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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 306 203
Rank change year-on-year +28 -103 -168
Permanent jobs citing Military 496 275 746
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.79% 1.25%
As % of the General category 1.44% 1.20% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 269 152 267
10th Percentile £27,577 £28,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,875 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £49,438 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.86% -14.29% -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 34,467 22,962 31,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.94% 66.19% 53.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21,287 11,296 17,661
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,500
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 £66,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -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 21 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 21 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
South East +3 145 £65,000 +18.18% 64
North of England +32 143 £40,000 -11.11% 29
North West +34 113 £40,000 -11.11% 18
South West -48 84 £50,000 +11.11% 49
Midlands +8 78 £40,000 -5.88% 33
East Midlands +7 44 £70,000 +64.71% 15
West Midlands -14 34 £40,000 -5.88% 18
Scotland +26 24 £20,000 -61.90% 12
East of England 0 20 £32,500 -50.00% 35
North East -36 20 £80,000 +45.45% 9
Yorkshire -32 10 £35,000 - 3
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 8 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.20%) Apache
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.03%) Simulink
3 12 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.81%) Windchill
7 2 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.83%) SAP PM
2 6 (1.21%) Primavera
3 3 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.20%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 28 (5.65%) Power Platform
2 17 (3.43%) Azure
3 14 (2.82%) AWS
4 9 (1.81%) GitHub
5 8 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.01%) SaaS
7 4 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (0.81%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.40%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.20%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.20%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.20%) GCP
10 1 (0.20%) Intacct
10 1 (0.20%) OCI
10 1 (0.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.44%) Firewall
2 13 (2.62%) LAN
3 12 (2.42%) Network Security
4 11 (2.22%) VLAN
5 10 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (1.81%) WAN
7 5 (1.01%) VoIP
7 5 (1.01%) Wireless
8 4 (0.81%) DNS
8 4 (0.81%) RFID
8 4 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.60%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.40%) Broadband
10 2 (0.40%) DHCP
10 2 (0.40%) HTTP
10 2 (0.40%) Internet
10 2 (0.40%) PPP
10 2 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.05%) Tableau
2 26 (5.24%) Power BI
3 9 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.81%) OLAP
5 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.60%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.20%) Big Data
7 1 (0.20%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.20%) Flink
7 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.20%) Looker
7 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.20%) Metadata
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.20%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 23 (4.64%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (1.81%) JIRA
3 4 (0.81%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.60%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.60%) GitLab
4 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.60%) JUnit
4 3 (0.60%) NUnit
4 3 (0.60%) Postman
4 3 (0.60%) Selenium
4 3 (0.60%) Snyk
4 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.20%) ERwin
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 227 (45.77%) Social Skills
2 175 (35.28%) Law
3 148 (29.84%) Finance
3 148 (29.84%) Telecoms
4 120 (24.19%) Aerospace
5 83 (16.73%) Back Office
6 69 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (7.26%) Aviation
8 33 (6.65%) Electronics
9 29 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (3.43%) Billing
11 16 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 16 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.62%) Avionics
12 13 (2.62%) Public Sector
13 12 (2.42%) Aeronautics
14 6 (1.21%) Environmental Health
14 6 (1.21%) Marketing
15 5 (1.01%) General Ledger
15 5 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 91 (18.35%) Project Manager
2 64 (12.90%) Senior
3 41 (8.27%) Systems Engineer
4 30 (6.05%) Analyst
5 24 (4.84%) Software Engineer
6 20 (4.03%) Business Development Manager
6 20 (4.03%) Business Manager
6 20 (4.03%) Development Manager
6 20 (4.03%) Trainee
7 19 (3.83%) Lead
7 19 (3.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 19 (3.83%) Traffic Manager
8 17 (3.43%) Administrator
8 17 (3.43%) Senior Technician
8 17 (3.43%) Trainee Project Manager
9 16 (3.23%) Field Engineer
10 15 (3.02%) Performance Analyst
10 15 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (3.02%) Test Technician
11 14 (2.82%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.42%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.81%) PySpark
3 6 (1.21%) React
4 4 (0.81%) .NET
4 4 (0.81%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.81%) RESTful
4 4 (0.81%) Terraform
5 3 (0.60%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.60%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.60%) Node.js
5 3 (0.60%) pytest
5 3 (0.60%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.60%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.40%) JSP
7 1 (0.20%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.20%) SAML
7 1 (0.20%) XML
7 1 (0.20%) XSL
7 1 (0.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 105 (21.17%) Driving Licence
2 32 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 30 (6.05%) Onboarding
4 28 (5.65%) Robotics
5 13 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.42%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.02%) CMDB
7 10 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.02%) Social Media
8 9 (1.81%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.61%) FPGA
10 7 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.41%) Hackathon
10 7 (1.41%) PMI
10 7 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.81%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.64%) Windows
2 12 (2.42%) Linux
3 9 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.60%) Unix
4 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (11.69%) Software Engineering
3 55 (11.09%) Commercial Awareness
3 55 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (9.07%) Business Development
5 44 (8.87%) Visualisation
6 43 (8.67%) Agile
7 40 (8.06%) Mathematics
8 39 (7.86%) Decision-Making
9 37 (7.46%) Systems Engineering
10 36 (7.26%) Configuration Management
10 36 (7.26%) Customer Service
11 35 (7.06%) Data Governance
12 34 (6.85%) Data Development
13 33 (6.65%) Service Delivery
14 32 (6.45%) AI
15 30 (6.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 29 (5.85%) ITIL
16 29 (5.85%) Project Management
17 26 (5.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (4.03%) MATLAB
2 19 (3.83%) C++
3 12 (2.42%) C#
3 12 (2.42%) Python
4 10 (2.02%) Java
4 10 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.81%) C
5 9 (1.81%) SQL
6 6 (1.21%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.60%) Ada
8 3 (0.60%) Ada 95
8 3 (0.60%) Go
8 3 (0.60%) Rust
9 2 (0.40%) Bash
9 2 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.20%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 127 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 89 (17.94%) Degree
2 89 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 71 (14.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 58 (11.69%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.83%) HNC
6 16 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (3.23%) CISSP
7 15 (3.02%) ACCA
7 15 (3.02%) CIMA
8 13 (2.62%) PMI Certification
9 10 (2.02%) CCNP
10 9 (1.81%) Chartered Engineer
10 9 (1.81%) HND
11 8 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.41%) NVQ Level 3
13 6 (1.21%) CCNA
13 6 (1.21%) CISM
13 6 (1.21%) City & Guilds
13 6 (1.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.07%) QA
2 28 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.63%) SLA
4 12 (2.42%) Def Stans
5 8 (1.61%) GDPR
5 8 (1.61%) NIST
6 7 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.81%) DO-178B
8 4 (0.81%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.81%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.60%) ECSS
9 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.60%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.60%) MIL-STD-1553
10 2 (0.40%) COSHH
10 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.40%) NCSC
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 17 (3.43%) Firmware
2 6 (1.21%) Docker
3 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.60%) Grafana
2 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 45 (9.07%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.85%) SAP
3 17 (3.43%) Siemens
4 13 (2.62%) Cisco
5 10 (2.02%) Fortinet
5 10 (2.02%) Oracle
5 10 (2.02%) Palo Alto
6 8 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.61%) VMware
7 5 (1.01%) NEC
8 4 (0.81%) EMC
8 4 (0.81%) HP
8 4 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.60%) Sage
9 3 (0.60%) Sparx
10 2 (0.40%) Draytek
10 2 (0.40%) Foundry
10 2 (0.40%) IBM
10 2 (0.40%) Palantir
10 2 (0.40%) Ubiquiti