Aerospace Contract Job Trends in the South West

Aerospace
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 72 92
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 52 68 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.65% 2.57% 2.06%
As % of the General category 4.63% 4.95% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 21
10th Percentile £444 £366 £450
25th Percentile £513 £375 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -38.46% +25.60%
75th Percentile £660 £579 £725
90th Percentile £663 £613 £775
England median daily rate £550 £506 £538
% change year-on-year +8.64% -5.90% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 39 29
10th Percentile £21.11 £31.18 £34.60
25th Percentile £31.67 £35.02 £39.55
Median hourly rate £50.49 £65.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +31.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £71.88 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £82.59
England median hourly rate £50.49 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.97% -9.09% -0.90%

All General Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,122 1,375 1,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.22% 52.04% 47.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 781 1,058
10th Percentile £205 £210 £287
25th Percentile £355 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £723
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 143 142
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.83 £15.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £30.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £65.00 £53.08
Median % change year-on-year -63.85% +22.45% +1.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 £72.50 £69.31
90th Percentile £70.75 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.68 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.97% +40.64% +10.93%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the South West

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the South West over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in the South West

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in the South West over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in the South West

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Bristol -2 25 £575 +43.75% 49
Gloucestershire +16 17 £640 +10.15% 46
Wiltshire +11 4 £628 +56.88%
Somerset +4 4 £447 +19.20% 14
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (1.92%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Simulink
1 5 (9.62%) Stateflow
2 3 (5.77%) Windchill
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.92%) CATIA
4 1 (1.92%) NASTRAN
4 1 (1.92%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle SCM
2 3 (5.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) AWS
1 5 (9.62%) OCI
2 3 (5.77%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) GCP
3 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.92%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (9.62%) Rational Team Concert
3 4 (7.69%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (21.15%) Aviation
2 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Military
5 4 (7.69%) Automotive
5 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Electronics
7 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (9.62%) Product Owner
3 4 (7.69%) Senior
3 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Lead
4 3 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Administrator
5 2 (3.85%) Author
5 2 (3.85%) SAP Administrator
5 2 (3.85%) SAP Support
5 2 (3.85%) Technical Author
6 1 (1.92%) Ada Software Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) Consultant
6 1 (1.92%) Developer
6 1 (1.92%) IT Support
6 1 (1.92%) Senior Software Tester
6 1 (1.92%) Software Architect
6 1 (1.92%) Stress Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.85%) OpenID
1 2 (3.85%) SAML
2 1 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.92%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.92%) Kafka
2 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.92%) Qt
2 1 (1.92%) REST
2 1 (1.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.77%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Robotics
5 1 (1.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.23%) Validation
2 7 (13.46%) ERP
2 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
3 5 (9.62%) Containerisation
3 5 (9.62%) Data Protection
3 5 (9.62%) DevOps
3 5 (9.62%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 5 (9.62%) Mathematics
3 5 (9.62%) Requirements Management
3 5 (9.62%) Software Testing
4 4 (7.69%) Agile
4 4 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (7.69%) Change Management
4 4 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 4 (7.69%) Integration Testing
4 4 (7.69%) Static Code Analysis
4 4 (7.69%) Technical Analysis
4 4 (7.69%) Time Management
4 4 (7.69%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (5.77%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Ada
2 9 (17.31%) Python
3 5 (9.62%) C
3 5 (9.62%) Fortran
3 5 (9.62%) MATLAB
4 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.92%) C++
6 1 (1.92%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) SQL
6 1 (1.92%) Tcl
6 1 (1.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) HNC
4 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.85%) HND
5 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) CISSP
6 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.92%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.92%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.92%) MISRA
3 1 (1.92%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Ansible
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) PingFederate
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) Argo
4 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Twitter
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle
3 5 (9.62%) MathWorks
4 3 (5.77%) SAP
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.85%) Siemens
5 2 (3.85%) Splunk
5 2 (3.85%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) IBM
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat