Aerospace Contracts in the East of England

Aerospace
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 17 69
Rank change year-on-year -47 +52 +11
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 31 120 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.52% 6.54% 2.67%
As % of the General category 4.40% 11.18% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 16
10th Percentile £501 £291 £488
25th Percentile £578 £341 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -30.77% +10.92%
75th Percentile £853 £491 £675
90th Percentile £934 £500 £676
England median daily rate £558 £629 £525
% change year-on-year -11.30% +19.71% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 95 26
10th Percentile £22.63 £31.42 £41.81
25th Percentile £41.25 £45.00 £56.56
Median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £68.69 - £70.00
90th Percentile £81.72 £60.00 £81.25
England median hourly rate £50.49 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.97% -16.67% +9.09%

All General Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 704 1,073 1,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 57.14% 58.47% 59.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 379 647
10th Percentile £195 £225 £213
25th Percentile £344 £332 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £638
90th Percentile £675 £651 £738
England median daily rate £513 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 421 274
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.30 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.07 £38.12 £19.21
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +98.49% +9.74%
75th Percentile £65.06 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.45 £33.75 £30.54
% change year-on-year -21.63% +10.51% +25.24%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the East of England

Aerospace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Aerospace in the East of England

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in the East of England

Aerospace
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Aerospace in the East of England

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in the East of England

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Hertfordshire -27 21 - - 58
Bedfordshire -22 4 - - 20
Cambridgeshire - 4 £713 - 13
Essex - 2 - - 18
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) Windchill
3 1 (3.23%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) GitHub
2 1 (3.23%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) SpaceWire
2 4 (12.90%) Network Security
3 3 (9.68%) DNS
3 3 (9.68%) FTP
3 3 (9.68%) HTTP
3 3 (9.68%) RS-232
3 3 (9.68%) SMTP
3 3 (9.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.23%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.23%) Redmine
2 1 (3.23%) Subversion
2 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (32.26%) Aviation
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Electronics
4 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Avionics
6 1 (3.23%) Finance
6 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Electrical Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Administrator
3 3 (9.68%) Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) IFS Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Radio Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) RF Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) SAP Administrator
3 3 (9.68%) SAP Support
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Configuration Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Configuration Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) FPGA Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) Node.js
2 1 (3.23%) React
2 1 (3.23%) Svelte
2 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) CAN bus
1 3 (9.68%) Cyberattack
1 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
1 3 (9.68%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.45%) FPGA
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) PCIe
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.23%) State Machine
3 1 (3.23%) VHDL
3 1 (3.23%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Windows
3 3 (9.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
1 5 (16.13%) Migration
1 5 (16.13%) Roadmaps
1 5 (16.13%) Validation
2 4 (12.90%) Agile
2 4 (12.90%) Data Acquisition
2 4 (12.90%) Performance Analysis
2 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
3 3 (9.68%) Change Management
3 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
3 3 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (9.68%) ERP
3 3 (9.68%) Functional Testing
3 3 (9.68%) Information Security
3 3 (9.68%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 3 (9.68%) Network Packet Capture
3 3 (9.68%) Risk Management
3 3 (9.68%) System Testing
3 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) C++
1 5 (16.13%) Python
2 4 (12.90%) C
2 4 (12.90%) Java
2 4 (12.90%) MATLAB
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) PL/SQL
3 3 (9.68%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Tcl
3 3 (9.68%) VBA
4 2 (6.45%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 15 (48.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (9.68%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.23%) CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) ECSS
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) GRC
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
1 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Twitter
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) IFS
3 3 (9.68%) SAP
4 2 (6.45%) EMC
5 1 (3.23%) IBM
5 1 (3.23%) Zscaler