Aviation Contracts in England

Aviation
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 460 544
Rank change year-on-year +35 +84 +162
Contract jobs citing Aviation 60 82 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.38% 0.38% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 52
10th Percentile £248 £215 £327
25th Percentile £325 £226 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +6.02%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £614
90th Percentile £778 £673 £698
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £562
% change year-on-year +5.88% -24.38% +7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 35
10th Percentile £30.88 £25.80 £25.95
25th Percentile £39.04 £34.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £52.50 £51.74 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +29.34% -10.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £59.70
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £51.74 £41.00
% change year-on-year +1.47% +26.19% -7.87%

All General Skills
England

Aviation 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 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Aviation in England

Aviation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Aviation in England

Aviation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in England

Aviation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Aviation in England

Aviation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aviation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aviation in England

Aviation
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 Aviation within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +29 18 £400 -3.03% 60
East of England +40 14 £650 +30.00% 30
South East +28 11 £450 -6.25% 70
South West +42 7 £713 +14.00% 52
North of England +19 7 £550 +331.37% 28
North West +15 5 £550 +331.37% 19
Yorkshire - 2 - - 9
Midlands +19 1 £450 +69.81% 23
East Midlands +10 1 £450 - 12
Aviation
UK

Aviation
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Windchill
3 1 (1.67%) CATIA
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Workday HCM
2 2 (3.33%) Maximo
3 1 (1.67%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.67%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
2 3 (5.00%) Serverless
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.33%) Azure
3 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.67%) GitHub
4 1 (1.67%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.67%) IaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (6.67%) Firewall
3 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (3.33%) Network Security
4 2 (3.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.67%) BGP
5 1 (1.67%) DNS
5 1 (1.67%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.67%) FTP
5 1 (1.67%) HTTP
5 1 (1.67%) LAN
5 1 (1.67%) OSPF
5 1 (1.67%) SMTP
5 1 (1.67%) SNMP
5 1 (1.67%) SSL
5 1 (1.67%) VLAN
5 1 (1.67%) VoIP
5 1 (1.67%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) Wireless
5 1 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.67%) Data Hub
1 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (1.67%) MS Access
1 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.67%) Power BI
1 1 (1.67%) SAP BW
1 1 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (1.67%) SAP HANA
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Appium
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.67%) GoogleTest
3 1 (1.67%) LSMW
3 1 (1.67%) MLflow
3 1 (1.67%) Postman
3 1 (1.67%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.67%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (1.67%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 11 (18.33%) Finance
4 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Automotive
7 2 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 2 (3.33%) Military
7 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Police
7 2 (3.33%) Swedish Language
7 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Architect
2 6 (10.00%) Analyst
2 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (6.67%) Developer
3 4 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Consultant
4 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (5.00%) Project Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Project Support Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Technical Architect
4 3 (5.00%) Workday Architect
4 3 (5.00%) Workday Consultant
5 2 (3.33%) Configuration Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) ERP Implementation Manager
5 2 (3.33%) Lead
5 2 (3.33%) Senior
5 2 (3.33%) Senior Configuration Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) CSS
1 2 (3.33%) HTML
1 2 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (1.67%) BAPI
2 1 (1.67%) Chai
2 1 (1.67%) Kafka
2 1 (1.67%) LDAP
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) Node.js
2 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.67%) Qt
2 1 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.67%) RESTful
2 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.67%) Web Services
2 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) CCTV
2 4 (6.67%) IoT
3 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Robotics
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.67%) CMDB
5 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) PMI
5 1 (1.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
1 5 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Unix
3 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) Agile
2 12 (20.00%) Project Management
2 12 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 9 (15.00%) Analytics
3 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (11.67%) Migration
4 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
4 7 (11.67%) Validation
5 6 (10.00%) User Experience
6 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (8.33%) PLM
6 5 (8.33%) Prototyping
6 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (6.67%) Data Migration
7 4 (6.67%) Data Validation
7 4 (6.67%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (5.00%) Python
1 3 (5.00%) SQL
2 2 (3.33%) Bash
2 2 (3.33%) C
2 2 (3.33%) C++
2 2 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (1.67%) ABAP
3 1 (1.67%) Ada
3 1 (1.67%) Assembly Language
3 1 (1.67%) C#
3 1 (1.67%) Perl
3 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.67%) Ruby
3 1 (1.67%) Tcl
3 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.33%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) PMP
5 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.33%) CCNP
5 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CCDP
6 1 (1.67%) CCIE
6 1 (1.67%) CCNA
6 1 (1.67%) CCSA
6 1 (1.67%) CCSE
6 1 (1.67%) HNC
6 1 (1.67%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.67%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.67%) MCITP
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) PMO
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.67%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.67%) MISRA
2 1 (1.67%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
2 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.33%) Grafana
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Twitter
2 6 (10.00%) Workday
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.33%) Google
5 2 (3.33%) Ribbon
5 2 (3.33%) Tenable
6 1 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.67%) EMC
6 1 (1.67%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.67%) Juniper
6 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.67%) SAP
6 1 (1.67%) Siemens
6 1 (1.67%) Wind River