Aerospace Contracts

Aerospace
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Aerospace over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 394 553
Rank change year-on-year +173 +159 +10
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 462 316 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 0.56% 0.35%
As % of the General category 1.87% 0.96% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 125 85
10th Percentile £317 £359 £420
25th Percentile £391 £415 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +0.57% -9.22%
75th Percentile £700 £613 £600
90th Percentile - £676 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +30.00% -3.38% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 103 95
10th Percentile £27.00 £39.64 -
25th Percentile £42.57 £51.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +23.00% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £75.00 £61.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +23.00% -

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aerospace over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +166 436 £650 +30.00% 865
UK excluding London +95 434 £650 +30.00% 826
East of England +48 147 £469 -27.88% 112
South West +52 130 £700 +7.69% 199
South East +3 89 £450 +20.32% 231
Work from Home +18 58 £632 +26.30% 220
North of England +34 28 £897 +99.32% 117
North West +31 24 - - 89
Midlands +17 22 £525 - 143
London +89 20 £505 -15.83% 68
East Midlands +9 17 £310 -36.73% 64
Scotland +46 10 - - 47
Wales +8 8 - - 22
West Midlands +12 5 £526 -5.53% 79
North East - 4 £897 - 8

Aerospace
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 28 (6.06%) Confluence
2 11 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.22%) Tornado
Applications
1 13 (2.81%) Acrobat
1 13 (2.81%) Simulink
2 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.87%) Windchill
5 3 (0.65%) CANalyzer
5 3 (0.65%) CATIA
6 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.43%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.43%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.73%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.87%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.22%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 3 (0.65%) GitHub
2 2 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (0.43%) OneDrive
2 2 (0.43%) Power Automate
2 2 (0.43%) Power Platform
2 2 (0.43%) PowerApps
3 1 (0.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (0.22%) AWS
3 1 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.25%) WAN
2 10 (2.16%) DNS
2 10 (2.16%) SNMP
2 10 (2.16%) Software-Defined Radio
3 9 (1.95%) DHCP
4 8 (1.73%) LAN
4 8 (1.73%) MPLS
4 8 (1.73%) SAN
4 8 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.52%) SDH
6 5 (1.08%) Wireless
7 4 (0.87%) Junos
8 3 (0.65%) 4G
8 3 (0.65%) 5G
8 3 (0.65%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.65%) FlexRay
9 2 (0.43%) Network Security
9 2 (0.43%) VoIP
9 2 (0.43%) VSAN
10 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (9.74%) JIRA
2 28 (6.06%) Rational DOORS
3 27 (5.84%) Bitbucket
4 20 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 18 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (3.90%) Git
6 11 (2.38%) Eclipse
7 10 (2.16%) GoogleTest
7 10 (2.16%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.87%) Subversion
9 3 (0.65%) CANoe
9 3 (0.65%) Rational Team Concert
10 2 (0.43%) CppUnit
10 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.43%) PVCS
10 2 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.22%) GitLab
11 1 (0.22%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.22%) MagicDraw
11 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 67 (14.50%) Manufacturing
3 44 (9.52%) Electronics
4 35 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.98%) Military
6 21 (4.55%) Automotive
7 19 (4.11%) Aviation
8 16 (3.46%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.52%) Aeronautics
10 7 (1.52%) Finance
10 7 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.08%) Marketing
12 4 (0.87%) Law
12 4 (0.87%) Legal
13 3 (0.65%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.43%) Billing
14 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (15.58%) Software Engineer
2 61 (13.20%) Configuration Manager
3 59 (12.77%) Systems Engineer
4 51 (11.04%) Architect
5 31 (6.71%) Test Architect
6 27 (5.84%) Embedded Engineer
7 25 (5.41%) Developer
7 25 (5.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 19 (4.11%) Project Manager
9 15 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (3.03%) Analyst
