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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 293 164
Rank change year-on-year +71 -129 +146
Permanent jobs citing Military 701 262 758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.76% 1.51%
As % of the General category 1.82% 1.16% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 376 147 216
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,046 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,875 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -22.73% -11.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -11.29%

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 38,490 22,621 27,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.26% 65.77% 54.28%
Number of salaries quoted 24,086 11,194 12,060
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,085 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% -13.83% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% -3.33%

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 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 15 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 +60 213 £55,000 +10.00% 36
North of England +24 179 £37,500 -16.67% 12
North West +36 145 £37,500 -16.67% 5
South West -16 128 £55,000 +29.41% 28
Midlands +17 100 £45,000 +5.88% 11
East Midlands +9 53 £65,000 +52.94% 3
West Midlands -21 47 £40,000 -5.88% 8
East of England -3 44 £60,000 -36.84% 18
Scotland +40 30 £20,000 -61.90% 1
North East -42 22 £80,000 +45.45% 6
Yorkshire -31 12 £35,000 - 2
Wales - 4 £21,539 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 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 9 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 35 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.99%) Simulink
3 22 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.86%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.57%) Windchill
7 2 (0.29%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Primavera
2 4 (0.57%) SAP PM
3 3 (0.43%) Odoo
4 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (4.14%) Power Platform
2 18 (2.57%) Azure
3 16 (2.28%) AWS
4 9 (1.28%) GitHub
5 7 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (0.71%) SaaS
7 4 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (0.57%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.14%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.14%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.14%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.14%) GCP
9 1 (0.14%) Intacct
9 1 (0.14%) OCI
9 1 (0.14%) Serverless
9 1 (0.14%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.28%) Firewall
2 15 (2.14%) Network Security
3 13 (1.85%) LAN
3 13 (1.85%) VLAN
4 11 (1.57%) WAN
5 10 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (0.86%) Ethernet
6 6 (0.86%) Wireless
7 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.57%) CHAP
8 4 (0.57%) NAS
8 4 (0.57%) VoIP
9 3 (0.43%) DNS
9 3 (0.43%) RS-422
9 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
10 2 (0.29%) Broadband
10 2 (0.29%) HTTP
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) PPP
10 2 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.85%) Power BI
2 10 (1.43%) Tableau
3 9 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.57%) OLAP
5 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.43%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.14%) Big Data
7 1 (0.14%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.14%) Flink
7 1 (0.14%) GIS
7 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.14%) Looker
7 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.14%) Metadata
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (3.99%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (1.57%) JIRA
3 7 (1.00%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.43%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.43%) GitLab
4 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.43%) JUnit
4 3 (0.43%) NUnit
4 3 (0.43%) Postman
4 3 (0.43%) Selenium
4 3 (0.43%) Snyk
4 3 (0.43%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.29%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.14%) ERwin
6 1 (0.14%) LabVIEW
General
1 271 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 211 (30.10%) Law
3 175 (24.96%) Telecoms
4 168 (23.97%) Finance
5 167 (23.82%) Aerospace
6 64 (9.13%) Back Office
6 64 (9.13%) Electronics
7 58 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
8 45 (6.42%) Aviation
9 44 (6.28%) Manufacturing
10 29 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (3.00%) Public Sector
13 20 (2.85%) Aeronautics
13 20 (2.85%) Avionics
14 19 (2.71%) Local Government
15 17 (2.43%) Billing
16 12 (1.71%) Legal
17 9 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (16.98%) Project Manager
2 83 (11.84%) Senior
3 60 (8.56%) Systems Engineer
4 41 (5.85%) Lead
5 32 (4.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 29 (4.14%) Software Engineer
