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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 347 239
Rank change year-on-year +147 -108 +132
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 708 208 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 0.64% 1.00%
As % of the General category 2.45% 1.01% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 63 75
10th Percentile £394 £448 £302
25th Percentile £438 £486 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £630
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -10.32% +20.00%
75th Percentile £679 £650 £700
90th Percentile £728 £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 436 80 257
10th Percentile £28.19 £22.63 £31.97
25th Percentile £36.70 £41.15 £41.81
Median hourly rate £60.00 £50.49 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% +0.97% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80.00 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £50.49 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.85% +0.97% -16.67%

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 28,879 20,600 24,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.81% 63.03% 57.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,287 12,940 15,286
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £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 £490
% change year-on-year +5.93% -3.67% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,012 1,046 1,883
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.22 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +19.42% -17.27% +7.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £71.88 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £23.10 £32.12
% change year-on-year +40.69% -28.07% +23.52%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +116 666 £500 -4.76% 538
England +146 648 £525 -7.08% 544
South East +74 292 £650 +26.46% 164
South West +37 156 £495 -10.00% 133
Work from Home +35 127 £500 -6.10% 258
North of England -20 79 £600 +16.50% 103
East of England +18 74 £450 -36.84% 67
North West -15 60 £600 +16.50% 76
Midlands -41 26 £500 -4.76% 50
Scotland +1 22 - - 23
London -73 19 £663 +8.16% 45
East Midlands -3 16 £475 -36.67% 25
North East - 12 - - 9
Wales -5 10 - - 11
West Midlands -69 9 - - 25
Northern Ireland +8 7 £380 - 1
Yorkshire - 7 - - 18

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 (0.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
3 1 (0.14%) Apache
3 1 (0.14%) Confluence
3 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (2.68%) Simulink
2 17 (2.40%) CATIA
3 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.71%) Windchill
6 4 (0.56%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.28%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.28%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.12%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.85%) Primavera
4 4 (0.56%) SAP EHS
4 4 (0.56%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.42%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.42%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.28%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.28%) ENOVIA
6 2 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.28%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.28%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.14%) Demantra
7 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CCM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 46 (6.50%) Azure
2 18 (2.54%) AWS
3 15 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (1.41%) GCP
4 10 (1.41%) Power Platform
5 9 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (0.85%) Entra ID
7 4 (0.56%) Google Workspace
7 4 (0.56%) SaaS
8 3 (0.42%) Azure Functions
8 3 (0.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.42%) Figma
8 3 (0.42%) OpenShift
8 3 (0.42%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.42%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.42%) Serverless
9 2 (0.28%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.28%) IaaS
9 2 (0.28%) PaaS
9 2 (0.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.26%) Wireless
2 12 (1.69%) Ethernet
3 10 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.56%) Firewall
5 3 (0.42%) Network Security
5 3 (0.42%) SpaceWire
6 2 (0.28%) DNS
6 2 (0.28%) FTP
6 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.14%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.14%) BGP
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.14%) DHCP
7 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.14%) MPLS
7 1 (0.14%) Multicast
7 1 (0.14%) OSPF
7 1 (0.14%) VLAN
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.13%) Power BI
2 4 (0.56%) SAP HANA
3 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.42%) Tableau
4 2 (0.28%) Big Data
4 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.28%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.28%) MS Access
4 2 (0.28%) 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 61 (8.62%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (1.13%) Git
3 7 (0.99%) JIRA
3 7 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
4 6 (0.85%) GitLab
5 3 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.28%) 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
1 178 (25.14%) Manufacturing
2 86 (12.15%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.63%) Finance
4 45 (6.36%) Aviation
5 41 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.25%) Avionics
7 21 (2.97%) Automotive
8 16 (2.26%) Electronics
