Aerospace Jobs in the UK excluding London

Aerospace
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 163 296
Rank change year-on-year +61 +133 +10
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1,154 1,316 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.93% 1.76% 1.13%
As % of the General category 4.33% 3.15% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 720 556 181
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £52,500 £56,159
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% -6.52% +16.39%
75th Percentile £54,793 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £61,475 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.99% -3.51% +14.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,671 41,817 39,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.73% 56.08% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,889 26,883 18,174
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the UK excluding London

Aerospace
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Aerospace in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Aerospace in the UK excluding London

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in the UK excluding London

Aerospace
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +191 604 £50,055 -8.99% 247
North West +157 571 £50,055 -8.37% 123
Midlands +194 229 £40,101 +2.82% 225
South East -23 147 £51,937 -13.44% 380
West Midlands +160 141 £61,625 +36.94% 125
South West -65 88 £52,600 +5.20% 253
East Midlands +82 87 £40,101 +6.93% 86
East of England -80 39 £40,101 -21.76% 221
Scotland +111 31 £40,101 -10.89% 77
Yorkshire +55 29 £40,101 -10.89% 93
Northern Ireland +46 10 - - 17
Wales +45 7 £40,101 - 49
North East +27 2 £90,000 +38.46% 33
Aerospace
UK

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.17%) TPMS
3 1 (0.087%) Apache
3 1 (0.087%) Confluence
3 1 (0.087%) Mendix
3 1 (0.087%) SharePoint
Applications
1 402 (34.84%) Simulink
2 235 (20.36%) Microsoft Office
3 178 (15.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 178 (15.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.95%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.087%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 347 (30.07%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.61%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.26%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 15 (1.30%) Azure
2 10 (0.87%) AWS
3 9 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (0.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.17%) OCI
5 2 (0.17%) SaaS
6 1 (0.087%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.087%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.087%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.087%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.087%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.087%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.087%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.087%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.087%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.087%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.087%) Serverless
6 1 (0.087%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.21%) WAN
2 12 (1.04%) Firewall
2 12 (1.04%) Internet
3 11 (0.95%) LAN
4 8 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.69%) Wireless
5 6 (0.52%) VPN
6 5 (0.43%) HTTP
6 5 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.35%) FTP
7 4 (0.35%) SMTP
7 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.26%) VoIP
9 1 (0.087%) DHCP
9 1 (0.087%) LTE
9 1 (0.087%) Modbus
9 1 (0.087%) VLAN
9 1 (0.087%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (1.65%) MongoDB
2 7 (0.61%) SAP HANA
3 5 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.35%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.087%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.087%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 143 (12.39%) Rational DOORS
2 38 (3.29%) Git
3 8 (0.69%) JIRA
4 6 (0.52%) GitLab
4 6 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.52%) Subversion
5 2 (0.17%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.17%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.087%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.087%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.087%) JUnit
6 1 (0.087%) LabVIEW
General
1 530 (45.93%) Automotive
2 385 (33.36%) Social Skills
3 200 (17.33%) Electronics
4 161 (13.95%) Aeronautics
5 132 (11.44%) Avionics
6 43 (3.73%) Manufacturing
7 37 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (2.60%) Aviation
9 21 (1.82%) Military
9 21 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 19 (1.65%) Finance
11 10 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.78%) Law
13 8 (0.69%) Public Sector
14 7 (0.61%) Legal
15 6 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.43%) Marketing
17 2 (0.17%) French Language
17 2 (0.17%) German Language
17 2 (0.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 822 (71.23%) Systems Engineer
2 475 (41.16%) Senior
3 442 (38.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 174 (15.08%) Lead
5 138 (11.96%) Junior
5 138 (11.96%) Junior Systems Engineer
6 135 (11.70%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 133 (11.53%) Software Engineer
8 129 (11.18%) Team Leader
9 100 (8.67%) Development Engineer
10 99 (8.58%) Software Development Engineer
11 80 (6.93%) Principal Engineer
12 72 (6.24%) Integration Engineer
12 72 (6.24%) Systems Integration Engineer
13 67 (5.81%) Principal Software Engineer
14 66 (5.72%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 47 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
16 46 (3.99%) Senior Integration Engineer
17 37 (3.21%) Senior Development Engineer
18 36 (3.12%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.39%) SAPUI5
2 14 (1.21%) Kafka
3 13 (1.13%) Qt
4 8 (0.69%) XML
5 6 (0.52%) React
6 5 (0.43%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.35%) JSF
8 3 (0.26%) LDAP
8 3 (0.26%) Middleware
9 2 (0.17%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.17%) HTML
10 1 (0.087%) .NET
10 1 (0.087%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.087%) boto
10 1 (0.087%) CSS
10 1 (0.087%) Google Maps API
10 1 (0.087%) REST
10 1 (0.087%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.087%) SOAP
10 1 (0.087%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 20 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (1.65%) Management Information System
2 19 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (0.61%) e-Learning
3 7 (0.61%) FPGA
3 7 (0.61%) Reference Data
3 7 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (0.52%) Algorithms
4 6 (0.52%) Device Driver
4 6 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (0.35%) Client/Server
5 4 (0.35%) CPLD
5 4 (0.35%) IoT
6 3 (0.26%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (0.26%) FMCG
6 3 (0.26%) Life Science
6 3 (0.26%) MISP
6 3 (0.26%) Operational Technology
6 3 (0.26%) VHDL
6 3 (0.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.82%) Linux
2 19 (1.65%) Windows
3 14 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.087%) Android
7 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.087%) Unix
7 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 920 (79.72%) Systems Engineering
2 349 (30.24%) PLM
3 318 (27.56%) Physics
4 300 (26.00%) Mathematics
5 280 (24.26%) Agile
6 278 (24.09%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 258 (22.36%) Software Testing
8 236 (20.45%) Validation
9 215 (18.63%) Project Management
10 210 (18.20%) Requirements Management
11 202 (17.50%) Coaching
12 189 (16.38%) SysML
13 188 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 168 (14.56%) SDLC
15 167 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
16 159 (13.78%) Computer Science
17 147 (12.74%) Customer Requirements
18 146 (12.65%) Software Engineering
19 142 (12.31%) UML
20 138 (11.96%) Creative Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 565 (48.96%) MATLAB
2 49 (4.25%) SQL
3 48 (4.16%) C
4 47 (4.07%) C++
5 38 (3.29%) Java
6 37 (3.21%) Python
7 13 (1.13%) C#
8 8 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.43%) Perl
10 5 (0.43%) R
10 5 (0.43%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.35%) Ada
11 4 (0.35%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.35%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.26%) Bash
12 3 (0.26%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.17%) VB
14 1 (0.087%) ABAP
14 1 (0.087%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 895 (77.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 773 (66.98%) Degree
3 277 (24.00%) HND
4 206 (17.85%) HNC
5 79 (6.85%) Security Cleared
6 43 (3.73%) SC Cleared
7 40 (3.47%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.08%) PhD
9 7 (0.61%) CISSP
10 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.26%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.17%) CHECK Team Member
14 2 (0.17%) CISM
14 2 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.17%) GCIA
14 2 (0.17%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.30%) Def Stans
2 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (0.78%) NIST
3 9 (0.78%) QA
4 7 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.087%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.087%) DO-254
7 1 (0.087%) ECSS
7 1 (0.087%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.087%) RMADS
System Software
1 11 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.43%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.17%) Docker
3 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (0.43%) Kibana
1 5 (0.43%) QRadar
2 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.26%) SCCM
3 2 (0.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.17%) Nmap
4 1 (0.087%) Ansible
4 1 (0.087%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.087%) Marathon
4 1 (0.087%) Terraform
Vendors
1 251 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 209 (18.11%) ANSYS
3 147 (12.74%) IBM
4 50 (4.33%) MathWorks
5 37 (3.21%) Oracle
6 28 (2.43%) SAP
7 22 (1.91%) VMware
8 11 (0.95%) PayPal
9 9 (0.78%) Cisco
10 8 (0.69%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.52%) Splunk
12 4 (0.35%) Agilent
13 3 (0.26%) Aruba
13 3 (0.26%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.26%) Okta
13 3 (0.26%) Siemens
14 2 (0.17%) Citrix
14 2 (0.17%) JD Edwards
14 2 (0.17%) NetApp
14 2 (0.17%) Red Hat