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 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 553 527 724
Rank change year-on-year -26 +197 -62
Permanent jobs citing Aviation 190 678 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.54% 0.79% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 122 271 167
10th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £33,650
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £88,750 £79,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +20.00%

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 34,987 85,326 76,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 65.72% 68.84% 59.90%
Number of salaries quoted 24,523 48,276 47,746
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,350
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.38% +3.89%

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 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Aviation in the UK

Aviation
Top 13 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 December 2023. 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 -14 170 £77,500 +29.17% 238
UK excluding London -61 119 £60,000 +14.29% 173
London +205 66 £85,000 +30.77% 75
Work from Home +86 65 £85,000 +41.67% 88
South East -24 45 £68,500 +19.13% 60
South West -5 37 £52,000 +25.30% 45
Scotland +48 15 £47,500 -18.74% 13
East of England +94 9 £125,000 +42.86% 31
Midlands +92 7 £70,000 +35.27% 13
North of England +134 6 £77,500 +146.03% 17
North West +103 6 £77,500 +33.05% 14
East Midlands +15 5 £57,500 +21.05% 7
West Midlands +128 2 £70,000 +16.67% 6

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 6 (3.16%) Confluence
2 3 (1.58%) nginx
2 3 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.53%) Moodle
4 1 (0.53%) uWSGI
Applications
1 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (12.63%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.05%) Primavera
3 1 (0.53%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.26%) AWS
2 21 (11.05%) Azure
3 15 (7.89%) Serverless
4 12 (6.32%) GCP
5 11 (5.79%) GitHub
6 6 (3.16%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.63%) Datadog
7 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.11%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.05%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.05%) PaaS
9 2 (1.05%) SaaS
9 2 (1.05%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.68%) Network Security
2 6 (3.16%) Firewall
3 3 (1.58%) LAN
3 3 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.58%) VPN
4 2 (1.05%) DHCP
4 2 (1.05%) FTP
4 2 (1.05%) OSPF
4 2 (1.05%) Wireless
5 1 (0.53%) BGP
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
5 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.53%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.53%) IPsec
5 1 (0.53%) Modbus
5 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
5 1 (0.53%) VRRP
5 1 (0.53%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.16%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.63%) Power BI
2 5 (2.63%) Tableau
3 4 (2.11%) MySQL
3 4 (2.11%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.11%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.58%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.05%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.05%) Big Data
5 2 (1.05%) GIS
5 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.05%) Power Query
5 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (7.37%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.79%) JIRA
3 10 (5.26%) Git
4 9 (4.74%) Selenium
5 7 (3.68%) Subversion
6 6 (3.16%) Appium
6 6 (3.16%) REST Assured
7 5 (2.63%) GitLab
7 5 (2.63%) Gradle
7 5 (2.63%) Maven
8 2 (1.05%) JUnit
9 1 (0.53%) JMeter
9 1 (0.53%) SilkPerformer
General
1 56 (29.47%) Aerospace
2 49 (25.79%) Manufacturing
3 45 (23.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (21.58%) Social Skills
5 38 (20.00%) Automotive
5 38 (20.00%) Finance
6 34 (17.89%) Public Sector
7 28 (14.74%) Retail
8 23 (12.11%) Military
9 17 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (8.42%) Financial Institution
11 8 (4.21%) Banking
12 6 (3.16%) Agriculture
12 6 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.58%) Electronics
15 3 (1.58%) Law
15 3 (1.58%) Legal
16 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (13.16%) Development Manager
1 25 (13.16%) Senior
2 24 (12.63%) Business Development Manager
2 24 (12.63%) Business Manager
3 22 (11.58%) Lead
4 21 (11.05%) Software Engineer
5 16 (8.42%) Analyst
6 15 (7.89%) Developer
7 13 (6.84%) Test Engineer
8 12 (6.32%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (5.79%) Hardware Engineer
9 11 (5.79%) Hardware Test Engineer
9 11 (5.79%) Lead Test Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (4.21%) Account Director
11 8 (4.21%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.21%) Services Director
12 7 (3.68%) C# Software Engineer
13 6 (3.16%) Java Software Engineer
13 6 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.84%) Node.js
2 9 (4.74%) .NET
3 8 (4.21%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.68%) HTML
4 7 (3.68%) React
5 6 (3.16%) JAX-RS
5 6 (3.16%) REST
6 4 (2.11%) Next.js
6 4 (2.11%) Spring
7 2 (1.05%) CSS
7 2 (1.05%) MACH
7 2 (1.05%) pytest
7 2 (1.05%) QML
7 2 (1.05%) Qt
7 2 (1.05%) STL
7 2 (1.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 1 (0.53%) Kafka
8 1 (0.53%) Middleware
8 1 (0.53%) RESTful
8 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.84%) Low-Code
2 7 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.58%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.58%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.05%) CMDB
5 2 (1.05%) Lidar
5 2 (1.05%) Oculus
5 2 (1.05%) PMI
5 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.05%) Robotics
6 1 (0.53%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.53%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.53%) NHS
6 1 (0.53%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.00%) Linux
2 15 (7.89%) Windows
3 8 (4.21%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.58%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.05%) Debian
6 1 (0.53%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.26%) Agile
2 55 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (25.26%) Analytics
4 43 (22.63%) Artificial Intelligence
5 36 (18.95%) Software Engineering
6 35 (18.42%) Mentoring
7 32 (16.84%) Business Development
7 32 (16.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 32 (16.84%) Logistics
8 30 (15.79%) ERP
9 25 (13.16%) CI/CD
9 25 (13.16%) Value Proposition
10 24 (12.63%) Competitor Analysis
10 24 (12.63%) Performance Management
10 24 (12.63%) Presales
11 19 (10.00%) Coaching
11 19 (10.00%) Machine Learning
11 19 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 18 (9.47%) Waterfall
13 17 (8.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.32%) Java
2 22 (11.58%) C#
3 21 (11.05%) Python
4 19 (10.00%) SQL
5 14 (7.37%) C++
6 10 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.16%) Go
8 5 (2.63%) C
8 5 (2.63%) Ruby
9 3 (1.58%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.05%) Bash
10 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 37 (19.47%) Degree
2 22 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.74%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.21%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.16%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.63%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.05%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.05%) PMP
10 1 (0.53%) AAT
10 1 (0.53%) ACCA
10 1 (0.53%) CCNA
10 1 (0.53%) CCNP
10 1 (0.53%) CIMA
10 1 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.53%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.53%) QA
2 5 (2.63%) DO-254
3 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.11%) PMO
4 3 (1.58%) HAZOP
5 2 (1.05%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) DO-178B
System Software
1 20 (10.53%) IAG
2 9 (4.74%) Docker
3 7 (3.68%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) Firmware
5 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.68%) Terraform
3 5 (2.63%) Ansible
4 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.05%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (13.16%) SAP
2 11 (5.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.16%) Oracle
4 5 (2.63%) Splunk
5 3 (1.58%) Apple
5 3 (1.58%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.58%) Informatica
5 3 (1.58%) VMware
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco
6 2 (1.05%) Databricks
6 2 (1.05%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.05%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.05%) Samsung
6 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.53%) Aruba
7 1 (0.53%) Infor
7 1 (0.53%) Meru Networks
7 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.53%) Sparx
7 1 (0.53%) Teradata