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

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 375 425
Rank change year-on-year +39 +50 +142
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 34 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.092% 0.093%
As % of the General category 0.37% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 15
10th Percentile £491 £292 £500
25th Percentile £540 £325 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £604 £663
90th Percentile £670 £662 £702
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.36
25th Percentile - - £45.90
Median hourly rate - - £48.60
75th Percentile - - £53.09
90th Percentile - - £54.71
England median hourly rate £50.49 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -8.21% -4.35% +2.68%

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 9,277 10,132 14,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.89% 62.40% 64.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,161 6,924 10,618
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £424 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.27%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £813
England median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 137 173
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.08 £17.98
25th Percentile £24.66 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.25 £36.50 £31.92
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% +14.35% -11.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £65.42 £72.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace 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 31 August 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 31 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
Central London 0 3 £575 - 4
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (52.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (32.35%) SAP PS
3 4 (11.76%) SAP HCM
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (2.94%) SAP FI
5 1 (2.94%) SAP MDG
5 1 (2.94%) SAP PM
5 1 (2.94%) SAP PP
5 1 (2.94%) SAP 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%) Data Hub
2 1 (2.94%) DTS
2 1 (2.94%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.94%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) LSMW
General
1 15 (44.12%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Manufacturing
4 6 (17.65%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.94%) Aviation
7 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Consultant
2 7 (20.59%) Architect
2 7 (20.59%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (17.65%) Business Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Business Process Architect
4 5 (14.71%) SAP Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 4 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) IFS Consultant
6 3 (8.82%) SAP HCM Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Network Integration Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Project Leader
7 2 (5.88%) SAP PS Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (2.94%) SAP Financial Consultant
8 1 (2.94%) SAP Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) BAPI
1 1 (2.94%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (2.94%) SAPUI5
1 1 (2.94%) SpaCy
1 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Life Science
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) ERP
2 7 (20.59%) Use Case
2 7 (20.59%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (14.71%) Decision-Making
3 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (14.71%) Validation
4 4 (11.76%) Indirect Procurement
4 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (11.76%) Test Scripting
5 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
5 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
5 3 (8.82%) Migration
5 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.82%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (8.82%) Test Planning
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security
6 2 (5.88%) Collaborative Engineering
6 2 (5.88%) ITIL
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) ABAP
1 1 (2.94%) Python
1 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) ECSS
2 2 (5.88%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) SAP
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) IFS
4 2 (5.88%) Ariba
4 2 (5.88%) IBM
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) Siemens