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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 331 348
Rank change year-on-year +59 +17 +37
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 293 182 223
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 0.60% 0.58%
As % of the General category 1.51% 0.99% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 45 97
10th Percentile £225 £214 £375
25th Percentile £444 £363 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £548 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -6.72% +3.17%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £663
90th Percentile £719 £742 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £548 £581
% change year-on-year -3.28% -5.72% +1.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 61 83
10th Percentile £25.38 £28.00 £28.15
25th Percentile £42.00 £35.36 £35.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -10.57%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £75.00 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £60.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.22% +10.00% -10.57%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,442 18,423 22,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.92% 60.51% 59.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,355 11,096 15,465
10th Percentile £275 £300 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,252 671 1,027
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.90 £18.00 £17.46
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.59 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -7.30% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.95 £71.25 £71.16
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year -12.73% -14.06% +28.00%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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
South West +24 82 £525 -4.20% 99
East of England +23 65 £413 +7.84% 82
South East +11 44 £555 +73.28% 151
London +7 33 £591 -3.83% 23
North of England -32 33 £449 - 101
Midlands -28 32 £467 -23.06% 37
North West -17 27 £450 - 85
East Midlands -20 17 £650 +5.35% 7
West Midlands -25 15 £363 +7.41% 30
North East -4 4 - - 9
Yorkshire - 2 £345 - 7
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 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.37%) CMS
3 3 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Documentum
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.10%) Siemens NX
3 10 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (2.73%) Simulink
5 6 (2.05%) FrameMaker
5 6 (2.05%) Stateflow
6 3 (1.02%) Maya
6 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.02%) NUKE
6 3 (1.02%) Windchill
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.34%) NASTRAN
7 1 (0.34%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 21 (7.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.46%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.73%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (2.39%) Oracle SCM
4 7 (2.39%) SAP HCM
5 5 (1.71%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.68%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.34%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (4.78%) AWS
2 13 (4.44%) Azure
3 10 (3.41%) GitHub
4 7 (2.39%) OCI
5 6 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (2.05%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.05%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.71%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.37%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.02%) GCP
9 1 (0.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.34%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.34%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.05%) DNS
1 6 (2.05%) PABX
2 4 (1.37%) DHCP
2 4 (1.37%) Firewall
2 4 (1.37%) SpaceWire
3 3 (1.02%) Network Security
3 3 (1.02%) RS-232
3 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.02%) VPN
4 2 (0.68%) FTP
4 2 (0.68%) HTTP
4 2 (0.68%) PBX
4 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.68%) SMTP
4 2 (0.68%) SNMP
4 2 (0.68%) SSL
4 2 (0.68%) WAN
4 2 (0.68%) Wireless
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.05%) Power BI
3 3 (1.02%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.68%) Metadata
5 1 (0.34%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.44%) GitLab
2 10 (3.41%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (3.07%) Git
4 7 (2.39%) JIRA
5 6 (2.05%) Rational Team Concert
6 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.02%) Maven
8 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.68%) Selenium
8 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.34%) Postman
9 1 (0.34%) Subversion
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 69 (23.55%) Manufacturing
2 68 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.22%) Aviation
4 23 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.85%) Automotive
5 22 (7.51%) Finance
6 13 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.75%) Military
7 11 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (3.41%) Publishing
9 9 (3.07%) Electronics
10 7 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Environmental Health
11 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 4 (1.37%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.02%) Avionics
12 3 (1.02%) Games
12 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.68%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 44 (15.02%) Systems Engineer
2 25 (8.53%) Lead
3 21 (7.17%) Software Engineer
4 19 (6.48%) Senior
5 18 (6.14%) Architect
6 16 (5.46%) Consultant
7 12 (4.10%) Administrator
7 12 (4.10%) Support Engineer
8 11 (3.75%) Analyst
8 11 (3.75%) Electrical Engineer
9 9 (3.07%) Developer
9 9 (3.07%) IT Engineer
9 9 (3.07%) SAP Consultant
9 9 (3.07%) SAP Support
10 8 (2.73%) SAP Administrator
11 7 (2.39%) Author
11 7 (2.39%) C++ Software Engineer
11 7 (2.39%) Technical Author
12 6 (2.05%) Desktop Support
12 6 (2.05%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.75%) SAP Fiori
2 10 (3.41%) XML
3 8 (2.73%) HTML
4 6 (2.05%) SGML
5 5 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.37%) CSS
6 4 (1.37%) Kafka
6 4 (1.37%) REST
7 3 (1.02%) Django
7 3 (1.02%) OpenID
7 3 (1.02%) SAML
7 3 (1.02%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.68%) Flash
8 2 (0.68%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.68%) LDAP
8 2 (0.68%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.68%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.34%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.75%) FPGA
4 10 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.39%) PCIe
7 6 (2.05%) Smartphone
7 6 (2.05%) State Machine
8 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.37%) CAN bus
9 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.37%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.37%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.37%) VHDL
10 3 (1.02%) Animation
10 3 (1.02%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 2 (0.68%) SCADA
11 2 (0.68%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.87%) Windows
2 17 (5.80%) Linux
3 6 (2.05%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (10.58%) Software Engineering
1 31 (10.58%) Validation
2 23 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (7.51%) Agile
4 21 (7.17%) PLM
5 20 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (6.48%) Mentoring
6 19 (6.48%) Migration
7 18 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (6.14%) Systems Engineering
8 17 (5.80%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (5.80%) DevOps
8 17 (5.80%) Project Management
8 17 (5.80%) Use Case
9 16 (5.46%) Containerisation
9 16 (5.46%) ERP
9 16 (5.46%) Knowledge Management
10 15 (5.12%) Change Management
11 14 (4.78%) AI
11 14 (4.78%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.19%) Python
2 18 (6.14%) C++
3 15 (5.12%) C
4 13 (4.44%) C#
5 12 (4.10%) Ada
6 10 (3.41%) SQL
7 9 (3.07%) Java
8 7 (2.39%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.05%) Fortran
9 6 (2.05%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.71%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.71%) Tcl
11 4 (1.37%) Bash
12 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.02%) VBA
13 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.34%) Bicep
14 1 (0.34%) Go
14 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.34%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 124 (42.32%) Security Cleared
2 92 (31.40%) SC Cleared
3 49 (16.72%) Degree
4 21 (7.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.05%) HNC
8 6 (2.05%) HND
9 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.02%) PMP
11 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.68%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.34%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.46%) QA
2 6 (2.05%) ECSS
2 6 (2.05%) ISO 9001
2 6 (2.05%) NIST
3 4 (1.37%) Def Stans
3 4 (1.37%) JSP 440
3 4 (1.37%) NCSC
4 3 (1.02%) GDPR
4 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.02%) NIST 800
4 3 (1.02%) SLA
5 2 (0.68%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) DO-160
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.05%) Docker
3 5 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.02%) Firmware
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.07%) Terraform
3 5 (1.71%) Ansible
3 5 (1.71%) Grafana
3 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.02%) PingFederate
5 2 (0.68%) Argo
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.34%) MOM
6 1 (0.34%) Puppet
6 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.34%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 38 (12.97%) SAP
2 27 (9.22%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.12%) Siemens
4 12 (4.10%) Oracle
5 11 (3.75%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.41%) VMware
7 8 (2.73%) Cisco
7 8 (2.73%) MathWorks
8 7 (2.39%) IBM
9 4 (1.37%) Google
9 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.02%) Databricks
10 3 (1.02%) HubSpot
10 3 (1.02%) IFS
10 3 (1.02%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.68%) Ariba
11 2 (0.68%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.68%) Splunk