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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 354 232
Rank change year-on-year +151 -122 +153
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 691 187 453
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.33% 0.59% 1.05%
As % of the General category 2.43% 0.93% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 53 75
10th Percentile £390 £418 £275
25th Percentile £438 £513 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £627
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -9.09% +19.43%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile £723 £750 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £630
% change year-on-year -4.76% -16.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 72 268
10th Percentile £27.45 £24.90 £28.00
25th Percentile £36.70 £41.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.49 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% +0.97% -18.70%
75th Percentile £80.00 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £50.49 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.85% +0.97% -17.70%

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 28,461 20,078 24,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.66% 63.09% 57.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,041 12,609 15,456
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £489
% change year-on-year +5.93% -3.48% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,970 1,003 1,943
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.47 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.05 £16.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.21 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% -14.89% +6.57%
75th Percentile £60.41 £52.08 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.13 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +39.13% -26.40% +20.42%

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 7 July 2026.

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 7 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Top 17 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 7 July 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
UK excluding London +119 649 £500 -4.76% 416
England +158 631 £550 -2.65% 415
South East +83 281 £640 +24.51% 142
South West +48 151 £495 -9.17% 80
Work from Home +33 124 £500 -6.10% 188
North of England -10 79 £600 -2.44% 63
East of England +16 75 £475 -51.28% 52
North West -2 60 £600 -2.44% 46
Midlands -50 24 £538 +2.38% 53
Scotland +2 23 - - 26
London -86 19 £663 +8.16% 36
East Midlands -6 14 £500 -33.33% 22
North East - 12 - - 7
Wales -9 9 - - 11
West Midlands -63 9 - - 31
Northern Ireland +11 7 £380 - 3
Yorkshire - 7 - - 10

