Aeronautics Contract Job Trends

Aeronautics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aeronautics in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aeronautics over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 - 621
Rank change year-on-year - - +213
Contract jobs citing Aeronautics 3 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - 0.022%
As % of the General category 0.014% - 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £292
25th Percentile £425 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +133.87%
75th Percentile £475 - £813
90th Percentile - - £900
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £450
% change year-on-year - - +45.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.90
25th Percentile - - £28.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £34.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £30.50

All General Skills
UK

Aeronautics 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,972 22,348 29,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.65% 58.00% 59.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,001 13,375 19,847
10th Percentile £275 £281 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,207 1,105 1,076
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.71 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.08 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +28.58% +12.43%
75th Percentile £49.13 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.39 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £35.36 £27.08
% change year-on-year -39.76% +30.56% +28.96%

Aeronautics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Aeronautics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Aeronautics in the UK

Aeronautics
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Aeronautics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Aeronautics

Aeronautics
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Aeronautics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Aeronautics

Aeronautics
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aeronautics within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England - 3 £450 - 36
UK excluding London - 2 - - 28
North of England - 2 - - 11
North West - 2 - - 11
London - 1 £450 - 13

Aeronautics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (66.67%) Simulink
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Design Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Physics
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Safety Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) SysML
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) MathWorks
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft