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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 475 493
Rank change year-on-year +42 +18 +224
Contract jobs citing Aviation 70 58 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.39% 0.30% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 50
10th Percentile £325 £375 £398
25th Percentile £403 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £722 £625 £594
90th Percentile £933 £650 £629
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 33
10th Percentile £20.00 £18.36 £26.91
25th Percentile £22.63 £26.75 £32.30
Median hourly rate £37.59 £46.74 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +33.42% +0.09%
75th Percentile £51.25 £76.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £58.28
UK median hourly rate £37.59 £45.00 £37.52
% change year-on-year -16.47% +19.95% +7.19%

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 17,764 19,252 26,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.95% 57.42% 59.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,336 12,441 18,776
10th Percentile £281 £300 £313
25th Percentile £402 £416 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £659 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 945 1,263 960
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.32 £18.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +32.59% +18.80%
75th Percentile £50.75 £60.00 £59.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.39 £71.34
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +27.07% +22.25%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 East +24 17 £475 -15.56% 71
East of England +15 17 £553 -8.87% 26
London +7 13 £425 -5.56% 81
South West +28 10 £110 -73.11% 46
North of England -5 9 £550 -15.38% 20
North West -1 7 £550 -15.38% 13
Yorkshire -5 2 - - 4
East Midlands -2 1 £750 - 10
Midlands -8 1 £750 - 17
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 3 (4.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.86%) Windchill
3 1 (1.43%) CATIA
3 1 (1.43%) Simulink
3 1 (1.43%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Workday HCM
2 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.43%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.43%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.57%) AWS
2 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (4.29%) Azure
2 3 (4.29%) Serverless
3 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.43%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (1.43%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.43%) GitHub
4 1 (1.43%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.43%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Firewall
1 4 (5.71%) Network Security
1 4 (5.71%) SpaceWire
2 3 (4.29%) LAN
2 3 (4.29%) RS-232
2 3 (4.29%) WAN
3 2 (2.86%) 5G
3 2 (2.86%) FTP
3 2 (2.86%) HTTP
3 2 (2.86%) SSL
3 2 (2.86%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (2.86%) VoIP
3 2 (2.86%) VPN
3 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.86%) Wireless
3 2 (2.86%) WLAN
4 1 (1.43%) DNS
4 1 (1.43%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.43%) SMTP
4 1 (1.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
1 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.43%) Data Hub
2 1 (1.43%) MS Access
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.43%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.43%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (2.86%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (1.43%) Appium
3 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.43%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) JUnit
3 1 (1.43%) LSMW
3 1 (1.43%) Maven
3 1 (1.43%) Postman
3 1 (1.43%) Selenium
3 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.43%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (47.14%) Aerospace
2 24 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Finance
5 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.14%) Military
6 4 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.86%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (2.86%) Marketing
8 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.86%) Police
8 2 (2.86%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (20.00%) Administrator
2 8 (11.43%) Architect
2 8 (11.43%) SAP Administrator
2 8 (11.43%) SAP Support
3 5 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 5 (7.14%) Workday Architect
4 4 (5.71%) Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Consultant
5 3 (4.29%) Requirements Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Senior
6 2 (2.86%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 2 (2.86%) ERP Implementation Manager
6 2 (2.86%) ERP Manager
6 2 (2.86%) Lead
6 2 (2.86%) Migration Specialist
6 2 (2.86%) Network Design Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Network Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Senior Configuration Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) XML
2 1 (1.43%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.43%) BAPI
2 1 (1.43%) Chai
2 1 (1.43%) Jest
2 1 (1.43%) Kafka
2 1 (1.43%) LDAP
2 1 (1.43%) Middleware
2 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.43%) REST
2 1 (1.43%) SGML
2 1 (1.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.29%) CAN bus
2 3 (4.29%) CCTV
3 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.86%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) IoT
3 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.86%) Robotics
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.43%) PMI
4 1 (1.43%) SCADA
4 1 (1.43%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) Windows
2 6 (8.57%) Linux
3 2 (2.86%) VMS
3 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (15.71%) Agile
3 9 (12.86%) Change Management
3 9 (12.86%) Validation
4 7 (10.00%) Project Management
5 6 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (8.57%) Roadmaps
6 5 (7.14%) Analytics
6 5 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 5 (7.14%) Migration
6 5 (7.14%) Network Design
6 5 (7.14%) PLM
6 5 (7.14%) Software Engineering
6 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (5.71%) ERP
7 4 (5.71%) ITIL
7 4 (5.71%) Mathematics
7 4 (5.71%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.71%) Python
2 3 (4.29%) C
3 2 (2.86%) Java
3 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.43%) ABAP
4 1 (1.43%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.43%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (1.43%) Ada
4 1 (1.43%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.43%) Bash
4 1 (1.43%) Fortran
4 1 (1.43%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.43%) SQL
4 1 (1.43%) Tcl
4 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.43%) VBA
4 1 (1.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (18.57%) Degree
5 4 (5.71%) DBS Check
6 3 (4.29%) IIBA
6 3 (4.29%) PMP
7 2 (2.86%) CCNP
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.86%) HNC
7 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.43%) CCDE
8 1 (1.43%) CCDP
8 1 (1.43%) CCIE
8 1 (1.43%) CCNA
8 1 (1.43%) CCSA
8 1 (1.43%) CCSE
8 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.43%) HND
8 1 (1.43%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) FortiGate
1 2 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (32.86%) Twitter
2 12 (17.14%) SAP
3 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.14%) Cisco
4 5 (7.14%) Workday
5 2 (2.86%) Aruba
5 2 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.86%) Google
5 2 (2.86%) HP
5 2 (2.86%) Ribbon
5 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.86%) Tenable
6 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.43%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.43%) EMC
6 1 (1.43%) Juniper
6 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.43%) Siemens
6 1 (1.43%) Wind River