Aerospace Contracts in England

Aerospace
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Aerospace over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 391 583
Rank change year-on-year +173 +192 -96
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 412 275 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.12% 0.56% 0.28%
As % of the General category 1.93% 0.95% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 83 40
10th Percentile £325 £358 £412
25th Percentile £419 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +1.94% -0.77%
75th Percentile £700 £613 £560
90th Percentile - £676 £644
UK median daily rate £650 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +23.81% +0.96% +2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 111 78
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.55 £33.81
25th Percentile £44.96 £51.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £50.10
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +22.75% +11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £61.55
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -18.70% +17.14% +16.67%

All General Skills
England

Aerospace is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,396 29,018 39,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.20% 59.25% 56.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,789 20,378 27,740
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 948 1,301
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.17%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.72
90th Percentile £65.50 £70.94 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.91 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.06% +54.14% -2.22%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
East of England +60 141 £488 -27.46% 114
South West +52 118 £700 +21.74% 208
South East +20 91 £645 +72.00% 254
Midlands +20 21 £375 -26.83% 144
London +92 19 £610 +1.67% 48
North of England +38 19 £897 +88.83% 134
East Midlands +21 19 £443 -9.69% 62
North West +26 15 - - 97
North East - 4 £897 - 8
West Midlands +14 2 £375 -34.78% 82
Aerospace
UK

