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 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 121 99
Rank change year-on-year -38 -22 +15
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 28 21 33
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.59% 0.83% 1.23%
As % of the General category 1.15% 1.33% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £420 £284 £368
25th Percentile £450 £342 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -14.32% +8.38%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £623
90th Percentile £680 £644 £632
England median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 8
10th Percentile £28.67 £35.60 £39.21
25th Percentile £46.32 £42.80 £44.03
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.97% +45.41%
75th Percentile £62.88 - £51.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.49 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.90% +0.97% -13.04%

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 general skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,441 1,584 1,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 51.41% 62.56% 55.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,023 984
10th Percentile £313 £219 £230
25th Percentile £402 £357 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £540 £620
90th Percentile £675 £638 £725
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 122 105
10th Percentile £13.28 £14.00 £12.85
25th Percentile £14.95 £18.26 £14.70
Median hourly rate £22.80 £25.15 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +28.38% -22.42%
75th Percentile £33.99 £35.45 £33.93
90th Percentile £57.65 £50.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

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 23 August 2026.

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 23 August 2026.

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 23 August 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
East Midlands -1 19 £475 -36.67% 27
West Midlands -58 8 - - 41
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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (7.14%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) AWS
1 2 (7.14%) Azure
1 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 2 (7.14%) Figma
1 2 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.57%) GCP
2 1 (3.57%) Google Workspace
2 1 (3.57%) IaaS
2 1 (3.57%) PaaS
2 1 (3.57%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) DHCP
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) PetaLinux
General
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.71%) Automotive
4 2 (7.14%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.57%) Aviation
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Designer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Transformation Manager
5 2 (7.14%) UI Designer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Information Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Architect
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.57%) Kafka
1 1 (3.57%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.57%) FPGA
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.57%) Verilog
2 1 (3.57%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) CentOS
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
2 4 (14.29%) Agile
3 3 (10.71%) Change Control
3 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.71%) Project Management
3 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (7.14%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (7.14%) Business Case
4 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Analysis
4 2 (7.14%) User Experience
4 2 (7.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) C
1 1 (3.57%) C++
1 1 (3.57%) Java
1 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.57%) Python
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
1 1 (3.57%) SystemVerilog
1 1 (3.57%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) CISM
4 2 (7.14%) CISSP
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) CEH
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.57%) PMP
5 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.57%) GRC
2 1 (3.57%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) RSA Archer
1 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) EMC
3 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) NetApp
3 1 (3.57%) OneTrust
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Xilinx