Aviation Job Trends in England

Aviation
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 511 503
Rank change year-on-year +94 -8 +16
Permanent jobs citing Aviation 200 213 180
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the General category 0.68% 0.60% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 83 92 116
10th Percentile - £37,750 £41,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -38.46% +35.42%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,750 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% -29.82% +18.75%

All General Skills
England

Aviation 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 29,443 35,622 30,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 64.05% 59.26% 64.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,238 16,963 22,403
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £52,388 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.69% - -

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Aviation job vacancy trend in England

Aviation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aviation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aviation

Aviation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aviation in England over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Aviation in England

Aviation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aviation within the England region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
South East +71 104 £55,000 +10.00% 27
London +48 45 £72,500 -9.38% 33
East of England +53 42 £35,000 -12.50% 6
South West -3 17 £61,250 +22.50% 30
Midlands +48 2 £65,000 +30.00% 13
East Midlands +23 2 £65,000 +30.00% 5
Aviation
UK

Aviation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) Poser
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 29 (14.50%) SaaS
2 8 (4.00%) AWS
3 2 (1.00%) Azure
3 2 (1.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.50%) GitHub
4 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) Internet
2 1 (0.50%) BGP
2 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.50%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (0.50%) DHCP
2 1 (0.50%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.50%) DNS
2 1 (0.50%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) LAN
2 1 (0.50%) Network Security
2 1 (0.50%) OSPF
2 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.50%) SSL
2 1 (0.50%) VLAN
2 1 (0.50%) VPN
2 1 (0.50%) WAN
2 1 (0.50%) Wireless
2 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.00%) Power BI
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Git
1 4 (2.00%) JIRA
2 3 (1.50%) GitLab
3 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.00%) Maven
3 2 (1.00%) Subversion
4 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 99 (49.50%) Social Skills
2 55 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (20.50%) Aerospace
4 24 (12.00%) Military
5 22 (11.00%) Fire and Rescue
5 22 (11.00%) Police
6 19 (9.50%) Finance
7 13 (6.50%) Electronics
8 9 (4.50%) Retail
9 5 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.00%) Marketing
10 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.50%) Aeronautics
11 3 (1.50%) Law
11 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.50%) Swedish Language
12 2 (1.00%) Local Government
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 32 (16.00%) Coordinator
2 25 (12.50%) Business Manager
3 23 (11.50%) Business Systems Manager
3 23 (11.50%) Systems Manager
4 22 (11.00%) Operations Manager
4 22 (11.00%) Service Manager
4 22 (11.00%) Service Operations Manager
4 22 (11.00%) Systems Engineer
5 17 (8.50%) Analyst
6 14 (7.00%) Integration Engineer
7 10 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
7 10 (5.00%) Report Analyst
7 10 (5.00%) Test Engineer
8 9 (4.50%) Developer
9 7 (3.50%) Senior
10 6 (3.00%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Systems Test Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) C# Developer
11 5 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (2.50%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.00%) .NET
2 4 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.00%) Ionic Framework
3 2 (1.00%) REST
3 2 (1.00%) Spring
3 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (37.00%) Robotics
2 33 (16.50%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.00%) Fibre Optics
4 7 (3.50%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.00%) Digital Media
5 6 (3.00%) Graphic Design
6 5 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.50%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (1.50%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (1.00%) CCTV
9 2 (1.00%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.00%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.00%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.00%) Replication
9 2 (1.00%) Social Media
10 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.00%) Linux
2 4 (2.00%) Android
3 3 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.50%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.50%) Windows
4 2 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.50%) Software Engineering
2 76 (38.00%) AI
3 65 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (29.00%) Project Management
5 47 (23.50%) Process Improvement
6 35 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (15.50%) Agile
8 30 (15.00%) Risk Management
9 29 (14.50%) Project Delivery
10 26 (13.00%) Data Management
11 25 (12.50%) ERP
11 25 (12.50%) ITIL
12 24 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
13 23 (11.50%) Budget Management
13 23 (11.50%) Change Management
13 23 (11.50%) Contract Negotiation
13 23 (11.50%) DevOps
13 23 (11.50%) IT Strategy
13 23 (11.50%) Strategic Planning
14 22 (11.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.00%) SQL
2 9 (4.50%) Python
3 8 (4.00%) C#
4 7 (3.50%) Java
5 5 (2.50%) C++
6 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.00%) R
6 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.50%) C
7 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (21.00%) Degree
2 40 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 34 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.00%) HNC
5 12 (6.00%) HND
6 4 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) CCNP
8 1 (0.50%) CCSA
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.50%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (25.50%) QA
2 5 (2.50%) ISO 31000
2 5 (2.50%) NIST
3 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.00%) GDPR
3 4 (2.00%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.50%) PMO
5 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) DO-254
6 1 (0.50%) ECSS
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.00%) Ansible
1 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (9.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.50%) Google
2 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe
3 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (0.50%) Cisco
3 1 (0.50%) EMC
3 1 (0.50%) F5
3 1 (0.50%) Juniper
3 1 (0.50%) Meraki
3 1 (0.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (0.50%) VMware