Aerospace Job Trends

Aerospace
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 330 254
Rank change year-on-year +39 -76 +97
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 502 373 998
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.85% 1.18%
As % of the General category 1.25% 1.21% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 277 222 467
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,275 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,897 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -6.96% +2.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £78,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,897 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.92% -0.19% -4.35%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 40,030 30,857 51,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.81% 70.37% 61.22%
Number of salaries quoted 22,018 15,626 37,394
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,464
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in the UK

Aerospace
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Aerospace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the UK over the 6 months to 15 March 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
England +34 438 £50,000 -8.75% 373
UK excluding London +14 420 £50,000 -8.92% 372
South East -13 112 £55,000 -15.38% 97
South West +17 106 £47,500 -9.70% 107
Midlands +26 69 £55,000 +37.50% 57
Work from Home +27 58 £53,750 -9.51% 105
North of England -79 56 £40,000 -20.09% 39
East of England +31 51 £50,000 -16.67% 47
West Midlands +37 42 £50,000 - 38
London +25 42 £65,000 +52.94% 37
North West -37 41 £50,000 -0.11% 32
East Midlands -28 27 £87,500 +118.75% 19
Scotland -11 16 £53,000 -8.67% 32
Yorkshire -42 13 £35,000 -36.36% 6
Wales - 6 £65,000 - 6
Northern Ireland -27 4 - - 2
North East -15 2 - - 1

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (0.80%) Apache
1 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
1 4 (0.80%) Confluence
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.59%) Simulink
4 7 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.20%) Chatbot
6 5 (1.00%) 3ds Max
6 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.80%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.60%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.60%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.40%) CATIA
9 2 (0.40%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.20%) Abaqus
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.20%) Blender
10 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.20%) Maya
10 1 (0.20%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.20%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (4.38%) Azure
2 20 (3.98%) AWS
3 11 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (1.99%) OpenShift
5 9 (1.79%) GCP
6 8 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (1.39%) IaaS
8 6 (1.20%) Google Workspace
8 6 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.80%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.80%) Serverless
10 3 (0.60%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.40%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.20%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.20%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.20%) GitHub
12 1 (0.20%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.39%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.79%) Network Security
3 8 (1.59%) Wireshark
4 7 (1.39%) ATM
4 7 (1.39%) DHCP
4 7 (1.39%) DNS
4 7 (1.39%) HTTPS
4 7 (1.39%) Multicast
4 7 (1.39%) tcpdump
4 7 (1.39%) WAN
5 6 (1.20%) Firewall
6 5 (1.00%) VPN
7 4 (0.80%) AMQP
7 4 (0.80%) HTTP
7 4 (0.80%) SNMP
7 4 (0.80%) VLAN
8 3 (0.60%) LAN
8 3 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.20%) Big Data
2 4 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
2 4 (0.80%) Hadoop
2 4 (0.80%) MySQL
2 4 (0.80%) Power BI
3 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
3 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.20%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (2.59%) Git
2 11 (2.19%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (1.79%) Subversion
4 8 (1.59%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.39%) JIRA
6 6 (1.20%) GitLab
7 4 (0.80%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.80%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.40%) Selenium
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 122 (24.30%) Automotive
2 86 (17.13%) Manufacturing
3 68 (13.55%) Social Skills
4 59 (11.75%) Electronics
5 38 (7.57%) Finance
6 35 (6.97%) Aeronautics
6 35 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (5.98%) Aviation
8 23 (4.58%) Military
9 22 (4.38%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.99%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.99%) Retail
13 8 (1.59%) Law
14 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Marketing
14 6 (1.20%) Spanish Language
15 5 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (15.34%) Systems Engineer
2 72 (14.34%) Senior
3 48 (9.56%) Software Engineer
4 33 (6.57%) Programmer
5 28 (5.58%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 26 (5.18%) Lead
7 21 (4.18%) Business Manager
8 20 (3.98%) Business Development Manager
8 20 (3.98%) Development Manager
8 20 (3.98%) Test Engineer
9 13 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (2.59%) Systems Test Engineer
10 12 (2.39%) IT Manager
10 12 (2.39%) Lead Systems Engineer
11 11 (2.19%) Analyst
11 11 (2.19%) Architect
11 11 (2.19%) Deployment Engineer
11 11 (2.19%) Graduate
11 11 (2.19%) IT Support
12 10 (1.99%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.79%) .NET
2 8 (1.59%) REST
3 6 (1.20%) HTML
3 6 (1.20%) Middleware
4 5 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (1.00%) React
5 4 (0.80%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.80%) gRPC
5 4 (0.80%) Material-UI
5 4 (0.80%) NETCONF
5 4 (0.80%) Node.js
5 4 (0.80%) OpenAPI
5 4 (0.80%) RESTCONF
5 4 (0.80%) Spring
5 4 (0.80%) Spring Boot
5 4 (0.80%) Swagger
5 4 (0.80%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (0.60%) XML
7 2 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.98%) Robotics
2 17 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 17 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.79%) Life Science
4 12 (2.39%) FPGA
5 10 (1.99%) Cloud Native
6 9 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 9 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.00%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.80%) PMI
9 4 (0.80%) Social Media
10 3 (0.60%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.60%) PKI
10 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (9.16%) Linux
2 15 (2.99%) Windows
3 12 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.80%) CentOS
6 4 (0.80%) Debian
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (16.73%) Agile
2 66 (13.15%) Systems Engineering
3 64 (12.75%) Collaborative Working
4 58 (11.55%) Software Engineering
5 55 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (10.36%) Validation
7 46 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (6.37%) Mentoring
9 29 (5.78%) ERP
9 29 (5.78%) Project Management
10 27 (5.38%) AI
11 25 (4.98%) Verification and Validation
12 24 (4.78%) CI/CD
13 23 (4.58%) Business Development
14 22 (4.38%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (3.59%) Analytics
15 18 (3.59%) DevOps
15 18 (3.59%) Physics
15 18 (3.59%) Project Delivery
16 17 (3.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.37%) C++
1 42 (8.37%) Python
2 25 (4.98%) C
3 23 (4.58%) Java
4 20 (3.98%) Bash
5 17 (3.39%) C#
6 13 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.79%) SQL
8 8 (1.59%) MATLAB
8 8 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.00%) Go
11 3 (0.60%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.60%) Rust
12 2 (0.40%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.20%) R
13 1 (0.20%) VB
13 1 (0.20%) VB6
Qualifications
1 83 (16.53%) Degree
2 79 (15.74%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (6.18%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.98%) SC Cleared
6 23 (4.58%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.99%) PhD
8 9 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.59%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.20%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (1.00%) CCIE
11 5 (1.00%) CCNP
11 5 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.00%) PMP
12 3 (0.60%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.60%) MBA
13 2 (0.40%) CBAP
13 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.57%) QA
2 9 (1.79%) ISO 9001
3 8 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.39%) GDPR
5 4 (0.80%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.60%) DO-254
7 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.40%) HAZOP
7 2 (0.40%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (3.39%) Docker
2 15 (2.99%) Firmware
3 12 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.59%) KVM
5 5 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.20%) pfSense
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (7.17%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.78%) Ansible
3 18 (3.59%) Terraform
4 15 (2.99%) Puppet
5 5 (1.00%) Argo
5 5 (1.00%) Rancher
5 5 (1.00%) yum
6 4 (0.80%) Grafana
6 4 (0.80%) Nmap
7 3 (0.60%) Nessus
8 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.20%) MOM
9 1 (0.20%) vRealize
9 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (5.18%) SAP
2 21 (4.18%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.99%) VMware
4 10 (1.99%) Google
4 10 (1.99%) Siemens
5 6 (1.20%) Cisco
5 6 (1.20%) Oracle
5 6 (1.20%) PayPal
5 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.80%) SaltStack
7 3 (0.60%) QAD
8 2 (0.40%) Foundry
8 2 (0.40%) HP
8 2 (0.40%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.40%) Palantir
8 2 (0.40%) Splunk
9 1 (0.20%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.20%) IFS
9 1 (0.20%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.20%) Tenable