Aerospace Contracts in Birmingham

Aerospace
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 61 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +21
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Aerospace 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.52% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.83% 0.51% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £463 - £523
25th Percentile £481 - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £556
75th Percentile £538 - £580
90th Percentile - - £584
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £526 £595
% change year-on-year -14.45% -11.60% +3.48%

All General Skills
Birmingham

Aerospace falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Birmingham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 362 391 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.52% 56.34% 51.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 268 298
10th Percentile £163 £200 £297
25th Percentile £325 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £641 £650
90th Percentile £639 £750 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 20
10th Percentile - £14.45 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £22.05 £24.31 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +2.37% +39.71%
75th Percentile £26.51 £49.69 £38.50
90th Percentile £28.02 £55.88 £97.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.59 £19.59 £22.30
% change year-on-year +45.94% -12.15% +35.56%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in Birmingham

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Aerospace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Aerospace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM