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 23 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 376 412
Rank change year-on-year +32 +36 +137
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 34 16 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.10% 0.080%
As % of the General category 0.35% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 14
10th Percentile £458 £401 £504
25th Percentile £513 £495 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £614 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +6.74% +4.59%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £683
90th Percentile £728 £739 £738
England median daily rate £540 £547 £575
% change year-on-year -1.28% -4.87% +1.37%
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 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +11.36% -10.57%

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 9,594 10,043 13,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.20% 63.12% 64.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,263 6,447 9,406
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £780 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 118 169
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.43 £18.47
25th Percentile £20.08 £27.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.40 £39.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile £45.44 £55.94 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.00 £78.51 £75.25
England median hourly rate £24.61 £31.62 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.17% -2.71% +26.41%

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 23 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
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 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (14.71%) SAP HCM
3 4 (11.76%) SAP PS
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 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Manufacturing
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Electronics
5 3 (8.82%) Legal
5 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) SAP Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Lead
3 4 (11.76%) Product Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Digital Content Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Quality Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Business Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Business Process Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Integration 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 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) FPGA
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
2 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (17.65%) Validation
3 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
4 4 (11.76%) AI
4 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
5 3 (8.82%) Agile
5 3 (8.82%) Business Analysis
5 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
5 3 (8.82%) CRM
5 3 (8.82%) Performance Management
5 3 (8.82%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (8.82%) Project Management
5 3 (8.82%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (8.82%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (8.82%) Use Case
5 3 (8.82%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 14 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (32.35%) 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 6 (17.65%) ECSS
1 6 (17.65%) ISO 9001
2 5 (14.71%) QA
3 2 (5.88%) EU AI Act
3 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.94%) Def Stans
4 1 (2.94%) DO-160
4 1 (2.94%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) SAP
2 3 (8.82%) HubSpot
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Ariba
3 2 (5.88%) IBM
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) EMC
4 1 (2.94%) Keysight
4 1 (2.94%) Siemens