Aerospace Contract Job Trends in Reading

Aerospace
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 89 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.52% 0.19% -
As % of the General category 2.48% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £444 £733 -
25th Percentile £445 £744 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £775 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.23% - -
75th Percentile £495 £794 -
90th Percentile £504 £798 -
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -38.23% +66.67% -28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £58.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.75 - -
90th Percentile £100.90 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 - -

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 443 608 645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 61.10% 58.57% 62.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 288 375
10th Percentile £283 £300 £210
25th Percentile £413 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 5 10
10th Percentile £14.63 £34.40 £16.41
25th Percentile £14.75 £42.50 £57.81
Median hourly rate £58.00 £63.15 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -0.22% +5.48%
75th Percentile £82.25 £74.87 £66.14
90th Percentile £96.25 £82.45 £68.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £58.34 £59.00
% change year-on-year -56.89% -1.12% +103.45%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in Reading

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Aerospace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Aerospace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in Reading over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in Reading

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HCM
1 1 (9.09%) SAP PS
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (9.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Environmental Health
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP HCM Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Learning Management System
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) ArchiMate
3 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) MODAF
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (18.18%) Service Design
3 2 (18.18%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Progress
3 1 (9.09%) Siemens