Aerospace Job Trends in Glasgow

Aerospace
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 48 218
Rank change year-on-year -13 +170 -134
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 4 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.42% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the General category 0.90% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £117,500 £81,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £83,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.70% +45.22% -36.11%
75th Percentile £132,500 £85,250 £62,000
90th Percentile - - £62,450
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -17.91%

All General Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 445 285 3,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 46.69% 68.02% 83.68%
Number of salaries quoted 230 146 431
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £29,813 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £100,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -11.80%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Aerospace
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Aerospace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Neo4j
1 2 (50.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Automotive
2 2 (50.00%) Health Technology
2 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Principal Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
3 1 (25.00%) ERP Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) pgvector
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Robotics
2 2 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Accounting
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Twin
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Lean Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Production Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded C++
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Epicor
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP