Aerospace Contract Job Trends in the South East

Aerospace
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 150 150
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 43 23 62
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.97% 0.64% 1.24%
As % of the General category 1.77% 1.09% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 24
10th Percentile £450 £300 £450
25th Percentile £466 £354 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -20.83% +5.37%
75th Percentile £586 £606 £670
90th Percentile £725 £775 £809
England median daily rate £518 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -5.57% -8.67% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 27
10th Percentile £57.38 £24.79 £25.15
25th Percentile £58.00 £42.50 £35.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £86.91 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £93.57 £72.00 £73.34
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.28
% change year-on-year -15.38% +17.58% -14.63%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,431 2,103 2,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 55.05% 58.08% 56.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 1,240 1,755
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £686 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 83 166
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.82 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £24.34 £25.43
Median hourly rate £20.75 £42.50 £51.03
Median % change year-on-year -51.18% -16.71% +56.91%
75th Percentile £42.67 £62.62 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.50 £75.00 £72.33
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +28.35%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in the South East

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Aerospace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the South East over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in the South East

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Aerospace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in the South East over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in the South East

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Thames Valley -3 16 £477 -30.69% 30
Surrey +4 12 £578 - 8
Berkshire -3 12 £463 -38.23% 11
Hampshire -22 8 £450 +12.50% 22
West Sussex -8 4 £550 +189.47% 11
Oxfordshire -13 3 - - 15
East Sussex - 2 - - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £800 - 4
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (27.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.65%) SAP MM
3 1 (2.33%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.33%) SAP HCM
3 1 (2.33%) SAP PS
3 1 (2.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.30%) AWS
1 4 (9.30%) Azure
1 4 (9.30%) GitHub
2 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.33%) Lucidchart
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) DHCP
1 3 (6.98%) DNS
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
1 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.65%) VPN
2 2 (4.65%) Wireless
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) GitLab
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Maven
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Subversion
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (30.23%) Manufacturing
2 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 11 (25.58%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Environmental Health
5 3 (6.98%) Avionics
5 3 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Aviation
6 1 (2.33%) Military
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Lead
2 4 (9.30%) Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Configuration Manager
3 3 (6.98%) Developer
3 3 (6.98%) Senior
3 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Project Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Project Leader
4 2 (4.65%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Service Support Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Requirements Manager
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.58%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.98%) Kafka
2 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.33%) HTML
3 1 (2.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (2.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Learning Management System
2 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) CAN bus
3 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Life Science
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Mixed Reality
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
3 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Procure-to-Pay
1 11 (25.58%) Workflow
2 10 (23.26%) Discrete Manufacturing
2 10 (23.26%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (16.28%) Systems Engineering
4 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.63%) Agile
5 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
5 5 (11.63%) Configuration Management
5 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
5 5 (11.63%) DevOps
5 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.98%) API Integration
7 3 (6.98%) Data Analytics
7 3 (6.98%) DevSecOps
7 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) Java
2 2 (4.65%) C++
2 2 (4.65%) Python
3 1 (2.33%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) C
3 1 (2.33%) C#
3 1 (2.33%) Embedded C++
3 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (48.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.28%) Degree
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) A+ Certification
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.33%) PhD
6 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Def Stans
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Firmware
2 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Grafana
2 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (32.56%) SAP
2 6 (13.95%) VMware
3 4 (9.30%) Cisco
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Progress
5 1 (2.33%) Siemens