Aerospace Contracts in the South East

Aerospace
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Aerospace over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 136 237
Rank change year-on-year +23 +101 -53
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 90 91 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.63% 1.56% 0.31%
As % of the General category 3.20% 2.67% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 6
10th Percentile £60 £403 £308
25th Percentile £272 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £569 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +1.68% +17.89%
75th Percentile £676 £610 £623
90th Percentile £777 £650 £653
England median daily rate £649 £558 £518
% change year-on-year +16.37% +7.73% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 7
10th Percentile £27.34 £50.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £45.00 £53.97 £22.50
Median hourly rate £62.25 £61.84 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +90.27% -27.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £48.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +11.82% +15.79%

All General Skills
South East

Aerospace is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,814 3,408 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.93% 58.47% 54.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,539 2,321 2,793
10th Percentile £205 £245 £213
25th Percentile £355 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +9.29%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £660
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 166 220
10th Percentile £12.91 £18.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.67 £25.00 £14.45
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £32.56
90th Percentile £70.29 £73.11 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the South East

Aerospace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Aerospace in the South East

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in the South East

Aerospace
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Aerospace in the South East

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +17 72 £648 +13.71% 58
Thames Valley -12 10 £450 -21.05% 81
Oxfordshire -7 7 £395 -31.30% 37
Sussex - 4 - -
Berkshire -8 2 - - 20
Buckinghamshire +21 1 £645 +14.16% 24
Surrey +11 1 £525 - 17
Middlesex - 1 £650 -
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Simulink
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.11%) Azure
1 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (1.11%) OneDrive
1 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
1 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) SNMP
2 6 (6.67%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (4.44%) Wireless
4 1 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (1.11%) DNS
4 1 (1.11%) Firewall
4 1 (1.11%) SDH
4 1 (1.11%) Skype
4 1 (1.11%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.11%) VSAN
4 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Git
2 10 (11.11%) JIRA
3 6 (6.67%) Eclipse
3 6 (6.67%) GoogleTest
3 6 (6.67%) Robot Framework
4 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.44%) Subversion
6 2 (2.22%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.11%) GitLab
7 1 (1.11%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.11%) MagicDraw
7 1 (1.11%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 10 (11.11%) Military
2 7 (7.78%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.33%) Finance
6 2 (2.22%) Automotive
6 2 (2.22%) Aviation
7 1 (1.11%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.11%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (23.33%) Software Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 5 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (5.56%) Principal Software Engineer
4 5 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
4 5 (5.56%) Test Engineer
5 4 (4.44%) Developer
6 3 (3.33%) Analyst
6 3 (3.33%) RF Engineer
6 3 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) C++ Developer
7 2 (2.22%) Design Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) Graduate
7 2 (2.22%) IT Manager
7 2 (2.22%) RF Test Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) Service Analyst
7 2 (2.22%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (2.22%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) CSS
1 4 (4.44%) HTML
2 1 (1.11%) Node.js
2 1 (1.11%) React
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.44%) Algorithms
1 4 (4.44%) Device Driver
1 4 (4.44%) PMI
2 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.22%) SCADA
3 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.11%) Life Science
3 1 (1.11%) PKI
3 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) CentOS
3 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.11%) VxWorks
3 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) Threat Modelling
2 28 (31.11%) Software Engineering
3 14 (15.56%) Agile
4 11 (12.22%) Validation
5 7 (7.78%) Project Management
5 7 (7.78%) Verification and Validation
6 6 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (6.67%) Prototyping
6 6 (6.67%) UML
7 5 (5.56%) Scrum
7 5 (5.56%) Systems Engineering
8 4 (4.44%) Agile Project Management
8 4 (4.44%) Analytical Modelling
8 4 (4.44%) Computer Science
8 4 (4.44%) Defect Tracking
8 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (4.44%) Physics
8 4 (4.44%) Signal Processing
8 4 (4.44%) Software Optimisation
8 4 (4.44%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.33%) C++
2 9 (10.00%) MATLAB
3 6 (6.67%) C
3 6 (6.67%) Python
4 5 (5.56%) Assembly Language
4 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.44%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.33%) Java
7 1 (1.11%) Bash
7 1 (1.11%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.11%) SQL
7 1 (1.11%) VB
7 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (64.44%) Security Cleared
2 51 (56.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) Degree
4 8 (8.89%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.56%) PMI Certification
6 4 (4.44%) PhD
6 4 (4.44%) PMP
7 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) JTAG
2 4 (4.44%) PMBOK
3 2 (2.22%) SLA
4 1 (1.11%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (1.11%) MISRA
4 1 (1.11%) MISRA C
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Firmware
2 4 (4.44%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
1 1 (1.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (6.67%) Google
2 4 (4.44%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.22%) BMC
3 2 (2.22%) Cisco
3 2 (2.22%) Remedy
3 2 (2.22%) VMware
4 1 (1.11%) IBM
4 1 (1.11%) Juniper
4 1 (1.11%) Nokia
4 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.11%) QinetiQ
4 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.11%) SAP
4 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.11%) Sparx
4 1 (1.11%) Splunk
4 1 (1.11%) Veeam