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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 102 118
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 30 39 29
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.08% 1.46% 0.99%
As % of the General category 1.73% 2.51% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 20
10th Percentile £284 £319 £409
25th Percentile £342 £444 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £538 £531
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +1.27% +6.25%
75th Percentile £612 £619 £626
90th Percentile £705 £630 £673
England median daily rate £540 £506 £538
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.90% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 2
10th Percentile £27.21 £39.76 £32.09
25th Percentile £35.60 £39.88 £32.58
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.62 £33.40
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +21.64% -4.59%
75th Percentile - £41.91 £34.21
90th Percentile £52.63 £42.36 £34.70
England median hourly rate £52.50 £61.25 £55.28
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.80% -7.87%

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 1,739 1,551 1,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.37% 57.89% 50.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 962 1,003
10th Percentile £230 £213 £213
25th Percentile £360 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% - -
75th Percentile £552 £595 £618
90th Percentile £638 £688 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 75 71
10th Percentile £15.18 £13.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £15.18 £16.08
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -3.17% +40.57%
75th Percentile £33.91 £32.27 £45.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +20.00%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Aerospace relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Aerospace job vacancy trend 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 18 October 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 18 October 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 18 October 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 -16 16 £338 -35.78% 31
East Midlands -18 14 £650 +7.08% 19
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (13.33%) CMS
2 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) Alfresco
3 1 (3.33%) Documentum
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Maya
1 6 (20.00%) NUKE
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.33%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Google Workspace
2 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) PBX
1 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) Metadata
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 15 (50.00%) Automotive
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Games
4 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Publishing
5 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Finance
7 1 (3.33%) Aviation
7 1 (3.33%) Back Office
7 1 (3.33%) Military
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Content Editor
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Design Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Digital Design Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Delivery Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (3.33%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Junior
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Support Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) HTML
2 6 (20.00%) CSS
2 6 (20.00%) Django
3 2 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
4 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Animation
2 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 6 (20.00%) Analytics
1 6 (20.00%) Migration
1 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (16.67%) AI
2 5 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (16.67%) User Experience
3 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (10.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (10.00%) Data Management
3 3 (10.00%) Data Science
3 3 (10.00%) DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (10.00%) PLM
3 3 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (10.00%) Time Management
3 3 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 8 (26.67%) C++
2 8 (26.67%) Python
3 6 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) Tcl
4 2 (6.67%) C
4 2 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.67%) Siemens
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) OpenText
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow