ECSS Jobs in the UK excluding London

European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ESA ECSS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ECSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ECSS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 760 741
Rank change year-on-year +207 -19 +108
Permanent jobs citing ECSS 4 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.064% 0.063% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34,750 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £45,125 £65,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £48,050 - -
UK median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -37.50% +11.63% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

ECSS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,243 9,574 12,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.95% 13.62% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,050 6,349 4,736
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

ECSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for ECSS in the UK excluding London

ECSS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for ECSS in the UK excluding London

ECSS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ECSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ECSS in the UK excluding London

ECSS
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 ECSS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +111 3 £37,500 -37.50% 6
Scotland - 1 £50,000 - 2
ECSS
UK

ECSS
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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Zemax
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SpaceWire
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker