Aerospace Contracts 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 207 373
Rank change year-on-year -148 +166 +159
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 141 440 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 1.19% 0.61%
As % of the General category 0.86% 2.07% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 72 125
10th Percentile £481 £307 £356
25th Percentile £512 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £631 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +26.15% -
75th Percentile £636 £700 £600
90th Percentile £669 - £676
UK median daily rate £565 £631 £525
% change year-on-year -10.42% +20.14% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 258 99
10th Percentile £29.94 £30.78 £39.49
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65.50 £68.44 £69.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £60.75
% change year-on-year +5.00% -17.70% +21.50%

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 16,421 21,261 28,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.03% 57.26% 59.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 13,561 19,642
10th Percentile £281 £295 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 813 1,796 948
10th Percentile £13.27 £13.00 £13.93
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% +8.99% +28.26%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.82 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £31.61 £30.25
% change year-on-year -13.38% +4.48% +26.04%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 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
South East 0 33 £514 +150.73% 409
South West -46 29 £545 -22.14% 362
London +50 23 £613 -0.24% 443
East of England -51 20 - - 208
North West -1 18 £615 - 153
North of England -2 18 £615 -31.43% 220
Midlands +1 17 £525 -7.73% 186
West Midlands +14 12 £525 -0.10% 112
East Midlands -16 5 £750 +21.56% 75
Aerospace
UK

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.13%) Confluence
3 2 (1.42%) MTS
3 2 (1.42%) TPMS
Applications
1 10 (7.09%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (4.26%) Maya
2 6 (4.26%) NUKE
3 5 (3.55%) Windchill
4 4 (2.84%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (2.13%) Simulink
6 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.71%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 16 (11.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (8.51%) SAP PS
3 4 (2.84%) Teamcenter
4 2 (1.42%) Primavera
4 2 (1.42%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.71%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.71%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.71%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.71%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.71%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.71%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.84%) AWS
1 4 (2.84%) GitHub
2 3 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (2.13%) Amazon S3
2 3 (2.13%) Azure
2 3 (2.13%) Google Workspace
3 2 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.71%) Azure AKS
4 1 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (0.71%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.71%) Google Sheets
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) DNS
1 4 (2.84%) SpaceWire
2 3 (2.13%) Firewall
2 3 (2.13%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.42%) LAN
3 2 (1.42%) Network Security
3 2 (1.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.71%) FTP
4 1 (0.71%) HTTP
4 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.71%) RS-232
4 1 (0.71%) SMTP
4 1 (0.71%) SSL
4 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.84%) SAP HANA
2 3 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.71%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.71%) DTS
3 1 (0.71%) MS Access
3 1 (0.71%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.26%) JIRA
2 3 (2.13%) Git
2 3 (2.13%) GitLab
2 3 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.71%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (0.71%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.71%) LSMW
3 1 (0.71%) Postman
3 1 (0.71%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (0.71%) Redmine
3 1 (0.71%) Selenium
3 1 (0.71%) Subversion
3 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.15%) Manufacturing
3 22 (15.60%) Aviation
3 22 (15.60%) Finance
4 11 (7.80%) Automotive
5 9 (6.38%) Electronics
5 9 (6.38%) Military
6 8 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Games
7 6 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.55%) Avionics
9 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.13%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.42%) Aeronautics
11 2 (1.42%) Marketing
12 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (11.35%) Systems Engineer
2 15 (10.64%) Consultant
2 15 (10.64%) Senior
3 14 (9.93%) Architect
4 11 (7.80%) Lead
5 9 (6.38%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (5.67%) Developer
7 6 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.55%) ABAP Developer
8 5 (3.55%) Analyst
8 5 (3.55%) Business Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Business Process Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Electrical Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.55%) SAP Architect
9 4 (2.84%) Administrator
9 4 (2.84%) Project Planner
9 4 (2.84%) SAP Support
9 4 (2.84%) Senior ABAP Developer
9 4 (2.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.26%) CSS
1 6 (4.26%) Django
1 6 (4.26%) HTML
2 4 (2.84%) .NET
2 4 (2.84%) Node.js
3 3 (2.13%) LDAP
4 2 (1.42%) REST
4 2 (1.42%) RESTful
5 1 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.71%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.71%) Middleware
5 1 (0.71%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.71%) Qt
5 1 (0.71%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.71%) SAPUI5
5 1 (0.71%) Spring
5 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.71%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.71%) Web Services
5 1 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.09%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (4.26%) Animation
3 5 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.84%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.13%) FPGA
5 3 (2.13%) PKI
5 3 (2.13%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (2.13%) Replication
6 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.42%) IoT
6 2 (1.42%) Life Science
6 2 (1.42%) PMI
6 2 (1.42%) VHDL
7 1 (0.71%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.67%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Windows
3 3 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (14.89%) Project Management
2 16 (11.35%) Agile
2 16 (11.35%) Validation
3 14 (9.93%) ERP
3 14 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (9.22%) Software Engineering
5 12 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (7.09%) Data Protection
6 10 (7.09%) Systems Engineering
7 9 (6.38%) Change Management
7 9 (6.38%) Use Case
8 8 (5.67%) Coaching
8 8 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (5.67%) Migration
8 8 (5.67%) Verification and Validation
9 7 (4.96%) Computer Science
9 7 (4.96%) Configuration Management
9 7 (4.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (4.96%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (4.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.06%) Java
1 17 (12.06%) Python
2 12 (8.51%) C++
2 12 (8.51%) SQL
3 9 (6.38%) Tcl
4 6 (4.26%) ABAP
4 6 (4.26%) C
5 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.84%) MATLAB
5 4 (2.84%) Perl
6 3 (2.13%) Bash
6 3 (2.13%) VBA
7 2 (1.42%) Ada
7 2 (1.42%) C#
8 1 (0.71%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 45 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.60%) Degree
4 11 (7.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.84%) HNC
5 4 (2.84%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.84%) PMP
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.13%) CISSP
6 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) HND
7 2 (1.42%) CEH
7 2 (1.42%) CISM
7 2 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CCSP
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (3.55%) QA
2 4 (2.84%) NIST
2 4 (2.84%) PMO
3 2 (1.42%) ARP4754
3 2 (1.42%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.42%) GDPR
3 2 (1.42%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.42%) JSP 440
3 2 (1.42%) NCSC
3 2 (1.42%) PMBOK
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) ECSS
4 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.71%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.71%) MISRA
4 1 (0.71%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Firmware
2 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (26.24%) SAP
2 20 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.80%) Twitter
4 6 (4.26%) Google
5 5 (3.55%) Adobe
5 5 (3.55%) EMC
6 4 (2.84%) Cisco
7 3 (2.13%) IBM
7 3 (2.13%) IFS
8 2 (1.42%) Aruba
8 2 (1.42%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.42%) HP
8 2 (1.42%) MathWorks
8 2 (1.42%) Siemens
9 1 (0.71%) Ariba
9 1 (0.71%) Citrix
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle
9 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.71%) Wind River