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 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 474 488
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 +61
Contract jobs citing Aviation 216 72 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the General category 0.74% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 22 36
10th Percentile £411 £325 £303
25th Percentile £513 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.02% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £781 £750 £625
90th Percentile £900 £933 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 31 20
10th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £19.45
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.63 £26.79
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.84 £46.74
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -12.62% +13.99%
75th Percentile £63.38 £55.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £40.84 £48.48
% change year-on-year +16.31% -15.75% +18.23%

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 29,379 20,909 22,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.05% 63.43% 57.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,437 13,057 14,049
10th Percentile £313 £279 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.89% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,133 1,375
10th Percentile £13.98 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £17.04
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +31.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £58.49
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.14 £38.12
% change year-on-year +46.79% -41.92% +51.72%

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 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Top 15 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 12 August 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
England +1 181 £615 +29.47% 277
UK excluding London -38 119 £525 +10.53% 212
London -7 74 £719 +59.72% 90
Work from Home -35 35 £560 -25.33% 104
North of England -46 35 £675 +22.73% 22
South East -52 32 £560 +17.89% 87
South West -22 30 £560 +409.09% 42
Yorkshire -25 20 - - 4
North West -44 9 £675 +22.73% 15
Scotland - 8 £525 - 20
East of England -29 6 - - 21
North East - 6 - - 3
Wales - 6 - - 8
East Midlands -6 2 £400 -46.67% 9
Midlands -50 2 £400 -46.67% 16

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 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.46%) CMS
2 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.85%) Simulink
3 4 (1.85%) Stateflow
4 3 (1.39%) CPLEX
4 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.85%) Primavera
2 4 (1.85%) SAP EHS
3 3 (1.39%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.93%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.46%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.33%) Azure
2 15 (6.94%) AWS
3 7 (3.24%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.78%) OCI
4 6 (2.78%) SaaS
5 5 (2.31%) GitHub
6 3 (1.39%) Azure AI
6 3 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.39%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.93%) Datadog
7 2 (0.93%) dbt
7 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.93%) Google Sheets
7 2 (0.93%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.93%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.93%) PaaS
8 1 (0.46%) Dagster
8 1 (0.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) 3GPP
1 5 (2.31%) RTP
1 5 (2.31%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.46%) Firewall
2 1 (0.46%) Network Security
2 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.09%) Metadata
2 10 (4.63%) Data Vault
2 10 (4.63%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (1.39%) Power BI
4 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.93%) MS Access
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.93%) Power Query
5 1 (0.46%) GIS
5 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.46%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.24%) JIRA
2 5 (2.31%) Git
2 5 (2.31%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.46%) MLflow
3 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.83%) Aerospace
3 33 (15.28%) Manufacturing
4 29 (13.43%) Finance
5 25 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.56%) Banking
7 11 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.63%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.78%) Law
10 6 (2.78%) Legal
10 6 (2.78%) Police
10 6 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.78%) Retail
11 5 (2.31%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.85%) Avionics
12 4 (1.85%) Military
13 3 (1.39%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (15.74%) Architect
2 17 (7.87%) Software Engineer
3 14 (6.48%) Administrator
4 12 (5.56%) Data Scientist
4 12 (5.56%) Lead
5 11 (5.09%) Data Modeller
5 11 (5.09%) Product Manager
6 10 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (4.63%) Project Manager
6 10 (4.63%) Senior
6 10 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.63%) Technical Engineer
7 9 (4.17%) Consultant
8 8 (3.70%) SAP Administrator
8 8 (3.70%) SAP Support
8 8 (3.70%) Support Engineer
8 8 (3.70%) Technical Support
8 8 (3.70%) Technical Support Engineer
9 6 (2.78%) SAP Architect
9 6 (2.78%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (2.78%) .NET
2 6 (2.78%) PyTorch
2 6 (2.78%) TensorFlow
3 5 (2.31%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.39%) REST
5 2 (0.93%) Kafka
5 2 (0.93%) SOAP
5 2 (0.93%) XML
6 1 (0.46%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.46%) NumPy
6 1 (0.46%) Pandas
6 1 (0.46%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.46%) SwiftUI
6 1 (0.46%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.63%) Robotics
3 9 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.31%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.31%) Social Media
6 4 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.39%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.39%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.39%) PMI
8 2 (0.93%) CMDB
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.93%) FMCG
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.46%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.46%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.17%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Solaris
2 2 (0.93%) Unix
2 2 (0.93%) Windows
2 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
2 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (23.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (20.83%) Agile
3 41 (18.98%) AI
4 30 (13.89%) Change Management
5 29 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (13.43%) Roadmaps
6 27 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (12.04%) Software Engineering
8 25 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 23 (10.65%) Analytics
10 23 (10.65%) Decision-Making
11 22 (10.19%) Migration
12 21 (9.72%) Data Science
13 18 (8.33%) DevOps
14 17 (7.87%) Machine Learning
15 16 (7.41%) Data Migration
15 16 (7.41%) Project Management
16 15 (6.94%) CI/CD
17 14 (6.48%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.33%) Python
2 11 (5.09%) SQL
3 5 (2.31%) C#
4 4 (1.85%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.93%) C++
6 1 (0.46%) ABAP
6 1 (0.46%) Bicep
6 1 (0.46%) Java
6 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 53 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.72%) Degree
4 20 (9.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.85%) NVQ Level 4
6 4 (1.85%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) CCNA
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.93%) MCSE
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) CISM
8 1 (0.46%) CISSP
8 1 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.46%) PhD
8 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.70%) PMO
3 5 (2.31%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.31%) QA
4 2 (0.93%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.93%) RMADS
4 2 (0.93%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) ARP4761
5 1 (0.46%) DO-254
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) IFRS
5 1 (0.46%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.39%) Terraform
2 2 (0.93%) Control-M
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (13.89%) SAP
2 19 (8.80%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.87%) Oracle
4 7 (3.24%) Workday
5 6 (2.78%) Google
6 3 (1.39%) Foundry
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco
7 2 (0.93%) Informatica
7 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.93%) Teradata
8 1 (0.46%) Adobe
8 1 (0.46%) Apple
8 1 (0.46%) Confluent
8 1 (0.46%) EMC
8 1 (0.46%) NEC
8 1 (0.46%) Samsung
8 1 (0.46%) Siemens