Aerospace Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Aerospace over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Aerospace
Rank 479 461 413
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -48
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 50 123 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.108% 0.211% 0.282%
As % of the General category 0.250% 0.465% 0.566%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 23
Average daily rate £315 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £235 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £494 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £386
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -22.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 34 59
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -5.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.60 £19.00 £22.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £42.50 £38.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -5.79%
All of the General Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 19979 26477 30377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 43.07% 45.40% 49.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11992 15778 18181
Average daily rate £450 £427 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.32% -14.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 653 726 916
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £42.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%

Aerospace
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Aerospace within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Aerospace Jobs Demand Trend

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Aerospace within the UK.

Aerospace Daily Rate Trend

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Aerospace within the UK.

Aerospace Hourly Rate Trend

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Aerospace within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Aerospace Hourly Rate Histogram

Aerospace
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -33 40 £315 +5.00%
South East -6 21 £315 +14.54%
Surrey +23 10 £315 -28.00%
South West -11 8 £350 +16.66%
Kent +4 5 - -
West Midlands +7 4 - -
Hampshire -24 4 £270 -30.32%
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +15 3 - -
Bristol +6 3 £350 -
Belfast - 3 - -
County Antrim - 3 - -
Aberdeen - 3 - -
Scotland - 3 - -
Cheltenham +24 2 - -
Gloucestershire +14 2 - -
West Sussex - 2 - -
Crawley - 2 - -
London +32 1 - -
Cambridge +12 1 - -
Cambridgeshire +12 1 - -
Hertfordshire +5 1 - -
Bedfordshire +1 1 - -
Somerset 0 1 - -
Stevenage -1 1 - -
Dorset -1 1 - -
Yeovil -2 1 - -
Guildford -10 1 - -
North Wales - 1 £325 -
Lancashire - 1 £325 -

Aerospace
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Aerospace also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Aerospace.

1 40 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.21%) C#
3 26 (19.70%) Telecoms
4 25 (18.94%) UML
5 23 (17.42%) Windows
6 22 (16.67%) OO
7 21 (15.91%) .NET
8 19 (14.39%) C++
9 18 (13.64%) C
9 18 (13.64%) DO-178B
10 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared
10 17 (12.88%) Degree
11 16 (12.12%) Avionics
12 15 (11.36%) Electronics
12 15 (11.36%) Automotive
13 14 (10.61%) Configuration Management
13 14 (10.61%) Multithreading
13 14 (10.61%) Requirements Analysis
14 13 (9.848%) WAN
15 12 (9.091%) LAN
16 11 (8.333%) Blackberry
16 11 (8.333%) Active Directory
16 11 (8.333%) Lotus
16 11 (8.333%) Windows XP
16 11 (8.333%) Lotus Notes
16 11 (8.333%) Windows 7
17 10 (7.576%) Rational DOORS
17 10 (7.576%) Software Deployment
17 10 (7.576%) SQL
18 9 (6.818%) Software Engineering

Aerospace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Aerospace also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Aerospace. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (15.91%) .NET
2 5 (3.788%) LINQ
3 4 (3.030%) Qt
3 4 (3.030%) WPF
4 3 (2.273%) XML
4 3 (2.273%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.273%) HTML
5 2 (1.515%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.758%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (0.758%) OpenCL
6 1 (0.758%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (0.758%) ODBC
6 1 (0.758%) CSS
6 1 (0.758%) STL
6 1 (0.758%) Web Services
6 1 (0.758%) ASP
6 1 (0.758%) WinForms
6 1 (0.758%) Ajax
6 1 (0.758%) Silverlight
6 1 (0.758%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 11 (8.333%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (2.273%) Apache
3 1 (0.758%) WinCC
3 1 (0.758%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.758%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.758%) Exchange Server 5.5
3 1 (0.758%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.758%) ESB
Applications
1 6 (4.545%) Simulink
2 3 (2.273%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.273%) MS Office
2 3 (2.273%) CATIA
2 3 (2.273%) NASTRAN
3 2 (1.515%) Windchill
4 1 (0.758%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.758%) MS Project
4 1 (0.758%) CorelDRAW
4 1 (0.758%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.758%) Pro/ENGINEER
Business Applications
1 2 (1.515%) ENOVIA
1 2 (1.515%) Sentinel
1 2 (1.515%) JDE World
2 1 (0.758%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.758%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.758%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.848%) WAN
2 12 (9.091%) LAN
3 2 (1.515%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.515%) Internet
4 1 (0.758%) Wireless
4 1 (0.758%) DNS
4 1 (0.758%) VoIP
4 1 (0.758%) SNMP
4 1 (0.758%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.788%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.273%) MS Access
3 2 (1.515%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.758%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.758%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.758%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.758%) Xcelsius
4 1 (0.758%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 10 (7.576%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (3.788%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.030%) Subversion
4 2 (1.515%) NUnit
5 1 (0.758%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.758%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.758%) C++Builder
5 1 (0.758%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.758%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.758%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.758%) PVCS
5 1 (0.758%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (19.70%) Telecoms
2 16 (12.12%) Avionics
3 15 (11.36%) Electronics
3 15 (11.36%) Automotive
4 7 (5.303%) Military
5 5 (3.788%) Finance
6 2 (1.515%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.515%) Games
6 2 (1.515%) Front Office
7 1 (0.758%) Legal
7 1 (0.758%) Banking
7 1 (0.758%) Retail
7 1 (0.758%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (34.09%) Software Engineer
2 15 (11.36%) Senior Software Engineer
3 12 (9.091%) Analyst
4 9 (6.818%) Developer
5 8 (6.061%) Test Engineer
5 8 (6.061%) Design Engineer
5 8 (6.061%) Consultant
6 7 (5.303%) EMC Engineer
7 6 (4.545%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (3.788%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (3.788%) Team Leader
8 5 (3.788%) FPGA Engineer
8 5 (3.788%) Desktop Team Leader
9 4 (3.030%) Software Manager
9 4 (3.030%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (3.030%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.030%) EMC Test Engineer
10 3 (2.273%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.273%) Service Analyst
10 3 (2.273%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.333%) Blackberry
2 5 (3.788%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 4 (3.030%) Physics
3 4 (3.030%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.273%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.273%) VHDL
4 3 (2.273%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.515%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.515%) CESG
5 2 (1.515%) Chip and PIN
5 2 (1.515%) ASIC
6 1 (0.758%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.758%) CUDA
6 1 (0.758%) W3C
6 1 (0.758%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.758%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.758%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.758%) Cryptography
6 1 (0.758%) Derivative
6 1 (0.758%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Windows
2 11 (8.333%) Windows XP
2 11 (8.333%) Windows 7
3 3 (2.273%) Linux
3 3 (2.273%) UNIX
4 1 (0.758%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.758%) Windows NT
4 1 (0.758%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.94%) UML
2 22 (16.67%) OO
3 14 (10.61%) Configuration Management
3 14 (10.61%) Multithreading
3 14 (10.61%) Requirements Analysis
4 10 (7.576%) Software Deployment
5 9 (6.818%) Software Engineering
6 8 (6.061%) Project Management
6 8 (6.061%) CAD
6 8 (6.061%) Validation
7 5 (3.788%) ITIL
8 4 (3.030%) Incident Management
8 4 (3.030%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (3.030%) Scrum
8 4 (3.030%) ERP
8 4 (3.030%) Service Management
8 4 (3.030%) Embedded Software Development
9 3 (2.273%) ITSM
9 3 (2.273%) Information Management
9 3 (2.273%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.21%) C#
2 19 (14.39%) C++
3 18 (13.64%) C
4 10 (7.576%) SQL
5 7 (5.303%) Embedded C
6 6 (4.545%) MATLAB
7 5 (3.788%) Assembly Language
8 4 (3.030%) Python
8 4 (3.030%) Ada
9 3 (2.273%) Java
10 2 (1.515%) XAML
11 1 (0.758%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.758%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.758%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.758%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.758%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared
2 17 (12.88%) Degree
3 5 (3.788%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.788%) MCP
3 5 (3.788%) MCDST
4 3 (2.273%) HND
5 2 (1.515%) HNC
5 2 (1.515%) PhD
6 1 (0.758%) ISEB
6 1 (0.758%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.758%) CCIE
6 1 (0.758%) CCNP
6 1 (0.758%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.758%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.758%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.64%) DO-178B
2 6 (4.545%) SLA
2 6 (4.545%) DO-254
3 3 (2.273%) QA
4 1 (0.758%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (8.333%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.758%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 3 (2.273%) Unicenter
2 1 (0.758%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 11 (8.333%) Lotus
2 7 (5.303%) EMC
3 6 (4.545%) Oracle
4 5 (3.788%) SAP
5 4 (3.030%) Borland
5 4 (3.030%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.273%) CA
6 3 (2.273%) Serena
7 2 (1.515%) Riverbed
7 2 (1.515%) Epicor
7 2 (1.515%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.515%) Altera
8 1 (0.758%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.758%) Embarcadero
8 1 (0.758%) NetApp
8 1 (0.758%) Siemens
8 1 (0.758%) Citrix
8 1 (0.758%) Cisco
8 1 (0.758%) Sybase
8 1 (0.758%) Business Objects
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JAM
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