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 24 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 367 287
Rank change year-on-year +77 -80 +95
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 273 121 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.45% 0.78%
As % of the General category 1.40% 0.73% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 31 81
10th Percentile £225 £310 £317
25th Percentile £425 £399 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% -8.67% +5.78%
75th Percentile £628 £595 £675
90th Percentile £683 £718 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -8.76% -8.67% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 31 124
10th Percentile £30.00 £26.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £39.36 £35.75
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +8.60% -15.00%
75th Percentile £67.81 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £72.13
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -4.42% +8.11% -14.62%

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 19,569 16,674 22,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.19% 62.38% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,477 10,062 14,653
10th Percentile £286 £300 £266
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -4.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,214 547 1,315
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.00 £15.17
Median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +11.54% +1.13%
75th Percentile £46.94 £55.84 £55.47
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.80 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £22.92 £27.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -16.65% +5.77% +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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +38 85 £450 -17.81% 110
East of England +32 73 £500 -16.67% 73
South East -1 38 £578 +27.38% 144
London -3 26 £625 +3.73% 31
Midlands -44 26 £650 +82.46% 62
North of England -54 23 £164 -71.82% 79
East Midlands -20 16 £650 +73.33% 30
North West -31 16 £250 -57.08% 51
West Midlands -52 10 - - 31
North East -7 7 £70 - 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 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.47%) CMS
3 3 (1.10%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Documentum
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.83%) FrameMaker
3 5 (1.83%) Simulink
3 5 (1.83%) Stateflow
4 3 (1.10%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (5.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.30%) Teamcenter
3 5 (1.83%) SAP HCM
4 3 (1.10%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle SCM
5 2 (0.73%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.73%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.40%) Azure
2 7 (2.56%) AWS
3 6 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (2.20%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.47%) Google Workspace
4 4 (1.47%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.10%) GitHub
5 3 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (0.73%) OCI
7 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.37%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) PABX
2 4 (1.47%) Firewall
3 3 (1.10%) DHCP
3 3 (1.10%) DNS
3 3 (1.10%) Network Security
4 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.73%) SNMP
4 2 (0.73%) WAN
5 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.37%) LAN
5 1 (0.37%) SAN
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.20%) Power BI
2 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.73%) Metadata
4 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (4.76%) Git
2 12 (4.40%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (3.66%) GitLab
4 6 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.83%) Rational Team Concert
6 3 (1.10%) JIRA
6 3 (1.10%) Maven
7 2 (0.73%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 61 (22.34%) Manufacturing
2 58 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.96%) Automotive
4 13 (4.76%) Aviation
4 13 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (4.76%) Electronics
5 11 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (4.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.30%) Publishing
7 7 (2.56%) Finance
7 7 (2.56%) Military
8 4 (1.47%) Environmental Health
8 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Legal
8 4 (1.47%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.10%) Avionics
9 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (13.92%) Systems Engineer
2 34 (12.45%) Software Engineer
3 26 (9.52%) Senior
4 20 (7.33%) Lead
5 13 (4.76%) Architect
5 13 (4.76%) Electrical Engineer
6 12 (4.40%) Analyst
6 12 (4.40%) Support Engineer
7 11 (4.03%) Administrator
8 10 (3.66%) Consultant
9 9 (3.30%) IT Engineer
10 8 (2.93%) Author
10 8 (2.93%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (2.93%) Technical Author
11 7 (2.56%) Desktop Engineer
11 7 (2.56%) Desktop Support
11 7 (2.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 7 (2.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 7 (2.56%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.20%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.03%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (3.30%) Middleware
2 9 (3.30%) XML
3 5 (1.83%) Kafka
3 5 (1.83%) LDAP
3 5 (1.83%) SGML
4 4 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.47%) HTML
5 3 (1.10%) Flash
5 3 (1.10%) OpenID
5 3 (1.10%) Qt
5 3 (1.10%) REST
5 3 (1.10%) SAML
5 3 (1.10%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.73%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.73%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 2 (0.73%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.37%) Quarkus
7 1 (0.37%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (3.66%) FPGA
2 10 (3.66%) Operational Technology
3 9 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.56%) SCADA
6 6 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.20%) Smartphone
7 5 (1.83%) PCIe
7 5 (1.83%) VHDL
8 4 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.47%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.47%) State Machine
9 3 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.73%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (0.73%) Verilog
10 2 (0.73%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.06%) Windows
2 19 (6.96%) Linux
3 6 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.20%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.83%) CentOS
5 4 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.73%) Debian
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (15.38%) Software Engineering
2 28 (10.26%) Validation
3 22 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 20 (7.33%) Systems Engineering
5 18 (6.59%) Agile
5 18 (6.59%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (6.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (6.23%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (5.86%) Project Management
8 15 (5.49%) AI
8 15 (5.49%) Configuration Management
8 15 (5.49%) Workflow
9 13 (4.76%) Analytics
10 12 (4.40%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 12 (4.40%) PLM
11 11 (4.03%) Decision-Making
11 11 (4.03%) Requirements Management
11 11 (4.03%) Software Testing
11 11 (4.03%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.42%) Ada
2 21 (7.69%) C++
3 18 (6.59%) C
4 17 (6.23%) Python
5 13 (4.76%) MATLAB
6 10 (3.66%) C#
7 6 (2.20%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.83%) Fortran
8 5 (1.83%) Java
8 5 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.47%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.10%) SQL
11 1 (0.37%) Bash
11 1 (0.37%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.37%) Go
11 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.37%) SAPscript
11 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (45.42%) Security Cleared
2 87 (31.87%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.09%) Degree
4 14 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.83%) HNC
6 5 (1.83%) HND
7 4 (1.47%) PMP
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.10%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CCNA
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.37%) MCSE
10 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.86%) QA
2 15 (5.49%) Def Stans
3 8 (2.93%) SLA
4 7 (2.56%) NIST
5 6 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.20%) ECSS
5 6 (2.20%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.47%) IEC 61508
8 3 (1.10%) MISRA
8 3 (1.10%) MISRA C
9 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.73%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.37%) DO-160
10 1 (0.37%) NCSC
10 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.83%) Docker
4 3 (1.10%) Firmware
4 3 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.73%) QEMU
6 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.66%) Ansible
2 9 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.93%) Podman
4 5 (1.83%) Check_MK
4 5 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (1.47%) Grafana
5 4 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.10%) PingFederate
6 3 (1.10%) Terraform
7 2 (0.73%) Argo
7 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) logstash
8 1 (0.37%) MOM
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 24 (8.79%) SAP
2 22 (8.06%) VMware
3 11 (4.03%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.30%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.30%) Siemens
5 7 (2.56%) Cisco
6 6 (2.20%) Oracle
7 5 (1.83%) MathWorks
8 4 (1.47%) Google
9 3 (1.10%) Databricks
9 3 (1.10%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.10%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.73%) IBM
10 2 (0.73%) Intel
10 2 (0.73%) PTC
10 2 (0.73%) Twitter
10 2 (0.73%) Veeam
10 2 (0.73%) Xilinx