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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 371 283
Rank change year-on-year +79 -88 +105
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 276 118 309
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.45% 0.81%
As % of the General category 1.40% 0.71% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 25 81
10th Percentile £225 £341 £317
25th Percentile £425 £465 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% -8.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £613 £591 £675
90th Percentile £686 £638 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -8.76% -8.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 34 136
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.90 £21.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £39.20 £38.56
Median hourly rate £57.43 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.63 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +9.09% -15.38%

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 19,653 16,563 22,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 59.75% 62.52% 58.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,508 9,974 14,915
10th Percentile £289 £297 £265
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,212 534 1,442
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.43 £15.12
Median hourly rate £22.54 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £47.13 £57.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.96 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £28.60 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% +10.00% +4.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +35 89 £450 -17.88% 88
East of England +31 73 £492 -18.00% 54
South East +8 41 £581 +28.04% 107
Midlands -51 25 £650 +92.59% 37
London -22 24 £650 +7.88% 34
North of England -54 22 £164 -71.82% 66
East Midlands -16 16 £650 - 10
North West -29 15 £250 -57.08% 52
West Midlands -45 9 - - 27
North East -10 7 £70 - 2
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 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.45%) CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) Documentum
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.81%) Simulink
3 5 (1.81%) Stateflow
4 4 (1.45%) FrameMaker
5 3 (1.09%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.36%) CATIA
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.36%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (5.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.99%) Teamcenter
3 5 (1.81%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.09%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.72%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.72%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.35%) Azure
2 7 (2.54%) AWS
3 6 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (1.81%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.45%) Google Workspace
5 4 (1.45%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.09%) GitHub
6 3 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.17%) PABX
2 5 (1.81%) Firewall
3 3 (1.09%) DHCP
3 3 (1.09%) DNS
3 3 (1.09%) Network Security
4 2 (0.72%) SpaceWire
4 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.72%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
5 1 (0.36%) MPLS
5 1 (0.36%) Multicast
5 1 (0.36%) OSPF
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) SNMP
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
5 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.81%) Power BI
2 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.72%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (4.35%) Git
1 12 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.62%) GitLab
3 6 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.81%) Rational Team Concert
5 3 (1.09%) Maven
6 2 (0.72%) JIRA
6 2 (0.72%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 64 (23.19%) Manufacturing
2 54 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (6.16%) Automotive
4 15 (5.43%) Aviation
4 15 (5.43%) Electronics
5 12 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.54%) Military
8 7 (2.54%) Publishing
9 5 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Avionics
9 5 (1.81%) Finance
10 4 (1.45%) Environmental Health
10 4 (1.45%) Legal
11 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.72%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (14.49%) Systems Engineer
2 35 (12.68%) Software Engineer
3 28 (10.14%) Senior
4 21 (7.61%) Lead
5 15 (5.43%) Support Engineer
6 13 (4.71%) Electrical Engineer
7 12 (4.35%) Architect
8 11 (3.99%) Administrator
8 11 (3.99%) Consultant
9 10 (3.62%) Analyst
10 9 (3.26%) IT Engineer
10 9 (3.26%) Technical Support
11 8 (2.90%) Embedded Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Author
12 7 (2.54%) Desktop Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Desktop Support
12 7 (2.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Technical Author
12 7 (2.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.99%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (3.26%) Middleware
3 7 (2.54%) XML
4 5 (1.81%) LDAP
5 4 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.45%) HTML
5 4 (1.45%) Kafka
6 3 (1.09%) Flash
6 3 (1.09%) OpenID
6 3 (1.09%) Qt
6 3 (1.09%) REST
6 3 (1.09%) SAML
6 3 (1.09%) SGML
6 3 (1.09%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.72%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.72%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (0.72%) Unreal Engine
8 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.36%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (3.99%) FPGA
3 10 (3.62%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.54%) SCADA
7 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.17%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.81%) VHDL
9 4 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.45%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.45%) PCIe
9 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.09%) CAN bus
10 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.09%) State Machine
11 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.72%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.61%) Windows
2 18 (6.52%) Linux
3 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.17%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.81%) CentOS
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.72%) Debian
7 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.72%) 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 44 (15.94%) Software Engineering
2 29 (10.51%) Validation
3 24 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 22 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (7.61%) Systems Engineering
6 19 (6.88%) Agile
6 19 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (6.52%) Configuration Management
7 18 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (5.80%) Project Management
9 15 (5.43%) PLM
10 14 (5.07%) Data Management
10 14 (5.07%) Workflow
11 13 (4.71%) AI
11 13 (4.71%) Analytics
11 13 (4.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 13 (4.71%) Verification and Validation
12 12 (4.35%) Decision-Making
13 11 (3.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.06%) Ada
2 21 (7.61%) C++
3 20 (7.25%) C
4 16 (5.80%) Python
5 13 (4.71%) MATLAB
6 9 (3.26%) C#
7 6 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.81%) Fortran
8 5 (1.81%) Java
8 5 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.45%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.09%) SQL
11 2 (0.72%) Bash
12 1 (0.36%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.36%) SAPscript
12 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 128 (46.38%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.61%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.23%) Degree
4 15 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.45%) PMP
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.09%) HNC
7 3 (1.09%) HND
7 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CCIE
9 1 (0.36%) CCNA
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.80%) QA
2 15 (5.43%) Def Stans
3 8 (2.90%) SLA
4 7 (2.54%) NIST
5 6 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.17%) ECSS
5 6 (2.17%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.45%) IEC 61508
8 3 (1.09%) MISRA
8 3 (1.09%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.72%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.72%) MIL-STD-1553
9 2 (0.72%) NCSC
10 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.81%) Docker
4 3 (1.09%) Firmware
4 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.72%) QEMU
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.99%) Ansible
2 8 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.90%) Podman
3 5 (1.81%) Check_MK
3 5 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (1.45%) Grafana
4 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.09%) PingFederate
5 3 (1.09%) Terraform
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.36%) Iperf
7 1 (0.36%) Kibana
7 1 (0.36%) logstash
7 1 (0.36%) MOM
7 1 (0.36%) Nmap
7 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.36%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 25 (9.06%) SAP
2 22 (7.97%) VMware
3 11 (3.99%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.99%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.62%) Siemens
5 9 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.90%) Cisco
7 5 (1.81%) MathWorks
8 4 (1.45%) Google
8 4 (1.45%) Oracle
8 4 (1.45%) Twitter
9 3 (1.09%) Databricks
9 3 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.09%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.72%) IBM
10 2 (0.72%) Intel
10 2 (0.72%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.72%) PTC
10 2 (0.72%) Xilinx