Aviation Contract Job Trends in Crawley

Aviation
West Sussex > Crawley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies in Crawley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Aviation 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Crawley 2.75% 3.85% 1.75%
As % of the General category 4.23% 7.41% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £578 £325 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +67.14% -30.00% -13.64%
75th Percentile £593 £375 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median daily rate £585 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +67.14% -30.00% +8.11%

All General Skills
Crawley

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 Crawley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 71 27 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley 65.14% 51.92% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 14
10th Percentile £163 £136 -
25th Percentile £187 £157 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £200 £418
Median % change year-on-year +85.00% -52.10% +11.63%
75th Percentile £575 £363 £488
90th Percentile £650 £451 £496
West Sussex median daily rate £450 £445 £460
% change year-on-year +1.12% -3.26% -6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
West Sussex median hourly rate £55.00 £18.82 £28.00
% change year-on-year +192.24% -32.79% +18.62%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

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

Aviation job vacancy trend in Crawley

Aviation
Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Aviation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Aviation

Aviation
Hourly Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Aviation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Aviation

Aviation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) SwiftUI
3 1 (33.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Async-Await
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) iOS Development
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) IFRS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle