Aerospace Job Trends in Surrey

Aerospace
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 84 84
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +87
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 21 22 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.25% 1.79% 0.60%
As % of the General category 2.00% 2.71% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 2
10th Percentile - £33,000 £63,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,625 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £37,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -44.44% -
75th Percentile £64,500 £58,125 £69,375
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,500 £69,750
South East median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.42% -7.69% +13.04%

All General Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,052 811 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 62.84% 66.04% 60.54%
Number of salaries quoted 530 343 392
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,539
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +8.91% -8.18%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in Surrey

Aerospace
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Aerospace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in Surrey over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in Surrey

Aerospace
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Leatherhead - 3 - -
Epsom - 2 - -
Guildford - 2 £70,000 - 4
Aerospace
South East

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
1 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) 802.11
1 5 (23.81%) LTE
1 5 (23.81%) VSAT
1 5 (23.81%) Wireless
2 2 (9.52%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) 5G
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) Subversion
General
1 12 (57.14%) Automotive
2 8 (38.10%) Electronics
2 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
3 5 (23.81%) Billing
4 2 (9.52%) Military
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Technical Support
1 5 (23.81%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Service Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Business Development Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Business Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Development Manager
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) 802.1X
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Agile
1 5 (23.81%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (23.81%) Commercial Awareness
1 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
1 5 (23.81%) Fault Management
1 5 (23.81%) Proactive Monitoring
1 5 (23.81%) Statistics
2 4 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
2 4 (19.05%) Requirements Management
2 4 (19.05%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) C
1 2 (9.52%) C++
1 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) Degree
3 5 (23.81%) CCNA
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (23.81%) DV Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) GCSC
3 5 (23.81%) JNCIA
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (9.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) pfSense
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
3 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Freshdesk
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.76%) Juniper