Aerospace Jobs in England

Aerospace
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 209 365
Rank change year-on-year +80 +156 +187
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1,105 1,204 833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.40% 1.41% 0.90%
As % of the General category 3.56% 2.38% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 720 541 209
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £54,793 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £84,200
UK median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £56,080
% change year-on-year -8.99% -1.92% +12.16%

All General Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 31,047 50,509 63,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 67.42% 59.28% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16,351 35,638 34,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,445 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £83,426
90th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in England

Aerospace
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +211 549 £50,055 -8.99% 109
North West +169 517 £50,055 -10.42% 67
Midlands +192 234 £40,101 +1.52% 108
South East +27 155 £46,937 -21.77% 194
West Midlands +157 142 £54,125 +20.28% 70
South West -41 108 £50,000 -1.48% 187
East Midlands +93 91 £40,101 +6.93% 34
East of England -75 30 £40,101 -31.45% 124
Yorkshire +75 28 £40,101 -10.89% 30
London +61 28 £42,500 -34.62% 87
North East +32 2 £75,500 +20.80% 14
Aerospace
UK

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.45%) Kinematics
3 4 (0.36%) Confluence
4 2 (0.18%) Apache
4 2 (0.18%) TPMS
5 1 (0.090%) Mendix
5 1 (0.090%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.090%) nginx
Applications
1 371 (33.57%) Simulink
2 212 (19.19%) Microsoft Office
3 169 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 161 (14.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.72%) SOLIDWORKS
6 7 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.090%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.090%) Maple
8 1 (0.090%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.090%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 290 (26.24%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.27%) Q-Pulse
3 3 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (0.27%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.090%) Primavera
4 1 (0.090%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 16 (1.45%) Azure
2 10 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (0.81%) AWS
4 4 (0.36%) OCI
5 3 (0.27%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.18%) SaaS
7 1 (0.090%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.090%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.090%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.090%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (0.090%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.090%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.090%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.090%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.090%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.090%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.090%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.090%) Serverless
7 1 (0.090%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.36%) Firewall
2 9 (0.81%) Internet
2 9 (0.81%) WAN
3 7 (0.63%) Wireless
4 6 (0.54%) LAN
4 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.27%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.27%) VoIP
6 3 (0.27%) VPN
6 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.18%) DVB
7 2 (0.18%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.090%) DNS
8 1 (0.090%) FlexRay
8 1 (0.090%) LTE
8 1 (0.090%) Modbus
8 1 (0.090%) VLAN
8 1 (0.090%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.54%) MongoDB
2 5 (0.45%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.36%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.090%) MySQL
4 1 (0.090%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.090%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.090%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.090%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 117 (10.59%) Rational DOORS
2 41 (3.71%) Git
3 12 (1.09%) JIRA
4 8 (0.72%) Subversion
5 7 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.45%) GitLab
7 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.18%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.090%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.090%) ClearQuest
9 1 (0.090%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.090%) TestComplete
General
1 492 (44.52%) Automotive
2 340 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 173 (15.66%) Electronics
4 149 (13.48%) Aeronautics
5 114 (10.32%) Avionics
6 50 (4.52%) Manufacturing
7 44 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (3.62%) Aviation
9 25 (2.26%) Military
10 22 (1.99%) Finance
11 15 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (0.90%) Public Sector
13 7 (0.63%) French Language
13 7 (0.63%) German Language
13 7 (0.63%) Law
13 7 (0.63%) Legal
13 7 (0.63%) Retail
14 6 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 735 (66.52%) Systems Engineer
2 455 (41.18%) Senior
3 416 (37.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 167 (15.11%) Lead
5 135 (12.22%) Software Engineer
6 124 (11.22%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 122 (11.04%) Team Leader
8 107 (9.68%) Junior
9 103 (9.32%) Junior Systems Engineer
