Aviation Contracts

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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 496 551
Rank change year-on-year +12 +55 +207
Contract jobs citing Aviation 72 66 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.34% 0.29% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 50
10th Percentile £325 £313 £398
25th Percentile £406 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £594
90th Percentile £915 £660 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -13.64% +3.97% +11.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 34
10th Percentile £20.00 £18.91 £27.36
25th Percentile £22.63 £25.86 £32.30
Median hourly rate £37.59 £45.00 £37.52
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +19.95% +7.19%
75th Percentile £51.25 £75.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £58.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.59 £46.74 £37.52
% change year-on-year -19.57% +24.58% +7.19%

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 20,965 22,381 31,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.22% 57.34% 58.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,077 14,145 21,474
10th Percentile £280 £290 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,119 1,399 1,056
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.19 £16.96 £16.68
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +27.07% +20.00%
75th Percentile £51.05 £57.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £72.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £38.12 £26.00
% change year-on-year -41.92% +46.62% +30.00%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Aviation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Aviation.

Daily rate trend for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Aviation.

Hourly rate trend for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aviation over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Top 12 Contract 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 3 August 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 +34 70 £475 -13.64% 261
UK excluding London +9 54 £475 -13.64% 201
Work from Home +25 18 £750 +30.43% 98
South East +25 17 £475 -15.56% 72
East of England +17 17 £553 -8.87% 27
London +7 13 £425 -5.56% 78
South West +26 10 £110 -73.11% 44
North of England -6 9 £550 -15.38% 20
North West +4 7 £550 -15.38% 13
Yorkshire -7 2 - - 4
East Midlands -3 1 £750 - 13
Midlands -9 1 £750 - 23

Aviation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Windchill
3 1 (1.39%) CATIA
3 1 (1.39%) Simulink
3 1 (1.39%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Workday HCM
2 4 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.39%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.39%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.39%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (4.17%) Azure
2 3 (4.17%) Serverless
3 2 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.39%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (1.39%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.39%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.39%) GitHub
4 1 (1.39%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.39%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Firewall
1 4 (5.56%) Network Security
1 4 (5.56%) SpaceWire
2 3 (4.17%) LAN
2 3 (4.17%) RS-232
2 3 (4.17%) WAN
3 2 (2.78%) 5G
3 2 (2.78%) FTP
3 2 (2.78%) HTTP
3 2 (2.78%) SSL
3 2 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (2.78%) VoIP
3 2 (2.78%) VPN
3 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.78%) Wireless
3 2 (2.78%) WLAN
4 1 (1.39%) BGP
4 1 (1.39%) DNS
4 1 (1.39%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
1 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.39%) Data Hub
2 1 (1.39%) MS Access
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.39%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.39%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (1.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (2.78%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (1.39%) Appium
3 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.39%) JIRA
3 1 (1.39%) JUnit
3 1 (1.39%) LSMW
3 1 (1.39%) Maven
3 1 (1.39%) Postman
3 1 (1.39%) Selenium
3 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (48.61%) Aerospace
2 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Finance
5 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.94%) Military
6 4 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.78%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (2.78%) Marketing
8 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Police
8 2 (2.78%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (19.44%) Administrator
2 8 (11.11%) Architect
2 8 (11.11%) SAP Administrator
2 8 (11.11%) SAP Support
3 5 (6.94%) Analyst
3 5 (6.94%) Technical Architect
3 5 (6.94%) Workday Architect
4 4 (5.56%) Consultant
5 3 (4.17%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (4.17%) Requirements Engineer
5 3 (4.17%) Senior
6 2 (2.78%) Bid Manager
6 2 (2.78%) Data Migration Specialist
6 2 (2.78%) Developer
6 2 (2.78%) ERP Implementation Manager
6 2 (2.78%) Implementation Manager
6 2 (2.78%) Network Architect
6 2 (2.78%) Network Design Engineer
6 2 (2.78%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) XML
2 1 (1.39%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.39%) BAPI
2 1 (1.39%) Chai
2 1 (1.39%) Jest
2 1 (1.39%) Kafka
2 1 (1.39%) LDAP
2 1 (1.39%) Middleware
2 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.39%) REST
2 1 (1.39%) SGML
2 1 (1.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.17%) CAN bus
2 3 (4.17%) CCTV
3 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.78%) IoT
3 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Robotics
4 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.39%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.39%) PMI
4 1 (1.39%) SCADA
4 1 (1.39%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Windows
2 6 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (2.78%) VMS
3 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (15.28%) Agile
3 10 (13.89%) Validation
4 9 (12.50%) Change Management
5 7 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (9.72%) Project Management
6 6 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 6 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
7 5 (6.94%) Analytics
7 5 (6.94%) Data Protection
7 5 (6.94%) Migration
7 5 (6.94%) Network Design
7 5 (6.94%) PLM
7 5 (6.94%) Software Engineering
7 5 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (5.56%) ERP
8 4 (5.56%) ITIL
8 4 (5.56%) Mathematics
8 4 (5.56%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.56%) Python
2 3 (4.17%) C
3 2 (2.78%) Java
3 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.39%) ABAP
4 1 (1.39%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.39%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (1.39%) Ada
4 1 (1.39%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.39%) Bash
4 1 (1.39%) Fortran
4 1 (1.39%) MATLAB
4 1 (1.39%) SQL
4 1 (1.39%) Tcl
4 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.39%) VBA
4 1 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (18.06%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) DBS Check
6 3 (4.17%) IIBA
6 3 (4.17%) PMP
7 2 (2.78%) CCNP
7 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.78%) HNC
7 2 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.39%) CCDE
8 1 (1.39%) CCDP
8 1 (1.39%) CCIE
8 1 (1.39%) CCNA
8 1 (1.39%) CCSA
8 1 (1.39%) CCSE
8 1 (1.39%) HND
8 1 (1.39%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.39%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
1 2 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (31.94%) Twitter
2 13 (18.06%) SAP
3 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.94%) Cisco
4 5 (6.94%) Workday
5 2 (2.78%) Aruba
5 2 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.78%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) HP
5 2 (2.78%) Ribbon
5 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.78%) Tenable
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.39%) EMC
6 1 (1.39%) Juniper
6 1 (1.39%) MathWorks
6 1 (1.39%) Siemens
6 1 (1.39%) Wind River