6 29 (4.14%) Traffic Manager
7 27 (3.85%) Field Engineer
8 26 (3.71%) Architect
8 26 (3.71%) Senior Technician
9 24 (3.42%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (3.28%) Administrator
10 23 (3.28%) Electronics Engineer
11 20 (2.85%) Business Development Manager
11 20 (2.85%) Business Manager
11 20 (2.85%) Development Manager
11 20 (2.85%) Trainee
12 18 (2.57%) Support Technician
12 18 (2.57%) Test Technician
13 17 (2.43%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.00%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.28%) PySpark
3 6 (0.86%) React
4 5 (0.71%) Node.js
4 5 (0.71%) Terraform
5 4 (0.57%) .NET
5 4 (0.57%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.57%) RESTful
6 3 (0.43%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.43%) Keycloak
6 3 (0.43%) pytest
6 3 (0.43%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.43%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.29%) JSP
7 2 (0.29%) Web Services
8 1 (0.14%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.14%) XML
8 1 (0.14%) XSL
8 1 (0.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 146 (20.83%) Driving Licence
2 49 (6.99%) Management Information System
3 47 (6.70%) Robotics
4 39 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.28%) FPGA
7 15 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 10 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (1.43%) Social Media
10 8 (1.14%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.00%) Hackathon
11 7 (1.00%) PMI
12 6 (0.86%) CMDB
12 6 (0.86%) SCADA
13 5 (0.71%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.14%) Windows
2 22 (3.14%) Linux
3 12 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.43%) Unix
5 3 (0.43%) VxWorks
6 2 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 73 (10.41%) Software Engineering
4 72 (10.27%) Customer Service
5 57 (8.13%) Agile
5 57 (8.13%) Systems Engineering
6 55 (7.85%) Mathematics
7 52 (7.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 50 (7.13%) Commercial Awareness
9 49 (6.99%) ERP
10 45 (6.42%) Decision-Making
10 45 (6.42%) Project Management
11 44 (6.28%) Change Management
11 44 (6.28%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (6.13%) Validation
13 41 (5.85%) Configuration Management
13 41 (5.85%) Mentoring
13 41 (5.85%) Root Cause Analysis
14 40 (5.71%) Project Delivery
15 39 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (4.71%) MATLAB
2 31 (4.42%) C++
3 24 (3.42%) C
4 15 (2.14%) SQL
5 14 (2.00%) C#
6 12 (1.71%) Python
7 10 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.28%) Java
9 4 (0.57%) Ada
9 4 (0.57%) Bash
9 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.57%) Rust
10 3 (0.43%) Ada 95
10 3 (0.43%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.43%) Go
10 3 (0.43%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.14%) Fortran
12 1 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 175 (24.96%) Security Cleared
2 126 (17.97%) Degree
3 125 (17.83%) SC Cleared
4 77 (10.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (9.56%) DV Cleared
6 36 (5.14%) HNC
7 17 (2.43%) CISSP
7 17 (2.43%) HND
8 16 (2.28%) Chartered Engineer
8 16 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.85%) NVQ Level 3
10 11 (1.57%) City & Guilds
10 11 (1.57%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.43%) CCNP
12 9 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.00%) CISM
15 6 (0.86%) CCNA
16 5 (0.71%) ACCA
16 5 (0.71%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.85%) QA
2 28 (3.99%) SLA
3 27 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.43%) Def Stans
5 13 (1.85%) COSHH
6 10 (1.43%) NIST
7 9 (1.28%) NEBOSH
8 8 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.00%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.00%) DO-178B
9 7 (1.00%) DO-254
9 7 (1.00%) IEC 61508
10 6 (0.86%) GDPR
11 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 4 (0.57%) ARP4761
12 4 (0.57%) ISO 26262
12 4 (0.57%) ISO 9000
12 4 (0.57%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.43%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 14 (2.00%) Firmware
2 7 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.86%) Docker
3 6 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) KVM
5 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.43%) Functional Safety
2 3 (0.43%) Grafana
2 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.14%) Ansible
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.57%) Siemens
3 21 (3.00%) SAP
4 18 (2.57%) Sage
5 16 (2.28%) Cisco
6 15 (2.14%) Civica
7 12 (1.71%) VMware
8 10 (1.43%) Fortinet
8 10 (1.43%) Oracle
8 10 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.28%) NEC
10 8 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.00%) Thales
12 6 (0.86%) EMC
13 4 (0.57%) Foundry
13 4 (0.57%) Intel
13 4 (0.57%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.43%) Capita
14 3 (0.43%) Rockwell
14 3 (0.43%) Xilinx