Aerospace Contracts in Manchester

Aerospace
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 86 111
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +36
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Aerospace 12 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.18% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the General category 1.95% 0.32% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £650
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 - £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £20.00 - -
25th Percentile £20.66 - -
Median hourly rate £22.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £48.82 - -
North West median hourly rate £37.19 £40.33 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.77% -16.86% +67.24%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 616 623 882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 60.69% 51.79% 50.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 375 619
10th Percentile £296 £325 £231
25th Percentile £393 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £683
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.10% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 30 37
10th Percentile - £16.70 £14.39
25th Percentile £13.00 £23.96 £15.75
Median hourly rate £21.32 £34.00 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -37.31% +92.09% +0.25%
75th Percentile £55.12 £57.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.23 £64.25
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £26.60
% change year-on-year -12.60% +23.67% +33.00%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in Manchester

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in Manchester

Aerospace
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton -3 11 - - 4
Aerospace
North West

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Aviation
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) SAP Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) SAP Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (8.33%) Agile
2 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (8.33%) Kanban
2 1 (8.33%) LLM
2 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (8.33%) Microservices
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) Project Management
2 1 (8.33%) Scrum
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Twitter
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) IBM