Aerospace Job Trends in Wales

Aerospace
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 54 66
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 +24
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 50 11 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.53% 1.27% 1.20%
As % of the General category 2.83% 2.08% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 9
10th Percentile £26,250 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £39,750 £48,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +85.71% +32.08%
75th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £57,500 £69,500 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -17.94%

All General Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,768 529 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 54.03% 61.16% 48.51%
Number of salaries quoted 799 377 356
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,600 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,733 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.22% +0.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £73,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Aerospace job vacancy trend in Wales

Aerospace
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Aerospace.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace in Wales over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in Wales

Aerospace
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
South Wales -11 44 £45,000 -30.77% 23
North Wales - 4 £50,000 - 6
Mid Wales - 1 £39,000 - 1
West Wales - 1 £41,500 - 2
Aerospace
UK

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.00%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) Azure
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) NAS
1 3 (6.00%) SAN
2 2 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Moq
1 1 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (18.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Automotive
4 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Electronics
5 2 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Head of Compliance
2 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) Test Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Design Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Quality Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Development Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) IT Support
6 3 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.00%) Data Scientist
8 1 (2.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (2.00%) XML
1 1 (2.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.00%) Acoustics
1 1 (2.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 6 (12.00%) ITSM
2 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (12.00%) Service Management
3 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (6.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (6.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (6.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (6.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (6.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (6.00%) Data Security
4 3 (6.00%) Information Architecture
4 3 (6.00%) Information Governance
4 3 (6.00%) Information Security
4 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (6.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (6.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (4.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.00%) C#
1 1 (2.00%) C++
1 1 (2.00%) SQL
1 1 (2.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Degree
1 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) NVQ Level 3
3 4 (8.00%) HNC
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.00%) HND
6 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.00%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) NFS
1 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) BMC
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (12.00%) Remedy
2 3 (6.00%) NetApp
2 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.00%) Veeam
3 1 (2.00%) IBM