Aerospace Jobs in the Thames Valley

Aerospace
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 203 214
Rank change year-on-year +68 +11 +9
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 42 50 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.24% 0.75% 0.77%
As % of the General category 1.62% 1.41% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6 32 9
10th Percentile £48,000 £53,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +62.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £83,375 £94,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +18.92%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 common skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,598 3,545 3,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 76.75% 52.91% 64.57%
Number of salaries quoted 758 2,207 1,713
10th Percentile £26,963 £26,400 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,063 £34,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,800 £73,750 £82,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.42%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the Thames Valley

Aerospace
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Aerospace in the Thames Valley

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in the Thames Valley

Aerospace
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Oxfordshire +33 30 - - 25
Buckinghamshire +41 9 £60,000 +31.87% 27
Berkshire +15 3 £65,000 - 28
Aerospace
South East

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Q-Pulse
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (42.86%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) Subversion
General
1 13 (30.95%) Electronics
2 9 (21.43%) Aviation
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Automotive
4 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.90%) Military
5 4 (9.52%) Aeronautics
5 4 (9.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Senior
2 9 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Electronics Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Performance Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Lead
5 2 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Project Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Project Leader
6 1 (2.38%) Communications Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Hardware Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Qt
2 5 (11.90%) XML
3 2 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (11.90%) e-Learning
2 5 (11.90%) Reference Data
3 4 (9.52%) CPLD
3 4 (9.52%) FPGA
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Validation
2 18 (42.86%) Regression Testing
2 18 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 18 (42.86%) Verification and Validation
3 14 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 13 (30.95%) Knowledge Transfer
4 13 (30.95%) Manual Testing
5 12 (28.57%) OO
5 12 (28.57%) OOD
6 10 (23.81%) Customer Requirements
7 8 (19.05%) Mentoring
7 8 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (19.05%) Unit Testing
8 5 (11.90%) Data Analysis
8 5 (11.90%) Innovative Thinking
8 5 (11.90%) Migration
8 5 (11.90%) Physics
8 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
9 4 (9.52%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) C
1 26 (61.90%) C++
2 15 (35.71%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) PL/SQL
3 5 (11.90%) SQL
4 4 (9.52%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Degree
2 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) Master's Degree
4 4 (9.52%) PhD
5 2 (4.76%) CISSP
5 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.38%) ECSS
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Agilent
2 2 (4.76%) VMware