Aerospace Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Aerospace
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.19% - -
As % of the General category 2.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £578 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - -
75th Percentile £853 - -
90th Percentile £934 - -
East of England median daily rate £700 £365 £550
% change year-on-year +91.78% -33.64% -6.14%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 199 228 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 59.23% 54.55% 64.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 52 120
10th Percentile £213 £228 £199
25th Percentile £368 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £634 £575 £538
90th Percentile £688 £650 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 103 176
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.93% -
75th Percentile £18.85 £19.11 £19.22
90th Percentile £31.00 £48.75 £21.50
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year -21.30% +115.12% -10.55%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in Cambridgeshire

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in Cambridgeshire

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 September 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 4 £713 - 1
Aerospace
East of England

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) IFS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) ERP
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Logistics
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Release Management
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IFS
2 1 (25.00%) IBM