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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 307 169
Rank change year-on-year +83 -138 +161
Permanent jobs citing Military 663 261 759
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.75% 1.48%
As % of the General category 1.74% 1.14% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 363 151 220
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,046 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% -11.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,625 £70,625
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% -11.65%

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 38,167 22,933 27,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.18% 65.87% 54.25%
Number of salaries quoted 23,602 11,178 12,364
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,095 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -0.99%
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 9 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 9 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 +54 202 £57,500 +15.00% 162
North of England +13 169 £37,500 -16.67% 81
North West +40 138 £37,500 -16.67% 44
South West -17 120 £55,000 +29.41% 102
Midlands +13 97 £42,500 - 70
East Midlands +2 52 £66,750 +57.06% 26
West Midlands -18 45 £40,000 -5.88% 44
East of England -2 41 £65,000 -31.58% 112
Scotland +35 28 £20,000 -61.90% 53
North East -47 19 £80,000 +45.45% 18
Yorkshire -31 12 £35,000 - 20
Wales - 4 £21,539 - 15
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 (1.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.60%) 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 33 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.07%) Simulink
3 20 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.90%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.60%) Windchill
7 2 (0.30%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Primavera
2 4 (0.60%) SAP PM
3 3 (0.45%) 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 29 (4.37%) Power Platform
2 17 (2.56%) Azure
3 16 (2.41%) AWS
4 9 (1.36%) GitHub
5 7 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (0.75%) SaaS
7 4 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (0.60%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.15%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.15%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.15%) GCP
9 1 (0.15%) Intacct
9 1 (0.15%) OCI
9 1 (0.15%) Serverless
9 1 (0.15%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.32%) Firewall
2 14 (2.11%) Network Security
3 13 (1.96%) LAN
3 13 (1.96%) VLAN
4 11 (1.66%) WAN
5 10 (1.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (0.90%) Wireless
7 4 (0.60%) CHAP
7 4 (0.60%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.60%) NAS
7 4 (0.60%) VoIP
8 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.30%) Broadband
9 2 (0.30%) DNS
9 2 (0.30%) Internet
9 2 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.30%) RS-422
9 2 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.07%) Power BI
2 10 (1.51%) Tableau
3 9 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.60%) OLAP
5 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.45%) 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 28 (4.22%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (1.66%) JIRA
3 7 (1.06%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.45%) GitLab
4 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.45%) JUnit
4 3 (0.45%) NUnit
4 3 (0.45%) Postman
4 3 (0.45%) Selenium
4 3 (0.45%) Snyk
4 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) LabVIEW
General
1 258 (38.91%) Social Skills
2 202 (30.47%) Law
3 164 (24.74%) Telecoms
4 163 (24.59%) Finance
5 162 (24.43%) Aerospace
6 64 (9.65%) Back Office
7 60 (9.05%) Electronics
8 56 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (6.33%) Manufacturing
10 41 (6.18%) Aviation
11 29 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (3.17%) Public Sector
13 19 (2.87%) Local Government
14 18 (2.71%) Aeronautics
15 16 (2.41%) Avionics
15 16 (2.41%) Billing
16 11 (1.66%) Legal
17 9 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (17.04%) Project Manager
2 81 (12.22%) Senior
3 60 (9.05%) Systems Engineer
4 38 (5.73%) Lead
5 32 (4.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 29 (4.37%) Traffic Manager
7 28 (4.22%) Software Engineer
8 26 (3.92%) Senior Technician
9 23 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
10 22 (3.32%) Architect
11 20 (3.02%) Administrator
11 20 (3.02%) Business Development Manager
11 20 (3.02%) Business Manager
11 20 (3.02%) Development Manager
12 19 (2.87%) Electronics Engineer
12 19 (2.87%) Field Engineer
