Aerospace Job Trends in the South East

Aerospace
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 148 195
Rank change year-on-year +23 +47 +54
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 182 108 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.34% 1.60% 1.27%
As % of the General category 2.82% 2.39% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84 54 88
10th Percentile £44,800 £36,325 £39,050
25th Percentile £52,063 £46,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,383 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,200 - £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,793 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.71% +1.18%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 6,446 4,514 8,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 47.41% 66.87% 57.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,665 1,978 5,998
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +14.74% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.93%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in the South East

Aerospace
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Aerospace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the South East over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in the South East

Aerospace
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Thames Valley -2 38 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Isle of Wight +15 33 £68,600 +71.07% 4
Hampshire -23 33 £75,000 -3.23% 52
Kent -12 31 £57,500 -2.54% 5
West Sussex - 24 £56,465 - 4
Surrey -19 22 £58,128 +23.84% 12
Oxfordshire -10 19 £55,000 - 12
Berkshire +24 16 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Buckinghamshire -33 3 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Sussex - 1 £59,500 - 5
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (0.55%) Resin
Applications
1 12 (6.59%) Simulink
2 2 (1.10%) CATIA
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 6 (3.30%) Azure
2 5 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (2.20%) AWS
4 3 (1.65%) Azure AKS
4 3 (1.65%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.10%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (1.10%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.55%) GitHub
6 1 (0.55%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) Network Security
1 2 (1.10%) Wireless
2 1 (0.55%) 5G
2 1 (0.55%) DHCP
2 1 (0.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.55%) Firewall
2 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.55%) Big Data
3 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (14.84%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.85%) LabVIEW
3 5 (2.75%) GitLab
4 4 (2.20%) Git
4 4 (2.20%) JIRA
4 4 (2.20%) Selenium
5 2 (1.10%) MSTest
5 2 (1.10%) Polyspace
5 2 (1.10%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.10%) Subversion
5 2 (1.10%) TestRail
5 2 (1.10%) VectorCAST
General
1 37 (20.33%) Finance
2 31 (17.03%) Electronics
3 25 (13.74%) Manufacturing
4 22 (12.09%) Aviation
4 22 (12.09%) Social Skills
5 21 (11.54%) Automotive
6 17 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (9.34%) Military
7 5 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.20%) Italian Language
8 4 (2.20%) Japanese Language
9 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Legal
11 1 (0.55%) Law
11 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (33.52%) Systems Engineer
2 40 (21.98%) Senior
3 30 (16.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 26 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 22 (12.09%) Lead
6 21 (11.54%) Systems Test Engineer
7 19 (10.44%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (7.69%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 12 (6.59%) Programmer
10 11 (6.04%) Business Development Manager
10 11 (6.04%) Business Manager
10 11 (6.04%) Development Manager
10 11 (6.04%) Validation Engineer
11 10 (5.49%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.95%) Lead Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.95%) Team Leader
13 8 (4.40%) Software Validation Engineer
14 7 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
15 6 (3.30%) Graduate
16 5 (2.75%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.49%) .NET
2 3 (1.65%) HTML
3 2 (1.10%) ADO
3 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.10%) Hugging Face
3 2 (1.10%) LangChain
3 2 (1.10%) Playwright
3 2 (1.10%) pytest
3 2 (1.10%) Ray
3 2 (1.10%) vLLM
3 2 (1.10%) YAML
4 1 (0.55%) Django
4 1 (0.55%) Kafka
4 1 (0.55%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.55%) Vue
4 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.75%) Acoustics
1 5 (2.75%) Life Science
2 4 (2.20%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.20%) Robotics
2 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.65%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.10%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.10%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.55%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.55%) FPGA
5 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.95%) Linux
2 5 (2.75%) Windows
3 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (32.42%) Systems Engineering
2 43 (23.63%) Validation
3 30 (16.48%) Verification and Validation
4 19 (10.44%) Software Engineering
5 17 (9.34%) Agile
6 16 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (8.79%) Physics
7 15 (8.24%) Collaborative Working
8 14 (7.69%) Mathematics
9 13 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (7.14%) Decision-Making
10 12 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (6.04%) Business Development
11 11 (6.04%) CI/CD
12 10 (5.49%) Requirements Management
13 9 (4.95%) Customer Requirements
13 9 (4.95%) DevOps
14 8 (4.40%) Information Assurance
14 8 (4.40%) Mentoring
14 8 (4.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.69%) MATLAB
2 12 (6.59%) C++
3 11 (6.04%) C
3 11 (6.04%) C#
4 10 (5.49%) Python
5 7 (3.85%) Bash
6 4 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.65%) SQL
8 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (27.47%) Degree
2 45 (24.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (12.64%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.30%) Chartered Engineer
6 5 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.65%) HND
7 3 (1.65%) PhD
8 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.55%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.55%) HNC
9 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.55%) MCSE
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.49%) QA
2 8 (4.40%) ISO 9001
3 6 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (1.65%) GDPR
4 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.10%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.10%) ISO 26262
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
5 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (3.30%) Docker
1 6 (3.30%) Firmware
2 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 10 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.85%) Ansible
2 7 (3.85%) Terraform
3 3 (1.65%) Grafana
4 2 (1.10%) Nessus
4 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.55%) Puppet
5 1 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (5.49%) IBM
2 9 (4.95%) Siemens
3 3 (1.65%) Mentor Graphics
3 3 (1.65%) VMware
4 2 (1.10%) HP
4 2 (1.10%) Juniper
5 1 (0.55%) ArcSight
5 1 (0.55%) Cisco
5 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.55%) Google
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.55%) Sage
5 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.55%) Xilinx
5 1 (0.55%) Zoho