Aerospace Job Trends in Chippenham

Aerospace
Wiltshire > Chippenham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in Chippenham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	11	25	-
Rank change year-on-year	+14	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace	17	1	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Chippenham	15.18%	1.12%	-
As % of the General category	19.32%	1.25%	-
Number of salaries quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£52,500	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	-	-
75^th Percentile	£57,500	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Wiltshire median annual salary	£45,000	-	£67,500

All General Skills
Chippenham

Aerospace falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing general skills in Chippenham.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing general skills	88	80	23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chippenham	78.57%	89.89%	38.98%
Number of salaries quoted	37	12	12
10^th Percentile	£36,200	£28,000	£32,675
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£28,375	£39,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£29,000	£71,250
Median % change year-on-year	+89.66%	-59.30%	+58.33%
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£34,500	£81,563
90^th Percentile	£60,500	£38,325	£82,500
Wiltshire median annual salary	£52,500	£42,500	£48,500
% change year-on-year	+23.53%	-12.37%	-3.00%

Aerospace Job Vacancy Trend in Chippenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Aerospace relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Chippenham.

Aerospace Salary Trend in Chippenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chippenham citing Aerospace.

Aerospace Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chippenham

For the 6 months to 12 November 2026, job vacancies citing Aerospace also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Chippenham region citing Aerospace.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	17
2	Agile	82.4%	14
2	Collaborative Working	82.4%	14
4	DV Cleared	70.6%	12
5	Decision-Making	64.7%	11
6	Infrastructure as Code	52.9%	9
6	Kubernetes	52.9%	9
8	AI	41.2%	7
8	Continuous Improvement	41.2%	7
10	Ansible	29.4%	5
10	BGP	29.4%	5
10	Ethernet VPN	29.4%	5
10	Firewall	29.4%	5
10	Network Architecture	29.4%	5
10	Network Monitoring	29.4%	5
10	Network Security	29.4%	5
10	Network Virtualisation	29.4%	5
10	SD-WAN	29.4%	5
10	Software-Defined Networking	29.4%	5
10	VLAN	29.4%	5
10	VPN	29.4%	5
10	WAN	29.4%	5
10	Zero Trust	29.4%	5
24	Change Control	23.5%	4
24	Network Design	23.5%	4
24	Performance Management	23.5%	4
24	Performance Optimisation	23.5%	4
24	Proactive Monitoring	23.5%	4
24	Root Cause Analysis	23.5%	4
24	Security Architecture	23.5%	4

Aerospace Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chippenham by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	70.6%	12
2	Finance	52.9%	9
3	Marketing	17.6%	3
3	Military	17.6%	3
3	Public Sector	17.6%	3