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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 82 101
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 -32
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 69 60 57
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.46% 2.40% 1.80%
As % of the General category 6.01% 4.60% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 19
10th Percentile £225 £340 £480
25th Percentile £339 £375 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -33.33% +12.68%
75th Percentile £653 £508 £719
90th Percentile £660 £595 £780
England median daily rate £540 £506 £538
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.90% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 26
10th Percentile £22.63 £29.99 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.34 £34.27 £44.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £51.45
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +27.32% -18.66%
75th Percentile £67.50 £72.50 £69.69
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £81.68
England median hourly rate £51.49 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.93% +11.36% -8.33%

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 1,148 1,305 1,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.49% 52.30% 46.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 715 1,015
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £351 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £656
90th Percentile £706 £730 £723
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 134 157
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.62 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.54 £31.97 £33.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £65.00 £56.30
Median % change year-on-year -63.08% +15.45% +2.36%
75th Percentile £40.42 £72.50 £69.62
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £79.02
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +20.00%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +4 32 £500 +25.00% 54
Gloucestershire +15 19 £640 +10.15% 38
Somerset +9 10 £250 -33.33% 11
Wiltshire +8 4 £628 +56.88% 6
Devon +7 2 - - 5
Aerospace
England

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.45%) Apache
1 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.70%) Simulink
2 6 (8.70%) Stateflow
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.35%) Windchill
4 1 (1.45%) CATIA
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.45%) NASTRAN
4 1 (1.45%) PTC Creo
4 1 (1.45%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (7.25%) Oracle SCM
2 4 (5.80%) Teamcenter
3 2 (2.90%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (7.25%) AWS
2 5 (7.25%) OCI
3 3 (4.35%) Azure
3 3 (4.35%) GCP
4 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.45%) GitHub
5 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (8.70%) Rational Team Concert
3 4 (5.80%) GitLab
4 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.84%) Aviation
3 10 (14.49%) Finance
4 7 (10.14%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.25%) Military
6 4 (5.80%) Automotive
6 4 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Electronics
8 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) IT Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) IT Support
3 7 (10.14%) Support Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Desktop Support
4 6 (8.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Product Owner
5 5 (7.25%) Senior
6 4 (5.80%) Documentation Officer
6 4 (5.80%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) SAP Administrator
8 2 (2.90%) SAP Support
8 2 (2.90%) System Verification Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) OpenID
1 3 (4.35%) SAML
2 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.45%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.45%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.45%) Kafka
3 1 (1.45%) Middleware
3 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.45%) Qt
3 1 (1.45%) REST
3 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.70%) Smartphone
3 5 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.80%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) SCADA
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Windows
2 6 (8.70%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.90%) Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.39%) Software Engineering
1 12 (17.39%) Validation
2 8 (11.59%) Project Management
2 8 (11.59%) Requirements Management
3 6 (8.70%) Data Protection
3 6 (8.70%) ERP
3 6 (8.70%) Mathematics
3 6 (8.70%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (7.25%) Agile
4 5 (7.25%) Containerisation
4 5 (7.25%) DevOps
4 5 (7.25%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (7.25%) Software Testing
4 5 (7.25%) Time Management
5 4 (5.80%) AI
5 4 (5.80%) Configuration Management
5 4 (5.80%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (5.80%) Integration Testing
5 4 (5.80%) Static Code Analysis
5 4 (5.80%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.39%) Ada
2 10 (14.49%) Python
3 7 (10.14%) C
4 6 (8.70%) Fortran
4 6 (8.70%) MATLAB
5 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.90%) Bash
6 2 (2.90%) C++
6 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.90%) VBA
7 1 (1.45%) C#
7 1 (1.45%) Go
7 1 (1.45%) SAPscript
7 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.45%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 28 (40.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.39%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) HNC
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.90%) HND
5 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.45%) CISSP
6 1 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) NIST
3 1 (1.45%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.45%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) MISRA
3 1 (1.45%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.45%) PMO
3 1 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Ansible
2 3 (4.35%) PingFederate
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) Grafana
3 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) Argo
4 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Oracle
1 8 (11.59%) Twitter
2 6 (8.70%) MathWorks
2 6 (8.70%) SAP
2 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.35%) Ping Identity
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco
4 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.90%) Siemens
4 2 (2.90%) Splunk
4 2 (2.90%) VMware
5 1 (1.45%) Cognos
5 1 (1.45%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) PTC