Aerospace Jobs

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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 395 468
Rank change year-on-year +207 +73 +113
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1,296 647 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 0.80% 0.75%
As % of the General category 2.51% 1.21% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 612 272 509
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,782
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £38,624
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £64,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,159 £48,750
% change year-on-year -10.97% +15.20% -7.14%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 51,660 53,362 118,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.16% 66.13% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 31,702 33,264 55,108
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%
75th Percentile £72,557 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.00% +5.26%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Aerospace as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London +161 1,164 £50,000 -10.97% 489
England +190 1,151 £53,500 -8.94% 487
South West +85 413 £55,000 -8.33% 136
Work from Home +36 286 £50,000 -14.53% 87
South East +117 272 £55,000 - 149
North of England +110 187 £54,793 +2.90% 65
East of England +55 153 £52,500 -17.65% 65
North West +58 131 £50,055 -7.31% 40
London +67 67 £57,500 -2.95% 29
Scotland -6 61 £42,500 -30.33% 17
Midlands -28 55 £40,000 -44.83% 80
East Midlands -10 47 £40,000 -44.83% 36
Yorkshire +83 35 £45,000 -10.00% 19
North East - 21 £65,000 - 6
Wales +33 19 £35,000 -4.76% 16
West Midlands -28 8 £47,500 -32.14% 44
Northern Ireland +22 6 - - 4

Aerospace
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (2.24%) Apache
1 29 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.77%) Confluence
4 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.46%) IIS
6 4 (0.31%) TWiki
7 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 39 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 27 (2.08%) Simulink
5 16 (1.23%) Siemens NX
6 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.62%) GNU Octave
8 4 (0.31%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.23%) CATIA
9 3 (0.23%) Windchill
10 2 (0.15%) CANalyzer
10 2 (0.15%) Fusion 360
11 1 (0.077%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 36 (2.78%) Siebel CRM
2 10 (0.77%) Teamcenter
3 8 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.46%) Primavera
5 1 (0.077%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.077%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.077%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 159 (12.27%) Azure
2 147 (11.34%) AWS
3 51 (3.94%) OpenShift
4 38 (2.93%) SaaS
5 36 (2.78%) GCP
6 32 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (2.47%) Serverless
7 30 (2.31%) OCI
8 29 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (0.54%) GitHub
12 6 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.46%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.31%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (0.31%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.23%) Google Sheets
14 3 (0.23%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.15%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.71%) Firewall
2 40 (3.09%) DNS
3 30 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 29 (2.24%) AMQP
5 27 (2.08%) DHCP
6 26 (2.01%) HTTP
7 21 (1.62%) WAN
8 19 (1.47%) Network Security
9 17 (1.31%) Cisco ASA
9 17 (1.31%) Software-Defined Networking
10 14 (1.08%) Internet
10 14 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.00%) Ethernet
12 11 (0.85%) VSAN
12 11 (0.85%) Wireless
13 7 (0.54%) LAN
13 7 (0.54%) RS-232
14 5 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (0.39%) NetScaler
14 5 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.55%) Big Data
2 36 (2.78%) Oracle BI EE
2 36 (2.78%) Siebel EIM
3 31 (2.39%) Hadoop
4 29 (2.24%) Cloudera CDH
5 20 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.46%) Power BI
8 5 (0.39%) Data Vault
8 5 (0.39%) MySQL
8 5 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.31%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.15%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.077%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 77 (5.94%) JIRA
2 49 (3.78%) Git
3 32 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.93%) Rational DOORS
5 18 (1.39%) Selenium
6 16 (1.23%) Robot Framework
7 14 (1.08%) Visual Studio
8 12 (0.93%) Subversion
9 9 (0.69%) eggPlant
9 9 (0.69%) LabVIEW
9 9 (0.69%) Rational Rhapsody
10 5 (0.39%) ClearCase
10 5 (0.39%) ClearQuest
11 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.31%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.31%) Rational Team Concert
12 3 (0.23%) Android Studio
12 3 (0.23%) JMeter
12 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 194 (14.97%) Manufacturing
2 178 (13.73%) Automotive
3 163 (12.58%) Social Skills
4 155 (11.96%) Electronics
5 93 (7.18%) Finance
6 90 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 87 (6.71%) Aviation
8 49 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (2.85%) Military
10 30 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.16%) Retail
13 26 (2.01%) Law
14 24 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 23 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.47%) Games
16 19 (1.47%) Legal
17 16 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (1.08%) Public Sector
19 13 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 221 (17.05%) Systems Engineer
2 206 (15.90%) Senior
3 151 (11.65%) Software Engineer
4 81 (6.25%) Developer
4 81 (6.25%) Lead
5 73 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 69 (5.32%) Principal Engineer
7 57 (4.40%) Embedded Engineer
