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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 282 313
Rank change year-on-year +123 +31 +24
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 811 250 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 0.89% 0.67%
As % of the General category 3.11% 1.39% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 85 47
10th Percentile £431 £322 £224
25th Percentile £525 £450 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +11.28% -9.39%
75th Percentile £680 £650 £634
90th Percentile £800 £705 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £534 £538
% change year-on-year +7.68% -0.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 94 91
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.63 £31.97
25th Percentile £35.54 £37.19 £37.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £51.49 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% -14.18% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78.69 £67.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £90.13 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.00 £54.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.11% -8.75% +9.09%

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 26,116 17,975 19,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.51% 63.97% 58.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,203 11,399 11,463
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £527
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.03% -4.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,419 1,061 841
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.69 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.21 £45.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.51 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +18.18%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 East +88 369 £575 +6.09% 550
South West +25 171 £500 -6.98% 356
East of England +19 112 £530 -24.29% 282
North of England -13 82 £560 +24.75% 148
North West -19 59 £560 +24.33% 100
London -74 50 £675 +11.34% 301
Midlands -45 24 £550 +19.96% 166
East Midlands -10 19 £525 -19.23% 79
Yorkshire -22 14 - - 24
North East - 9 - - 24
West Midlands -56 4 - - 88
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 7 (0.86%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.25%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.25%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.12%) IIS
5 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.12%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.60%) Simulink
4 10 (1.23%) Windchill
5 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.49%) CATIA
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.49%) OrCAD
6 4 (0.49%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.25%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.12%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.99%) SAP PP
2 8 (0.99%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.74%) Primavera
4 5 (0.62%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.37%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.25%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.12%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.12%) Maximo
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 88 (10.85%) Azure
2 31 (3.82%) AWS
3 30 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (2.84%) GCP
4 23 (2.84%) Power Platform
5 15 (1.85%) GitHub
6 14 (1.73%) OpenShift
7 13 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (0.99%) Entra ID
9 7 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (0.86%) Google Sheets
10 6 (0.74%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.62%) Azure Functions
11 5 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.62%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.62%) Serverless
12 4 (0.49%) SaaS
13 3 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.37%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.97%) Wireless
2 12 (1.48%) DNS
3 11 (1.36%) Firewall
4 10 (1.23%) DHCP
4 10 (1.23%) Ethernet
5 8 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
6 7 (0.86%) VPN
7 4 (0.49%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.49%) Network Security
8 3 (0.37%) FTP
8 3 (0.37%) HTTP
8 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.37%) RS-232
8 3 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.37%) SSL
9 1 (0.12%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.12%) HSRP
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.47%) Power BI
2 17 (2.10%) Metadata
3 10 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.86%) MS Access
5 6 (0.74%) Big Data
6 5 (0.62%) Hadoop
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.49%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.49%) Tableau
8 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.25%) Looker
9 2 (0.25%) Parquet
9 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.12%) Db2
10 1 (0.12%) Power Query
10 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (5.43%) Rational DOORS
2 21 (2.59%) Git
3 19 (2.34%) JIRA
4 12 (1.48%) GitLab
5 8 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.25%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 215 (26.51%) Manufacturing
2 153 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 56 (6.91%) Finance
4 53 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (5.55%) Avionics
6 44 (5.43%) Electronics
7 37 (4.56%) Aviation
8 31 (3.82%) Automotive
9 20 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.10%) Military
10 17 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.85%) Public Sector
