Aerospace Job Trends in Gatwick

Aerospace
West Sussex > Gatwick

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in Gatwick. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Gatwick 9.09% - 3.45%
As % of the General category 9.09% - 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,750 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 - £65,000
75th Percentile £62,250 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median annual salary £56,465 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

All General Skills
Gatwick

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 general skills in Gatwick.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11 14 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gatwick 100.00% 73.68% 41.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 5
10th Percentile £50,000 £34,700 £61,000
25th Percentile £53,375 £37,988 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% -27.78%
75th Percentile £66,125 £53,164 £73,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £59,850 -
West Sussex median annual salary £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -9.09%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Gatwick

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in Gatwick

Aerospace
Salary Trend in Gatwick

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gatwick citing Aerospace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gatwick citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gatwick 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker