73%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.73%) RESTful
4 4 (0.73%) Terraform
5 3 (0.55%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.55%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.55%) Node.js
5 3 (0.55%) pytest
5 3 (0.55%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.55%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.37%) JSP
7 1 (0.18%) SAML
7 1 (0.18%) SGML
7 1 (0.18%) XML
7 1 (0.18%) XSL
7 1 (0.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 107 (19.60%) Driving Licence
2 39 (7.14%) Robotics
3 34 (6.23%) Management Information System
4 33 (6.04%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.20%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.83%) CMDB
8 10 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 10 (1.83%) Social Media
9 9 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.47%) FPGA
11 7 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.28%) Hackathon
11 7 (1.28%) PMI
11 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.92%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.73%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.85%) Windows
2 12 (2.20%) Linux
3 9 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.55%) Unix
4 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 63 (11.54%) Software Engineering
4 56 (10.26%) Commercial Awareness
5 52 (9.52%) Business Development
6 44 (8.06%) Agile
6 44 (8.06%) Decision-Making
7 43 (7.88%) Systems Engineering
8 41 (7.51%) Mathematics
9 40 (7.33%) Customer Service
10 39 (7.14%) Visualisation
11 37 (6.78%) Configuration Management
12 34 (6.23%) AI
13 33 (6.04%) ITIL
14 32 (5.86%) Service Delivery
15 31 (5.68%) Project Management
16 30 (5.49%) Data Governance
16 30 (5.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 30 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
17 29 (5.31%) Data Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (3.85%) MATLAB
2 19 (3.48%) C++
3 12 (2.20%) C#
3 12 (2.20%) Python
3 12 (2.20%) SQL
4 10 (1.83%) Java
5 9 (1.65%) C
5 9 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.92%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.55%) Ada
8 3 (0.55%) Ada 95
8 3 (0.55%) Go
8 3 (0.55%) Rust
9 2 (0.37%) Bash
9 2 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.18%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 144 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 103 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 99 (18.13%) Degree
4 69 (12.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 63 (11.54%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.48%) HNC
7 18 (3.30%) CISSP
8 16 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (2.75%) ACCA
9 15 (2.75%) CIMA
10 13 (2.38%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.83%) CCNP
11 10 (1.83%) Chartered Engineer
11 10 (1.83%) NVQ Level 3
12 9 (1.65%) City & Guilds
12 9 (1.65%) HND
13 8 (1.47%) CISM
13 8 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (1.10%) CCNA
14 6 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.24%) QA
2 29 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.21%) SLA
4 14 (2.56%) Def Stans
5 9 (1.65%) NIST
6 8 (1.47%) GDPR
7 7 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 4 (0.73%) DO-178B
9 4 (0.73%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.73%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.73%) NEBOSH
10 3 (0.55%) ECSS
10 3 (0.55%) MIL-STD-1553
10 3 (0.55%) NCSC
11 2 (0.37%) COSHH
11 2 (0.37%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (3.11%) Firmware
2 6 (1.10%) Docker
3 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.55%) Grafana
2 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 44 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.31%) SAP
3 17 (3.11%) Siemens
4 13 (2.38%) Cisco
5 10 (1.83%) Fortinet
5 10 (1.83%) Oracle
5 10 (1.83%) Palo Alto
6 8 (1.47%) Sage
6 8 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.47%) VMware
7 5 (0.92%) Civica
7 5 (0.92%) NEC
8 4 (0.73%) EMC
8 4 (0.73%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.37%) Draytek
9 2 (0.37%) Foundry
9 2 (0.37%) HP
9 2 (0.37%) IBM
9 2 (0.37%) Palantir
9 2 (0.37%) Ubiquiti