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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 321 352
Rank change year-on-year +48 +31 +49
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 292 189 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.61% 0.61%
As % of the General category 1.51% 1.03% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 43 111
10th Percentile £250 £200 £374
25th Percentile £450 £341 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £547 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -4.87% +1.77%
75th Percentile £634 £634 £653
90th Percentile £716 £751 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £548 £575
% change year-on-year -2.01% -4.70% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 65 84
10th Percentile £22.63 £29.59 £28.47
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.36 £38.94
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -9.60%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £77.35
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.71%

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 19,359 18,300 23,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.71% 59.35% 59.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,267 10,981 15,978
10th Percentile £275 £300 £297
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,270 683 1,033
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.93 £17.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -1.54% +26.41%
75th Percentile £45.46 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.55 £71.25 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £24.27 £29.50 £31.71
% change year-on-year -17.72% -6.97% +26.84%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +17 76 £538 -1.74% 130
East of England +15 57 £500 +30.72% 99
South East +23 49 £552 +78.15% 144
London +19 36 £591 -3.83% 49
North of England -27 35 £449 - 67
Midlands -34 35 £459 -24.03% 56
North West -18 29 £450 - 53
West Midlands -22 18 £338 -22.90% 42
East Midlands -23 17 £650 +5.35% 13
North East -4 4 - - 7
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 (1.03%) 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 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.11%) Siemens NX
3 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (2.74%) Simulink
5 6 (2.05%) FrameMaker
5 6 (2.05%) Stateflow
6 5 (1.71%) Maya
6 5 (1.71%) NUKE
7 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.68%) Windchill
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.34%) NASTRAN
9 1 (0.34%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 24 (8.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.48%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.74%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (2.40%) Oracle SCM
4 7 (2.40%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.40%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.68%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.34%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 16 (5.48%) AWS
2 14 (4.79%) Azure
3 11 (3.77%) GitHub
4 7 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (2.40%) Amazon S3
4 7 (2.40%) OCI
5 6 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.05%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.71%) Google Workspace
6 5 (1.71%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.03%) GCP
9 1 (0.34%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.34%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.34%) Lucidchart
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%) Network Security
2 4 (1.37%) SpaceWire
2 4 (1.37%) WAN
3 3 (1.03%) LAN
3 3 (1.03%) RS-232
3 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.03%) 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%) Wireless
5 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.05%) Power BI
4 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.68%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (4.79%) GitLab
2 10 (3.42%) Git
2 10 (3.42%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (2.74%) JIRA
4 6 (2.05%) Rational Team Concert
5 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.03%) Maven
7 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.68%) Selenium
7 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) Postman
8 1 (0.34%) Subversion
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.95%) Manufacturing
3 30 (10.27%) Aviation
4 25 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.56%) Automotive
5 24 (8.22%) Finance
6 13 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.11%) Military
8 11 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (3.42%) Electronics
9 10 (3.42%) Publishing
10 7 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Games
12 4 (1.37%) Environmental Health
12 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Legal
12 4 (1.37%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.68%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 35 (11.99%) Systems Engineer
2 26 (8.90%) Lead
3 23 (7.88%) Architect
3 23 (7.88%) Senior
4 20 (6.85%) Software Engineer
5 16 (5.48%) Consultant
6 12 (4.11%) Administrator
6 12 (4.11%) Analyst
6 12 (4.11%) Support Engineer
7 11 (3.77%) Developer
8 9 (3.08%) IT Engineer
8 9 (3.08%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (3.08%) SAP Support
9 8 (2.74%) SAP Administrator
10 7 (2.40%) Author
10 7 (2.40%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (2.40%) IT Support
10 7 (2.40%) Technical Author
11 6 (2.05%) Desktop Engineer
11 6 (2.05%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.77%) SAP Fiori
2 10 (3.42%) HTML
2 10 (3.42%) XML
3 6 (2.05%) CSS
3 6 (2.05%) SGML
4 5 (1.71%) Django
4 5 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.71%) REST
5 4 (1.37%) Kafka
5 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.03%) OpenID
6 3 (1.03%) SAML
7 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.68%) Flash
7 2 (0.68%) Hugging Face
7 2 (0.68%) LDAP
7 2 (0.68%) Node.js
7 2 (0.68%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.68%) RESTful
7 2 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
1 15 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (3.77%) FPGA
2 11 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.40%) PCIe
6 6 (2.05%) Smartphone
6 6 (2.05%) State Machine
7 5 (1.71%) Animation
7 5 (1.71%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.37%) CAN bus
8 4 (1.37%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.37%) VHDL
9 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.03%) SCADA
10 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.22%) Windows
2 17 (5.82%) 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 32 (10.96%) Validation
2 30 (10.27%) Software Engineering
3 26 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (8.22%) Agile
5 21 (7.19%) Migration
6 20 (6.85%) Mentoring
6 20 (6.85%) PLM
6 20 (6.85%) Systems Engineering
7 19 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (6.51%) Use Case
8 18 (6.16%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (6.16%) ERP
9 17 (5.82%) Containerisation
9 17 (5.82%) DevOps
9 17 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (5.48%) Project Management
11 15 (5.14%) Data Protection
11 15 (5.14%) Knowledge Management
11 15 (5.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (5.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.25%) Python
2 20 (6.85%) C++
3 15 (5.14%) C
4 13 (4.45%) Java
4 13 (4.45%) SQL
5 12 (4.11%) Ada
5 12 (4.11%) C#
6 8 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.40%) Tcl
8 6 (2.05%) Fortran
8 6 (2.05%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.05%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.37%) Bash
10 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.03%) VBA
11 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.34%) Bicep
12 1 (0.34%) Go
12 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.34%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 123 (42.12%) Security Cleared
2 93 (31.85%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.12%) Degree
4 19 (6.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.05%) HNC
8 6 (2.05%) HND
9 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.03%) PMP
11 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.68%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.68%) CISSP
12 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.48%) QA
2 7 (2.40%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) ECSS
3 5 (1.71%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.37%) Def Stans
4 4 (1.37%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.37%) JSP 440
4 4 (1.37%) NCSC
5 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.03%) SLA
6 2 (0.68%) ARP4754
6 2 (0.68%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) DO-160
7 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.05%) Docker
3 5 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.03%) Firmware
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.08%) Terraform
3 5 (1.71%) Ansible
3 5 (1.71%) Grafana
3 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.03%) 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 42 (14.38%) SAP
2 30 (10.27%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.14%) Siemens
4 12 (4.11%) Oracle
4 12 (4.11%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.42%) Cisco
5 10 (3.42%) VMware
6 8 (2.74%) IBM
6 8 (2.74%) MathWorks
7 5 (1.71%) Google
8 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.03%) Databricks
9 3 (1.03%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.03%) IFS
9 3 (1.03%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.68%) Aruba
10 2 (0.68%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.68%) Xilinx