10 100 (9.05%) Development Engineer
11 99 (8.96%) Software Development Engineer
12 82 (7.42%) Principal Engineer
13 70 (6.33%) Integration Engineer
13 70 (6.33%) Systems Integration Engineer
14 68 (6.15%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 67 (6.06%) Principal Software Engineer
16 52 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
17 46 (4.16%) Senior Integration Engineer
18 36 (3.26%) Senior Development Engineer
18 36 (3.26%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.45%) SAPUI5
2 13 (1.18%) Kafka
2 13 (1.18%) Qt
3 5 (0.45%) React
3 5 (0.45%) XML
4 4 (0.36%) .NET
4 4 (0.36%) Hibernate
4 4 (0.36%) JSF
5 3 (0.27%) Middleware
5 3 (0.27%) WPF
6 2 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.18%) HTML
6 2 (0.18%) OGRE
6 2 (0.18%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.18%) SOAP
6 2 (0.18%) WCF
7 1 (0.090%) CSS
7 1 (0.090%) Web Dynpro
7 1 (0.090%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (1.27%) Management Information System
3 12 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
3 12 (1.09%) Security Posture
4 9 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (0.63%) Algorithms
5 7 (0.63%) FPGA
6 6 (0.54%) Device Driver
6 6 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.36%) CPLD
7 4 (0.36%) IoT
8 3 (0.27%) e-Learning
8 3 (0.27%) FMCG
8 3 (0.27%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.27%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.27%) VHDL
8 3 (0.27%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.18%) Robotics
9 2 (0.18%) SCADA
9 2 (0.18%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.35%) Linux
2 19 (1.72%) Windows
3 13 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.18%) VMS
7 1 (0.090%) Android
7 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.090%) CentOS
7 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.090%) Unix
7 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (76.02%) Systems Engineering
2 293 (26.52%) PLM
3 279 (25.25%) Agile
4 260 (23.53%) Physics
4 260 (23.53%) Software Testing
5 255 (23.08%) Mathematics
6 241 (21.81%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 239 (21.63%) Validation
8 190 (17.19%) Requirements Management
9 178 (16.11%) Project Management
10 175 (15.84%) Coaching
11 156 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 154 (13.94%) SysML
13 151 (13.67%) SDLC
14 149 (13.48%) Software Engineering
15 140 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
16 125 (11.31%) Customer Requirements
17 123 (11.13%) Business Case
18 118 (10.68%) Computer Science
19 111 (10.05%) Feasibility Study
Programming Languages
1 511 (46.24%) MATLAB
2 51 (4.62%) C
2 51 (4.62%) C++
3 48 (4.34%) SQL
4 38 (3.44%) Java
5 37 (3.35%) Python
6 17 (1.54%) C#
7 9 (0.81%) VB
8 8 (0.72%) Embedded C
9 7 (0.63%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.45%) Perl
10 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.45%) R
11 4 (0.36%) Embedded C++
11 4 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.27%) Ada
12 3 (0.27%) Bash
12 3 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.18%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.090%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 800 (72.40%) BPSS Clearance
2 694 (62.81%) Degree
3 252 (22.81%) HND
4 197 (17.83%) HNC
5 83 (7.51%) Security Cleared
6 49 (4.43%) SC Cleared
7 27 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.63%) PhD
9 6 (0.54%) CISSP
10 5 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.45%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.18%) CEH
12 2 (0.18%) CHECK Team Member
12 2 (0.18%) CISM
12 2 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.18%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.090%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.090%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.54%) Def Stans
2 14 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.18%) NIST
3 13 (1.18%) QA
4 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.090%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.090%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.090%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.090%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.090%) DO-254
7 1 (0.090%) ECSS
7 1 (0.090%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.090%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.090%) MISRA
7 1 (0.090%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.090%) RMADS
System Software
1 9 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.45%) Terminal Services
3 4 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.18%) Docker
5 1 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.36%) Kibana
2 3 (0.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.27%) SCCM
3 2 (0.18%) Ansible
3 2 (0.18%) Nmap
4 1 (0.090%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.090%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.090%) Marathon
4 1 (0.090%) QRadar
4 1 (0.090%) Terraform
Vendors
1 236 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 187 (16.92%) ANSYS
3 105 (9.50%) IBM
4 50 (4.52%) MathWorks
5 39 (3.53%) Oracle
6 31 (2.81%) SAP
7 21 (1.90%) VMware
8 9 (0.81%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.81%) Cisco
9 7 (0.63%) PayPal
9 7 (0.63%) Siemens
10 5 (0.45%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.36%) Agilent
12 3 (0.27%) Aruba
12 3 (0.27%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.27%) Okta
12 3 (0.27%) Rockwell
13 2 (0.18%) Citrix
13 2 (0.18%) Symantec
13 2 (0.18%) Xilinx