Aviation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Aviation
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	144	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Aviation	1	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London	0.047%	-	-
As % of the General category	0.071%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£575	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	-	-
75^th Percentile	£625	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Central London median daily rate	£600	-	-

All General Skills
City of London

Aviation falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in the City of London.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills	1,401	1,278	1,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	65.41%	74.52%	68.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	893	869	878
10^th Percentile	£363	£331	£353
25^th Percentile	£463	£413	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£550	£579
Median % change year-on-year	+4.55%	-4.97%	-3.54%
75^th Percentile	£694	£675	£689
90^th Percentile	£775	£775	£804
Central London median daily rate	£574	£550	£578
% change year-on-year	+4.27%	-4.76%	-3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted	16	16	8
10^th Percentile	£17.13	£16.79	£13.18
25^th Percentile	£19.13	£20.08	£23.75
Median hourly rate	£23.58	£27.83	£45.00
Median % change year-on-year	-15.26%	-38.17%	+136.84%
75^th Percentile	£39.38	£42.94	£82.19
90^th Percentile	£63.25	£64.66	£109.38
Central London median hourly rate	£30.00	£28.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+6.57%	-19.57%	+55.56%

Aviation Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Aviation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Aviation Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Aviation.

Aviation Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Aviation.

Aviation Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Aviation also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for Aviation.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	1
1	Azure	100.0%	1
1	Azure AI	100.0%	1
1	CI/CD	100.0%	1
1	Data Governance	100.0%	1
1	DevOps	100.0%	1
1	Foundry	100.0%	1
1	Intelligent Automation	100.0%	1
1	Machine Learning	100.0%	1
1	Microsoft	100.0%	1
1	MLOps	100.0%	1
1	Multi-Agent System	100.0%	1
1	Power Platform	100.0%	1
1	Python	100.0%	1
1	Reinforcement Learning	100.0%	1
1	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	100.0%	1
1	SC Cleared	100.0%	1
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	1

Aviation Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	100.0%	1