Aerospace Contract Job Trends in London

Aerospace
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 364 413
Rank change year-on-year +27 +49 +133
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 34 17 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.11% 0.084%
As % of the General category 0.36% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 14
10th Percentile £460 £279 £504
25th Percentile £496 £465 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £614 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +6.74% +4.59%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £683
90th Percentile £683 £728 £738
England median daily rate £540 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +2.76% -4.45% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% -41.18%
England median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,501 9,844 13,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.31% 62.84% 64.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,214 6,295 9,592
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £823 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 111 169
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £18.26
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.84 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £37.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +6.38% +13.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £54.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.34 £76.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £31.56 £30.48
% change year-on-year -20.79% +3.56% +18.53%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in London

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in London over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in London

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the London region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Central London +5 1 £520 - 26
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (32.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (17.65%) SAP PS
3 5 (14.71%) SAP HCM
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (2.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
1 2 (5.88%) AWS
1 2 (5.88%) GitHub
1 2 (5.88%) OCI
2 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.88%) SNMP
1 2 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Legal
4 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Business Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Business Process Architect
2 5 (14.71%) SAP Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Digital Content Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) SAP Architect
4 3 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Product Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) QA Leader
5 2 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) XML
2 1 (2.94%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.94%) SpaCy
2 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
3 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
3 5 (14.71%) Use Case
3 5 (14.71%) Validation
4 4 (11.76%) AI
4 4 (11.76%) ERP
4 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
4 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (8.82%) Agile
5 3 (8.82%) Business Analysis
5 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (8.82%) Performance Management
5 3 (8.82%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (8.82%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (8.82%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (8.82%) Test Planning
5 3 (8.82%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) Degree
4 5 (14.71%) DV Cleared
5 3 (8.82%) PMI Certification
5 3 (8.82%) PMP
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 4 (11.76%) ECSS
2 4 (11.76%) ISO 9001
3 2 (5.88%) EU AI Act
3 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.94%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) SAP
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) HubSpot
4 2 (5.88%) Ariba
4 2 (5.88%) IBM
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Siemens