Aviation Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Aviation
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 25 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 +5
Contract jobs citing Aviation 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.77% 1.43% 0.41%
As % of the General category 2.94% 2.60% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £545 - -
25th Percentile £575 £325 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +107.14% -30.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £738 £375 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £725 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +81.25% -17.95% -18.75%

All General Skills
West Sussex

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 in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 170 77 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 60.07% 55.00% 52.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 51 84
10th Percentile £153 £200 £243
25th Percentile £327 £334 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £518
90th Percentile £658 £638 £563
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £494
% change year-on-year - +1.21% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 10
10th Percentile £20.99 £16.64 £15.16
25th Percentile £35.00 £16.95 £18.20
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.82 £20.44
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% -7.91% -7.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £33.35 £22.25
90th Percentile - £85.50 £22.92
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £33.25
% change year-on-year +27.27% -17.29% -26.11%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Aviation job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Aviation
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Aviation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Aviation

Aviation
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation in West Sussex over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in West Sussex

Aviation
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Aviation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Aviation

Aviation
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aviation within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 23 March 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
Gatwick - 3 £725 -
Aviation
South East

Aviation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (60.00%) ArcGIS
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (60.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (20.00%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) Next.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) API Development
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform