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 10 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 367 328
Rank change year-on-year +74 -39 +40
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 280 132 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 0.49% 0.66%
As % of the General category 1.47% 0.79% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 35 74
10th Percentile £225 £314 £314
25th Percentile £434 £399 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £548 £594
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% -7.71% +4.27%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £672
90th Percentile £686 £766 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -8.76% -8.67% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 35 99
10th Percentile £30.00 £26.09 £25.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £40.22 £37.88
Median hourly rate £57.35 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £69.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.50 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £56.75
% change year-on-year -10.57% +8.37% -12.69%

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 19,050 16,789 21,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.85% 62.07% 59.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,092 10,138 14,416
10th Percentile £285 £298 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -2.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £653
90th Percentile £738 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,197 551 1,057
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.53 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -7.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £46.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.87 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £23.33 £27.39 £31.80
% change year-on-year -14.81% -13.88% +27.20%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +24 79 £500 -8.68% 91
East of England +26 78 £500 +25.00% 59
South East -3 39 £578 +20.10% 111
Midlands -39 28 £559 +56.77% 43
North of England -30 27 £400 -31.62% 82
London -4 26 £591 +1.81% 17
North West -25 19 £449 -23.33% 58
East Midlands -14 17 £650 +73.33% 20
West Midlands -39 11 £275 -18.52% 23
North East -2 6 £70 - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £345 - 17
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 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.43%) CMS
3 3 (1.07%) Apache
3 3 (1.07%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) Documentum
4 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.29%) Siemens NX
3 8 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.14%) FrameMaker
5 5 (1.79%) Simulink
5 5 (1.79%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.36%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (5.36%) Teamcenter
3 5 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.79%) Oracle SCM
3 5 (1.79%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.07%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.71%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.71%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.36%) Azure
2 10 (3.57%) AWS
3 6 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.79%) OCI
4 5 (1.79%) OpenShift
5 4 (1.43%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.07%) GCP
6 3 (1.07%) GitHub
6 3 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.36%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.50%) DNS
2 6 (2.14%) PABX
3 5 (1.79%) DHCP
3 5 (1.79%) Firewall
4 4 (1.43%) Network Security
5 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.07%) VPN
6 2 (0.71%) FTP
6 2 (0.71%) HTTP
6 2 (0.71%) PBX
6 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.71%) SMTP
6 2 (0.71%) SNMP
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
6 2 (0.71%) WAN
6 2 (0.71%) Wireless
7 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.36%) LAN
7 1 (0.36%) SAN
7 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.14%) Power BI
2 3 (1.07%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.71%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (5.00%) Git
2 13 (4.64%) GitLab
3 10 (3.57%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (3.21%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.79%) JIRA
5 5 (1.79%) Rational Team Concert
6 3 (1.07%) Maven
7 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.36%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 66 (23.57%) Manufacturing
2 58 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 20 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (7.14%) Automotive
4 16 (5.71%) Finance
5 15 (5.36%) Aviation
6 13 (4.64%) Electronics
6 13 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (3.57%) Publishing
9 8 (2.86%) Military
10 5 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.43%) Environmental Health
11 4 (1.43%) Legal
11 4 (1.43%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.07%) Avionics
13 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (13.21%) Systems Engineer
2 29 (10.36%) Software Engineer
3 27 (9.64%) Senior
4 21 (7.50%) Lead
5 20 (7.14%) Architect
6 14 (5.00%) Analyst
7 13 (4.64%) Administrator
7 13 (4.64%) Electrical Engineer
8 12 (4.29%) Support Engineer
9 10 (3.57%) Consultant
10 9 (3.21%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.50%) Author
11 7 (2.50%) Desktop Engineer
11 7 (2.50%) Desktop Support
11 7 (2.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 7 (2.50%) Technical Author
11 7 (2.50%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.14%) C++ Software Engineer
12 6 (2.14%) SAP Consultant
12 6 (2.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.93%) SAP Fiori
2 10 (3.57%) XML
3 9 (3.21%) Middleware
4 7 (2.50%) LDAP
5 6 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (2.14%) SGML
6 5 (1.79%) Kafka
7 4 (1.43%) HTML
7 4 (1.43%) REST
8 3 (1.07%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.07%) Flash
8 3 (1.07%) OpenID
8 3 (1.07%) SAML
8 3 (1.07%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.71%) Qt
9 2 (0.71%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 2 (0.71%) Unreal Engine
10 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (3.93%) FPGA
3 10 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.50%) SCADA
7 6 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.14%) PCIe
7 6 (2.14%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.79%) State Machine
8 5 (1.79%) VHDL
9 4 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.43%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.71%) CAN bus
10 2 (0.71%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (0.71%) Mixed Reality
10 2 (0.71%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.00%) Windows
2 22 (7.86%) Linux
3 6 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.14%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.79%) CentOS
5 4 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.71%) Debian
7 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.71%) 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 37 (13.21%) Software Engineering
2 23 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (7.86%) Validation
4 21 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 20 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 20 (7.14%) PLM
5 20 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
6 19 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (6.07%) Agile
8 17 (6.07%) Use Case
9 16 (5.71%) Knowledge Management
9 16 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (5.36%) AI
10 15 (5.36%) Coaching
10 15 (5.36%) DevOps
10 15 (5.36%) Project Management
10 15 (5.36%) Visualisation
10 15 (5.36%) Workflow
11 14 (5.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.50%) Python
2 18 (6.43%) C++
3 15 (5.36%) Ada
3 15 (5.36%) C
4 11 (3.93%) C#
4 11 (3.93%) MATLAB
5 9 (3.21%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.14%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.79%) Fortran
7 5 (1.79%) Java
8 4 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.43%) SQL
9 3 (1.07%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.36%) Go
10 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.36%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 128 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 96 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.29%) Degree
4 15 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.14%) HNC
6 6 (2.14%) HND
7 5 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.07%) PMP
9 3 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.71%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.07%) QA
2 12 (4.29%) Def Stans
3 10 (3.57%) NIST
4 8 (2.86%) SLA
5 6 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.14%) ECSS
5 6 (2.14%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.07%) GDPR
7 3 (1.07%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.71%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.71%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.71%) MISRA
8 2 (0.71%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.71%) NCSC
8 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.50%) Docker
3 6 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.43%) Firmware
5 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.71%) QEMU
7 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.00%) Ansible
2 11 (3.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.86%) Podman
4 6 (2.14%) Grafana
4 6 (2.14%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.14%) Terraform
5 5 (1.79%) Check_MK
5 5 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (1.07%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.71%) Argo
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
8 1 (0.36%) MOM
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 26 (9.29%) SAP
2 22 (7.86%) VMware
3 16 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.36%) Siemens
5 13 (4.64%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.21%) Cisco
7 9 (3.21%) Oracle
8 5 (1.79%) MathWorks
9 4 (1.43%) Google
10 3 (1.07%) Databricks
10 3 (1.07%) HubSpot
10 3 (1.07%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.07%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.71%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.71%) IBM
11 2 (0.71%) Splunk
11 2 (0.71%) Veeam
11 2 (0.71%) Xilinx