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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 278 226
Rank change year-on-year -26 -52 -182
Permanent jobs citing Military 385 313 742
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.92% 1.15%
As % of the General category 1.19% 1.38% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 220 148 309
10th Percentile £27,577 £29,225 £29,900
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.10% -19.91%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -16.00%

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 32,401 22,763 35,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.41% 67.07% 54.39%
Number of salaries quoted 19,884 11,033 21,279
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,818
% change year-on-year - +2.20% -10.30%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +36 141 £40,000 -11.11% 25
North West +33 112 £40,000 -11.11% 13
South East -59 91 £60,000 +9.09% 69
Midlands +2 64 £40,000 -5.88% 23
South West -81 62 £51,375 +14.17% 48
West Midlands +1 34 £40,000 -5.88% 6
East Midlands -16 30 £75,000 +76.47% 17
North East -32 19 £80,000 +45.45% 6
Scotland +12 14 £20,000 -61.90% 5
East of England -5 11 £31,746 -47.09% 14
Yorkshire -31 10 £35,000 - 6
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 6
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 5 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (5.45%) Simulink
3 13 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.04%) Windchill
6 2 (0.52%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (4.94%) SAP PM
2 3 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.26%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (6.49%) Power Platform
2 6 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (1.30%) Azure
3 5 (1.30%) GitHub
4 2 (0.52%) AWS
4 2 (0.52%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.26%) Intacct
5 1 (0.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.38%) LAN
2 12 (3.12%) Firewall
3 10 (2.60%) VLAN
4 9 (2.34%) WAN
5 8 (2.08%) Structured Cabling
5 8 (2.08%) VoIP
6 5 (1.30%) Wireless
7 4 (1.04%) DNS
7 4 (1.04%) RFID
7 4 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.52%) Broadband
8 2 (0.52%) DHCP
8 2 (0.52%) HTTP
8 2 (0.52%) Internet
8 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.52%) Network Security
9 1 (0.26%) Frame Relay
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.53%) Tableau
2 25 (6.49%) Power BI
3 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.04%) OLAP
5 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.26%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.26%) SQLite
6 1 (0.26%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 18 (4.68%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (0.52%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) GitLab
4 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.26%) JIRA
4 1 (0.26%) JUnit
4 1 (0.26%) NUnit
4 1 (0.26%) Postman
4 1 (0.26%) Selenium
4 1 (0.26%) Snyk
4 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.26%) Subversion
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 185 (48.05%) Social Skills
2 164 (42.60%) Law
3 139 (36.10%) Telecoms
4 119 (30.91%) Finance
5 90 (23.38%) Back Office
6 64 (16.62%) Aerospace
7 51 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (7.01%) Electronics
9 19 (4.94%) Aviation
10 17 (4.42%) Billing
11 14 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.60%) Aeronautics
12 10 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.34%) Public Sector
14 8 (2.08%) Avionics
14 8 (2.08%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.82%) Local Government
16 5 (1.30%) General Ledger
16 5 (1.30%) Legal
16 5 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (21.82%) Project Manager
2 50 (12.99%) Senior
3 35 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 30 (7.79%) Analyst
5 23 (5.97%) Traffic Manager
6 19 (4.94%) Software Engineer
6 19 (4.94%) Trainee
7 17 (4.42%) Trainee Project Manager
8 16 (4.16%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 15 (3.90%) Performance Analyst
10 14 (3.64%) Administrator
10 14 (3.64%) Field Engineer
10 14 (3.64%) Performance Manager
10 14 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (3.38%) Senior Technician
12 12 (3.12%) Field Service Engineer
13 11 (2.86%) Architect
13 11 (2.86%) Development Manager
13 11 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.86%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.34%) PySpark
2 6 (1.56%) .NET
3 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.52%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.52%) React
4 1 (0.26%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.26%) JSP
4 1 (0.26%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.26%) Node.js
4 1 (0.26%) OAuth
4 1 (0.26%) OpenID
4 1 (0.26%) pytest
4 1 (0.26%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.26%) Qt
4 1 (0.26%) RESTful
4 1 (0.26%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.26%) XML
4 1 (0.26%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 101 (26.23%) Driving Licence
2 20 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.60%) CMDB
4 10 (2.60%) Robotics
5 7 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (1.82%) Hackathon
6 5 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.04%) Acoustics
7 4 (1.04%) Culture of Ownership
7 4 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.04%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.78%) Smartphone
8 3 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.52%) Analogue Electronics
9 2 (0.52%) CCTV
9 2 (0.52%) FPGA
9 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.52%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.45%) Windows
2 9 (2.34%) Linux
3 8 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
2 43 (11.17%) Visualisation
3 39 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (10.13%) Software Engineering
4 35 (9.09%) Business Development
5 34 (8.83%) Data Development
5 34 (8.83%) Data Governance
6 32 (8.31%) Systems Engineering
7 31 (8.05%) Agile
7 31 (8.05%) Mathematics
8 30 (7.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 24 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (6.23%) Customer Service
9 24 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (6.23%) Decision-Making
10 22 (5.71%) AI
10 22 (5.71%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 21 (5.45%) Physics
12 20 (5.19%) Configuration Management
13 19 (4.94%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 21 (5.45%) MATLAB
2 13 (3.38%) C#
2 13 (3.38%) C++
3 10 (2.60%) C
4 9 (2.34%) SQL
5 8 (2.08%) Python
6 6 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.30%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.04%) Java
8 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.26%) Bash
9 1 (0.26%) Fortran
9 1 (0.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 76 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.06%) Degree
3 50 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 43 (11.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (4.68%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.16%) HNC
7 15 (3.90%) ACCA
7 15 (3.90%) CIMA
8 9 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.82%) CCNA
10 6 (1.56%) HND
10 6 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.56%) PMP
11 5 (1.30%) CISSP
12 4 (1.04%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.78%) CCNP
13 3 (0.78%) CISM
13 3 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.79%) QA
2 12 (3.12%) Def Stans
3 10 (2.60%) SLA
4 8 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.82%) GDPR
5 7 (1.82%) ISO 9001
6 6 (1.56%) COSHH
7 4 (1.04%) ISO 9000
7 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 4 (1.04%) NIST
8 3 (0.78%) DO-178B
8 3 (0.78%) ECSS
8 3 (0.78%) NEBOSH
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.52%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.26%) MISRA
10 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (2.60%) Firmware
2 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.26%) Grafana
1 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.26%) OpenView
1 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.26%) Terraform
1 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 31 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.19%) SAP
3 18 (4.68%) Siemens
4 7 (1.82%) HP
4 7 (1.82%) VMware
5 5 (1.30%) Cisco
6 3 (0.78%) NEC
6 3 (0.78%) Sparx
7 2 (0.52%) Draytek
7 2 (0.52%) EMC
7 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.52%) MikroTik
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle
7 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.52%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (0.26%) Capita
8 1 (0.26%) IBM
8 1 (0.26%) Intel
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.26%) Sage