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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 343 380
Rank change year-on-year -72 +37 +38
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 50 32 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.24% 0.081%
As % of the General category 0.40% 0.35% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 8
10th Percentile £591 £465 £265
25th Percentile £622 £506 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £606 £582
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% +4.17% +5.77%
75th Percentile £782 £645 £667
90th Percentile £871 £709 £733
England median daily rate £575 £543 £488
% change year-on-year +5.99% +11.28% -9.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £47.44 - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.74 - -
75th Percentile £65.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £51.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.52% -14.18% +9.09%

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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,523 9,104 10,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.94% 68.48% 62.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,983 5,991 6,513
10th Percentile £350 £331 £332
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £780 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 180 118
10th Percentile £15.70 £17.46 £17.43
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.24 £25.36
Median hourly rate £29.03 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% -12.16% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.37 £70.20 £72.38
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 12 October 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in London over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in London

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 12 October 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
South London - 8 - - 4
Central London -23 6 £675 +6.30% 29
West London - 2 £800 - 14
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 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Fuse
1 1 (2.00%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Windchill
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.00%) Siemens NX
2 1 (2.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) SAP QM
2 1 (2.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) GCP
4 6 (12.00%) GitHub
5 5 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
1 1 (2.00%) MQTT
1 1 (2.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.00%) eggPlant
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (52.00%) Manufacturing
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
3 10 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 9 (18.00%) Automotive
5 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Aviation
6 3 (6.00%) Military
7 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.00%) German Language
8 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Senior
2 7 (14.00%) Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Data Scientist
4 4 (8.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Digital Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.00%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) React
2 7 (14.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (14.00%) Redux
2 7 (14.00%) Vue
3 6 (12.00%) Backbone.js
4 3 (6.00%) Terraform
5 2 (4.00%) REST
5 2 (4.00%) XML
6 1 (2.00%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (2.00%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.00%) JDBC
6 1 (2.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.00%) JSP
6 1 (2.00%) LangChain
6 1 (2.00%) LangGraph
6 1 (2.00%) Middleware
6 1 (2.00%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (2.00%) Node.js
6 1 (2.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Algorithms
1 7 (14.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Verilog
4 2 (4.00%) VHDL
5 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.00%) FPGA
5 1 (2.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Mashup
5 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Robotics
5 1 (2.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) macOS
2 1 (2.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Agile
1 12 (24.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (16.00%) AI
2 8 (16.00%) Data Analysis
2 8 (16.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (14.00%) Data Cleansing
3 7 (14.00%) PLM
3 7 (14.00%) Project Delivery
3 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (12.00%) DevOps
5 5 (10.00%) Business Transformation
5 5 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.00%) ERP
5 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.00%) Data Science
6 4 (8.00%) Predictive Maintenance
6 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) Python
1 10 (20.00%) SQL
2 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) C
4 1 (2.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 26 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) MBA
5 1 (2.00%) PgMP
5 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.00%) NCSC
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) PMO
2 1 (2.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.00%) SAP
2 3 (6.00%) Apple
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.00%) PTC
2 3 (6.00%) Siemens
3 2 (4.00%) Ariba
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Kepware
4 1 (2.00%) VMware