Aerospace Contracts 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 230 353
Rank change year-on-year -85 +123 +175
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 194 390 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 1.08% 0.66%
As % of the General category 1.12% 1.88% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 70 132
10th Percentile £447 £296 £357
25th Percentile £481 £377 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £612 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.13% +16.57% +1.94%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £613
90th Percentile £691 - £676
UK median daily rate £550 £610 £525
% change year-on-year -9.84% +16.19% -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 236 103
10th Percentile £22.63 £33.49 £35.37
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.81 £49.30
Median hourly rate £51.49 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67.00 £69.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £50.49 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.97% -16.67% +19.08%

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 17,341 20,725 27,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.67% 57.42% 59.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,102 13,259 19,598
10th Percentile £281 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £760 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 1,587 976
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £30.52
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% +14.68% +27.17%
75th Percentile £51.41 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £71.26
UK median hourly rate £26.21 £33.97 £30.54
% change year-on-year -22.83% +11.21% +24.05%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in England.

Daily rate trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in England.

Hourly rate trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 18 July 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 July 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 -21 43 £550 -21.43% 161
South East +1 41 £514 +60.63% 228
East of England -44 33 £713 +58.33% 118
North of England +4 29 £450 -49.83% 97
North West +6 28 £455 - 66
London +37 26 £613 +0.41% 88
Midlands -9 20 £488 -14.32% 106
West Midlands +14 14 £450 -14.37% 73
East Midlands -14 6 £750 +21.56% 31
Yorkshire - 1 £345 - 22
Aerospace
UK

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.55%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) MTS
3 2 (1.03%) TPMS
Applications
1 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.61%) Siemens NX
4 6 (3.09%) Maya
4 6 (3.09%) NUKE
4 6 (3.09%) Windchill
5 4 (2.06%) Simulink
5 4 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.52%) CATIA
7 1 (0.52%) NASTRAN
7 1 (0.52%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 17 (8.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (6.19%) SAP PS
2 12 (6.19%) Teamcenter
3 5 (2.58%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (2.06%) Oracle SCM
5 2 (1.03%) Primavera
5 2 (1.03%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.52%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.52%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.67%) AWS
2 8 (4.12%) GitHub
3 7 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (3.61%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.09%) Azure
5 4 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.06%) OCI
6 3 (1.55%) GCP
6 3 (1.55%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.52%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.52%) npm
7 1 (0.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.12%) DNS
2 6 (3.09%) SpaceWire
3 5 (2.58%) Firewall
4 4 (2.06%) Network Security
5 3 (1.55%) FTP
5 3 (1.55%) HTTP
5 3 (1.55%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.55%) RS-232
5 3 (1.55%) SMTP
5 3 (1.55%) SSL
5 3 (1.55%) VPN
6 2 (1.03%) DHCP
6 2 (1.03%) LAN
6 2 (1.03%) PBX
6 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.03%) WAN
6 2 (1.03%) Wireless
7 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.06%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.52%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.52%) DTS
3 1 (0.52%) MS Access
3 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (5.15%) GitLab
2 9 (4.64%) JIRA
3 4 (2.06%) Git
3 4 (2.06%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.52%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.52%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.52%) LSMW
5 1 (0.52%) Postman
5 1 (0.52%) Redmine
5 1 (0.52%) Selenium
5 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.52%) Subversion
5 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.10%) Manufacturing
3 32 (16.49%) Finance
4 30 (15.46%) Aviation
5 17 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.64%) Automotive
6 9 (4.64%) Electronics
6 9 (4.64%) Military
7 6 (3.09%) Games
7 6 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.58%) Avionics
9 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.03%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.03%) Marketing
10 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (13.40%) Systems Engineer
2 21 (10.82%) Architect
3 17 (8.76%) Senior
4 15 (7.73%) Consultant
5 12 (6.19%) Developer
6 11 (5.67%) Lead
7 10 (5.15%) Administrator
8 9 (4.64%) SAP Consultant
8 9 (4.64%) SAP Support
9 8 (4.12%) Analyst
9 8 (4.12%) SAP Administrator
10 7 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.09%) Business Architect
11 6 (3.09%) Business Process Architect
12 5 (2.58%) ABAP Developer
12 5 (2.58%) Electrical Engineer
12 5 (2.58%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.58%) SAP Architect
13 4 (2.06%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.61%) CSS
1 7 (3.61%) HTML
2 6 (3.09%) Django
3 5 (2.58%) .NET
3 5 (2.58%) LDAP
3 5 (2.58%) Node.js
4 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.03%) REST
4 2 (1.03%) RESTful
5 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.52%) Qt
5 1 (0.52%) React
5 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.52%) SAPUI5
5 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.52%) Svelte
5 1 (0.52%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.52%) Vue
5 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.73%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.09%) Animation
4 5 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.06%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.06%) FPGA
5 4 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.55%) CAN bus
6 3 (1.55%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.55%) PKI
6 3 (1.55%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (1.55%) Replication
7 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.03%) State Machine
7 2 (1.03%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.70%) Linux
2 10 (5.15%) Windows
3 3 (1.55%) Unix
4 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (11.34%) ERP
1 22 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
1 22 (11.34%) Validation
2 21 (10.82%) Project Management
3 20 (10.31%) Agile
4 16 (8.25%) Coaching
4 16 (8.25%) Migration
4 16 (8.25%) Use Case
5 15 (7.73%) Data Protection
6 14 (7.22%) Change Management
6 14 (7.22%) Computer Science
6 14 (7.22%) PLM
6 14 (7.22%) Software Engineering
7 13 (6.70%) Mentoring
8 11 (5.67%) Containerisation
8 11 (5.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (5.15%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (5.15%) Systems Engineering
9 10 (5.15%) Verification and Validation
10 9 (4.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.82%) Python
2 17 (8.76%) Java
3 15 (7.73%) SQL
4 14 (7.22%) C++
5 10 (5.15%) Tcl
6 7 (3.61%) C
7 6 (3.09%) ABAP
8 5 (2.58%) Bash
8 5 (2.58%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.58%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.06%) C#
9 4 (2.06%) Perl
9 4 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.06%) VBA
10 3 (1.55%) Ada
10 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.52%) Bicep
11 1 (0.52%) Fortran
11 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (41.75%) Security Cleared
2 64 (32.99%) SC Cleared
3 31 (15.98%) Degree
4 19 (9.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.64%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.06%) CISSP
7 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.06%) HNC
7 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.06%) PMP
8 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.55%) HND
8 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.03%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.03%) CEH
9 2 (1.03%) CISM
9 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.09%) NIST
2 6 (3.09%) QA
3 5 (2.58%) GDPR
4 3 (1.55%) PMO
5 2 (1.03%) ARP4754
5 2 (1.03%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.03%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.03%) JSP 440
5 2 (1.03%) NCSC
5 2 (1.03%) PMBOK
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) ECSS
6 1 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.52%) MISRA
6 1 (0.52%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (2.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (3.61%) Terraform
2 5 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.03%) Ansible
3 2 (1.03%) Grafana
3 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (22.16%) SAP
2 28 (14.43%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.31%) Twitter
4 8 (4.12%) Siemens
5 7 (3.61%) IBM
6 6 (3.09%) Cisco
6 6 (3.09%) Google
6 6 (3.09%) IFS
6 6 (3.09%) Oracle
7 5 (2.58%) Adobe
7 5 (2.58%) EMC
8 3 (1.55%) MathWorks
8 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.03%) Aruba
9 2 (1.03%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.03%) HP
9 2 (1.03%) Splunk
10 1 (0.52%) Citrix