Aerospace Contracts in Portsmouth

Aerospace
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in Portsmouth. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 8 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 6.20% 7.75% 5.69%
As % of the General category 10.96% 14.38% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £59 -
Median % change year-on-year +576.31% - -
75th Percentile £470 £63 -
90th Percentile £510 £66 -
Hampshire median daily rate £402 £67 £325
% change year-on-year +499.82% -79.38% -36.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 10
10th Percentile £35.30 £60.00 £51.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £62.00 £55.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £62.81
90th Percentile £61.50 £76.50 £70.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.00 £66.25 £59.75
% change year-on-year -9.43% +10.88% +32.78%

All General Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 73 153 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 56.59% 53.87% 46.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 69 75
10th Percentile - £400 £200
25th Percentile £200 £440 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £582 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.24% +29.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £553 £638 £575
90th Percentile £613 £720 £676
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -8.35% +6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 58 19
10th Percentile £28.61 - £46.00
25th Percentile £36.13 £53.40 £53.05
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% -0.26% +130.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £61.00 £70.00 £72.02
Hampshire median hourly rate £61.25 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year +6.80% -0.26% +187.50%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in Portsmouth

Aerospace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in Portsmouth.

Daily rate trend for Aerospace in Portsmouth

Aerospace
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in Portsmouth.

Hourly rate trend for Aerospace in Portsmouth

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in Portsmouth

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (12.50%) SysML
2 1 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMBOK
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft