Aviation Contracts in the North West

Aviation
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 132 154
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 +16
Contract jobs citing Aviation 5 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the General category 0.44% 0.47% 0.73%
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,131 1,474 1,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.47% 53.72% 51.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 903 1,136
10th Percentile £272 £300 £307
25th Percentile £382 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £590
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 191 81
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.58 £14.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £49.69 £35.74 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.63 £51.91 £52.99
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.76% +58.14%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Aviation in the North West

Aviation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Aviation in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Aviation in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aviation in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aviation in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +17 4 £550 -10.20% 10
Cheshire 0 1 - - 3
Aviation
England

Aviation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Appium
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Auditor
1 1 (20.00%) Document Controller
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Internal Auditor
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Chai
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) API Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) VMware