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 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 353 344
Rank change year-on-year +78 -9 +52
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 288 152 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.52% 0.59%
As % of the General category 1.49% 0.85% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 40 91
10th Percentile £225 £285 £350
25th Percentile £443 £372 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -8.75% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £666
90th Percentile £693 £760 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -6.93% -8.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 49 86
10th Percentile £26.29 £27.65 £29.11
25th Percentile £42.00 £42.50 £40.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £56.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +15.49% -13.25%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £76.68
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.77% +16.99% -14.19%

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 19,336 17,791 22,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 61.88% 61.41% 59.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,228 10,784 15,089
10th Percentile £280 £300 £285
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £664
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,257 620 1,007
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.61 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.37 £17.14
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.31 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.21% -8.17% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.75 £59.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.65
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -14.27% -16.03% +31.00%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 18 December 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 +27 85 £480 -12.41% 82
East of England +23 71 £550 +43.79% 78
South East -4 42 £555 +28.21% 118
London +15 30 £600 +2.13% 20
Midlands -35 29 £459 +28.70% 54
North of England -36 28 £447 -23.59% 86
North West -10 22 £449 -23.33% 57
East Midlands -11 16 £559 +48.93% 22
West Midlands -33 13 £363 +7.41% 29
North East -4 4 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £345 - 26
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 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.39%) CMS
3 3 (1.04%) Apache
3 3 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Documentum
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (6.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.17%) Siemens NX
3 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.08%) FrameMaker
4 6 (2.08%) Simulink
4 6 (2.08%) Stateflow
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.69%) Windchill
6 1 (0.35%) Maya
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.35%) NASTRAN
6 1 (0.35%) NUKE
6 1 (0.35%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 18 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.56%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (2.43%) Oracle SCM
5 5 (1.74%) SAP HCM
6 4 (1.39%) SAP PS
7 2 (0.69%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.69%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 1 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (4.86%) Azure
2 13 (4.51%) AWS
3 8 (2.78%) GitHub
4 7 (2.43%) OCI
5 6 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.74%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.39%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.04%) GCP
9 1 (0.35%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.35%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.35%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.43%) DNS
2 6 (2.08%) PABX
3 5 (1.74%) DHCP
4 4 (1.39%) Firewall
4 4 (1.39%) SpaceWire
5 3 (1.04%) Network Security
5 3 (1.04%) RS-232
5 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.04%) VPN
6 2 (0.69%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) HTTP
6 2 (0.69%) PBX
6 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.69%) SMTP
6 2 (0.69%) SNMP
6 2 (0.69%) SSL
6 2 (0.69%) WAN
6 2 (0.69%) Wireless
7 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.08%) Power BI
2 5 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.04%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.69%) Metadata
6 1 (0.35%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.51%) GitLab
2 11 (3.82%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (2.78%) Git
4 6 (2.08%) JIRA
4 6 (2.08%) Rational Team Concert
5 4 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.04%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.04%) Maven
7 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.35%) Selenium
8 1 (0.35%) Subversion
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (23.61%) Manufacturing
2 62 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 25 (8.68%) Aviation
4 21 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.29%) Automotive
5 20 (6.94%) Finance
6 13 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (3.47%) Electronics
8 10 (3.47%) Military
8 10 (3.47%) Publishing
9 8 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.39%) Environmental Health
10 4 (1.39%) Legal
10 4 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.04%) Avionics
11 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (16.32%) Systems Engineer
2 24 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 21 (7.29%) Lead
3 21 (7.29%) Senior
4 18 (6.25%) Architect
5 14 (4.86%) Electrical Engineer
6 12 (4.17%) Administrator
6 12 (4.17%) Analyst
6 12 (4.17%) Support Engineer
7 11 (3.82%) Consultant
8 9 (3.13%) IT Engineer
9 8 (2.78%) Developer
9 8 (2.78%) SAP Administrator
9 8 (2.78%) SAP Support
10 7 (2.43%) Author
10 7 (2.43%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (2.43%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (2.43%) Technical Author
11 6 (2.08%) Desktop Support
11 6 (2.08%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.82%) SAP Fiori
2 10 (3.47%) XML
3 6 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (2.08%) HTML
3 6 (2.08%) SGML
4 5 (1.74%) Kafka
5 4 (1.39%) REST
6 3 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.04%) OpenID
6 3 (1.04%) SAML
6 3 (1.04%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.69%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.69%) CSS
7 2 (0.69%) Flash
7 2 (0.69%) LDAP
7 2 (0.69%) Middleware
8 1 (0.35%) Django
8 1 (0.35%) Node.js
8 1 (0.35%) React
8 1 (0.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (3.82%) FPGA
3 10 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.43%) PCIe
6 6 (2.08%) Smartphone
6 6 (2.08%) State Machine
7 5 (1.74%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.39%) CAN bus
8 4 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.39%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.39%) VHDL
9 3 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.04%) SCADA
10 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.69%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.07%) Windows
2 18 (6.25%) Linux
3 6 (2.08%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (11.46%) Software Engineering
2 28 (9.72%) Validation
3 21 (7.29%) PLM
4 20 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (6.60%) DevOps
6 18 (6.25%) Agile
7 17 (5.90%) Mentoring
7 17 (5.90%) Migration
7 17 (5.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (5.56%) ERP
8 16 (5.56%) Knowledge Management
8 16 (5.56%) Use Case
9 15 (5.21%) Change Management
9 15 (5.21%) CI/CD
9 15 (5.21%) Project Management
9 15 (5.21%) Visualisation
10 14 (4.86%) Analytics
10 14 (4.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.64%) Python
2 18 (6.25%) C++
3 16 (5.56%) C
4 13 (4.51%) Ada
4 13 (4.51%) C#
5 9 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.43%) Java
6 7 (2.43%) SQL
7 6 (2.08%) Fortran
7 6 (2.08%) MATLAB
8 5 (1.74%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.39%) Bash
10 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.04%) Tcl
10 3 (1.04%) VBA
11 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.35%) Go
12 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.35%) SAPscript
12 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 91 (31.60%) SC Cleared
3 44 (15.28%) Degree
4 21 (7.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.08%) HNC
7 6 (2.08%) HND
8 5 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.04%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.04%) PMP
9 3 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.69%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.90%) QA
2 6 (2.08%) Def Stans
2 6 (2.08%) ECSS
2 6 (2.08%) ISO 9001
2 6 (2.08%) NIST
3 3 (1.04%) GDPR
3 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.04%) JSP 440
3 3 (1.04%) NCSC
3 3 (1.04%) SLA
4 2 (0.69%) EU AI Act
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (0.69%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.35%) DO-160
5 1 (0.35%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.43%) Docker
3 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.69%) Firmware
6 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.82%) Terraform
3 7 (2.43%) Ansible
4 6 (2.08%) Grafana
4 6 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.04%) PingFederate
6 2 (0.69%) Argo
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) logstash
7 1 (0.35%) MOM
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
7 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.35%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 34 (11.81%) SAP
2 25 (8.68%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.21%) Siemens
4 12 (4.17%) Oracle
4 12 (4.17%) VMware
5 11 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.78%) Cisco
7 6 (2.08%) IBM
7 6 (2.08%) MathWorks
8 5 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.39%) Google
10 3 (1.04%) Databricks
10 3 (1.04%) HubSpot
10 3 (1.04%) IFS
10 3 (1.04%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.69%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.69%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.69%) Splunk
11 2 (0.69%) Veeam