11 12 (2.60%) Author
11 12 (2.60%) PLC Software Engineer
11 12 (2.60%) Senior
11 12 (2.60%) Technical Author
12 11 (2.38%) Data Engineer
12 11 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.38%) Test Engineer
13 10 (2.16%) Migration Engineer
13 10 (2.16%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.90%) .NET
1 18 (3.90%) .NET Core
2 12 (2.60%) HTML
2 12 (2.60%) SGML
2 12 (2.60%) XML
3 8 (1.73%) CSS
4 2 (0.43%) NumPy
5 1 (0.22%) COM
5 1 (0.22%) Middleware
5 1 (0.22%) Node.js
5 1 (0.22%) React
5 1 (0.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.71%) Analogue Electronics
2 12 (2.60%) Animation
3 10 (2.16%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.16%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (1.73%) Client/Server
4 8 (1.73%) Clustering
4 8 (1.73%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.08%) PMI
7 4 (0.87%) Device Driver
7 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.65%) Infotainment
8 3 (0.65%) PKI
9 2 (0.43%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.43%) SCADA
10 1 (0.22%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.22%) Life Science
10 1 (0.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (9.96%) Linux
2 15 (3.25%) Windows
3 8 (1.73%) Unix
4 4 (0.87%) SafeRTOS
5 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.22%) CentOS
6 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (19.26%) Configuration Management
2 84 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 68 (14.72%) Project Management
4 62 (13.42%) PLM
5 56 (12.12%) Coaching
6 55 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
7 48 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (8.01%) Threat Modelling
10 36 (7.79%) Validation
11 32 (6.93%) Agile
12 31 (6.71%) Test Strategy
13 28 (6.06%) SDLC
14 24 (5.19%) Systems Engineering
15 23 (4.98%) OO
16 21 (4.55%) Data Protection
17 20 (4.33%) Data Management
17 20 (4.33%) Decision-Making
17 20 (4.33%) OOP
18 19 (4.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.14%) Python
2 32 (6.93%) C++
3 26 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 22 (4.76%) C
5 19 (4.11%) MATLAB
6 10 (2.16%) Java
6 10 (2.16%) SQL
7 9 (1.95%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.30%) Assembly Language
9 4 (0.87%) Ada
9 4 (0.87%) Fortran
9 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.87%) VBA
10 3 (0.65%) VB
11 2 (0.43%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.43%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.22%) Bash
12 1 (0.22%) C#
12 1 (0.22%) Perl
12 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 200 (43.29%) Security Cleared
2 177 (38.31%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.96%) Degree
4 20 (4.33%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.38%) PMP
7 10 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.16%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.08%) HND
10 4 (0.87%) CCNP
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.87%) JNCIA
10 4 (0.87%) PhD
10 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.43%) HNC
12 1 (0.22%) CISM
12 1 (0.22%) CISSP
12 1 (0.22%) MOS
12 1 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.81%) Def Stans
2 11 (2.38%) QA
3 5 (1.08%) DO-160
3 5 (1.08%) PMO
4 4 (0.87%) JSP 440
4 4 (0.87%) JTAG
4 4 (0.87%) PMBOK
5 3 (0.65%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.43%) GDPR
6 2 (0.43%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) MISRA
7 1 (0.22%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 12 (2.60%) Active Directory
1 12 (2.60%) Firmware
1 12 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.73%) Virtual Servers
2 8 (1.73%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.43%) Docker
4 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (3.90%) Ansible
1 18 (3.90%) PowerCLI
2 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (1.73%) Nagios
2 8 (1.73%) NetBackup
2 8 (1.73%) SCCM
3 3 (0.65%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.43%) Terraform
4 2 (0.43%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.22%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (5.63%) Atlassian
2 18 (3.90%) Dell
2 18 (3.90%) HP
3 16 (3.46%) SAP
4 14 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.81%) Adobe
5 13 (2.81%) IBM
5 13 (2.81%) VMware
6 12 (2.60%) Cisco
6 12 (2.60%) Juniper
7 11 (2.38%) Nokia
8 10 (2.16%) Google
8 10 (2.16%) Micro Focus
9 8 (1.73%) Hitachi
9 8 (1.73%) NetApp
9 8 (1.73%) Twitter
10 4 (0.87%) Ciena
10 4 (0.87%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.65%) PTC
11 3 (0.65%) Splunk