Aviation
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Aviation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 376 532
Rank change year-on-year -213 +156 +164
Permanent jobs citing Aviation 336 918 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.89% 0.61%
As % of the General category 0.57% 1.30% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 207 267 357
10th Percentile £31,255 £39,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £39,333
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £86,000 £92,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,250 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.39% +15.00% +11.11%

All General Skills
UK

Aviation 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 58,949 70,703 99,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.28% 63.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,565 38,111 51,326
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,318 £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 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aviation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aviation within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 -217 294 £55,000 -15.38% 306
UK excluding London -192 289 £53,250 -7.39% 259
South East -133 117 £40,000 -44.83% 86
Work from Home -130 88 £60,000 -7.69% 65
South West -3 86 £55,000 +18.92% 57
London -46 29 £57,500 -17.86% 55
Midlands +11 27 £57,500 -2.13% 31
Scotland -54 22 £50,000 +14.94% 5
North of England +21 17 £75,000 +138.10% 61
East Midlands -18 16 £55,000 +32.35% 17
East of England -107 16 £50,000 -16.67% 20
West Midlands +16 11 £57,500 -17.86% 14
North West +6 10 £42,500 -22.73% 42
Yorkshire +87 7 £87,500 - 12
Wales +14 4 £50,000 +49.25% 5

Aviation
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 10 (2.98%) IIS
2 5 (1.49%) Apache
3 2 (0.60%) WordPress
4 1 (0.30%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) uWSGI
Applications
1 21 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.38%) GNU Octave
3 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.49%) OrCAD
4 5 (1.49%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.89%) Simulink
6 2 (0.60%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 25 (7.44%) AWS
2 18 (5.36%) SaaS
3 16 (4.76%) Azure
4 12 (3.57%) GitHub
5 7 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.79%) Serverless
7 5 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.19%) IaaS
8 4 (1.19%) PaaS
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.60%) Figma
9 2 (0.60%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.68%) RS-232
2 8 (2.38%) Network Security
3 7 (2.08%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.19%) IPsec
5 4 (1.19%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.19%) NAS
5 4 (1.19%) RS-485
5 4 (1.19%) SAN
5 4 (1.19%) SSL
5 4 (1.19%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.60%) Firewall
6 2 (0.60%) LAN
6 2 (0.60%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) DHCP
7 1 (0.30%) DNS
7 1 (0.30%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) OSPF
7 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (1.49%) MySQL
2 5 (1.49%) Power BI
3 4 (1.19%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.89%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.89%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.89%) Tableau
5 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.30%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.06%) Git
2 7 (2.08%) JIRA
2 7 (2.08%) Subversion
2 7 (2.08%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.49%) LabVIEW
4 4 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.19%) Moq
4 4 (1.19%) NUnit
5 3 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.89%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 90 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 80 (23.81%) Aerospace
3 58 (17.26%) Military
4 35 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (9.82%) Finance
6 31 (9.23%) Automotive
7 30 (8.93%) Manufacturing
8 21 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (5.06%) Retail
10 15 (4.46%) Law
11 14 (4.17%) Electronics
12 12 (3.57%) Legal
12 12 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (3.27%) Avionics
13 11 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (3.27%) Marketing
14 10 (2.98%) Aeronautics
14 10 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (2.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 63 (18.75%) Software Engineer
2 49 (14.58%) Senior
3 41 (12.20%) Developer
3 41 (12.20%) Lead
4 30 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
5 28 (8.33%) Graduate
6 18 (5.36%) C++ Software Engineer
6 18 (5.36%) Embedded Engineer
6 18 (5.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 17 (5.06%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 17 (5.06%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 16 (4.76%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 16 (4.76%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 16 (4.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 14 (4.17%) C# Software Engineer
9 14 (4.17%) Full Stack Engineer
9 14 (4.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 13 (3.87%) Analyst
11 11 (3.27%) Consultant
11 11 (3.27%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.85%) .NET
2 22 (6.55%) AngularJS
3 13 (3.87%) CSS
3 13 (3.87%) HTML
4 10 (2.98%) React
5 8 (2.38%) .NET Framework
5 8 (2.38%) NumPy
6 7 (2.08%) jQuery
6 7 (2.08%) Qt
6 7 (2.08%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 5 (1.49%) REST
7 5 (1.49%) Spring
7 5 (1.49%) Vue
8 4 (1.19%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.19%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (1.19%) Django
8 4 (1.19%) JSON
8 4 (1.19%) LINQ
8 4 (1.19%) LINQ to SQL
8 4 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (8.04%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.17%) Robotics
4 10 (2.98%) CESG
5 8 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.08%) Oculus
6 7 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
7 6 (1.79%) Handset
7 6 (1.79%) Xbox
8 5 (1.49%) Analogue Electronics
8 5 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.49%) FPGA
8 5 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.19%) IoT
9 4 (1.19%) Replication
10 2 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.60%) Animation
10 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.23%) Linux
2 27 (8.04%) Windows
3 10 (2.98%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.98%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.19%) Android
7 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.60%) Windows Embedded Compact
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (23.51%) Software Engineering
3 63 (18.75%) Agile
4 37 (11.01%) Computer Science
5 36 (10.71%) Project Management
6 33 (9.82%) Coaching
7 31 (9.23%) Decision-Making
8 30 (8.93%) Roadmaps
9 29 (8.63%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (8.33%) Commercial Awareness
11 25 (7.44%) SDLC
12 22 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (6.55%) ERP
12 22 (6.55%) Full Stack Development
13 21 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (5.65%) Data Analysis
14 19 (5.65%) DevOps
15 18 (5.36%) Waterfall
16 17 (5.06%) Risk Management
17 16 (4.76%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.31%) C#
2 34 (10.12%) C++
3 24 (7.14%) Python
4 23 (6.85%) Java
4 23 (6.85%) SQL
5 20 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.95%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.27%) MATLAB
7 10 (2.98%) C
8 8 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.08%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.49%) Bash
11 4 (1.19%) Go
12 2 (0.60%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) Ada
13 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 89 (26.49%) Degree
2 14 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.27%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.98%) CISMP
5 10 (2.98%) IISP
6 4 (1.19%) ACCA
6 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.19%) CIMA
6 4 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.60%) HNC
9 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.27%) NIST
2 10 (2.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 10 (2.98%) JSP 440
2 10 (2.98%) NIST 800
2 10 (2.98%) QA
2 10 (2.98%) RMADS
3 7 (2.08%) DO-254
4 4 (1.19%) IFRS
4 4 (1.19%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.19%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.19%) NEBOSH
5 3 (0.89%) HAZOP
5 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) ISA99
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 31000
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (5.36%) Docker
2 7 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.08%) Firmware
3 5 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.49%) SELinux
3 2 (0.60%) Terraform
4 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.27%) SAP
3 10 (2.98%) Dell
3 10 (2.98%) Twitter
4 8 (2.38%) Cisco
5 7 (2.08%) HP
6 6 (1.79%) Freshdesk
6 6 (1.79%) NEC
7 5 (1.49%) VMware
8 4 (1.19%) Adobe
8 4 (1.19%) Veeam
9 3 (0.89%) Ariba
10 2 (0.60%) Samsung
11 1 (0.30%) Juniper
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle
11 1 (0.30%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.30%) Xamarin