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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 303 160
Rank change year-on-year +75 -143 +170
Permanent jobs citing Military 656 257 775
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.74% 1.49%
As % of the General category 1.71% 1.12% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 366 150 220
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,046 £41,250 £43,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,938 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -22.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,625 £69,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £83,750
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 38,314 22,847 28,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.21% 65.84% 54.08%
Number of salaries quoted 23,609 11,068 12,547
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +55 200 £60,000 +20.00% 185
North of England +17 165 £40,000 -11.11% 81
North West +27 133 £38,750 -13.89% 43
South West -18 120 £55,000 +29.41% 113
Midlands +6 97 £42,500 - 87
East Midlands +8 54 £68,500 +61.18% 35
West Midlands -10 43 £40,000 -5.88% 52
East of England +10 42 £60,000 -36.84% 111
Scotland +22 27 £20,000 -61.90% 67
North East -47 20 £80,000 +45.45% 19
Yorkshire -26 12 £35,000 - 20
Wales - 3 £38,269 - 24
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 8 (1.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.15%) Apache
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.12%) Simulink
3 19 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.91%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.61%) Windchill
7 2 (0.30%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Primavera
2 4 (0.61%) SAP PM
3 3 (0.46%) Odoo
4 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (4.27%) Power Platform
2 19 (2.90%) Azure
3 16 (2.44%) AWS
4 9 (1.37%) GitHub
5 7 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (0.76%) SaaS
7 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (0.61%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.30%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.15%) GCP
10 1 (0.15%) Intacct
10 1 (0.15%) OCI
10 1 (0.15%) Serverless
10 1 (0.15%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.66%) Firewall
2 14 (2.13%) Network Security
3 13 (1.98%) LAN
3 13 (1.98%) VLAN
4 11 (1.68%) WAN
5 10 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.22%) Wireless
7 4 (0.61%) CHAP
7 4 (0.61%) DNS
7 4 (0.61%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.61%) NAS
7 4 (0.61%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.61%) VoIP
8 3 (0.46%) Software-Defined Radio
9 2 (0.30%) Broadband
9 2 (0.30%) HTTP
9 2 (0.30%) Internet
9 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.30%) RS-422
9 2 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.96%) Power BI
2 15 (2.29%) Tableau
3 9 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.61%) OLAP
5 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.46%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.15%) Big Data
7 1 (0.15%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.15%) Flink
7 1 (0.15%) GIS
7 1 (0.15%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.15%) Looker
7 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.15%) Metadata
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (4.12%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (1.68%) JIRA
3 7 (1.07%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.46%) GitLab
4 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.46%) JUnit
4 3 (0.46%) NUnit
4 3 (0.46%) Postman
4 3 (0.46%) Selenium
4 3 (0.46%) Snyk
4 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
General
1 262 (39.94%) Social Skills
2 198 (30.18%) Law
3 165 (25.15%) Finance
3 165 (25.15%) Telecoms
4 161 (24.54%) Aerospace
5 70 (10.67%) Back Office
6 61 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
7 57 (8.69%) Electronics
8 41 (6.25%) Aviation
9 36 (5.49%) Manufacturing
10 31 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (3.20%) Public Sector
12 20 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.74%) Aeronautics
14 15 (2.29%) Avionics
14 15 (2.29%) Billing
14 15 (2.29%) Local Government
15 11 (1.68%) Legal
16 8 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (16.31%) Project Manager
2 81 (12.35%) Senior
3 61 (9.30%) Systems Engineer
4 37 (5.64%) Lead
5 32 (4.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 28 (4.27%) Software Engineer
7 26 (3.96%) Senior Technician
8 24 (3.66%) Traffic Manager
9 22 (3.35%) Architect
9 22 (3.35%) Principal Engineer
10 20 (3.05%) Administrator
10 20 (3.05%) Business Development Manager
