Aviation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Aviation
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 135 139
Rank change year-on-year +35 +4 +18
Contract jobs citing Aviation 15 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.76% 0.23% 0.44%
As % of the General category 1.33% 0.43% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £146 £425 -
25th Percentile £207 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year -35.86% -17.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £432 £545 -
90th Percentile £495 £572 £675
England median daily rate £550 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £15.05 £44.75 £34.40
25th Percentile £22.63 £59.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.34 £70.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -50.94% +36.59% +46.43%
75th Percentile £73.75 £76.88 £70.00
90th Percentile - £84.75 -
England median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £37.52
% change year-on-year -35.34% -6.70% +7.19%

All General Skills
South West

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 in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,131 1,387 1,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.27% 52.16% 47.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 788 1,046
10th Percentile £205 £210 £294
25th Percentile £350 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -8.41% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £723
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 143 138
10th Percentile £13.46 £13.83 £15.48
25th Percentile £15.25 £30.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £65.00 £54.33
Median % change year-on-year -63.85% +19.63% +3.31%
75th Percentile £33.75 £72.50 £69.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
% change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Aviation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Aviation in the South West

Aviation
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Aviation

Aviation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation in the South West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in the South West

Aviation
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Aviation

Aviation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aviation in the South West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Aviation in the South West

Aviation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aviation within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Bristol +19 9 £110 - 5
Gloucestershire +18 4 £525 -9.64% 10
Devon +11 2 - - 1
Aviation
England

Aviation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Simulink
1 4 (26.67%) Stateflow
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (6.67%) CATIA
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
1 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Rational DOORS
1 4 (26.67%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 11 (73.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (20.00%) Military
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Administrator
1 2 (13.33%) SAP Administrator
1 2 (13.33%) SAP Support
2 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Digital User Researcher
2 1 (6.67%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) IT Support
2 1 (6.67%) IT Support Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Support
2 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Support Specialist
2 1 (6.67%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.67%) OpenID
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
1 4 (26.67%) Mathematics
1 4 (26.67%) Requirements Management
1 4 (26.67%) Technical Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) Change Management
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (6.67%) ITSM
3 1 (6.67%) Pair Programming
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Project Management
3 1 (6.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (6.67%) Service Management
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.67%) User Experience
3 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Ada
1 4 (26.67%) C
1 4 (26.67%) Fortran
1 4 (26.67%) MATLAB
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) PingFederate
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Twitter
2 4 (26.67%) MathWorks
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Ping Identity
4 1 (6.67%) Siemens