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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 288 211
Rank change year-on-year +8 -77 -174
Permanent jobs citing Military 483 308 711
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.89% 1.19%
As % of the General category 1.41% 1.33% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 257 155 270
10th Percentile £27,577 £28,000 £29,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,250 £45,027 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.94% -14.23% -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 34,256 23,081 32,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.23% 66.58% 53.84%
Number of salaries quoted 21,152 11,321 18,031
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 £66,000 £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 15 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 15 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 +29 143 £40,000 -11.11% 37
South East -1 137 £65,000 +18.18% 91
North West +37 113 £40,000 -11.11% 21
South West -66 83 £50,000 +11.11% 70
Midlands +15 76 £40,000 -5.88% 37
East Midlands +3 43 £70,000 +64.71% 16
West Midlands -7 33 £40,000 -5.88% 21
Scotland +11 24 £20,000 -61.90% 16
North East -41 20 £80,000 +45.45% 11
East of England -6 18 £32,123 -46.46% 60
Yorkshire -22 10 £35,000 - 6
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 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.52%) Simulink
3 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.83%) Windchill
7 2 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.93%) SAP PM
2 6 (1.24%) Primavera
3 4 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 28 (5.80%) Power Platform
2 16 (3.31%) Azure
3 13 (2.69%) AWS
4 9 (1.86%) GitHub
5 8 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.04%) SaaS
7 4 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (0.83%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.41%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.21%) GCP
10 1 (0.21%) Intacct
10 1 (0.21%) OCI
10 1 (0.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.35%) Firewall
2 14 (2.90%) LAN
3 11 (2.28%) Network Security
3 11 (2.28%) VLAN
4 10 (2.07%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (2.07%) WAN
5 7 (1.45%) VoIP
6 5 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.04%) Wireless
7 4 (0.83%) DNS
7 4 (0.83%) RFID
7 4 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.62%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.41%) Broadband
9 2 (0.41%) DHCP
9 2 (0.41%) HTTP
9 2 (0.41%) Internet
9 2 (0.41%) PPP
9 2 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.21%) Tableau
2 26 (5.38%) Power BI
3 9 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.83%) OLAP
5 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.62%) 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 20 (4.14%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (1.86%) JIRA
3 4 (0.83%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.62%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.62%) GitLab
4 3 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.62%) JUnit
4 3 (0.62%) NUnit
4 3 (0.62%) Postman
4 3 (0.62%) Selenium
4 3 (0.62%) Snyk
4 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.21%) ERwin
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 227 (47.00%) Social Skills
2 173 (35.82%) Law
3 148 (30.64%) Telecoms
4 146 (30.23%) Finance
5 115 (23.81%) Aerospace
6 83 (17.18%) Back Office
7 67 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (7.45%) Aviation
9 31 (6.42%) Electronics
10 30 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (3.52%) Billing
12 16 (3.31%) Manufacturing
13 15 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.69%) Avionics
15 12 (2.48%) Aeronautics
16 11 (2.28%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.24%) Environmental Health
17 6 (1.24%) Marketing
18 5 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 90 (18.63%) Project Manager
2 61 (12.63%) Senior
3 38 (7.87%) Systems Engineer
4 30 (6.21%) Analyst
5 24 (4.97%) Software Engineer
6 20 (4.14%) Trainee
7 19 (3.93%) Lead
7 19 (3.93%) Traffic Manager
8 18 (3.73%) Administrator
9 17 (3.52%) Business Development Manager
9 17 (3.52%) Business Manager
9 17 (3.52%) Development Manager
9 17 (3.52%) Senior Technician
9 17 (3.52%) Trainee Project Manager
10 16 (3.31%) Field Engineer
10 16 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
10 16 (3.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 15 (3.11%) Performance Analyst
12 14 (2.90%) Performance Manager
12 14 (2.90%) Test Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.28%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.86%) PySpark
3 6 (1.24%) React
4 4 (0.83%) .NET
4 4 (0.83%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.83%) RESTful
5 3 (0.62%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.62%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.62%) Node.js
5 3 (0.62%) pytest
5 3 (0.62%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.62%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.41%) 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 (21.53%) Driving Licence
2 31 (6.42%) Management Information System
3 29 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.18%) Robotics
5 13 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.48%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.07%) CMDB
7 10 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.07%) Social Media
8 9 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.66%) FPGA
9 8 (1.66%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.45%) Hackathon
10 7 (1.45%) PMI
11 5 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.83%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.83%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.97%) Windows
2 13 (2.69%) Linux
3 9 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.62%) Unix
4 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (11.39%) Software Engineering
3 54 (11.18%) Commercial Awareness
4 52 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (9.11%) Visualisation
6 42 (8.70%) Business Development
7 40 (8.28%) Agile
8 38 (7.87%) Decision-Making
9 37 (7.66%) Mathematics
10 36 (7.45%) Configuration Management
10 36 (7.45%) Customer Service
11 35 (7.25%) Data Governance
11 35 (7.25%) Systems Engineering
12 34 (7.04%) AI
12 34 (7.04%) Data Development
13 33 (6.83%) Service Delivery
14 30 (6.21%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 29 (6.00%) ITIL
16 28 (5.80%) Project Management
17 26 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (3.52%) MATLAB
2 16 (3.31%) C++
3 12 (2.48%) C#
3 12 (2.48%) Python
4 10 (2.07%) Java
4 10 (2.07%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.86%) C
5 9 (1.86%) SQL
6 6 (1.24%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.62%) Ada
8 3 (0.62%) Ada 95
8 3 (0.62%) Go
8 3 (0.62%) Rust
9 2 (0.41%) Bash
9 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.21%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 126 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 89 (18.43%) SC Cleared
3 88 (18.22%) Degree
4 69 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 57 (11.80%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.93%) HNC
7 17 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (3.11%) ACCA
8 15 (3.11%) CIMA
8 15 (3.11%) CISSP
9 13 (2.69%) PMI Certification
10 11 (2.28%) CCNP
11 10 (2.07%) Chartered Engineer
12 9 (1.86%) HND
13 8 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.45%) CCNA
15 6 (1.24%) NVQ Level 3
15 6 (1.24%) PMP
16 5 (1.04%) City & Guilds
16 5 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.11%) QA
2 28 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.52%) SLA
4 12 (2.48%) Def Stans
5 8 (1.66%) GDPR
5 8 (1.66%) NIST
6 7 (1.45%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 4 (0.83%) DO-178B
8 4 (0.83%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.83%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.62%) ECSS
9 3 (0.62%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.62%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.62%) MIL-STD-1553
10 2 (0.41%) COSHH
10 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.21%) DO-160
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (3.52%) Firmware
2 6 (1.24%) Docker
3 3 (0.62%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.83%) Terraform
3 3 (0.62%) Grafana
3 3 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) OpenView
4 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 45 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.04%) SAP
3 14 (2.90%) Cisco
3 14 (2.90%) Siemens
4 10 (2.07%) Fortinet
4 10 (2.07%) Oracle
4 10 (2.07%) Palo Alto
5 8 (1.66%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.66%) VMware
6 6 (1.24%) HP
7 5 (1.04%) EMC
8 4 (0.83%) NEC
8 4 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.83%) Sparx
9 3 (0.62%) Sage
10 2 (0.41%) Foundry
10 2 (0.41%) IBM
10 2 (0.41%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.41%) Palantir
10 2 (0.41%) Ubiquiti