10 20 (3.05%) Business Manager
10 20 (3.05%) Development Manager
11 19 (2.90%) Field Engineer
12 18 (2.74%) Support Technician
12 18 (2.74%) Test Technician
12 18 (2.74%) Trainee
13 17 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (2.44%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.13%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.37%) PySpark
3 6 (0.91%) React
4 4 (0.61%) .NET
4 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.61%) Node.js
4 4 (0.61%) RESTful
4 4 (0.61%) Terraform
5 3 (0.46%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.46%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.46%) pytest
5 3 (0.46%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.46%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.30%) JSP
7 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.15%) Web Services
7 1 (0.15%) XML
7 1 (0.15%) XSL
7 1 (0.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 124 (18.90%) Driving Licence
2 45 (6.86%) Management Information System
3 44 (6.71%) Robotics
4 37 (5.64%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.13%) FPGA
6 14 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 10 (1.52%) Social Media
10 9 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.22%) CMDB
12 7 (1.07%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.07%) Hackathon
12 7 (1.07%) PMI
12 7 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.91%) SCADA
14 5 (0.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.27%) Windows
2 17 (2.59%) Linux
3 11 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.46%) Unix
6 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.30%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 70 (10.67%) Software Engineering
4 60 (9.15%) Customer Service
5 56 (8.54%) Systems Engineering
6 54 (8.23%) Agile
7 53 (8.08%) Mathematics
8 52 (7.93%) Commercial Awareness
8 52 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 46 (7.01%) ERP
10 45 (6.86%) Change Management
10 45 (6.86%) Decision-Making
11 41 (6.25%) Configuration Management
11 41 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (6.25%) Validation
12 40 (6.10%) Mentoring
12 40 (6.10%) Project Management
13 37 (5.64%) AI
14 35 (5.34%) ITIL
14 35 (5.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.88%) MATLAB
2 26 (3.96%) C++
3 19 (2.90%) C
4 15 (2.29%) SQL
5 14 (2.13%) Python
6 13 (1.98%) C#
7 10 (1.52%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.22%) Java
9 5 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.46%) Ada
11 3 (0.46%) Ada 95
11 3 (0.46%) Go
11 3 (0.46%) Rust
12 2 (0.30%) Bash
12 2 (0.30%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.15%) Fortran
13 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 169 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 120 (18.29%) SC Cleared
3 119 (18.14%) Degree
4 77 (11.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (10.21%) DV Cleared
6 30 (4.57%) HNC
7 18 (2.74%) CISSP
8 17 (2.59%) HND
9 16 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.29%) Chartered Engineer
11 13 (1.98%) NVQ Level 3
12 12 (1.83%) PMI Certification
13 11 (1.68%) City & Guilds
14 10 (1.52%) CCNP
14 10 (1.52%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.22%) CISM
15 8 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.91%) CCNA
17 5 (0.76%) ACCA
17 5 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.95%) QA
2 30 (4.57%) SLA
3 29 (4.42%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.74%) Def Stans
5 10 (1.52%) NIST
6 9 (1.37%) COSHH
6 9 (1.37%) NEBOSH
7 8 (1.22%) GDPR
7 8 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.07%) DO-178B
9 6 (0.91%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.91%) DO-254
9 6 (0.91%) IEC 61508
10 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 5 (0.76%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.61%) ARP4761
11 4 (0.61%) ISO 26262
11 4 (0.61%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.46%) ECSS
12 3 (0.46%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 14 (2.13%) Firmware
2 6 (0.91%) Docker
2 6 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.46%) Grafana
2 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 62 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.66%) Siemens
3 20 (3.05%) SAP
4 18 (2.74%) Sage
5 16 (2.44%) Cisco
6 15 (2.29%) Civica
7 11 (1.68%) VMware
8 10 (1.52%) Fortinet
8 10 (1.52%) Oracle
8 10 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.07%) NEC
11 5 (0.76%) EMC
12 4 (0.61%) Foundry
12 4 (0.61%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.61%) Thales
13 3 (0.46%) Intel
14 2 (0.30%) Cadence
14 2 (0.30%) HP
14 2 (0.30%) IBM