Aerospace Job Trends in the South West

Aerospace
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 100 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 -55 +73
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 166 66 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.99% 1.99% 4.18%
As % of the General category 4.54% 3.14% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 91 31 207
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,600 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +2.14% -11.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £130,446 £73,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -8.99% -5.98%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,656 2,099 4,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 43.86% 63.20% 50.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,141 1,260 3,376
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,669
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.73% -3.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,488
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in the South West

Aerospace
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the South West over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in the South West

Aerospace
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Gloucestershire +4 67 £60,500 +21.00% 30
Bristol +9 57 £55,000 -3.85% 36
Wiltshire -5 13 £30,000 -54.72% 3
Dorset +5 11 £157,500 +165.15% 7
Somerset -27 10 £47,500 +5.56% 9
Aerospace
England

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (3.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.20%) Apache
2 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.20%) Fusion 360
3 2 (1.20%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.60%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.83%) OCI
2 11 (6.63%) AWS
3 6 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (3.61%) Serverless
4 5 (3.01%) Azure
5 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (2.41%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (2.41%) GCP
6 3 (1.81%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.42%) Software-Defined Networking
2 8 (4.82%) Network Security
3 7 (4.22%) Ethernet
4 6 (3.61%) Firewall
5 4 (2.41%) IPv4
5 4 (2.41%) WAN
6 3 (1.81%) BGP
6 3 (1.81%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.81%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.81%) SNMP
6 3 (1.81%) VLAN
6 3 (1.81%) VPN
7 2 (1.20%) AMQP
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.20%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.60%) LAN
8 1 (0.60%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.20%) Big Data
1 2 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
1 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.60%) MySQL
2 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.23%) Git
2 8 (4.82%) JIRA
3 7 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.41%) GitLab
5 3 (1.81%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.81%) Subversion
6 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (19.88%) Automotive
1 33 (19.88%) Finance
1 33 (19.88%) Manufacturing
2 15 (9.04%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.23%) Aviation
4 11 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.82%) Digital Health
5 8 (4.82%) Electronics
5 8 (4.82%) Legal
6 7 (4.22%) Avionics
7 6 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.01%) Military
8 5 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.81%) Marketing
10 2 (1.20%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (15.06%) Software Engineer
2 20 (12.05%) Systems Engineer
3 18 (10.84%) Senior
4 17 (10.24%) Analyst
5 13 (7.83%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.83%) Business Development Manager
5 13 (7.83%) Business Manager
5 13 (7.83%) Development Manager
6 12 (7.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 11 (6.63%) C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (6.63%) Programmer
8 9 (5.42%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
9 8 (4.82%) Architect
9 8 (4.82%) Embedded Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.41%) boto
1 4 (2.41%) HTML
1 4 (2.41%) Middleware
1 4 (2.41%) ZeroMQ
2 3 (1.81%) WPF
3 2 (1.20%) .NET
3 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.20%) gRPC
3 2 (1.20%) Material-UI
3 2 (1.20%) Node.js
3 2 (1.20%) OpenAPI
3 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.20%) React
3 2 (1.20%) REST
3 2 (1.20%) Spring
3 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.20%) Swagger
4 1 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.02%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (5.42%) Device Driver
2 9 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.01%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.81%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.81%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.81%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.81%) Thin Client
6 3 (1.81%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (1.20%) FPGA
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.20%) Robotics
7 2 (1.20%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.48%) Linux
2 10 (6.02%) Windows
3 7 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.81%) CentOS
5 2 (1.20%) Debian
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.60%) Rocky
6 1 (0.60%) SafeRTOS
6 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (24.10%) Agile
2 29 (17.47%) Collaborative Working
3 28 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (15.66%) Software Engineering
5 24 (14.46%) CI/CD
6 21 (12.65%) Systems Engineering
7 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (10.24%) Project Management
8 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (8.43%) Business Development
10 13 (7.83%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (7.83%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (7.23%) Risk Management
12 11 (6.63%) Project Delivery
12 11 (6.63%) Scrum
12 11 (6.63%) Validation
13 10 (6.02%) Containerisation
14 9 (5.42%) PLM
14 9 (5.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.65%) C++
1 21 (12.65%) Python
2 10 (6.02%) Bash
2 10 (6.02%) Embedded C++
3 9 (5.42%) C
3 9 (5.42%) Java
4 7 (4.22%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.81%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.81%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.20%) Rust
9 1 (0.60%) C#
9 1 (0.60%) Go
9 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.69%) DV Cleared
3 9 (5.42%) Degree
4 6 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.01%) RHCE
6 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.41%) CCNA
6 4 (2.41%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.41%) OSCP
6 4 (2.41%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.20%) CCIE
7 2 (1.20%) CCIE Data Center
7 2 (1.20%) CCNP
7 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.60%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.81%) ARP4761
1 3 (1.81%) DO-160
1 3 (1.81%) DO-254
2 2 (1.20%) ARP4754
3 1 (0.60%) HAZOP
3 1 (0.60%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.60%) IEC 62304
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.42%) Docker
2 7 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.61%) VMware NSX
4 5 (3.01%) Firmware
5 4 (2.41%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.41%) Squid
5 4 (2.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (11.45%) Ansible
2 18 (10.84%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.43%) Terraform
4 4 (2.41%) Packer
4 4 (2.41%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.81%) SCCM
5 3 (1.81%) SCOM
5 3 (1.81%) SCOrch
6 2 (1.20%) Puppet
6 2 (1.20%) vRealize
7 1 (0.60%) Argo
7 1 (0.60%) Rancher
7 1 (0.60%) yum
Vendors
1 18 (10.84%) Oracle
2 16 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.82%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.22%) VMware
5 4 (2.41%) Splunk
6 3 (1.81%) Cisco
7 2 (1.20%) Google
7 2 (1.20%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.60%) EXTOL
8 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.60%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) Juniper