12 14 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.74%) Legal
16 5 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.49%) Law
18 3 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
19 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (12.70%) Systems Engineer
2 99 (12.21%) Lead
3 66 (8.14%) Architect
4 53 (6.54%) Senior
5 48 (5.92%) Delivery Manager
6 42 (5.18%) Software Engineer
7 35 (4.32%) Developer
7 35 (4.32%) QA Engineer
8 34 (4.19%) Quality Engineer
9 33 (4.07%) Administrator
10 30 (3.70%) Analyst
10 30 (3.70%) Test Engineer
11 23 (2.84%) Enterprise Architect
11 23 (2.84%) Test Technician
12 22 (2.71%) Configuration Manager
12 22 (2.71%) Product Manager
13 21 (2.59%) Change Manager
13 21 (2.59%) Product Delivery Manager
14 20 (2.47%) Embedded Engineer
14 20 (2.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.33%) Terraform
2 13 (1.60%) Middleware
2 13 (1.60%) REST
3 12 (1.48%) LDAP
4 9 (1.11%) XML
5 8 (0.99%) AngularJS
5 8 (0.99%) OAuth
5 8 (0.99%) React
5 8 (0.99%) SAML
6 7 (0.86%) ARM Templates
6 7 (0.86%) Redux
6 7 (0.86%) Vue
7 6 (0.74%) Backbone.js
7 6 (0.74%) Web Services
8 5 (0.62%) .NET
9 4 (0.49%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (0.49%) OpenID
10 3 (0.37%) RESTful
10 3 (0.37%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.37%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.07%) Management Information System
1 33 (4.07%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
3 18 (2.22%) FPGA
4 16 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (1.36%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.23%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.11%) Analogue Electronics
10 8 (0.99%) Robotics
10 8 (0.99%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.86%) VHDL
12 6 (0.74%) PCIe
13 5 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.62%) Verilog
14 4 (0.49%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.96%) Linux
2 23 (2.84%) Windows
3 13 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.25%) CentOS
7 2 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (18.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 115 (14.18%) Agile
3 104 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 100 (12.33%) Software Engineering
5 88 (10.85%) Roadmaps
6 81 (9.99%) Digital Engineering
7 77 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 62 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
10 61 (7.52%) DevOps
11 56 (6.91%) Systems Engineering
12 54 (6.66%) Risk Management
12 54 (6.66%) Validation
13 53 (6.54%) Technical Leadership
14 49 (6.04%) CI/CD
15 46 (5.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 45 (5.55%) Computer Science
16 45 (5.55%) ITIL
17 44 (5.43%) Decision-Making
18 43 (5.30%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (6.29%) Python
2 33 (4.07%) SQL
3 23 (2.84%) PowerShell
4 18 (2.22%) C
5 16 (1.97%) C++
5 16 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.73%) Java
6 14 (1.73%) MATLAB
7 13 (1.60%) Ada
8 11 (1.36%) Bash
9 8 (0.99%) Bicep
10 7 (0.86%) C#
11 4 (0.49%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.37%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.37%) SystemVerilog
12 3 (0.37%) X++
13 2 (0.25%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.25%) Rust
13 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 348 (42.91%) Security Cleared
2 268 (33.05%) SC Cleared
3 115 (14.18%) Degree
4 44 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (5.06%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.33%) CISSP
8 17 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.60%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.48%) PMP
11 11 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (1.23%) CISM
12 10 (1.23%) HNC
13 9 (1.11%) HND
14 8 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
15 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.86%) CEH
15 7 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.43%) QA
2 34 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.96%) Def Stans
4 23 (2.84%) NIST
5 16 (1.97%) Data Quality
6 15 (1.85%) GDPR
6 15 (1.85%) NCSC
7 14 (1.73%) GRC
8 10 (1.23%) IEC 61508
9 8 (0.99%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.99%) PMO
9 8 (0.99%) SLA
10 6 (0.74%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.62%) DO-254
11 5 (0.62%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.37%) DO-160
14 2 (0.25%) ARP4761
15 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 20 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.85%) Firmware
3 14 (1.73%) Docker
4 8 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) NFS
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.71%) Ansible
3 8 (0.99%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.49%) Grafana
5 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.37%) Istio
5 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.37%) MOM
6 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.12%) Nagios
7 1 (0.12%) Podman
7 1 (0.12%) PTC Integrity
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.12%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 102 (12.58%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.89%) SAP
3 28 (3.45%) EMC
4 16 (1.97%) Google
5 12 (1.48%) Oracle
6 11 (1.36%) VMware
7 9 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.11%) Xilinx
8 7 (0.86%) IBM
8 7 (0.86%) Intel
9 6 (0.74%) Altera
9 6 (0.74%) PTC
10 5 (0.62%) Adobe
10 5 (0.62%) Microsemi
10 5 (0.62%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.62%) Workday
11 4 (0.49%) Okta
11 4 (0.49%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.49%) Siemens
12 3 (0.37%) Ariba