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 have cited Aerospace over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 354 556
Rank change year-on-year +128 +202 -78
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1,283 983 912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 0.94% 0.59%
As % of the General category 2.19% 1.37% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 566 240 384
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,046 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,080 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +6.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £84,100 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All General Skills
UK

Aerospace is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,670 71,907 98,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,462 38,624 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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
England +154 1,191 £55,000 -4.35% 849
UK excluding London +96 1,147 £55,000 - 839
South West +102 451 £50,000 -8.26% 207
Work from Home +92 374 £53,500 -4.46% 264
South East +84 264 £60,000 - 233
East of England +71 203 £59,500 -8.46% 119
North of England +94 135 £55,000 +1.85% 115
North West +63 87 £55,875 +7.45% 86
London +153 77 £65,000 +13.04% 44
Midlands -62 60 £39,500 -35.51% 157
East Midlands -37 40 £37,500 -26.83% 65
Yorkshire +71 28 £45,000 -21.74% 21
Scotland -101 25 £55,000 -17.91% 39
North East +14 20 £62,500 - 9
West Midlands -26 20 £45,000 -29.41% 92
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 5
Wales -21 4 - - 22

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 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.87%) Apache
2 24 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.48%) IIS
4 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.70%) Confluence
6 5 (0.39%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.31%) TWiki
8 2 (0.16%) WinCC
9 1 (0.078%) Moodle
Applications
1 49 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.25%) Siemens NX
5 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.70%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.62%) GNU Octave
6 8 (0.62%) Simulink
7 5 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.23%) CATIA
9 2 (0.16%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.078%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (2.42%) Siebel CRM
2 9 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.23%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.16%) Primavera
5 2 (0.16%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.078%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.078%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.078%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 170 (13.25%) Azure
2 141 (10.99%) AWS
3 36 (2.81%) GCP
4 35 (2.73%) OpenShift
5 30 (2.34%) OCI
6 29 (2.26%) Serverless
7 27 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (1.79%) SaaS
11 11 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.70%) GitHub
12 9 (0.70%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.47%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.39%) Azure Pipelines
15 4 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
16 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
16 3 (0.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.29%) Firewall
2 26 (2.03%) DNS
2 26 (2.03%) WAN
3 24 (1.87%) AMQP
4 23 (1.79%) Network Security
5 17 (1.33%) 5G
6 16 (1.25%) DHCP
6 16 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.09%) Ethernet
8 14 (1.09%) Internet
9 13 (1.01%) Wireless
10 12 (0.94%) HTTP
11 11 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (0.86%) LAN
11 11 (0.86%) RS-232
11 11 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
12 8 (0.62%) VSAN
13 7 (0.55%) SAN
14 5 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.88%) Big Data
2 30 (2.34%) Oracle BI EE
2 30 (2.34%) Siebel EIM
3 28 (2.18%) SQL Server
4 25 (1.95%) Hadoop
5 24 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
6 23 (1.79%) Data Vault
7 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.70%) Power BI
9 7 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.31%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.16%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.078%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.078%) EDMS
12 1 (0.078%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (5.30%) JIRA
2 44 (3.43%) Git
3 37 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.79%) LabVIEW
5 20 (1.56%) Selenium
6 14 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
6 14 (1.09%) Subversion
7 12 (0.94%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.86%) Rational Rhapsody
9 9 (0.70%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.39%) ClearCase
10 5 (0.39%) ClearQuest
11 4 (0.31%) eggPlant
12 3 (0.23%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.16%) Apache Continuum
13 2 (0.16%) Gradle
13 2 (0.16%) MSI
14 1 (0.078%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.078%) JMeter
14 1 (0.078%) VersionOne
General
1 229 (17.85%) Manufacturing
2 189 (14.73%) Social Skills
3 169 (13.17%) Automotive
4 131 (10.21%) Finance
5 120 (9.35%) Electronics
6 110 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 79 (6.16%) Aviation
8 75 (5.85%) Military
9 60 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
10 52 (4.05%) Retail
11 45 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (2.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 33 (2.57%) Telecoms
14 32 (2.49%) Law
15 30 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.87%) Marketing
16 24 (1.87%) Public Sector
16 24 (1.87%) Publishing
17 20 (1.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 180 (14.03%) Senior
2 174 (13.56%) Systems Engineer
3 155 (12.08%) Software Engineer
4 116 (9.04%) Lead
5 80 (6.24%) Developer
6 68 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 55 (4.29%) Architect
8 54 (4.21%) Project Manager
9 52 (4.05%) Embedded Engineer
9 52 (4.05%) Programmer
10 51 (3.98%) Consultant
11 50 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 48 (3.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 43 (3.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 41 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
15 39 (3.04%) Principal Systems Engineer
16 33 (2.57%) Senior Software Engineer
17 31 (2.42%) Senior Developer
18 30 (2.34%) Senior Siebel Developer
18 30 (2.34%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (5.30%) .NET
2 55 (4.29%) AngularJS
3 37 (2.88%) XML
4 31 (2.42%) React
5 30 (2.34%) OpenAPI
5 30 (2.34%) Swagger
6 29 (2.26%) Spring
7 28 (2.18%) .NET Framework
8 27 (2.10%) Spring Boot
9 26 (2.03%) Node.js
9 26 (2.03%) REST
10 24 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
10 24 (1.87%) Entity Framework
10 24 (1.87%) gRPC
10 24 (1.87%) Material-UI
10 24 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
10 24 (1.87%) SubSonic
11 19 (1.48%) ASP.NET
11 19 (1.48%) HTML
12 16 (1.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.75%) Management Information System
2 41 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
3 35 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 33 (2.57%) IoT
5 30 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (2.10%) Cyber Defence
6 27 (2.10%) Operational Technology
7 24 (1.87%) FPGA
8 23 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
8 23 (1.79%) Robotics
9 21 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.48%) FMCG
10 19 (1.48%) Verilog
10 19 (1.48%) VHDL
11 15 (1.17%) Fat Client
11 15 (1.17%) Thin Client
12 14 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 250 (19.49%) Linux
2 130 (10.13%) Windows
3 38 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 26 (2.03%) CentOS
5 26 (2.03%) Ubuntu
6 25 (1.95%) Debian
7 14 (1.09%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.55%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.39%) Unix
11 4 (0.31%) Android
11 4 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.23%) VMS
12 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.078%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (29.15%) Agile
2 306 (23.85%) Collaborative Working
3 279 (21.75%) Actionable Insight
4 198 (15.43%) Software Engineering
5 193 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (11.46%) Project Management
7 137 (10.68%) DevOps
8 122 (9.51%) Systems Engineering
9 121 (9.43%) Validation
10 120 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
11 102 (7.95%) Scrum
12 83 (6.47%) SDLC
13 82 (6.39%) Mentoring
14 81 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 75 (5.85%) Kanban
16 71 (5.53%) Configuration Management
17 69 (5.38%) Computer Science
18 68 (5.30%) Coaching
19 66 (5.14%) Test Automation
20 55 (4.29%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 171 (13.33%) Python
2 100 (7.79%) C
3 98 (7.64%) SQL
4 88 (6.86%) Java
5 72 (5.61%) PowerShell
6 68 (5.30%) C#
6 68 (5.30%) JavaScript
7 53 (4.13%) Bash
8 45 (3.51%) C++
9 32 (2.49%) MATLAB
10 22 (1.71%) Embedded C
11 10 (0.78%) VB
12 8 (0.62%) Ada
12 8 (0.62%) Perl
13 6 (0.47%) VB6
14 4 (0.31%) Lua
14 4 (0.31%) Ruby
14 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.31%) Tcl
15 2 (0.16%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 531 (41.39%) Security Cleared
2 266 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 238 (18.55%) Degree
4 217 (16.91%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.29%) HNC
6 54 (4.21%) HND
7 34 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.42%) DBS Check
9 27 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (2.10%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.64%) PMI Certification
12 17 (1.33%) CCDA
12 17 (1.33%) CCDP
13 16 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.86%) NVQ Level 3
15 10 (0.78%) CISMP
15 10 (0.78%) IISP
15 10 (0.78%) PMP
16 9 (0.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.99%) QA
2 28 (2.18%) NIST
3 24 (1.87%) ISO 9001
4 18 (1.40%) NIST 800
5 17 (1.33%) SLA
6 14 (1.09%) JSP 440
6 14 (1.09%) RMADS
7 13 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.01%) NCSC
8 11 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 11 (0.86%) PMO
9 7 (0.55%) DO-254
10 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.31%) GDPR
11 4 (0.31%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.23%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (0.23%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.23%) MISRA
System Software
1 64 (4.99%) Docker
2 58 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.57%) Hyper-V
4 28 (2.18%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.25%) Firmware
6 15 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.78%) vSphere
9 9 (0.70%) Forefront TMG
9 9 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
10 8 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 142 (11.07%) Ansible
2 89 (6.94%) Kubernetes
3 73 (5.69%) Terraform
4 39 (3.04%) Puppet
5 20 (1.56%) SCCM
6 13 (1.01%) WSUS
7 12 (0.94%) SCOM
8 10 (0.78%) Fluentd
8 10 (0.78%) logstash
9 8 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
10 5 (0.39%) Opsview
11 4 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.31%) vRealize
12 3 (0.23%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.16%) Wonderware InTouch
14 1 (0.078%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 119 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 86 (6.70%) VMware
3 69 (5.38%) Oracle
4 49 (3.82%) Cisco
5 36 (2.81%) Red Hat
6 35 (2.73%) Google
7 33 (2.57%) SAP
8 31 (2.42%) Siebel
8 31 (2.42%) Thales
9 28 (2.18%) SaltStack
10 21 (1.64%) Siemens
11 19 (1.48%) Splunk
12 15 (1.17%) Citrix
13 13 (1.01%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.78%) EMC
14 10 (0.78%) IBM
14 10 (0.78%) Twitter
15 9 (0.70%) Juniper
15 9 (0.70%) QinetiQ
16 8 (0.62%) Palo Alto