Aviation Job Trends in England

Aviation
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aviation in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aviation over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 429 516
Rank change year-on-year +103 +87 -4
Permanent jobs citing Aviation 565 213 249
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.49% 0.37%
As % of the General category 1.20% 0.72% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 129 87 112
10th Percentile £35,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -4.63% -28.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,625 £55,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,850 £65,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.83% -4.63% -28.57%

All General Skills
England

Aviation 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 47,196 29,505 39,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 45.63% 68.54% 57.99%
Number of salaries quoted 30,221 15,547 19,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,026 £76,250 £79,225
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

Aviation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Aviation job vacancy trend in England

Aviation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aviation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aviation

Aviation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aviation in England over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Aviation in England

Aviation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aviation within the England region over the 6 months to 28 September 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 East +71 289 £59,500 +8.18% 138
London +1 95 £55,000 -21.43% 100
South West -29 67 £80,000 +88.24% 47
East of England -20 55 £45,000 +28.57% 34
North of England -15 51 £50,000 +4.86% 30
North West -12 27 £50,000 +4.86% 20
Yorkshire - 23 £54,250 - 3
Midlands - 8 £55,000 - 23
East Midlands - 4 £65,000 - 12
West Midlands - 4 £45,000 - 11
North East - 1 - - 7
Aviation
UK

Aviation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.71%) IIS
2 4 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (0.35%) Apache
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.24%) Simulink
3 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.71%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.53%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.18%) Revit
7 1 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Sage 50
1 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 36 (6.37%) AWS
2 30 (5.31%) Azure
3 27 (4.78%) SaaS
4 16 (2.83%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.65%) Serverless
6 13 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (2.30%) Datadog
6 13 (2.30%) Route 53
7 10 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.42%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.06%) Azure AKS
9 6 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 5 (0.88%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.71%) Azure Event Grid
11 4 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.71%) IaaS
11 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.30%) ATM
2 10 (1.77%) SMS
3 7 (1.24%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.06%) SNMP
5 5 (0.88%) Firewall
5 5 (0.88%) NAS
6 4 (0.71%) CHAP
7 3 (0.53%) 2G
7 3 (0.53%) 3G
7 3 (0.53%) 4G
7 3 (0.53%) 5G
7 3 (0.53%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.53%) Network Security
7 3 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.53%) TETRA
8 2 (0.35%) HTTP
8 2 (0.35%) RS-422
8 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.35%) Wireless
8 2 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.77%) Power BI
2 8 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.06%) Tableau
4 4 (0.71%) Redis
4 4 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.35%) MySQL
5 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.18%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (1.77%) JIRA
2 8 (1.42%) Git
3 7 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.24%) Selenium
4 4 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.35%) MLflow
5 2 (0.35%) MSTest
5 2 (0.35%) NUnit
5 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (20.71%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.97%) Aerospace
3 51 (9.03%) Finance
4 44 (7.79%) Military
5 43 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (6.37%) Retail
7 35 (6.19%) Aeronautics
8 30 (5.31%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.01%) Electronics
9 17 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.65%) Avionics
12 12 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.95%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.59%) Marketing
15 8 (1.42%) Legal
15 8 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.06%) Law
16 6 (1.06%) Swedish Language
16 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (14.87%) Systems Engineer
2 66 (11.68%) Software Engineer
3 60 (10.62%) Lead
4 49 (8.67%) Senior
5 29 (5.13%) Test Engineer
6 27 (4.78%) Embedded Engineer
6 27 (4.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 26 (4.60%) Support Technician
8 25 (4.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 24 (4.25%) Security Manager
10 23 (4.07%) Analyst
10 23 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
10 23 (4.07%) Business Development Manager
10 23 (4.07%) Business Manager
10 23 (4.07%) Development Manager
10 23 (4.07%) Software Applications Engineer
10 23 (4.07%) Test Technician
11 18 (3.19%) Lead Software Engineer
12 16 (2.83%) Radar Engineer
12 16 (2.83%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.12%) .NET
1 12 (2.12%) HTML
2 9 (1.59%) CSS
3 8 (1.42%) ASP.NET
3 8 (1.42%) REST
4 6 (1.06%) JSON
4 6 (1.06%) XML
5 5 (0.88%) Kafka
6 4 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.71%) SPFx
6 4 (0.71%) Terraform
6 4 (0.71%) YAML
7 2 (0.35%) Hugging Face
7 2 (0.35%) LangChain
7 2 (0.35%) LangGraph
7 2 (0.35%) ONNX
7 2 (0.35%) Playwright
7 2 (0.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.80%) Robotics
2 32 (5.66%) Cyber Defence
3 28 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.89%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.65%) Driving Licence
7 14 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.77%) PMI
9 10 (1.77%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.59%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.24%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.06%) IoT
13 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.71%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
14 4 (0.71%) SCADA
14 4 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.13%) Windows
2 21 (3.72%) Linux
3 5 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.53%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (27.08%) Software Engineering
2 78 (13.81%) AI
3 54 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 54 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (9.38%) Roadmaps
5 50 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
7 44 (7.79%) Project Management
8 42 (7.43%) Agile
9 36 (6.37%) Mentoring
10 33 (5.84%) Systems Engineering
10 33 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (5.31%) Analytics
11 30 (5.31%) Business Development
11 30 (5.31%) Collaborative Culture
12 26 (4.60%) Decision-Making
12 26 (4.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (4.42%) Customer Service
13 25 (4.42%) Risk Management
14 24 (4.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.31%) Python
2 24 (4.25%) C++
3 18 (3.19%) C#
3 18 (3.19%) SQL
4 16 (2.83%) C
5 12 (2.12%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.77%) Java
6 10 (1.77%) MATLAB
7 8 (1.42%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.71%) Bash
8 4 (0.71%) Delphi
9 3 (0.53%) Ada
9 3 (0.53%) Ada 95
9 3 (0.53%) Rust
10 1 (0.18%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 60 (10.62%) Security Cleared
2 55 (9.73%) Degree
3 47 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.19%) HNC
5 13 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.24%) CISA
8 7 (1.24%) CISM
8 7 (1.24%) CISSP
8 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.53%) CEH
12 3 (0.53%) HND
13 2 (0.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.07%) QA
2 17 (3.01%) NIST
3 14 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.42%) NCSC
6 7 (1.24%) GRC
6 7 (1.24%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.06%) GDPR
8 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 4 (0.71%) JSP 440
8 4 (0.71%) PMO
9 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.53%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.53%) MIL-STD-1553
10 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.35%) DO-254
10 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.35%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (1.42%) IAG
2 7 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.06%) Docker
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.71%) Kubernetes
1 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.35%) Argo
2 2 (0.35%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 26 (4.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.77%) SAP
3 8 (1.42%) Oracle
4 7 (1.24%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.53%) Siemens
6 2 (0.35%) Ariba
6 2 (0.35%) Sage
6 2 (0.35%) Thales
6 2 (0.35%) UiPath
7 1 (0.18%) Databricks
7 1 (0.18%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.18%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.18%) VMware