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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 362 539
Rank change year-on-year +134 +177 -54
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1,297 960 926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.32% 0.92% 0.59%
As % of the General category 2.20% 1.35% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 574 234 384
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,218 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,080 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +12.16% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £84,700 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 58,962 71,262 99,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.87% 68.56% 63.78%
Number of salaries quoted 39,636 38,356 51,175
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +156 1,204 £55,000 -4.35% 842
UK excluding London +98 1,161 £55,000 - 841
South West +102 456 £50,750 -6.88% 203
Work from Home +98 380 £50,000 -9.91% 256
South East +73 266 £60,000 - 229
East of England +71 207 £58,500 -10.00% 120
North of England +90 137 £55,000 +5.77% 121
North West +71 88 £55,875 +11.75% 96
London +149 77 £65,000 +13.04% 36
Midlands -71 60 £39,500 -38.04% 153
East Midlands -44 40 £37,500 -26.83% 65
Yorkshire +65 29 £45,000 -21.74% 19
Scotland -87 26 £55,000 -17.91% 36
North East +11 20 £62,500 - 7
West Midlands -25 20 £45,000 -30.77% 88
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 10
Wales -25 4 - - 21

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 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.93%) Apache
2 25 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.46%) IIS
4 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.69%) Confluence
6 5 (0.39%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.31%) TWiki
8 2 (0.15%) WinCC
9 1 (0.077%) Moodle
Applications
1 49 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.23%) Siemens NX
5 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.69%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.62%) GNU Octave
6 8 (0.62%) Simulink
7 5 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.23%) CATIA
9 2 (0.15%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.077%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (2.47%) Siebel CRM
2 9 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.23%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.15%) Primavera
5 2 (0.15%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.077%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.077%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.077%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 173 (13.34%) Azure
2 144 (11.10%) AWS
3 37 (2.85%) GCP
4 36 (2.78%) OpenShift
5 30 (2.31%) OCI
5 30 (2.31%) Serverless
6 28 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (1.85%) SaaS
9 11 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (0.69%) GitHub
10 9 (0.69%) Power Platform
11 6 (0.46%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.39%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.55%) Firewall
2 30 (2.31%) DNS
3 27 (2.08%) Network Security
4 26 (2.00%) WAN
5 25 (1.93%) AMQP
6 17 (1.31%) 5G
7 16 (1.23%) DHCP
7 16 (1.23%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.16%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.08%) Ethernet
9 14 (1.08%) Internet
10 13 (1.00%) Wireless
11 12 (0.93%) HTTP
12 11 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.85%) LAN
12 11 (0.85%) RS-232
12 11 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
13 8 (0.62%) VSAN
14 7 (0.54%) SAN
15 5 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.93%) Big Data
2 31 (2.39%) Oracle BI EE
2 31 (2.39%) Siebel EIM
3 29 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 25 (1.93%) Cloudera CDH
6 23 (1.77%) Data Vault
7 10 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.69%) Power BI
9 8 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.15%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.077%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.077%) EDMS
12 1 (0.077%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 70 (5.40%) JIRA
2 44 (3.39%) Git
3 37 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.77%) LabVIEW
5 20 (1.54%) Selenium
6 14 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
6 14 (1.08%) Subversion
7 12 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.85%) Rational Rhapsody
9 9 (0.69%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.39%) ClearCase
10 5 (0.39%) ClearQuest
11 4 (0.31%) eggPlant
12 3 (0.23%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.15%) Apache Continuum
13 2 (0.15%) Gradle
13 2 (0.15%) MSI
14 1 (0.077%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.077%) JMeter
14 1 (0.077%) VersionOne
General
1 230 (17.73%) Manufacturing
2 189 (14.57%) Social Skills
3 169 (13.03%) Automotive
4 131 (10.10%) Finance
5 121 (9.33%) Electronics
6 112 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 80 (6.17%) Aviation
8 75 (5.78%) Military
9 60 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
10 52 (4.01%) Retail
11 45 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 33 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 32 (2.47%) Law
15 30 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.85%) Marketing
16 24 (1.85%) Public Sector
16 24 (1.85%) Publishing
17 20 (1.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 182 (14.03%) Senior
2 174 (13.42%) Systems Engineer
3 159 (12.26%) Software Engineer
4 116 (8.94%) Lead
5 82 (6.32%) Developer
6 68 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 57 (4.39%) Architect
8 54 (4.16%) Embedded Engineer
8 54 (4.16%) Project Manager
9 52 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
9 52 (4.01%) Programmer
10 51 (3.93%) Consultant
11 50 (3.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 44 (3.39%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 41 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
14 39 (3.01%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 34 (2.62%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (2.47%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.39%) Senior Siebel Developer
17 31 (2.39%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (5.32%) .NET
2 57 (4.39%) AngularJS
3 37 (2.85%) XML
4 33 (2.54%) React
5 31 (2.39%) OpenAPI
5 31 (2.39%) Spring
5 31 (2.39%) Swagger
6 29 (2.24%) Spring Boot
7 28 (2.16%) .NET Framework
8 27 (2.08%) Node.js
8 27 (2.08%) REST
9 25 (1.93%) gRPC
9 25 (1.93%) Material-UI
9 25 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
10 24 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
10 24 (1.85%) Entity Framework
10 24 (1.85%) SubSonic
11 20 (1.54%) HTML
12 19 (1.46%) ASP.NET
13 16 (1.23%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.70%) Management Information System
2 41 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
3 36 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 33 (2.54%) IoT
5 31 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
6 27 (2.08%) Operational Technology
7 24 (1.85%) FPGA
8 23 (1.77%) Embedded Systems
8 23 (1.77%) Robotics
9 21 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.46%) FMCG
10 19 (1.46%) Verilog
10 19 (1.46%) VHDL
11 15 (1.16%) Fat Client
11 15 (1.16%) Thin Client
12 14 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 253 (19.51%) Linux
2 130 (10.02%) Windows
3 39 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 27 (2.08%) CentOS
5 27 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 26 (2.00%) Debian
7 14 (1.08%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.54%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.39%) Unix
11 4 (0.31%) Android
11 4 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.23%) VMS
12 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.077%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (29.22%) Agile
2 310 (23.90%) Collaborative Working
3 279 (21.51%) Actionable Insight
4 202 (15.57%) Software Engineering
5 194 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (11.80%) Project Management
7 139 (10.72%) DevOps
8 124 (9.56%) Validation
9 122 (9.41%) Systems Engineering
10 120 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
11 106 (8.17%) Scrum
12 86 (6.63%) SDLC
13 82 (6.32%) Mentoring
14 81 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 78 (6.01%) Kanban
16 72 (5.55%) Configuration Management
17 70 (5.40%) Coaching
18 69 (5.32%) Computer Science
19 66 (5.09%) Test Automation
20 57 (4.39%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 172 (13.26%) Python
2 101 (7.79%) C
3 99 (7.63%) SQL
4 90 (6.94%) Java
5 72 (5.55%) PowerShell
6 70 (5.40%) C#
6 70 (5.40%) JavaScript
7 53 (4.09%) Bash
8 46 (3.55%) C++
9 32 (2.47%) MATLAB
10 22 (1.70%) Embedded C
11 10 (0.77%) Ada
11 10 (0.77%) VB
12 8 (0.62%) Perl
13 6 (0.46%) VB6
14 4 (0.31%) Lua
14 4 (0.31%) Ruby
14 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.31%) Tcl
15 2 (0.15%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 539 (41.56%) Security Cleared
2 268 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 241 (18.58%) Degree
4 224 (17.27%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.24%) HNC
6 54 (4.16%) HND
7 35 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.39%) DBS Check
9 27 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (2.08%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.62%) PMI Certification
12 17 (1.31%) CCDA
12 17 (1.31%) CCDP
13 16 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.85%) NVQ Level 3
15 10 (0.77%) CISMP
15 10 (0.77%) IISP
15 10 (0.77%) PMP
16 9 (0.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.93%) QA
2 28 (2.16%) NIST
3 24 (1.85%) ISO 9001
4 18 (1.39%) NIST 800
5 17 (1.31%) SLA
6 14 (1.08%) JSP 440
6 14 (1.08%) RMADS
7 13 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.00%) NCSC
8 11 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 11 (0.85%) PMO
9 7 (0.54%) DO-254
10 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.31%) GDPR
11 4 (0.31%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.23%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (0.23%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.23%) MISRA
System Software
1 66 (5.09%) Docker
2 58 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 28 (2.16%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.23%) Firmware
6 15 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (1.08%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.77%) vSphere
9 9 (0.69%) Forefront TMG
9 9 (0.69%) VMware Workstation
10 8 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 145 (11.18%) Ansible
2 92 (7.09%) Kubernetes
3 76 (5.86%) Terraform
4 40 (3.08%) Puppet
5 20 (1.54%) SCCM
6 13 (1.00%) WSUS
7 12 (0.93%) SCOM
8 10 (0.77%) Fluentd
8 10 (0.77%) logstash
9 8 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
10 5 (0.39%) Opsview
11 4 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.31%) vRealize
12 3 (0.23%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.15%) Wonderware InTouch
14 1 (0.077%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 119 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 86 (6.63%) VMware
3 70 (5.40%) Oracle
4 53 (4.09%) Cisco
5 37 (2.85%) Red Hat
6 36 (2.78%) Google
7 33 (2.54%) SAP
8 32 (2.47%) Siebel
9 31 (2.39%) Thales
10 29 (2.24%) SaltStack
11 21 (1.62%) Siemens
12 19 (1.46%) Splunk
13 15 (1.16%) Citrix
14 13 (1.00%) Juniper
14 13 (1.00%) ServiceNow
15 12 (0.93%) Blue Coat
15 12 (0.93%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.93%) Infoblox
15 12 (0.93%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.93%) Riverbed