Aerospace Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Aerospace
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 96 115
Rank change year-on-year -26 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 24 38 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.91% 1.40% 1.12%
As % of the General category 1.46% 2.45% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 24
10th Percentile £284 £368 £415
25th Percentile £342 £516 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +8.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £612 £623 £600
90th Percentile £705 £632 £632
England median daily rate £552 £488 £538
% change year-on-year +13.28% -9.34% -4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile £35.60 £40.16 £32.09
25th Percentile £42.80 £42.84 £32.58
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.56 £33.40
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +45.41% -4.59%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £34.21
90th Percentile £53.75 - £34.70
England median hourly rate £50.49 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.97% -9.09% -0.90%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,642 1,553 1,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 61.96% 57.31% 50.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 973 994
10th Percentile £219 £228 £247
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £613
90th Percentile £638 £724 £725
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 93 69
10th Percentile £14.66 £12.80 £13.10
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.59 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% -4.04% +25.00%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.93 £43.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.38 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% +40.00% +10.93%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the Midlands

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Aerospace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in the Midlands

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Aerospace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in the Midlands

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
West Midlands -9 14 £338 -35.84% 77
East Midlands -21 10 £650 +7.08% 55
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.17%) Alfresco
1 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Documentum
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Maya
1 6 (25.00%) NUKE
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.17%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 12 (50.00%) Automotive
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Games
4 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Finance
6 2 (8.33%) Military
7 1 (4.17%) Aviation
7 1 (4.17%) Back Office
7 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Design Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Digital Design Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Communications Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Junior Data Scientist
4 1 (4.17%) Procurement Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Support
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Support Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) CSS
1 6 (25.00%) Django
1 6 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Animation
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) PMI
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (20.83%) Analytics
2 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (20.83%) User Experience
3 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.50%) Data Science
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (12.50%) PLM
4 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (12.50%) UX Design
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (8.33%) LLM
5 2 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (8.33%) Statistics
5 2 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) C++
1 8 (33.33%) Python
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) Tcl
3 2 (8.33%) C
3 2 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Siemens
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) OpenText
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow