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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 320 357
Rank change year-on-year +56 +37 +32
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 296 194 227
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 0.63% 0.59%
As % of the General category 1.52% 1.04% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 44 101
10th Percentile £235 £207 £376
25th Percentile £447 £352 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -4.78% +0.98%
75th Percentile £650 £632 £655
90th Percentile £720 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £548 £575
% change year-on-year -2.01% -4.70% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 65 82
10th Percentile £25.84 £28.00 £27.82
25th Percentile £41.81 £35.36 £35.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +10.00% -10.57%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.38 £75.00 £78.02
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 19,458 18,607 23,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.44% 59.96% 59.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,321 11,162 15,743
10th Percentile £275 £300 £288
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £670
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 1,268 697 1,023
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.94 £18.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £24.48 £31.97 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% -3.12% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £59.57 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.50 £71.65
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £29.00 £32.41
% change year-on-year -16.93% -10.52% +29.64%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 80 £538 -1.83% 90
East of England +21 63 £413 +7.84% 79
South East +9 47 £555 +73.28% 128
North of England -35 35 £449 - 55
London +20 34 £600 -2.28% 19
Midlands -33 33 £467 -23.06% 38
North West -15 29 £450 - 42
East Midlands -17 17 £650 +5.35% 9
West Midlands -18 16 £363 +7.41% 28
North East -5 4 - - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £345 - 6
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 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.35%) CMS
3 3 (1.01%) 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 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.05%) Siemens NX
3 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (2.70%) Simulink
5 6 (2.03%) FrameMaker
5 6 (2.03%) Stateflow
6 4 (1.35%) Maya
6 4 (1.35%) NUKE
7 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (1.01%) Windchill
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.34%) NASTRAN
8 1 (0.34%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 21 (7.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.41%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (2.36%) Oracle SCM
4 7 (2.36%) SAP HCM
5 5 (1.69%) 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 16 (5.41%) AWS
2 14 (4.73%) Azure
3 11 (3.72%) GitHub
4 7 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (2.36%) Amazon S3
4 7 (2.36%) OCI
5 6 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.03%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.69%) Google Workspace
6 5 (1.69%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.01%) GCP
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%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.34%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.03%) DNS
1 6 (2.03%) PABX
2 4 (1.35%) DHCP
2 4 (1.35%) Firewall
2 4 (1.35%) Network Security
2 4 (1.35%) SpaceWire
3 3 (1.01%) RS-232
3 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.01%) VPN
3 3 (1.01%) WAN
4 2 (0.68%) FTP
4 2 (0.68%) HTTP
4 2 (0.68%) LAN
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%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.03%) Power BI
4 3 (1.01%) 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 (4.73%) GitLab
2 10 (3.38%) Git
2 10 (3.38%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (2.70%) JIRA
4 6 (2.03%) Rational Team Concert
5 4 (1.35%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.01%) 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 71 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.97%) Manufacturing
3 29 (9.80%) Aviation
4 24 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.11%) Automotive
5 22 (7.43%) Finance
6 13 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.72%) Military
7 11 (3.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (3.38%) Electronics
8 10 (3.38%) Publishing
9 7 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Environmental Health
10 4 (1.35%) Games
10 4 (1.35%) Legal
10 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.01%) Avionics
11 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 42 (14.19%) Systems Engineer
2 26 (8.78%) Lead
3 20 (6.76%) Architect
3 20 (6.76%) Senior
3 20 (6.76%) Software Engineer
4 16 (5.41%) Consultant
5 12 (4.05%) Administrator
5 12 (4.05%) Support Engineer
6 11 (3.72%) Analyst
7 10 (3.38%) Developer
8 9 (3.04%) Electrical Engineer
8 9 (3.04%) IT Engineer
8 9 (3.04%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (3.04%) SAP Support
9 8 (2.70%) SAP Administrator
10 7 (2.36%) Author
10 7 (2.36%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (2.36%) IT Support
10 7 (2.36%) Technical Author
11 6 (2.03%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.72%) SAP Fiori
2 10 (3.38%) XML
3 9 (3.04%) HTML
4 6 (2.03%) SGML
5 5 (1.69%) CSS
5 5 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.69%) REST
6 4 (1.35%) Django
6 4 (1.35%) Kafka
6 4 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.01%) OpenID
7 3 (1.01%) SAML
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%) RESTful
8 2 (0.68%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.34%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (4.73%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.72%) FPGA
4 10 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.36%) PCIe
7 6 (2.03%) Smartphone
7 6 (2.03%) State Machine
8 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.69%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.35%) Animation
9 4 (1.35%) CAN bus
9 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.35%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.35%) VHDL
10 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.01%) SCADA
11 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.11%) Windows
2 17 (5.74%) Linux
3 6 (2.03%) 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 (10.81%) Validation
2 30 (10.14%) Software Engineering
3 25 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (7.77%) Agile
5 21 (7.09%) Migration
5 21 (7.09%) PLM
6 20 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (6.76%) Mentoring
7 19 (6.42%) Systems Engineering
8 18 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (6.08%) Project Management
8 18 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (5.74%) Containerisation
9 17 (5.74%) DevOps
9 17 (5.74%) Use Case
10 16 (5.41%) ERP
10 16 (5.41%) Knowledge Management
11 15 (5.07%) Change Management
12 14 (4.73%) AI
12 14 (4.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.45%) Python
2 19 (6.42%) C++
3 15 (5.07%) C
4 12 (4.05%) Ada
4 12 (4.05%) C#
5 11 (3.72%) Java
5 11 (3.72%) SQL
6 7 (2.36%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.03%) Fortran
7 6 (2.03%) MATLAB
7 6 (2.03%) Tcl
8 5 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.35%) Bash
10 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.01%) VBA
11 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.34%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.34%) Go
12 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.34%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 123 (41.55%) Security Cleared
2 91 (30.74%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.23%) Degree
4 21 (7.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.03%) HNC
7 6 (2.03%) HND
8 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.01%) PMP
10 3 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.68%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.68%) CISSP
11 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.41%) QA
2 7 (2.36%) NIST
3 6 (2.03%) ECSS
3 6 (2.03%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.35%) Def Stans
4 4 (1.35%) GDPR
4 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.35%) JSP 440
4 4 (1.35%) NCSC
5 3 (1.01%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.01%) SLA
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%) ARP4754
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 7 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.03%) Docker
3 5 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) Firmware
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.04%) Terraform
3 5 (1.69%) Ansible
3 5 (1.69%) Grafana
3 5 (1.69%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.01%) 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 (12.84%) SAP
2 28 (9.46%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.07%) Siemens
4 12 (4.05%) Oracle
5 11 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.38%) VMware
7 9 (3.04%) Cisco
8 8 (2.70%) IBM
8 8 (2.70%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.69%) Google
10 4 (1.35%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.01%) Databricks
11 3 (1.01%) HubSpot
11 3 (1.01%) IFS
11 3 (1.01%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.68%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.68%) Splunk
12 2 (0.68%) Xilinx