Aviation Contracts 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 143 151
Rank change year-on-year +37 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing Aviation 11 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.58% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the General category 1.02% 0.67% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £160 - £369
25th Percentile £241 £675 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £516 £725 -
90th Percentile £597 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 2
10th Percentile £20.36 £39.50 £34.70
25th Percentile £22.63 £58.31 £37.25
Median hourly rate £37.59 £72.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.15% +74.70% +27.89%
75th Percentile £61.37 £77.50 £45.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £78.75 £48.30
England median hourly rate £41.67 £51.74 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.46% +47.82% -21.35%

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 1,078 1,654 1,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.04% 51.51% 47.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 988 1,182
10th Percentile £213 £262 £300
25th Percentile £355 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £723
England median daily rate £514 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -3.75% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 283 129
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.69 £16.41
25th Percentile £15.25 £25.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £45.00 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year -41.36% -20.06% +34.02%
75th Percentile £56.43 £70.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £88.00
England median hourly rate £27.25 £33.93 £30.54
% change year-on-year -19.70% +11.10% +28.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Aviation in the South West

Aviation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aviation in the South West over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Aviation in the South West

Aviation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Aviation in the South West

Aviation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aviation in the South West over the 6 months to 13 July 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 13 July 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 +6 5 £110 - 27
Gloucestershire +25 4 - - 48
Cornwall - 1 £650 -
Devon - 1 - - 5
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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) CATIA
2 1 (9.09%) Simulink
2 1 (9.09%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Google Workspace
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (18.18%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 8 (72.73%) Aerospace
2 3 (27.27%) Military
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Administrator
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Support
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Support
2 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Support Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Agile
1 2 (18.18%) Change Management
1 2 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
2 1 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
2 1 (9.09%) Mathematics
2 1 (9.09%) Pair Programming
2 1 (9.09%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Records Management
2 1 (9.09%) Requirements Management
2 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
2 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C
2 1 (9.09%) Ada
2 1 (9.09%) Assembly Language
2 1 (9.09%) Fortran
2 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Twitter
2 3 (27.27%) SAP
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) MathWorks
4 1 (9.09%) Siemens
4 1 (9.09%) Wind River