Aerospace Contract Job Trends in England

Aerospace
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 368 271
Rank change year-on-year +62 -97 +113
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 275 120 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.45% 0.81%
As % of the General category 1.40% 0.72% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 28 79
10th Percentile £225 £316 £343
25th Percentile £425 £448 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% -8.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £626 £595 £675
90th Percentile £688 £709 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -8.76% -8.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 33 131
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.35 £21.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £39.04 £37.63
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.44 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £57.63 £55.25
% change year-on-year -0.48% +4.30% -15.00%

All General Skills
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 general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 19,695 16,635 21,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.93% 62.53% 58.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,540 10,022 14,558
10th Percentile £290 £300 £263
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.91% -1.68%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,212 542 1,356
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.62 £13.30
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.26 £15.17
Median hourly rate £22.85 £29.90 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.58% +15.00% +1.13%
75th Percentile £47.99 £57.50 £55.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.99 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £27.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +5.77% +4.00%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in England

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
South West +39 88 £450 -17.88% 101
East of England +33 71 £496 -17.33% 57
South East -3 41 £578 +27.38% 115
Midlands -53 26 £650 +92.59% 44
London -13 25 £625 +7.76% 27
North of England -56 22 £164 -71.82% 66
East Midlands -20 16 £650 - 15
North West -26 15 £250 -57.08% 48
West Midlands -39 10 - - 29
North East -9 7 £70 - 3
Aerospace
UK

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.45%) CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) Documentum
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.82%) Simulink
3 5 (1.82%) Stateflow
4 4 (1.45%) FrameMaker
4 4 (1.45%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.36%) CATIA
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (5.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.00%) Teamcenter
3 5 (1.82%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.09%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.73%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.73%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.36%) Azure
2 7 (2.55%) AWS
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (2.18%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.45%) Google Workspace
4 4 (1.45%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.09%) GitHub
5 3 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.36%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.36%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.18%) PABX
2 5 (1.82%) Firewall
3 3 (1.09%) DHCP
3 3 (1.09%) DNS
3 3 (1.09%) Network Security
4 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
5 1 (0.36%) MPLS
5 1 (0.36%) Multicast
5 1 (0.36%) OSPF
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) SNMP
5 1 (0.36%) VLAN
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
5 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.18%) Power BI
2 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.73%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (4.36%) Git
1 12 (4.36%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.64%) GitLab
3 6 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.82%) Rational Team Concert
5 3 (1.09%) JIRA
5 3 (1.09%) Maven
6 2 (0.73%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 63 (22.91%) Manufacturing
2 55 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (6.55%) Automotive
4 14 (5.09%) Aviation
4 14 (5.09%) Electronics
5 12 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.55%) Military
8 7 (2.55%) Publishing
9 6 (2.18%) Finance
10 4 (1.45%) Avionics
10 4 (1.45%) Environmental Health
10 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 4 (1.45%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (14.18%) Systems Engineer
2 33 (12.00%) Software Engineer
3 27 (9.82%) Senior
4 21 (7.64%) Lead
5 14 (5.09%) Support Engineer
6 13 (4.73%) Architect
6 13 (4.73%) Electrical Engineer
7 11 (4.00%) Administrator
7 11 (4.00%) Analyst
7 11 (4.00%) Consultant
8 9 (3.27%) IT Engineer
9 8 (2.91%) Embedded Engineer
9 8 (2.91%) Technical Support
10 7 (2.55%) Desktop Engineer
10 7 (2.55%) Desktop Support
10 7 (2.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 7 (2.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 7 (2.55%) Test Engineer
11 6 (2.18%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (2.18%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (3.27%) Middleware
3 7 (2.55%) XML
4 5 (1.82%) Kafka
4 5 (1.82%) LDAP
5 4 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.45%) HTML
6 3 (1.09%) Flash
6 3 (1.09%) OpenID
6 3 (1.09%) Qt
6 3 (1.09%) REST
6 3 (1.09%) SAML
6 3 (1.09%) SGML
6 3 (1.09%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.73%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.73%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (0.73%) Unreal Engine
8 1 (0.36%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.36%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.36%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (3.64%) FPGA
2 10 (3.64%) Operational Technology
3 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.55%) SCADA
5 6 (2.18%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.18%) Smartphone
6 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.82%) VHDL
7 4 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.45%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.45%) PCIe
8 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.09%) State Machine
9 2 (0.73%) CAN bus
9 2 (0.73%) Mixed Reality
9 2 (0.73%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.64%) Windows
2 18 (6.55%) Linux
3 6 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.18%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.82%) CentOS
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.73%) Debian
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (15.27%) Software Engineering
2 27 (9.82%) Validation
3 24 (8.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (7.27%) Systems Engineering
6 19 (6.91%) Agile
6 19 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (6.55%) Configuration Management
7 18 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (5.82%) Project Management
9 15 (5.45%) AI
9 15 (5.45%) PLM
9 15 (5.45%) Workflow
10 13 (4.73%) Analytics
10 13 (4.73%) Data Management
10 13 (4.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 12 (4.36%) Decision-Making
11 12 (4.36%) Verification and Validation
12 11 (4.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.36%) Ada
2 20 (7.27%) C++
3 19 (6.91%) C
4 18 (6.55%) Python
5 13 (4.73%) MATLAB
6 9 (3.27%) C#
7 6 (2.18%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.82%) Fortran
8 5 (1.82%) Java
8 5 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.45%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.09%) SQL
11 2 (0.73%) Bash
12 1 (0.36%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.36%) Go
12 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.36%) SAPscript
12 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 126 (45.82%) Security Cleared
2 89 (32.36%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.64%) Degree
4 14 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.45%) PMP
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.09%) HNC
7 3 (1.09%) HND
7 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.36%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.82%) QA
2 15 (5.45%) Def Stans
3 8 (2.91%) SLA
4 7 (2.55%) NIST
5 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.18%) ECSS
5 6 (2.18%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.45%) IEC 61508
8 3 (1.09%) MISRA
8 3 (1.09%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.73%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.73%) NCSC
10 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.82%) Docker
4 3 (1.09%) Firmware
4 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.73%) QEMU
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.00%) Ansible
2 9 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.91%) Podman
4 5 (1.82%) Check_MK
4 5 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (1.45%) Grafana
5 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.09%) PingFederate
6 3 (1.09%) Terraform
7 2 (0.73%) Argo
7 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.36%) Iperf
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
8 1 (0.36%) MOM
8 1 (0.36%) Nmap
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 25 (9.09%) SAP
2 22 (8.00%) VMware
3 11 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.64%) Siemens
5 9 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.91%) Cisco
7 5 (1.82%) MathWorks
7 5 (1.82%) Oracle
8 4 (1.45%) Google
9 3 (1.09%) Databricks
9 3 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.09%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.09%) Twitter
10 2 (0.73%) IBM
10 2 (0.73%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.73%) PTC
10 2 (0.73%) Veeam
10 2 (0.73%) Xilinx