Aerospace Contract Job Trends

Aerospace
UK

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 348 379
Rank change year-on-year +52 +31 +5
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 327 215 266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.59% 0.57%
As % of the General category 1.45% 1.00% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 53 120
10th Percentile £225 £264 £374
25th Percentile £436 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -4.70% +0.88%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £651
90th Percentile £714 £717 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £488 £575
% change year-on-year -3.23% -15.22% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 69 89
10th Percentile £22.63 £31.18 £30.08
25th Percentile £36.60 £37.55 £41.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £61.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -12.86%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,499 21,394 27,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.02% 59.03% 59.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,087 12,611 18,403
10th Percentile £275 £288 £285
25th Percentile £400 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,464 800 1,119
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.88 £17.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.27 £29.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% -6.97% +26.84%
75th Percentile £45.46 £55.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.03 £70.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.08 £27.24 £28.44
% change year-on-year -18.95% -4.23% +29.27%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in the UK

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the UK over the 6 months to 19 November 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 +48 292 £541 -1.05% 521
UK excluding London +26 273 £472 -3.23% 495
South West +17 76 £538 -1.74% 130
East of England +15 57 £500 +30.72% 99
South East +23 49 £552 +78.15% 143
Work from Home +15 48 £525 -16.67% 176
London +19 36 £591 -3.83% 48
North of England -27 35 £449 - 65
Midlands -34 35 £459 -24.03% 55
North West -18 29 £450 - 50
West Midlands -22 18 £338 -22.90% 41
East Midlands -23 17 £650 +5.35% 13
Scotland +12 14 £65 - 17
Wales +5 7 £550 +57.14% 12
North East -4 4 - - 8
Yorkshire - 2 £345 - 7

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.22%) CMS
2 4 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.31%) Apache
3 1 (0.31%) Documentum
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.67%) Siemens NX
3 10 (3.06%) Simulink
4 9 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (1.83%) FrameMaker
6 6 (1.83%) Stateflow
7 5 (1.53%) Maya
7 5 (1.53%) NUKE
8 3 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.61%) Windchill
10 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.31%) NASTRAN
10 1 (0.31%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 27 (8.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (4.89%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (2.14%) Oracle SCM
4 7 (2.14%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.14%) SAP PS
5 3 (0.92%) SAP EHS
5 3 (0.92%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.31%) Primavera
7 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.31%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 16 (4.89%) AWS
2 15 (4.59%) Azure
3 11 (3.36%) GitHub
4 7 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (2.14%) Amazon S3
4 7 (2.14%) OCI
5 6 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.83%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.53%) Google Workspace
6 5 (1.53%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.92%) GCP
9 2 (0.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.61%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.61%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.31%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.14%) DNS
2 6 (1.83%) Firewall
2 6 (1.83%) PABX
3 5 (1.53%) DHCP
4 4 (1.22%) Network Security
4 4 (1.22%) SpaceWire
4 4 (1.22%) VPN
4 4 (1.22%) WAN
5 3 (0.92%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.92%) LAN
5 3 (0.92%) RS-232
5 3 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.92%) Wireless
6 2 (0.61%) FTP
6 2 (0.61%) HTTP
6 2 (0.61%) PBX
6 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.61%) SMTP
6 2 (0.61%) SNMP
6 2 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.83%) Power BI
4 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.61%) Metadata
6 1 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (4.89%) GitLab
2 11 (3.36%) Git
3 10 (3.06%) JIRA
3 10 (3.06%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (1.83%) Rational Team Concert
5 5 (1.53%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.92%) Maven
6 3 (0.92%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.31%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.31%) Postman
8 1 (0.31%) Subversion
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 88 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 78 (23.85%) Manufacturing
3 35 (10.70%) Aviation
4 28 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.95%) Finance
6 25 (7.65%) Automotive
7 15 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (4.28%) Military
9 13 (3.98%) Electronics
10 11 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (3.06%) Publishing
12 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.53%) Games
13 5 (1.53%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.22%) Environmental Health
14 4 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Legal
14 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.61%) Aeronautics
15 2 (0.61%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 35 (10.70%) Systems Engineer
2 28 (8.56%) Lead
2 28 (8.56%) Senior
3 27 (8.26%) Architect
4 23 (7.03%) Software Engineer
5 18 (5.50%) Consultant
6 16 (4.89%) Analyst
7 15 (4.59%) Support Engineer
8 12 (3.67%) Administrator
9 11 (3.36%) Developer
10 9 (2.75%) IT Engineer
10 9 (2.75%) SAP Consultant
10 9 (2.75%) SAP Support
10 9 (2.75%) Test Engineer
11 8 (2.45%) C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (2.45%) SAP Administrator
12 7 (2.14%) Author
12 7 (2.14%) IT Support
12 7 (2.14%) Technical Author
13 6 (1.83%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.36%) SAP Fiori
2 10 (3.06%) HTML
2 10 (3.06%) XML
3 6 (1.83%) CSS
3 6 (1.83%) SGML
4 5 (1.53%) Django
4 5 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.53%) REST
5 4 (1.22%) Kafka
5 4 (1.22%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.92%) ModSecurity
6 3 (0.92%) OpenID
6 3 (0.92%) SAML
7 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.61%) Flash
7 2 (0.61%) LDAP
7 2 (0.61%) Node.js
7 2 (0.61%) RESTful
7 2 (0.61%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (4.89%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (3.98%) FPGA
4 11 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.75%) PCIe
6 9 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.83%) Smartphone
9 6 (1.83%) State Machine
9 6 (1.83%) VHDL
10 5 (1.53%) Animation
10 5 (1.53%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.22%) CAN bus
11 4 (1.22%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.92%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.92%) SCADA
13 2 (0.61%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.61%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.95%) Windows
2 18 (5.50%) Linux
3 6 (1.83%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (10.40%) Validation
3 33 (10.09%) Software Engineering
4 27 (8.26%) Agile
5 24 (7.34%) Systems Engineering
6 23 (7.03%) Migration
7 22 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (6.42%) Mentoring
9 20 (6.12%) PLM
9 20 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (5.81%) Use Case
11 18 (5.50%) Containerisation
11 18 (5.50%) DevOps
11 18 (5.50%) ERP
11 18 (5.50%) Project Management
12 17 (5.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (4.89%) CI/CD
13 16 (4.89%) Data Protection
14 15 (4.59%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.56%) Python
2 27 (8.26%) C++
3 20 (6.12%) C
4 13 (3.98%) C#
4 13 (3.98%) Java
4 13 (3.98%) SQL
5 12 (3.67%) Ada
6 10 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.45%) MATLAB
8 7 (2.14%) Tcl
9 6 (1.83%) Fortran
9 6 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.53%) Bash
11 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.92%) VBA
12 2 (0.61%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.31%) Bicep
13 1 (0.31%) Go
13 1 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 137 (41.90%) Security Cleared
2 103 (31.50%) SC Cleared
3 53 (16.21%) Degree
4 21 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.67%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.14%) HNC
9 6 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.83%) HND
9 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.53%) CISSP
10 5 (1.53%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.92%) CISM
11 3 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.92%) PMP
11 3 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.20%) QA
2 10 (3.06%) NIST
3 8 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.14%) Def Stans
4 7 (2.14%) JSP 440
4 7 (2.14%) NCSC
5 6 (1.83%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.53%) ECSS
6 5 (1.53%) GDPR
6 5 (1.53%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.92%) SLA
8 2 (0.61%) ARP4754
8 2 (0.61%) DO-254
8 2 (0.61%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.61%) PMO
8 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.14%) Docker
3 6 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.53%) Firmware
5 3 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.36%) Kubernetes
1 11 (3.36%) Terraform
2 6 (1.83%) Ansible
3 5 (1.53%) Grafana
3 5 (1.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.92%) PingFederate
5 2 (0.61%) Argo
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.31%) MOM
6 1 (0.31%) Puppet
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.31%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 49 (14.98%) SAP
2 35 (10.70%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.59%) Siemens
4 12 (3.67%) Oracle
4 12 (3.67%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.36%) Cisco
5 11 (3.36%) IBM
5 11 (3.36%) VMware
6 8 (2.45%) MathWorks
7 5 (1.53%) Google
7 5 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.22%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.92%) Databricks
9 3 (0.92%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.92%) IFS
9 3 (0.92%) Ping Identity
9 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.61%) Ariba
10 2 (0.61%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.61%) HP