Aviation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Aviation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 328 368
Rank change year-on-year +32 +40 +117
Contract jobs citing Aviation 40 60 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.50% 0.53% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 35
10th Percentile £355 £180 £315
25th Percentile £450 £257 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £567
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.63% +17.82%
75th Percentile £647 £563 £628
90th Percentile £746 £613 £708
UK median daily rate £450 £435 £562
% change year-on-year +3.45% -22.60% +7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 33
10th Percentile £29.62 £25.60 £25.95
25th Percentile £41.05 £33.75 £30.54
Median hourly rate £54.99 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.02% +57.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £77.50 £55.12
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £51.74 £35.03
% change year-on-year +3.88% +47.69% -21.28%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Aviation 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,982 11,233 13,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.39% 54.64% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,937 6,411 9,211
10th Percentile £213 £205 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 1,648 775
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.50 £13.35
25th Percentile £16.31 £15.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -2.59% +54.67%
75th Percentile £56.58 £53.75 £60.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.25 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +47.73%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Aviation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Aviation in the UK excluding London

Aviation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Aviation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Aviation in the UK excluding London

Aviation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in the UK excluding London

Aviation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Aviation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Aviation in the UK excluding London

Aviation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aviation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aviation in the UK excluding London

Aviation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aviation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
East of England +37 14 £650 +30.00% 36
South East +19 12 £450 -6.25% 93
South West +32 7 £713 +14.00% 62
North of England +17 7 £550 +331.37% 40
North West +9 5 £550 +331.37% 21
Yorkshire - 2 - - 16
Midlands +17 1 £450 +69.81% 37
East Midlands +12 1 £450 - 16
Aviation
UK

Aviation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.00%) Windchill
3 1 (2.50%) CATIA
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (5.00%) Serverless
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (2.50%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) Google Sheets
3 1 (2.50%) IaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) PaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) FTP
2 1 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) SMTP
2 1 (2.50%) SNMP
2 1 (2.50%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (2.50%) SpaceWire
2 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.50%) MS Access
1 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Appium
2 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.50%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.50%) GoogleTest
2 1 (2.50%) MLflow
2 1 (2.50%) Postman
2 1 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.50%) Rational Team Concert
2 1 (2.50%) Robot Framework
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Aerospace
3 10 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (5.00%) Marketing
5 2 (5.00%) Military
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Police
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Swedish Language
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Consultant
4 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) Technical Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Workday Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Workday Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Bid Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Configuration Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
5 2 (5.00%) ERP Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Implementation Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Configuration Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.50%) Chai
1 1 (2.50%) CSS
1 1 (2.50%) HTML
1 1 (2.50%) Kafka
1 1 (2.50%) LDAP
1 1 (2.50%) Middleware
1 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.50%) Qt
1 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) CCTV
2 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) Robotics
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Windows
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Project Management
1 9 (22.50%) Roadmaps
2 8 (20.00%) Analytics
3 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 6 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) PLM
5 5 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 5 (12.50%) Validation
6 4 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (10.00%) Data Validation
6 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.00%) User Experience
7 3 (7.50%) Customer Engagement
7 3 (7.50%) Customer-Centricity
7 3 (7.50%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) Bash
2 2 (5.00%) C
2 2 (5.00%) C++
2 2 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) Ada
3 1 (2.50%) Assembly Language
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) Perl
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.50%) Ruby
3 1 (2.50%) Tcl
3 1 (2.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (7.50%) PMP
5 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.50%) CCDE
6 1 (2.50%) CCDP
6 1 (2.50%) CCIE
6 1 (2.50%) CCNP
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) HNC
6 1 (2.50%) MCITP
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Def Stans
1 1 (2.50%) IEC 61508
1 1 (2.50%) MISRA
1 1 (2.50%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
1 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Twitter
2 6 (15.00%) Workday
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco
4 2 (5.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) Ribbon
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.00%) Tenable
5 1 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.50%) EMC
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) Siemens
5 1 (2.50%) VMware
5 1 (2.50%) Wind River