Aerospace Contracts 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 49 93
Rank change year-on-year -20 +44 -2
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 44 121 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.33% 3.88% 1.93%
As % of the General category 4.09% 7.55% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 11
10th Percentile £513 £375 £376
25th Percentile £537 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +7.69% +54.76%
75th Percentile £660 - £713
90th Percentile £676 - £725
England median daily rate £556 £614 £525
% change year-on-year -9.41% +16.95% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 79 37
10th Percentile £22.63 £31.97 £39.55
25th Percentile £38.97 £40.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £52.74 £55.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -10.57% +23.00%
75th Percentile £67.81 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.38 £77.50 £83.19
England median hourly rate £51.49 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.99% -16.67% +19.08%

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 1,076 1,602 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.96% 51.31% 47.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 962 1,154
10th Percentile £213 £260 £300
25th Percentile £355 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.24% +6.98%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £650
90th Percentile £680 £725 £723
England median daily rate £513 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 261 127
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.69 £15.54
25th Percentile £15.25 £26.75 £32.13
Median hourly rate £24.29 £45.00 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year -46.03% -20.06% +34.02%
75th Percentile £53.99 £71.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £88.50
England median hourly rate £26.28 £35.00 £30.03
% change year-on-year -24.91% +16.57% +25.10%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Aerospace in the South West

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the South West over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in the South West

Aerospace
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Aerospace in the South West

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in the South West over the 6 months to 19 July 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 19 July 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 -18 22 £575 -4.25% 64
Gloucestershire +26 17 £550 - 83
Wiltshire +6 3 £655 -6.43% 11
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:

Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Windchill
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.27%) CATIA
3 1 (2.27%) NASTRAN
3 1 (2.27%) Simulink
3 1 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.27%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle SCM
1 3 (6.82%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.27%) Primavera
2 1 (2.27%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (6.82%) Azure
2 3 (6.82%) GCP
2 3 (6.82%) OCI
3 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.55%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub
4 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) DNS
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
1 3 (6.82%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (6.82%) GitLab
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (18.18%) Aviation
1 8 (18.18%) Finance
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Military
3 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Architect
3 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Product Owner
5 2 (4.55%) Administrator
5 2 (4.55%) Author
5 2 (4.55%) Lead
5 2 (4.55%) SAP Administrator
5 2 (4.55%) SAP Support
5 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Technical Author
6 1 (2.27%) Buyer
6 1 (2.27%) Developer
6 1 (2.27%) IT Support
6 1 (2.27%) Java Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Project Planner
6 1 (2.27%) Software Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Stress Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) .NET
2 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.27%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.27%) Qt
3 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Data Centre
1 3 (6.82%) PKI
1 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
1 3 (6.82%) Replication
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.18%) Validation
2 6 (13.64%) ERP
3 5 (11.36%) Change Management
3 5 (11.36%) Project Management
3 5 (11.36%) Verification and Validation
4 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 3 (6.82%) Agile
5 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
5 3 (6.82%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.82%) DevSecOps
5 3 (6.82%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (6.82%) RBAC
5 3 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (4.55%) Computer Vision
6 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (4.55%) Power Management
6 2 (4.55%) Programme Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 3 (6.82%) Ada
3 2 (4.55%) Bash
3 2 (4.55%) C
3 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.27%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.27%) C++
4 1 (2.27%) Fortran
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.27%) SQL
4 1 (2.27%) Tcl
4 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Degree
3 4 (9.09%) HNC
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.55%) HND
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.27%) CISSP
6 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Def Stans
1 2 (4.55%) IEC 61508
1 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.27%) MISRA
2 1 (2.27%) MISRA C
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) SAP
2 5 (11.36%) Twitter
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.27%) IBM
5 1 (2.27%) MathWorks
5 1 (2.27%) Siemens
5 1 (2.27%) Wind River