Aerospace Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Aerospace
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.54% - 0.86%
As % of the General category 0.91% - 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £375
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £700 £607
% change year-on-year -28.57% +15.32% +33.41%

All General Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 110 75 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 59.14% 57.25% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 43 35
10th Percentile £263 £132 £187
25th Percentile £331 £250 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £316 £375
Median % change year-on-year +66.14% -15.73% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £449 £474
90th Percentile £645 £535 £563
East Midlands median daily rate £488 £402 £450
% change year-on-year +21.27% -10.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 1
10th Percentile £13.11 £19.03 -
25th Percentile £14.65 £19.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £16.46 £20.90 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% -2.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £22.00 £22.60 £22.25
90th Percentile £29.82 £24.94 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £21.39 £17.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +25.82% -49.09%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Aerospace relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Aerospace job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Aerospace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Aerospace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Leicester - 1 £400 - 8
Aerospace
East Midlands

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect