Aviation Contracts in the North of England

Aviation
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 178 207
Rank change year-on-year +19 +29 +23
Contract jobs citing Aviation 7 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.36% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £488 £126 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £128 -
Median % change year-on-year +331.37% - -
75th Percentile £706 £588 -
90th Percentile £785 £625 -
England median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £19.54 - £23.15
25th Percentile £21.85 - £28.69
Median hourly rate £25.70 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -26.57% +14.60% -
75th Percentile £29.55 - £35.00
90th Percentile £31.86 - £39.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £51.74 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.47% +29.34% -10.11%

All General Skills
North of England

Aviation 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,947 2,614 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.09% 54.82% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,539 2,212
10th Percentile £255 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £662 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 310 96
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.11 £14.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.67% -35.76% +33.69%
75th Percentile £39.75 £27.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £48.75 £53.17
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Aviation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Aviation in the North of England

Aviation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Aviation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Aviation in the North of England

Aviation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in the North of England

Aviation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Aviation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Aviation in the North of England

Aviation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aviation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aviation in the North of England

Aviation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aviation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +15 5 £550 +331.37% 33
Yorkshire - 2 - - 24
Aviation
England

Aviation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Appium
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (28.57%) Police
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Swedish Language
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) Document Controller
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Internal Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Chai
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Robotics
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
1 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
1 2 (28.57%) SIEM
1 2 (28.57%) SOAR
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
1 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Proactive Management
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) FortiGate
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Ribbon
1 2 (28.57%) Tenable
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) VMware