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (6.07%) Confluence
2 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.24%) Tornado
Applications
1 13 (3.16%) Simulink
2 12 (2.91%) Acrobat
3 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.97%) Windchill
6 3 (0.73%) CATIA
7 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.49%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.49%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.94%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.24%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.24%) Primavera
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (0.73%) GitHub
2 2 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (0.49%) OneDrive
2 2 (0.49%) Power Automate
2 2 (0.49%) Power Platform
2 2 (0.49%) PowerApps
3 1 (0.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (0.24%) AWS
3 1 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (0.24%) Azure
3 1 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.64%) WAN
2 10 (2.43%) DNS
3 9 (2.18%) DHCP
3 9 (2.18%) SNMP
4 8 (1.94%) LAN
4 8 (1.94%) MPLS
4 8 (1.94%) SAN
4 8 (1.94%) Software-Defined Radio
4 8 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.70%) SDH
6 5 (1.21%) Wireless
7 4 (0.97%) Junos
8 3 (0.73%) 4G
8 3 (0.73%) 5G
9 2 (0.49%) Firewall
9 2 (0.49%) Network Security
9 2 (0.49%) VoIP
9 2 (0.49%) VSAN
10 1 (0.24%) Internet
10 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (9.95%) JIRA
2 25 (6.07%) Bitbucket
2 25 (6.07%) Rational DOORS
3 20 (4.85%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (3.64%) Git
6 9 (2.18%) Eclipse
7 8 (1.94%) GoogleTest
7 8 (1.94%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.97%) Subversion
9 3 (0.73%) Rational Team Concert
10 2 (0.49%) CppUnit
10 2 (0.49%) PVCS
10 2 (0.49%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.24%) GitLab
11 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.24%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.24%) MagicDraw
11 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 100 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 60 (14.56%) Manufacturing
3 45 (10.92%) Electronics
4 35 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.58%) Military
6 17 (4.13%) Automotive
7 16 (3.88%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.64%) Aviation
9 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.70%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.46%) Finance
12 4 (0.97%) Law
13 3 (0.73%) Legal
13 3 (0.73%) Marketing
14 2 (0.49%) Avionics
14 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (15.29%) Software Engineer
2 59 (14.32%) Configuration Manager
3 49 (11.89%) Architect
4 43 (10.44%) Systems Engineer
5 31 (7.52%) Test Architect
6 26 (6.31%) Embedded Engineer
7 25 (6.07%) Developer
8 24 (5.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 17 (4.13%) Project Manager
10 14 (3.40%) Analyst
11 13 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (2.91%) Author
12 12 (2.91%) Technical Author
13 11 (2.67%) Data Engineer
13 11 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.43%) Administrator
14 10 (2.43%) Data Migration Engineer
14 10 (2.43%) Migration Engineer
14 10 (2.43%) Senior
15 9 (2.18%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.37%) .NET
1 18 (4.37%) .NET Core
2 12 (2.91%) SGML
2 12 (2.91%) XML
3 10 (2.43%) HTML
4 6 (1.46%) CSS
5 2 (0.49%) NumPy
6 1 (0.24%) COM
6 1 (0.24%) Middleware
6 1 (0.24%) Node.js
6 1 (0.24%) React
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.24%) Spring
6 1 (0.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.52%) Analogue Electronics
2 12 (2.91%) Animation
3 10 (2.43%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.18%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.94%) Client/Server
5 8 (1.94%) Clustering
6 6 (1.46%) Algorithms
7 4 (0.97%) Device Driver
7 4 (0.97%) PMI
7 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.73%) PKI
9 2 (0.49%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.49%) SCADA
10 1 (0.24%) Acoustics
10 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.24%) Life Science
10 1 (0.24%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.68%) Linux
2 16 (3.88%) Windows
3 8 (1.94%) Unix
4 4 (0.97%) SafeRTOS
5 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (21.12%) Configuration Management
2 77 (18.69%) Software Engineering
3 64 (15.53%) PLM
4 61 (14.81%) Project Management
5 56 (13.59%) Coaching
6 55 (13.35%) Collaborative Working
7 52 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (9.22%) Validation
10 37 (8.98%) Threat Modelling
11 31 (7.52%) Test Strategy
12 29 (7.04%) Agile
13 23 (5.58%) SDLC
14 22 (5.34%) OO
15 21 (5.10%) Data Protection
15 21 (5.10%) Verification and Validation
16 20 (4.85%) Decision-Making
17 19 (4.61%) Continuous Integration
17 19 (4.61%) OOP
17 19 (4.61%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.28%) C++
1 30 (7.28%) Python
2 26 (6.31%) PowerShell
3 21 (5.10%) C
4 19 (4.61%) MATLAB
5 10 (2.43%) Java
5 10 (2.43%) SQL
6 7 (1.70%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.46%) Assembly Language
8 4 (0.97%) Ada
8 4 (0.97%) Fortran
8 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.73%) VB
10 2 (0.49%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.24%) Bash
11 1 (0.24%) C#
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.24%) Perl
11 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 191 (46.36%) Security Cleared
2 168 (40.78%) SC Cleared
3 50 (12.14%) Degree
4 24 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.18%) PMP
8 8 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.21%) HND
11 4 (0.97%) CCNP
11 4 (0.97%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.97%) JNCIA
11 4 (0.97%) PhD
11 4 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.49%) HNC
13 1 (0.24%) CISM
13 1 (0.24%) CISSP
13 1 (0.24%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.16%) Def Stans
2 9 (2.18%) QA
3 4 (0.97%) JSP 440
3 4 (0.97%) JTAG
3 4 (0.97%) PMBOK
4 3 (0.73%) SLA
5 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.49%) GDPR
5 2 (0.49%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.49%) NCSC
5 2 (0.49%) PMO
6 1 (0.24%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.24%) MISRA
6 1 (0.24%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) RMADS
System Software
1 12 (2.91%) Active Directory
1 12 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.43%) Firmware
3 8 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (1.94%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.49%) Docker
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (4.37%) Ansible
1 18 (4.37%) PowerCLI
2 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (1.94%) Nagios
2 8 (1.94%) NetBackup
2 8 (1.94%) SCCM
3 2 (0.49%) Terraform
3 2 (0.49%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.24%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (6.31%) Atlassian
2 18 (4.37%) Dell
2 18 (4.37%) HP
3 13 (3.16%) Cisco
3 13 (3.16%) SAP
3 13 (3.16%) VMware
4 12 (2.91%) Adobe
4 12 (2.91%) IBM
4 12 (2.91%) Juniper
4 12 (2.91%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.67%) Nokia
6 10 (2.43%) Micro Focus
7 8 (1.94%) Google
7 8 (1.94%) Hitachi
7 8 (1.94%) NetApp
8 7 (1.70%) Twitter
9 5 (1.21%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.97%) Ciena
11 3 (0.73%) PTC
11 3 (0.73%) Splunk