Aerospace
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Aerospace over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 373 508
Rank change year-on-year +164 +135 -24
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1,418 875 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 0.89% 0.66%
As % of the General category 2.37% 1.30% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 601 226 439
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,359 £33,782
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,687
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,159 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +12.32% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £85,000 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +13.40% -3.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,832 67,156 106,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.28% 68.18% 64.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,796 36,292 51,369
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Aerospace.

Salary trend for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +189 1,313 £55,000 -4.35% 937
UK excluding London +133 1,277 £53,750 -2.27% 924
South West +114 509 £50,000 -9.09% 200
Work from Home +87 382 £50,000 -9.09% 254
South East +85 303 £60,000 +9.09% 262
East of England +59 202 £51,250 -21.15% 115
North of England +107 155 £55,000 +10.00% 157
North West +64 99 £54,625 +9.25% 102
London +137 81 £70,000 +20.69% 69
Midlands -45 61 £39,000 -44.29% 151
East Midlands -12 43 £37,500 -41.18% 66
Yorkshire +69 34 £45,000 -16.28% 36
Scotland -79 31 £55,000 -17.91% 61
North East +12 22 £65,000 - 19
West Midlands -23 18 £45,000 -35.71% 82
Wales -18 9 - - 38
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 1

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 29 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.97%) Apache
2 28 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.34%) IIS
4 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.63%) Confluence
6 5 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.28%) TWiki
8 1 (0.071%) Moodle
8 1 (0.071%) WinCC
Applications
1 49 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.13%) Siemens NX
5 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.63%) OrCAD
5 9 (0.63%) Simulink
6 8 (0.56%) GNU Octave
7 5 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.21%) CATIA
9 2 (0.14%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.071%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (2.47%) Siebel CRM
2 8 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 2 (0.14%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.071%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 205 (14.46%) Azure
2 168 (11.85%) AWS
3 49 (3.46%) OpenShift
4 38 (2.68%) GCP
5 34 (2.40%) SaaS
6 33 (2.33%) Serverless
7 31 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (2.12%) OCI
9 28 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.63%) GitHub
12 9 (0.63%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.42%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.35%) Azure Pipelines
15 3 (0.21%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (0.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.36%) Firewall
2 38 (2.68%) DNS
3 28 (1.97%) AMQP
3 28 (1.97%) Network Security
4 26 (1.83%) WAN
5 23 (1.62%) DHCP
5 23 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.41%) HTTP
7 18 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
7 18 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
8 15 (1.06%) Ethernet
8 15 (1.06%) Internet
8 15 (1.06%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.99%) Wireless
10 11 (0.78%) LAN
10 11 (0.78%) RS-232
10 11 (0.78%) VSAN
11 10 (0.71%) 5G
12 7 (0.49%) SAN
13 5 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.17%) Big Data
2 34 (2.40%) Oracle BI EE
2 34 (2.40%) Siebel EIM
2 34 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 30 (2.12%) Hadoop
4 28 (1.97%) Cloudera CDH
5 23 (1.62%) Data Vault
6 15 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.63%) Power BI
9 8 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.28%) MySQL
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.14%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.071%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.071%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 79 (5.57%) JIRA
2 53 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.46%) Git
4 24 (1.69%) Selenium
5 19 (1.34%) LabVIEW
6 17 (1.20%) Visual Studio
7 16 (1.13%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
8 14 (0.99%) Subversion
9 11 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
10 9 (0.63%) eggPlant
11 5 (0.35%) ClearCase
11 5 (0.35%) ClearQuest
12 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.28%) JMeter
13 3 (0.21%) Android Studio
13 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.21%) TestRail
14 2 (0.14%) Apache Continuum
General
1 244 (17.21%) Manufacturing
2 196 (13.82%) Social Skills
3 176 (12.41%) Automotive
4 126 (8.89%) Electronics
5 122 (8.60%) Finance
6 115 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 87 (6.14%) Aviation
8 78 (5.50%) Military
9 59 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (3.17%) Retail
11 44 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (2.47%) Law
14 34 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 34 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.69%) Public Sector
16 24 (1.69%) Publishing
17 21 (1.48%) Marketing
18 20 (1.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 212 (14.95%) Senior
2 178 (12.55%) Systems Engineer
3 174 (12.27%) Software Engineer
4 115 (8.11%) Lead
5 90 (6.35%) Developer
6 78 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 75 (5.29%) Architect
8 58 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
9 57 (4.02%) Consultant
9 57 (4.02%) Programmer
10 56 (3.95%) Embedded Engineer
10 56 (3.95%) Project Manager
11 55 (3.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 50 (3.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 48 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
14 43 (3.03%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 35 (2.47%) Senior Developer
15 35 (2.47%) Senior Software Engineer
16 34 (2.40%) Siebel Developer
16 34 (2.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.43%) .NET
2 61 (4.30%) AngularJS
3 41 (2.89%) XML
4 35 (2.47%) React
5 34 (2.40%) OpenAPI
5 34 (2.40%) Swagger
6 32 (2.26%) Spring
6 32 (2.26%) Spring Boot
7 30 (2.12%) REST
8 29 (2.05%) .NET Framework
8 29 (2.05%) Node.js
9 28 (1.97%) gRPC
9 28 (1.97%) Material-UI
9 28 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
10 26 (1.83%) ASP.NET Web API
10 26 (1.83%) Entity Framework
10 26 (1.83%) SubSonic
11 22 (1.55%) ASP.NET
11 22 (1.55%) HTML
12 15 (1.06%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.30%) Management Information System
2 54 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 40 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (2.47%) IoT
5 34 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
7 27 (1.90%) Operational Technology
8 26 (1.83%) Robotics
9 24 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 24 (1.69%) FPGA
10 22 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
11 19 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.34%) FMCG
11 19 (1.34%) Verilog
11 19 (1.34%) VHDL
12 18 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.20%) Client/Server
14 15 (1.06%) Fat Client
14 15 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
14 15 (1.06%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 295 (20.80%) Linux
2 142 (10.01%) Windows
3 50 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.19%) CentOS
5 31 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 30 (2.12%) Debian
7 14 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (0.49%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.28%) Android
11 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.21%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.071%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (32.93%) Agile
2 401 (28.28%) Collaborative Working
3 282 (19.89%) Actionable Insight
4 218 (15.37%) Software Engineering
5 210 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (11.78%) DevOps
7 159 (11.21%) Project Management
8 139 (9.80%) Systems Engineering
9 127 (8.96%) Validation
10 123 (8.67%) Scrum
11 109 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
12 91 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 88 (6.21%) Kanban
13 88 (6.21%) SDLC
14 84 (5.92%) Mentoring
15 78 (5.50%) Coaching
16 75 (5.29%) Configuration Management
16 75 (5.29%) Technical Analysis
17 74 (5.22%) CI/CD
18 73 (5.15%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 183 (12.91%) Python
2 107 (7.55%) Java
3 103 (7.26%) C
4 101 (7.12%) SQL
5 88 (6.21%) PowerShell
6 81 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 75 (5.29%) C#
8 62 (4.37%) Bash
9 42 (2.96%) C++
10 29 (2.05%) MATLAB
11 23 (1.62%) Embedded C
12 10 (0.71%) Ada
13 9 (0.63%) VB
14 6 (0.42%) VB6
15 5 (0.35%) Perl
16 4 (0.28%) Lua
16 4 (0.28%) Ruby
16 4 (0.28%) Tcl
17 3 (0.21%) Embedded C++
17 3 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 607 (42.81%) Security Cleared
2 302 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 275 (19.39%) DV Cleared
4 242 (17.07%) Degree
5 54 (3.81%) HNC
6 52 (3.67%) HND
7 33 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.19%) DBS Check
9 27 (1.90%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.48%) PMI Certification
12 19 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (0.85%) NVQ Level 3
15 11 (0.78%) PhD
16 10 (0.71%) CISMP
16 10 (0.71%) IISP
16 10 (0.71%) PMP
17 9 (0.63%) CCDA
17 9 (0.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.57%) QA
2 28 (1.97%) NIST
3 25 (1.76%) ISO 9001
4 18 (1.27%) NIST 800
5 17 (1.20%) SLA
6 14 (0.99%) JSP 440
6 14 (0.99%) RMADS
7 13 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.92%) NCSC
8 12 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 8 (0.56%) PMO
10 7 (0.49%) DO-254
11 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.28%) GDPR
12 4 (0.28%) ISO 14001
13 3 (0.21%) HMG Infosec
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.21%) MISRA
System Software
1 81 (5.71%) Docker
2 74 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.82%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.90%) Active Directory
5 24 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 17 (1.20%) Firmware
6 17 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.92%) vSphere
8 9 (0.63%) Forefront TMG
8 9 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 175 (12.34%) Ansible
2 115 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 87 (6.14%) Terraform
4 50 (3.53%) Puppet
5 20 (1.41%) SCCM
6 13 (0.92%) WSUS
7 12 (0.85%) SCOM
8 9 (0.63%) Fluentd
8 9 (0.63%) logstash
9 7 (0.49%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 5 (0.35%) Opsview
11 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.28%) vRealize
12 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) Functional Safety
13 2 (0.14%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.071%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 127 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 109 (7.69%) VMware
3 75 (5.29%) Oracle
4 53 (3.74%) Cisco
5 47 (3.31%) Red Hat
6 37 (2.61%) Google
7 35 (2.47%) Siebel
8 32 (2.26%) SaltStack
8 32 (2.26%) SAP
9 31 (2.19%) Thales
10 20 (1.41%) Siemens
10 20 (1.41%) Splunk
11 17 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.06%) Citrix
13 14 (0.99%) Juniper
14 13 (0.92%) Blue Coat
14 13 (0.92%) CheckPoint
14 13 (0.92%) Infoblox
14 13 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.92%) Riverbed