9 14 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.69%) Military
11 10 (1.41%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.71%) Legal
14 3 (0.42%) Law
14 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.28%) French Language
15 2 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 71 (10.03%) Software Engineer
2 70 (9.89%) Systems Engineer
3 69 (9.75%) Lead
4 46 (6.50%) Senior
5 41 (5.79%) Delivery Manager
6 40 (5.65%) Architect
7 39 (5.51%) Embedded Engineer
7 39 (5.51%) Product Manager
8 34 (4.80%) Product Delivery Manager
9 32 (4.52%) Test Engineer
10 30 (4.24%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 30 (4.24%) Systems Manager
11 28 (3.95%) Quality Engineer
12 27 (3.81%) QA Engineer
13 25 (3.53%) Administrator
13 25 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (3.39%) Developer
15 23 (3.25%) Analyst
16 22 (3.11%) Consultant
16 22 (3.11%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.41%) Middleware
2 7 (0.99%) LDAP
3 6 (0.85%) REST
4 4 (0.56%) .NET
4 4 (0.56%) OAuth
4 4 (0.56%) OpenID
4 4 (0.56%) SAML
5 3 (0.42%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (0.42%) Web Services
5 3 (0.42%) XML
5 3 (0.42%) Yocto
6 2 (0.28%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.28%) Qt
6 2 (0.28%) Quarkus
6 2 (0.28%) RESTful
6 2 (0.28%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.28%) SOAP
7 1 (0.14%) Kafka
7 1 (0.14%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.34%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.53%) Data Structures
3 19 (2.68%) FPGA
4 18 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.26%) Embedded Systems
6 12 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.55%) Operational Technology
7 11 (1.55%) PCIe
7 11 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.55%) VHDL
8 9 (1.27%) Verilog
9 8 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.99%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.56%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.42%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.68%) Linux
2 7 (0.99%) Windows
3 5 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (0.71%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.42%) CentOS
4 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (15.68%) Software Engineering
2 95 (13.42%) Agile
3 90 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 82 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 75 (10.59%) Validation
6 73 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 71 (10.03%) Systems Engineering
8 67 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
9 64 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (9.04%) Roadmaps
10 55 (7.77%) Computer Science
11 52 (7.34%) Configuration Management
12 43 (6.07%) Programme Management
13 42 (5.93%) PRINCE2
14 41 (5.79%) Change Control
14 41 (5.79%) Verification and Validation
15 40 (5.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 40 (5.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 36 (5.08%) Risk Management
16 36 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (5.93%) Ada
2 32 (4.52%) C
3 28 (3.95%) Python
4 27 (3.81%) MATLAB
5 20 (2.82%) C++
6 14 (1.98%) SQL
7 11 (1.55%) SystemVerilog
8 7 (0.99%) Java
9 4 (0.56%) C#
10 3 (0.42%) ABAP
10 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.42%) X++
11 2 (0.28%) Bash
11 2 (0.28%) Rust
12 1 (0.14%) Ada 95
12 1 (0.14%) Bicep
12 1 (0.14%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 292 (41.24%) Security Cleared
2 178 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 91 (12.85%) Degree
4 46 (6.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.11%) CISSP
7 18 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.84%) PMP
9 12 (1.69%) HNC
10 11 (1.55%) Chartered Engineer
10 11 (1.55%) NVQ Level 4
11 10 (1.41%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.85%) CISM
14 5 (0.71%) CEH
15 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.79%) QA
2 29 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.53%) NIST
4 18 (2.54%) Def Stans
5 15 (2.12%) GRC
6 11 (1.55%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.41%) NIST 800
8 9 (1.27%) DO-254
9 8 (1.13%) IEC 61508
10 7 (0.99%) GDPR
11 6 (0.85%) SLA
12 5 (0.71%) NCSC
13 4 (0.56%) MIL-STD-1553
13 4 (0.56%) PMO
14 3 (0.42%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 1 (0.14%) IFRS
16 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
16 1 (0.14%) RMADS
System Software
1 11 (1.55%) Firmware
2 9 (1.27%) Docker
3 7 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (1.41%) Terraform
2 9 (1.27%) Ansible
3 7 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.42%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.42%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.42%) Podman
4 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (0.28%) Argo
5 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.14%) Iperf
6 1 (0.14%) Nessus
6 1 (0.14%) Nmap
6 1 (0.14%) PTC Integrity
6 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.14%) SCCM
6 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 65 (9.18%) SAP
2 42 (5.93%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.24%) IBM
4 13 (1.84%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.55%) Siemens
5 11 (1.55%) Xilinx
6 10 (1.41%) Microsemi
7 7 (0.99%) Altera
7 7 (0.99%) Google
8 6 (0.85%) Adobe
8 6 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.56%) EMC
9 4 (0.56%) Intel
9 4 (0.56%) Lauterbach
9 4 (0.56%) Okta
9 4 (0.56%) Ping Identity
9 4 (0.56%) PTC
9 4 (0.56%) VMware
10 3 (0.42%) Apple
10 3 (0.42%) ForgeRock