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 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 83 53
Rank change year-on-year +38 -30 +32
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 109 30 109
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.75% 1.81% 3.39%
As % of the General category 8.13% 3.26% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 34
10th Percentile - £513 £527
25th Percentile £225 £529 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £547 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -21.86% +28.74%
75th Percentile - £548 -
90th Percentile £540 - -
England median daily rate £500 £548 £648
% change year-on-year -8.76% -15.37% +17.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 15 64
10th Percentile £33.75 £56.17 £40.00
25th Percentile £42.00 £62.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +18.18% -10.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £57.37 £50.00
% change year-on-year +8.94% +14.75% -21.41%

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 general skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,341 921 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 46.08% 55.62% 50.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 578 995
10th Percentile £253 £213 £263
25th Percentile £404 £378 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 52 260
10th Percentile £15.15 £19.18 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.00 £17.61
Median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +38.89% -26.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £75.00 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.78% +18.38% -23.53%

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 March 2026.

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 March 2026.

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 March 2026. 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 +24 67 £500 +122.22% 46
Somerset - 16 £250 - 10
Devon +8 11 - - 1
Gloucestershire -15 10 £553 +1.10% 44
Wiltshire - 5 £450 - 7
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 3 (2.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.83%) Simulink
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.92%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.92%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.75%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.83%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.83%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (1.83%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.92%) Demantra
4 1 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (2.75%) AWS
3 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) PABX
2 1 (0.92%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
1 1 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Rational Rhapsody
2 3 (2.75%) GitLab
2 3 (2.75%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.83%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.92%) JIRA
4 1 (0.92%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 22 (20.18%) Manufacturing
2 18 (16.51%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.17%) Aviation
4 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Finance
6 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.92%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (19.27%) Software Engineer
1 21 (19.27%) Systems Engineer
2 15 (13.76%) Support Engineer
3 14 (12.84%) Technical Support
4 8 (7.34%) IT Engineer
4 8 (7.34%) Technical Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Configuration Management Specialist
5 7 (6.42%) Configuration Specialist
5 7 (6.42%) Data Management Specialist
5 7 (6.42%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Desktop Support
5 7 (6.42%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Support Technician
5 7 (6.42%) Technical Support Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Algorithm Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) IT Support
6 6 (5.50%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Senior
7 5 (4.59%) Ada Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Ada Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) Middleware
2 3 (2.75%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (2.75%) Qt
3 2 (1.83%) REST
4 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.92%) Kafka
4 1 (0.92%) OpenID
4 1 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.42%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.50%) Smartphone
3 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.67%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.92%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) FPGA
6 1 (0.92%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.92%) PCIe
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
6 1 (0.92%) SCADA
6 1 (0.92%) Verilog
6 1 (0.92%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.01%) Windows
2 6 (5.50%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.61%) Software Engineering
2 13 (11.93%) Data Management
3 11 (10.09%) Systems Engineering
4 10 (9.17%) Validation
4 10 (9.17%) Verification and Validation
5 9 (8.26%) Asset Management
5 9 (8.26%) Configuration Management
5 9 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (7.34%) PLM
6 8 (7.34%) Safety Engineering
7 7 (6.42%) Decision-Making
7 7 (6.42%) Project Management
8 6 (5.50%) PDM
9 5 (4.59%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (4.59%) Migration
10 4 (3.67%) CI/CD
10 4 (3.67%) Machine Learning
10 4 (3.67%) Project Planning
10 4 (3.67%) Requirements Management
10 4 (3.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.43%) Ada
2 10 (9.17%) C++
3 8 (7.34%) MATLAB
4 6 (5.50%) Python
5 4 (3.67%) C
6 2 (1.83%) Java
6 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.92%) C#
7 1 (0.92%) Fortran
7 1 (0.92%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (46.79%) Security Cleared
2 31 (28.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.50%) Degree
4 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) Def Stans
2 5 (4.59%) IEC 61508
3 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.75%) MISRA
4 3 (2.75%) MISRA C
4 3 (2.75%) QA
5 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.92%) DO-254
5 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.92%) Firmware
2 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) Ansible
1 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) Grafana
2 1 (0.92%) Kibana
2 1 (0.92%) logstash
2 1 (0.92%) PingFederate
2 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) SAP
2 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.50%) Siemens
4 3 (2.75%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.92%) Altera
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco
6 1 (0.92%) Cognos
6 1 (0.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.92%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.92%) Microsemi
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.92%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.92%) PTC
6 1 (0.92%) Remedy
6 1 (0.92%) VMware
6 1 (0.92%) webMethods
6 1 (0.92%) Xilinx