Aerospace Job Trends 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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 225 278
Rank change year-on-year +15 +53 +1
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 386 429 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.19% 1.00%
As % of the General category 1.63% 1.87% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 220 235 170
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,800 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% -8.20% +3.17%

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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,663 22,940 20,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.80% 63.86% 59.59%
Number of salaries quoted 12,230 9,402 14,568
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -6.07%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Aerospace
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Aerospace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
South West +14 94 £45,000 -21.74% 83
South East +12 92 £55,000 -8.33% 98
Midlands +57 66 £45,000 +20.00% 33
North of England -33 57 £40,000 -23.81% 56
East of England +28 54 £46,250 -16.29% 48
North West -15 43 £50,000 -0.11% 34
West Midlands +52 39 £47,000 -6.00% 19
East Midlands -3 27 £43,750 +25.00% 14
Wales +19 11 £65,000 - 14
Yorkshire -10 11 £35,000 -36.36% 17
Scotland -22 8 £65,000 +12.01% 12
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
North East +4 3 - - 5
Aerospace
UK

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.04%) Confluence
3 3 (0.78%) Apache
3 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.78%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.30%) 3ds Max
3 5 (1.30%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.30%) Simulink
4 4 (1.04%) AutoCAD
4 4 (1.04%) Windchill
5 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.52%) CATIA
6 2 (0.52%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.26%) Blender
7 1 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.26%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.26%) Maya
7 1 (0.26%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.55%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (2.33%) Azure
2 7 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (1.81%) Google Workspace
3 6 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (1.55%) OpenShift
4 5 (1.30%) AWS
5 4 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.04%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.04%) SurveyMonkey
6 3 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (0.78%) GCP
6 3 (0.78%) Serverless
7 2 (0.52%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.52%) IaaS
8 1 (0.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.26%) GitHub
8 1 (0.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.59%) Network Security
2 8 (2.07%) Firewall
2 8 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.81%) DNS
4 6 (1.55%) DHCP
4 6 (1.55%) VLAN
5 5 (1.30%) Wireless
5 5 (1.30%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.04%) 802.11
6 4 (1.04%) Bluetooth
6 4 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.04%) LTE
6 4 (1.04%) Modbus
6 4 (1.04%) VPN
6 4 (1.04%) VSAT
6 4 (1.04%) ZigBee
7 3 (0.78%) AMQP
7 3 (0.78%) LAN
7 3 (0.78%) Skype
7 3 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.55%) Big Data
1 6 (1.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
2 4 (1.04%) Power BI
3 3 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (0.52%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.52%) MySQL
4 2 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.26%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (3.63%) Git
2 11 (2.85%) JIRA
3 9 (2.33%) GitLab
4 6 (1.55%) Burp Suite
4 6 (1.55%) Metasploit
4 6 (1.55%) Subversion
5 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.04%) LabVIEW
6 3 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.52%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.52%) Selenium
7 2 (0.52%) TestRail
8 1 (0.26%) Redmine
General
1 111 (28.76%) Automotive
2 75 (19.43%) Manufacturing
3 69 (17.88%) Social Skills
4 46 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.92%) Electronics
5 32 (8.29%) Aviation
6 30 (7.77%) Aeronautics
7 23 (5.96%) Finance
8 14 (3.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (3.37%) Military
10 12 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.85%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.33%) Law
13 8 (2.07%) Retail
14 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.04%) Billing
16 3 (0.78%) Advertising
16 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.78%) Marketing
17 2 (0.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 59 (15.28%) Systems Engineer
2 41 (10.62%) Senior
3 29 (7.51%) Support Engineer
4 28 (7.25%) Programmer
5 25 (6.48%) Technical Engineer
6 23 (5.96%) Software Engineer
7 21 (5.44%) Technical Support
8 20 (5.18%) Technical Support Engineer
9 18 (4.66%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 16 (4.15%) Coordinator
10 16 (4.15%) Test Engineer
11 14 (3.63%) Analyst
12 13 (3.37%) Lead
13 10 (2.59%) IT Support
14 9 (2.33%) Designer
14 9 (2.33%) IT Manager
14 9 (2.33%) Systems Test Engineer
15 8 (2.07%) Data Engineer
15 8 (2.07%) Graduate
16 7 (1.81%) Senior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.04%) 802.1X
1 4 (1.04%) React
2 3 (0.78%) .NET
2 3 (0.78%) AngularJS
2 3 (0.78%) gRPC
2 3 (0.78%) Material-UI
2 3 (0.78%) Middleware
2 3 (0.78%) Node.js
2 3 (0.78%) OpenAPI
2 3 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (0.78%) REST
2 3 (0.78%) Spring
2 3 (0.78%) Spring Boot
2 3 (0.78%) Swagger
3 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.52%) HTML
3 2 (0.52%) ZeroMQ
4 1 (0.26%) Kafka
4 1 (0.26%) Pyramid
4 1 (0.26%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 23 (5.96%) Robotics
3 20 (5.18%) Renewable Energy
4 13 (3.37%) FPGA
5 11 (2.85%) FMCG
6 9 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.33%) Life Science
6 9 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.07%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (2.07%) IoT
8 5 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.30%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.30%) PMI
9 4 (1.04%) CAN bus
9 4 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.04%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.04%) SCADA
10 3 (0.78%) Arduino
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.25%) Linux
2 15 (3.89%) Windows
3 10 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.81%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.04%) Android
6 4 (1.04%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.78%) CentOS
7 3 (0.78%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (11.92%) Collaborative Working
3 42 (10.88%) Agile
3 42 (10.88%) Project Management
4 36 (9.33%) ERP
4 36 (9.33%) Software Engineering
5 33 (8.55%) AI
5 33 (8.55%) Validation
6 32 (8.29%) Systems Engineering
7 29 (7.51%) Innovative Thinking
8 28 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (6.22%) Data Management
10 21 (5.44%) Computer Science
10 21 (5.44%) Project Delivery
11 20 (5.18%) Verification and Validation
12 19 (4.92%) Process Improvement
13 18 (4.66%) Decision-Making
14 17 (4.40%) Mentoring
15 16 (4.15%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.81%) Python
2 28 (7.25%) C++
3 22 (5.70%) Java
4 19 (4.92%) SQL
5 16 (4.15%) C
6 11 (2.85%) Bash
7 9 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.81%) MATLAB
9 6 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.30%) C#
11 4 (1.04%) R
11 4 (1.04%) Rust
11 4 (1.04%) VB
12 3 (0.78%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.78%) Go
12 3 (0.78%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.78%) Swift
12 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.26%) VB6
Qualifications
1 85 (22.02%) Degree
2 82 (21.24%) Security Cleared
3 42 (10.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 40 (10.36%) SC Cleared
5 22 (5.70%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.07%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.81%) PhD
10 6 (1.55%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (1.30%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.04%) CCNA
12 4 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.04%) GCSC
12 4 (1.04%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.04%) PMP
13 3 (0.78%) MBA
14 2 (0.52%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.81%) QA
2 6 (1.55%) GDPR
2 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.30%) PMO
4 3 (0.78%) DO-254
4 3 (0.78%) SLA
5 2 (0.52%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.26%) ARP4754
6 1 (0.26%) ARP4761
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.26%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.26%) ECSS
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.33%) Firmware
3 6 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.04%) Docker
4 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 14 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.33%) Ansible
3 7 (1.81%) Terraform
4 6 (1.55%) Nessus
4 6 (1.55%) Nmap
5 5 (1.30%) Puppet
6 3 (0.78%) Argo
6 3 (0.78%) Grafana
6 3 (0.78%) Rancher
6 3 (0.78%) SCOM
6 3 (0.78%) WSUS
6 3 (0.78%) yum
7 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.26%) Kibana
8 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (5.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.89%) SAP
3 9 (2.33%) Google
4 8 (2.07%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.81%) VMware
6 6 (1.55%) Oracle
7 5 (1.30%) PayPal
7 5 (1.30%) Splunk
8 4 (1.04%) Cisco
8 4 (1.04%) Freshdesk
8 4 (1.04%) Qualtrics
9 3 (0.78%) QAD
9 3 (0.78%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.52%) HP
10 2 (0.52%) IBM
10 2 (0.52%) Siemens
11 1 (0.26%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.26%) Juniper
11 1 (0.26%) PTC