Aerospace Job Trends in the North of England

Aerospace
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 221 225
Rank change year-on-year +40 +4 +74
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 176 92 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.84% 0.98% 0.97%
As % of the General category 1.96% 1.41% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 105 62 109
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,683 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £48,869 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +1.85%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,656 £65,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £68,484
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,277 £54,125
% change year-on-year +9.39% -7.11% -5.87%

All General Skills
North of 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 general skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 8,961 6,521 9,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 42.74% 69.22% 54.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,970 2,883 6,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £69,390 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in the North of England

Aerospace
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Aerospace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in the North of England

Aerospace
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. 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 West +47 141 £47,636 -4.83% 49
Yorkshire -25 21 £55,000 -7.87% 16
North East -35 14 £50,000 -44.44% 5
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (1.14%) Apache
1 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.57%) Simulink
1 1 (0.57%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (5.11%) SAP ERP
1 9 (5.11%) SAP QM
2 2 (1.14%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.14%) Infor LN
3 1 (0.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 12 (6.82%) Azure
2 7 (3.98%) GitHub
2 7 (3.98%) GitHub Copilot
3 6 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.70%) AWS
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.14%) GCP
5 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) DHCP
1 4 (2.27%) DNS
1 4 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.14%) AMQP
2 2 (1.14%) Profibus
3 1 (0.57%) PBX
3 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.14%) Big Data
2 2 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
2 2 (1.14%) EDRMS
2 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.57%) JIRA
2 1 (0.57%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 76 (43.18%) Finance
2 37 (21.02%) Automotive
3 21 (11.93%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 7 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.84%) Electronics
6 5 (2.84%) Military
7 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
9 1 (0.57%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (18.75%) Business Development Manager
1 33 (18.75%) Business Manager
1 33 (18.75%) Development Manager
1 33 (18.75%) Senior
2 17 (9.66%) Lead
3 15 (8.52%) Analyst
4 13 (7.39%) Instrumentation Engineer
4 13 (7.39%) Senior Electrical Engineer
5 12 (6.82%) Developer
6 10 (5.68%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (4.55%) IT Support
8 7 (3.98%) .NET Developer
8 7 (3.98%) Project Leader
8 7 (3.98%) Technologist
9 6 (3.41%) IT Analyst
9 6 (3.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 6 (3.41%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.84%) Senior Integration Engineer
10 5 (2.84%) Senior Validation Engineer
10 5 (2.84%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.11%) AngularJS
1 9 (5.11%) SAP Fiori
2 8 (4.55%) Vue
3 7 (3.98%) .NET
3 7 (3.98%) .NET Core
3 7 (3.98%) ASP.NET
3 7 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
3 7 (3.98%) SubSonic
4 2 (1.14%) gRPC
4 2 (1.14%) Material-UI
4 2 (1.14%) Node.js
4 2 (1.14%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.14%) React
4 2 (1.14%) REST
4 2 (1.14%) Spring
4 2 (1.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.14%) Swagger
5 1 (0.57%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.27%) Robotics
3 4 (2.27%) Self-Driving Car
4 3 (1.70%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.14%) IoT
5 2 (1.14%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.57%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.57%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.57%) SCADA
6 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.55%) Windows
2 7 (3.98%) Linux
3 6 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.14%) CentOS
4 2 (1.14%) Debian
4 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (21.59%) Business Development
2 31 (17.61%) Roadmaps
3 20 (11.36%) ERP
3 20 (11.36%) Validation
4 18 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (9.66%) Systems Engineering
6 15 (8.52%) Agile
6 15 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (7.95%) Acceptance Criteria
8 12 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (5.68%) Analytics
9 10 (5.68%) Decision-Making
9 10 (5.68%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (5.68%) Project Management
10 9 (5.11%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (5.11%) ITIL
10 9 (5.11%) Project Roadmap
10 9 (5.11%) Quality Management
10 9 (5.11%) Requirements Analysis
10 9 (5.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.11%) Python
2 8 (4.55%) SQL
2 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
3 7 (3.98%) C#
4 4 (2.27%) Bash
4 4 (2.27%) Java
5 3 (1.70%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.14%) C
6 2 (1.14%) C++
6 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 82 (46.59%) BPSS Clearance
2 31 (17.61%) Degree
3 17 (9.66%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.55%) HNC
5 6 (3.41%) HND
6 4 (2.27%) ACCA
6 4 (2.27%) CIMA
6 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.27%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) AAT
7 2 (1.14%) ICAEW
7 2 (1.14%) RIBA
7 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) QA
2 9 (5.11%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.14%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 8 (4.55%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.11%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.70%) Ansible
3 3 (1.70%) Terraform
4 2 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.82%) SAP
3 6 (3.41%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.70%) EMC
4 3 (1.70%) IBM
4 3 (1.70%) Sage
5 2 (1.14%) Google
5 2 (1.14%) Infor
5 2 (1.14%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.14%) Siemens
5 2 (1.14%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.57%) Cognos
6 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.57%) Zoho