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 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 375 240
Rank change year-on-year +101 -135 +139
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 338 107 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.42% 0.97%
As % of the General category 1.62% 0.66% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 28 81
10th Percentile £225 £316 £317
25th Percentile £425 £448 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £649
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% -15.50% +17.91%
75th Percentile £613 £595 £700
90th Percentile £688 £655 -
UK median daily rate £500 £548 £650
% change year-on-year -8.76% -15.69% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 40 185
10th Percentile £28.14 £26.09 £23.77
25th Percentile £44.58 £39.03 £40.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +17.50% -19.35%
75th Percentile £70.71 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.38 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £56.38 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.73% +12.75% -20.00%

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 20,871 16,137 21,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.02% 62.63% 59.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,227 9,981 14,442
10th Percentile £300 £300 £264
25th Percentile £406 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,297 533 1,578
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.62 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.05 £20.19 £15.17
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.81 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +18.48% -13.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% +15.38% -7.52%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +45 109 £450 -17.88% 74
South East +26 79 £581 +28.04% 96
East of England +34 77 £492 -18.00% 47
Midlands -44 27 £650 +92.59% 38
North of England -54 26 £70 -87.98% 44
London -17 19 £650 +1.56% 24
North West -28 19 £78 -86.55% 34
East Midlands -18 18 £650 - 11
West Midlands -52 9 - - 27
North East -7 7 £70 - 1
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 6 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.18%) CMS
3 3 (0.89%) Apache
3 3 (0.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) Documentum
4 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.89%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.89%) Simulink
3 3 (0.89%) Stateflow
4 2 (0.59%) CATIA
5 1 (0.30%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 14 (4.14%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.18%) SAP MM
3 3 (0.89%) SAP EWM
3 3 (0.89%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.59%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.59%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.30%) Demantra
5 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (3.55%) Azure
2 8 (2.37%) AWS
3 7 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (2.07%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.18%) Google Workspace
4 4 (1.18%) OpenShift
5 3 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.89%) GitHub
5 3 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.78%) PABX
2 5 (1.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.89%) DHCP
3 3 (0.89%) DNS
4 2 (0.59%) Network Security
4 2 (0.59%) SpaceWire
4 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.59%) VPN
5 1 (0.30%) BGP
5 1 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.30%) LAN
5 1 (0.30%) MPLS
5 1 (0.30%) Multicast
5 1 (0.30%) OSPF
5 1 (0.30%) SAN
5 1 (0.30%) VLAN
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.07%) Power BI
2 3 (0.89%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.59%) Metadata
3 2 (0.59%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (5.92%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (3.55%) Git
3 11 (3.25%) GitLab
4 6 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.48%) Rational Rhapsody
6 4 (1.18%) JIRA
7 3 (0.89%) Maven
7 3 (0.89%) Rational Team Concert
8 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (20.41%) Manufacturing
2 61 (18.05%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.33%) Aviation
4 15 (4.44%) Electronics
4 15 (4.44%) Finance
5 13 (3.85%) Automotive
5 13 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.37%) Military
9 6 (1.78%) Avionics
10 4 (1.18%) Environmental Health
10 4 (1.18%) Publishing
11 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Legal
12 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.59%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (13.91%) Systems Engineer
2 43 (12.72%) Software Engineer
3 37 (10.95%) Senior
4 26 (7.69%) Lead
5 17 (5.03%) Consultant
6 16 (4.73%) Administrator
6 16 (4.73%) Architect
7 15 (4.44%) Support Engineer
8 13 (3.85%) Electrical Engineer
8 13 (3.85%) Technical Support
9 12 (3.55%) Analyst
10 11 (3.25%) Embedded Engineer
10 11 (3.25%) IT Manager
10 11 (3.25%) Senior Manager
11 10 (2.96%) IT Engineer
12 9 (2.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (2.66%) Product Manager
13 8 (2.37%) C++ Software Engineer
13 8 (2.37%) Technical Engineer
14 7 (2.07%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.25%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (2.66%) Middleware
3 5 (1.48%) LDAP
4 4 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.18%) Kafka
4 4 (1.18%) REST
4 4 (1.18%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.18%) XML
5 3 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (0.89%) Flash
5 3 (0.89%) HTML
5 3 (0.89%) OpenID
5 3 (0.89%) Qt
5 3 (0.89%) SAML
6 2 (0.59%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 2 (0.59%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.30%) RESTful
7 1 (0.30%) Spring
7 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.14%) Management Information System
1 14 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (2.96%) FPGA
2 10 (2.96%) Operational Technology
2 10 (2.96%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.78%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.78%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.78%) SCADA
4 6 (1.78%) Smartphone
5 5 (1.48%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.48%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.48%) VHDL
6 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.18%) Learning Management System
7 3 (0.89%) CAN bus
7 3 (0.89%) PCIe
8 2 (0.59%) Mixed Reality
8 2 (0.59%) State Machine
8 2 (0.59%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.51%) Windows
2 18 (5.33%) Linux
3 7 (2.07%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.48%) CentOS
6 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.59%) Debian
8 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (17.46%) Software Engineering
2 37 (10.95%) Validation
3 33 (9.76%) Configuration Management
3 33 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (9.47%) Systems Engineering
5 31 (9.17%) Roadmaps
6 27 (7.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (7.69%) Agile
8 25 (7.40%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (7.10%) PLM
9 24 (7.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (7.10%) Verification and Validation
10 23 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
11 20 (5.92%) Data Management
12 17 (5.03%) ITIL
12 17 (5.03%) Project Management
13 16 (4.73%) Digital Engineering
13 16 (4.73%) Migration
13 16 (4.73%) Workflow
14 15 (4.44%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.47%) Ada
2 21 (6.21%) C++
3 17 (5.03%) C
3 17 (5.03%) Python
4 14 (4.14%) MATLAB
5 7 (2.07%) C#
6 6 (1.78%) Java
6 6 (1.78%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.48%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.18%) SQL
9 3 (0.89%) Fortran
9 3 (0.89%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.30%) ABAP
11 1 (0.30%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.30%) SAPscript
11 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 175 (51.78%) Security Cleared
2 116 (34.32%) SC Cleared
3 39 (11.54%) Degree
4 26 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.18%) PMP
7 3 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.89%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.30%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.33%) QA
2 17 (5.03%) Def Stans
3 14 (4.14%) NIST
4 7 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.07%) IEC 61508
4 7 (2.07%) SLA
5 6 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.48%) ECSS
6 5 (1.48%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.89%) DO-254
7 3 (0.89%) ISO 26262
7 3 (0.89%) MISRA
7 3 (0.89%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.89%) NCSC
7 3 (0.89%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.59%) MIL-STD-1553
8 2 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.48%) Docker
4 3 (0.89%) Firmware
4 3 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.59%) QEMU
6 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (3.55%) Ansible
2 9 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.37%) Podman
4 5 (1.48%) Check_MK
4 5 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (1.18%) Grafana
5 4 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.18%) Terraform
6 3 (0.89%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.30%) Argo
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.30%) Iperf
8 1 (0.30%) Kibana
8 1 (0.30%) logstash
8 1 (0.30%) Nessus
8 1 (0.30%) Nmap
8 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (8.88%) SAP
2 22 (6.51%) VMware
3 14 (4.14%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.25%) Siemens
5 10 (2.96%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.96%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.96%) Twitter
6 8 (2.37%) Cisco
7 5 (1.48%) IBM
8 4 (1.18%) Google
9 3 (0.89%) Databricks
9 3 (0.89%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.89%) MathWorks
9 3 (0.89%) Oracle
9 3 (0.89%) Ping Identity
9 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.59%) Intel
10 2 (0.59%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.59%) Veeam
10 2 (0.59%) Xilinx
311 Aerospace jobs in England