12 19 (2.87%) Trainee
13 18 (2.71%) Support Technician
13 18 (2.71%) Test Technician
14 17 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.11%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.36%) PySpark
3 6 (0.90%) React
4 4 (0.60%) .NET
4 4 (0.60%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.60%) Node.js
4 4 (0.60%) RESTful
4 4 (0.60%) Terraform
5 3 (0.45%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.45%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.45%) pytest
5 3 (0.45%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.45%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.30%) JSP
7 1 (0.15%) SGML
7 1 (0.15%) Web Services
7 1 (0.15%) XML
7 1 (0.15%) XSL
7 1 (0.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 127 (19.16%) Driving Licence
2 47 (7.09%) Management Information System
3 44 (6.64%) Robotics
4 38 (5.73%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.26%) FPGA
7 14 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.81%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.66%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 10 (1.51%) Social Media
11 9 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.21%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.06%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.06%) Hackathon
13 7 (1.06%) PMI
13 7 (1.06%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.90%) CMDB
14 6 (0.90%) SCADA
15 5 (0.75%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.07%) Windows
2 17 (2.56%) Linux
3 11 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.45%) 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
1 107 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 70 (10.56%) Software Engineering
4 65 (9.80%) Customer Service
5 56 (8.45%) Systems Engineering
6 54 (8.14%) Agile
6 54 (8.14%) Mathematics
7 51 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 49 (7.39%) Commercial Awareness
9 47 (7.09%) ERP
10 45 (6.79%) Decision-Making
11 43 (6.49%) Change Management
12 42 (6.33%) Project Management
12 42 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (6.18%) Configuration Management
14 40 (6.03%) Mentoring
14 40 (6.03%) Validation
15 36 (5.43%) Collaborative Working
15 36 (5.43%) Project Delivery
15 36 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.83%) MATLAB
2 27 (4.07%) C++
3 20 (3.02%) C
4 15 (2.26%) SQL
5 13 (1.96%) C#
6 12 (1.81%) Python
7 9 (1.36%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.21%) Java
9 4 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.45%) Ada
10 3 (0.45%) Ada 95
10 3 (0.45%) Go
10 3 (0.45%) Rust
11 2 (0.30%) Bash
11 2 (0.30%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) Fortran
12 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 168 (25.34%) Security Cleared
2 121 (18.25%) Degree
3 120 (18.10%) SC Cleared
4 76 (11.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (9.95%) DV Cleared
6 31 (4.68%) HNC
7 17 (2.56%) CISSP
7 17 (2.56%) HND
8 16 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (2.26%) Chartered Engineer
10 13 (1.96%) NVQ Level 3
11 11 (1.66%) City & Guilds
11 11 (1.66%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.51%) CCNP
13 8 (1.21%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.06%) CISM
15 6 (0.90%) CCNA
16 5 (0.75%) ACCA
16 5 (0.75%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.03%) QA
2 28 (4.22%) SLA
3 27 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.71%) Def Stans
5 13 (1.96%) COSHH
6 10 (1.51%) NIST
7 9 (1.36%) NEBOSH
8 8 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.06%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.06%) DO-178B
10 6 (0.90%) DO-254
10 6 (0.90%) GDPR
10 6 (0.90%) IEC 61508
11 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 4 (0.60%) ARP4761
12 4 (0.60%) ISO 26262
12 4 (0.60%) ISO 9000
12 4 (0.60%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.45%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 14 (2.11%) Firmware
2 6 (0.90%) Docker
2 6 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.75%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.45%) Grafana
2 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 63 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.62%) Siemens
3 20 (3.02%) SAP
4 18 (2.71%) Sage
5 16 (2.41%) Cisco
6 15 (2.26%) Civica
7 11 (1.66%) VMware
8 10 (1.51%) Fortinet
8 10 (1.51%) Oracle
8 10 (1.51%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.21%) NEC
9 8 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.75%) EMC
11 4 (0.60%) Foundry
11 4 (0.60%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.60%) Thales
12 3 (0.45%) Intel
13 2 (0.30%) IBM
13 2 (0.30%) Palantir
13 2 (0.30%) Rockwell