8 51 (3.94%) Architect
9 50 (3.86%) Project Manager
10 49 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (3.78%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 45 (3.47%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 43 (3.32%) Programmer
13 40 (3.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 38 (2.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 36 (2.78%) Consultant
15 36 (2.78%) Senior Developer
15 36 (2.78%) Senior Siebel Developer
15 36 (2.78%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 44 (3.40%) .NET
3 34 (2.62%) Spring
3 34 (2.62%) Spring Boot
4 33 (2.55%) React
5 31 (2.39%) OpenAPI
5 31 (2.39%) Swagger
6 29 (2.24%) gRPC
6 29 (2.24%) Material-UI
6 29 (2.24%) Node.js
6 29 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
6 29 (2.24%) REST
7 26 (2.01%) XML
8 23 (1.77%) HTML
9 18 (1.39%) .NET Framework
10 15 (1.16%) ASP.NET Web API
10 15 (1.16%) Entity Framework
10 15 (1.16%) SubSonic
11 10 (0.77%) ASP.NET
12 8 (0.62%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 36 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (2.62%) Robotics
5 33 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 21 (1.62%) IoT
7 19 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
7 19 (1.47%) FPGA
7 19 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (1.39%) Client/Server
9 15 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.16%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
10 13 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (0.93%) Life Science
11 12 (0.93%) PKI
11 12 (0.93%) Verilog
11 12 (0.93%) VHDL
12 10 (0.77%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 268 (20.68%) Linux
2 106 (8.18%) Windows
3 55 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.55%) Ubuntu
6 32 (2.47%) CentOS
7 31 (2.39%) Debian
8 9 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.62%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.31%) Android
11 4 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.23%) Unix
12 3 (0.23%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.23%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.15%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (29.32%) Agile
2 338 (26.08%) Collaborative Working
3 213 (16.44%) Actionable Insight
4 183 (14.12%) Software Engineering
5 176 (13.58%) Systems Engineering
6 147 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (10.57%) Project Management
8 128 (9.88%) DevOps
9 119 (9.18%) Scrum
10 108 (8.33%) Validation
11 85 (6.56%) Kanban
12 82 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 71 (5.48%) SDLC
14 67 (5.17%) CI/CD
14 67 (5.17%) Cybersecurity
15 66 (5.09%) Mentoring
16 65 (5.02%) Coaching
17 64 (4.94%) Configuration Management
17 64 (4.94%) Technical Analysis
18 61 (4.71%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 151 (11.65%) Python
2 98 (7.56%) C
3 92 (7.10%) Java
4 65 (5.02%) SQL
5 61 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 52 (4.01%) PowerShell
7 49 (3.78%) C++
7 49 (3.78%) MATLAB
8 48 (3.70%) C#
9 47 (3.63%) Bash
10 22 (1.70%) Embedded C
11 12 (0.93%) Ada
12 11 (0.85%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.39%) VB
14 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.31%) VB6
15 3 (0.23%) Perl
15 3 (0.23%) Ruby
16 2 (0.15%) Lua
16 2 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 495 (38.19%) Security Cleared
2 251 (19.37%) SC Cleared
3 242 (18.67%) DV Cleared
4 211 (16.28%) Degree
5 40 (3.09%) HND
6 37 (2.85%) HNC
7 23 (1.77%) DBS Check
8 21 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.93%) CCNA
10 12 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (0.93%) NVQ Level 3
11 11 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.77%) PMP
13 9 (0.69%) PhD
14 8 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.46%) CISSP
16 5 (0.39%) RHCSA
16 5 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 4 (0.31%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.71%) QA
2 22 (1.70%) ISO 9001
3 18 (1.39%) NIST
4 13 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 12 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.77%) NCSC
7 8 (0.62%) MISRA
7 8 (0.62%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.54%) PMO
8 7 (0.54%) SLA
9 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.39%) MISRA C
11 4 (0.31%) AUTOSAR
11 4 (0.31%) GDPR
11 4 (0.31%) ISO 26262
11 4 (0.31%) RMADS
12 3 (0.23%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 77 (5.94%) Docker
2 71 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (2.62%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.24%) Firmware
5 25 (1.93%) VMware NSX
6 18 (1.39%) Active Directory
7 16 (1.23%) vSphere
8 13 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.46%) Forefront TMG
10 6 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.39%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.077%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 141 (10.88%) Ansible
2 111 (8.56%) Kubernetes
3 77 (5.94%) Terraform
4 50 (3.86%) Puppet
5 13 (1.00%) SCCM
6 9 (0.69%) SCOM
6 9 (0.69%) WSUS
7 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.23%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.23%) Fluentd
9 3 (0.23%) logstash
9 3 (0.23%) Opsview
9 3 (0.23%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.15%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) vRealize
11 1 (0.077%) QRadar
Vendors
1 105 (8.10%) Microsoft
2 102 (7.87%) VMware
3 74 (5.71%) Oracle
4 53 (4.09%) Red Hat
5 45 (3.47%) Cisco
6 38 (2.93%) Google
7 36 (2.78%) Siebel
8 31 (2.39%) SaltStack
9 26 (2.01%) SAP
10 19 (1.47%) Thales
11 16 (1.23%) Siemens
12 15 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 14 (1.08%) ANSYS
14 13 (1.00%) Blue Coat
14 13 (1.00%) CheckPoint
14 13 (1.00%) Citrix
14 13 (1.00%) EMC
14 13 (1.00%) Infoblox
14 13 (1.00%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.00%) Riverbed