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 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.29%) ThingWorx
3 1 (0.14%) Apache
3 1 (0.14%) Confluence
3 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (2.75%) Simulink
2 17 (2.46%) CATIA
3 12 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.72%) Windchill
6 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.58%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.29%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 16 (2.32%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.87%) Primavera
3 4 (0.58%) SAP EHS
3 4 (0.58%) SAP EWM
4 3 (0.43%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.29%) DELMIA
5 2 (0.29%) ENOVIA
5 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.29%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.29%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.29%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 45 (6.51%) Azure
2 18 (2.60%) AWS
3 15 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (1.45%) GCP
4 10 (1.45%) Power Platform
5 8 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (0.72%) Entra ID
7 4 (0.58%) Google Workspace
7 4 (0.58%) SaaS
8 3 (0.43%) Azure Functions
8 3 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.43%) Figma
8 3 (0.43%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.43%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.43%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.43%) Serverless
9 2 (0.29%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.29%) IaaS
9 2 (0.29%) PaaS
9 2 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.17%) Wireless
2 12 (1.74%) Ethernet
3 10 (1.45%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.43%) Firewall
4 3 (0.43%) SpaceWire
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) FTP
5 2 (0.29%) Network Security
5 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.14%) MPLS
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) OSPF
6 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.14%) RS-232
6 1 (0.14%) RS-422
6 1 (0.14%) VLAN
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.16%) Power BI
2 4 (0.58%) SAP HANA
3 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.43%) Tableau
4 2 (0.29%) Big Data
4 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.29%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.29%) MS Access
4 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 60 (8.68%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (1.16%) Git
3 7 (1.01%) JIRA
3 7 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
4 6 (0.87%) GitLab
5 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.14%) Hudson
7 1 (0.14%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.14%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 172 (24.89%) Manufacturing
2 82 (11.87%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.81%) Finance
4 45 (6.51%) Aviation
5 40 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.18%) Automotive
6 22 (3.18%) Avionics
7 16 (2.32%) Electronics
8 14 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.74%) Military
10 8 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.72%) Legal
12 3 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.29%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.29%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (9.70%) Software Engineer
2 66 (9.55%) Systems Engineer
3 65 (9.41%) Lead
4 43 (6.22%) Senior
5 40 (5.79%) Delivery Manager
6 39 (5.64%) Architect
6 39 (5.64%) Product Manager
7 38 (5.50%) Embedded Engineer
8 34 (4.92%) Product Delivery Manager
9 32 (4.63%) Test Engineer
10 30 (4.34%) Systems Manager
11 29 (4.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 27 (3.91%) Quality Engineer
13 26 (3.76%) QA Engineer
14 25 (3.62%) Administrator
14 25 (3.62%) Principal Engineer
15 24 (3.47%) Analyst
16 23 (3.33%) Developer
17 22 (3.18%) Systems Delivery Manager
18 21 (3.04%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.30%) Middleware
2 7 (1.01%) LDAP
3 6 (0.87%) REST
4 4 (0.58%) .NET
4 4 (0.58%) OAuth
4 4 (0.58%) OpenID
4 4 (0.58%) SAML
5 3 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (0.43%) XML
5 3 (0.43%) Yocto
6 2 (0.29%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.29%) Flash
6 2 (0.29%) Quarkus
6 2 (0.29%) RESTful
6 2 (0.29%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.29%) SOAP
6 2 (0.29%) Web Services
7 1 (0.14%) LangChain
7 1 (0.14%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.62%) Data Structures
3 20 (2.89%) FPGA
4 17 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.03%) Embedded Systems
6 12 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.74%) Operational Technology
6 12 (1.74%) VHDL
7 11 (1.59%) PCIe
7 11 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.30%) Verilog
9 8 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.58%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.43%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.32%) Linux
2 7 (1.01%) Windows
3 5 (0.72%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.43%) CentOS
5 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (15.48%) Software Engineering
2 95 (13.75%) Agile
3 86 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 77 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 76 (11.00%) Validation
6 74 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 72 (10.42%) Systems Engineering
8 63 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
9 62 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (8.97%) Roadmaps
10 55 (7.96%) Computer Science
11 53 (7.67%) Configuration Management
12 43 (6.22%) Programme Management
13 42 (6.08%) PRINCE2
14 41 (5.93%) Verification and Validation
15 40 (5.79%) Change Control
15 40 (5.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 39 (5.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 35 (5.07%) UML
18 34 (4.92%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 40 (5.79%) Ada
2 31 (4.49%) C
3 28 (4.05%) Python
4 27 (3.91%) MATLAB
5 18 (2.60%) C++
6 14 (2.03%) SQL
7 11 (1.59%) SystemVerilog
8 7 (1.01%) Java
9 4 (0.58%) C#
10 3 (0.43%) ABAP
10 3 (0.43%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.43%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.43%) X++
11 2 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.14%) Ada 95
12 1 (0.14%) Bicep
12 1 (0.14%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 293 (42.40%) Security Cleared
2 179 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 90 (13.02%) Degree
4 46 (6.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.89%) CISSP
7 17 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.88%) PMP
9 11 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
9 11 (1.59%) HNC
9 11 (1.59%) NVQ Level 4
10 10 (1.45%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.72%) CISM
14 4 (0.58%) CEH
14 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.79%) QA
2 26 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.62%) NIST
4 19 (2.75%) Def Stans
5 15 (2.17%) GRC
6 10 (1.45%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.30%) DO-254
7 9 (1.30%) NIST 800
8 8 (1.16%) IEC 61508
9 6 (0.87%) SLA
10 5 (0.72%) GDPR
10 5 (0.72%) NCSC
11 4 (0.58%) MIL-STD-1553
11 4 (0.58%) PMO
12 3 (0.43%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.14%) HAZOP
14 1 (0.14%) IFRS
14 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
System Software
1 11 (1.59%) Firmware
2 10 (1.45%) Docker
3 7 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.72%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (1.45%) Terraform
2 9 (1.30%) Ansible
3 8 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.58%) Podman
5 3 (0.43%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.43%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.29%) Argo
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Iperf
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) Nmap
7 1 (0.14%) PTC Integrity
7 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 62 (8.97%) SAP
2 39 (5.64%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.34%) IBM
4 13 (1.88%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.59%) Siemens
5 11 (1.59%) Xilinx
6 10 (1.45%) Microsemi
7 7 (1.01%) Altera
7 7 (1.01%) Google
8 6 (0.87%) Adobe
8 6 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.72%) VMware
10 4 (0.58%) EMC
10 4 (0.58%) Intel
10 4 (0.58%) Lauterbach
10 4 (0.58%) Okta
10 4 (0.58%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.58%) PTC
11 3 (0.43%) Apple
11 3 (0.43%) ForgeRock