Aviation Contract Job Trends

Aviation
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 469 490
Rank change year-on-year -22 +21 +199
Contract jobs citing Aviation 95 66 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.42% 0.32% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 32 67
10th Percentile £364 £240 £333
25th Percentile £416 £263 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £548 £641 £631
90th Percentile £749 £766 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £530
% change year-on-year +5.56% -15.09% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 8 21
10th Percentile £20.00 £19.40 £26.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £21.88 £33.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60.44 £55.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.55 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.89 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -31.74% -6.67% -5.18%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,437 20,742 26,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.08% 61.08% 59.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,022 12,399 17,274
10th Percentile £275 £288 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
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 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,452 710 1,070
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.53 £16.84
Median hourly rate £23.54 £27.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% -17.27% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £70.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.79 £25.99 £30.48
% change year-on-year -16.15% -14.72% +41.74%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Aviation job vacancy trend in the UK

Aviation
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Aviation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Aviation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aviation over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 December 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 -2 86 £475 +5.56% 62
UK excluding London -3 64 £475 +5.56% 61
East of England -10 27 £446 -18.98% 7
London -3 21 £500 +66.67% 10
South West +1 17 £488 -16.09% 11
Work from Home -12 13 £450 -25.00% 12
North of England -30 12 £450 - 9
North West -22 10 £450 - 5
South East -14 7 £600 +33.33% 31
Yorkshire -43 2 £450 - 4
Wales -2 1 - -

Aviation
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 1 (1.05%) ArcGIS
1 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Simulink
2 4 (4.21%) Stateflow
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) SAP EHS
2 4 (4.21%) Workday HCM
3 3 (3.16%) Maximo
4 2 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.11%) SAP HCM
4 2 (2.11%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.47%) AWS
2 6 (6.32%) Azure
2 6 (6.32%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (6.32%) PaaS
3 3 (3.16%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.11%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.11%) Serverless
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.05%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.05%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.05%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) RS-232
1 3 (3.16%) SpaceWire
1 3 (3.16%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.05%) 5G
2 1 (1.05%) MPLS
2 1 (1.05%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) VoIP
2 1 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.05%) Wireless
2 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) Metadata
2 3 (3.16%) Data Vault
2 3 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.11%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (4.21%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (1.05%) Git
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 31 (32.63%) Aerospace
3 21 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.68%) Finance
5 8 (8.42%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.32%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
7 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Military
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (12.63%) Administrator
2 10 (10.53%) Architect
3 8 (8.42%) SAP Administrator
3 8 (8.42%) SAP Support
4 7 (7.37%) Senior
4 7 (7.37%) Support Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Consultant
6 5 (5.26%) Developer
6 5 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Technical Support
6 5 (5.26%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Lead
7 4 (4.21%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.58%) OpenID
1 11 (11.58%) SAML
2 4 (4.21%) LDAP
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.05%) .NET
4 1 (1.05%) Kafka
4 1 (1.05%) Middleware
4 1 (1.05%) Next.js
4 1 (1.05%) React
4 1 (1.05%) SGML
4 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.16%) CAN bus
3 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.11%) CCTV
4 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.11%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.05%) FMCG
5 1 (1.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
2 4 (4.21%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.05%) VMS
3 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (15.79%) Agile
5 13 (13.68%) Analytics
5 13 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (11.58%) Migration
6 11 (11.58%) Roadmaps
7 10 (10.53%) Change Management
8 9 (9.47%) Logistics
9 8 (8.42%) Mathematics
9 8 (8.42%) Observability
9 8 (8.42%) Validation
10 7 (7.37%) DevOps
10 7 (7.37%) Requirements Management
11 6 (6.32%) AI
11 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (6.32%) Integration Testing
12 5 (5.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 5 (5.26%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.26%) Ada
1 5 (5.26%) C
2 4 (4.21%) Fortran
2 4 (4.21%) MATLAB
3 2 (2.11%) ABAP
3 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.11%) SQL
4 1 (1.05%) C#
4 1 (1.05%) C++
4 1 (1.05%) Python
4 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (10.53%) Degree
5 3 (3.16%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.16%) IIBA
5 3 (3.16%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.11%) PMP
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) HNC
7 1 (1.05%) HND
7 1 (1.05%) MAPM
7 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.05%) PgMP
7 1 (1.05%) RIBA
7 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) QA
2 4 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (4.21%) GDPR
2 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.21%) NIST
3 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.16%) Solvency II
4 2 (2.11%) PMO
5 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) PingFederate
2 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
1 17 (17.89%) SAP
2 6 (6.32%) Ping Identity
3 4 (4.21%) MathWorks
3 4 (4.21%) Twitter
3 4 (4.21%) Workday
4 2 (2.11%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) IBM
5 1 (1.05%) IFS
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow