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 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 480 547
Rank change year-on-year +77 +67 -25
Permanent jobs citing Aviation 366 174 298
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.89% 0.58% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 102 92 183
10th Percentile £47,750 £31,375 £30,285
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +2.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £69,875 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.71% +1.00% -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 40,941 29,996 49,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.68% 69.25% 57.67%
Number of salaries quoted 26,221 15,679 32,826
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,050 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +32 150 £70,000 +27.27% 28
London +38 98 £65,000 +85.71% 14
South West -17 46 £80,000 +23.08% 13
North of England +7 42 £50,000 +4.86% 9
North West +9 21 £50,000 +8.48% 6
Yorkshire - 21 £30,000 - 3
East of England -32 18 £70,000 +100.00% 7
Midlands -22 10 - - 6
West Midlands - 7 - - 2
East Midlands -12 3 - - 4
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 2 (0.55%) Apache
1 2 (0.55%) Confluence
1 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Simulink
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.82%) Stateflow
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (4.10%) AWS
2 14 (3.83%) Azure
3 10 (2.73%) SaaS
4 9 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.46%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.09%) Azure AKS
5 4 (1.09%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.09%) IaaS
5 4 (1.09%) PaaS
6 3 (0.82%) GCP
6 3 (0.82%) OCI
7 2 (0.55%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.27%) GitHub
8 1 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.27%) n8n
8 1 (0.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.01%) ATM
2 6 (1.64%) Network Security
3 4 (1.09%) Firewall
4 3 (0.82%) 2G
4 3 (0.82%) 3G
4 3 (0.82%) 4G
4 3 (0.82%) 5G
4 3 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (0.82%) TETRA
5 2 (0.55%) LAN
5 2 (0.55%) RS-422
5 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) DHCP
6 1 (0.27%) DNS
6 1 (0.27%) MQTT
6 1 (0.27%) SNMP
6 1 (0.27%) VoIP
6 1 (0.27%) VPN
6 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.46%) Power BI
2 7 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.64%) Tableau
4 4 (1.09%) Redis
5 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.55%) GIS
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.27%) Parquet
7 1 (0.27%) QGIS
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (1.64%) Git
2 5 (1.37%) Selenium
3 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.82%) JIRA
4 2 (0.55%) MSTest
4 2 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.27%) Subversion
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 32 (8.74%) Aerospace
2 32 (8.74%) Finance
3 26 (7.10%) Retail
4 25 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.74%) Military
6 18 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.37%) Aeronautics
8 15 (4.10%) Legal
9 13 (3.55%) Electronics
10 12 (3.28%) Avionics
11 10 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.46%) Public Sector
13 8 (2.19%) Digital Health
14 6 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.37%) Billing
15 5 (1.37%) Law
16 4 (1.09%) Marketing
16 4 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (14.48%) Systems Engineer
2 43 (11.75%) Lead
3 33 (9.02%) Software Engineer
4 27 (7.38%) Architect
5 24 (6.56%) Senior
5 24 (6.56%) Test Engineer
6 22 (6.01%) Business Development Manager
6 22 (6.01%) Business Manager
6 22 (6.01%) Development Manager
7 20 (5.46%) Analyst
8 19 (5.19%) Developer
8 19 (5.19%) Support Technician
9 17 (4.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 17 (4.64%) Security Analyst
10 15 (4.10%) Embedded Engineer
10 15 (4.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 14 (3.83%) Field Support Technician
12 13 (3.55%) Systems Test Engineer
13 11 (3.01%) Traffic Engineer
14 10 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.64%) .NET
2 5 (1.37%) HTML
3 4 (1.09%) CSS
3 4 (1.09%) JSON
3 4 (1.09%) React
3 4 (1.09%) XML
3 4 (1.09%) YAML
4 3 (0.82%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.55%) ADO
5 2 (0.55%) LangChain
5 2 (0.55%) LangGraph
5 2 (0.55%) Playwright
5 2 (0.55%) Qt
5 2 (0.55%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.55%) Spring
6 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.27%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.27%) Django
6 1 (0.27%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.92%) Cyber Defence
2 23 (6.28%) Robotics
3 13 (3.55%) Driving Licence
3 13 (3.55%) Security Posture
4 11 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.09%) IoT
8 4 (1.09%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.55%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.55%) FPGA
10 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.55%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.55%) PMI
10 2 (0.55%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.92%) Windows
2 16 (4.37%) Linux
3 3 (0.82%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (18.03%) Software Engineering
2 41 (11.20%) Agile
3 36 (9.84%) AI
4 34 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (8.47%) Project Management
6 27 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (7.38%) Process Improvement
7 26 (7.10%) Business Development
8 25 (6.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (6.28%) Analytics
10 22 (6.01%) Roadmaps
11 21 (5.74%) Risk Management
11 21 (5.74%) Systems Engineering
12 20 (5.46%) Validation
13 19 (5.19%) Verification and Validation
14 18 (4.92%) Customer Service
14 18 (4.92%) Decision-Making
15 15 (4.10%) Information Security
15 15 (4.10%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.01%) Python
2 14 (3.83%) C++
3 12 (3.28%) SQL
4 9 (2.46%) C#
5 8 (2.19%) Java
6 7 (1.91%) C
7 6 (1.64%) MATLAB
8 5 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.09%) Bash
10 3 (0.82%) Delphi
10 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.27%) Dart
11 1 (0.27%) Rust
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.74%) Degree
3 28 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.73%) HNC
5 9 (2.46%) CISSP
6 5 (1.37%) ISSAP
7 4 (1.09%) CISA
7 4 (1.09%) CISM
7 4 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.55%) HPE ATP
9 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) CEH
10 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.73%) NIST
3 9 (2.46%) QA
4 7 (1.91%) NCSC
5 5 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.09%) GRC
6 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 4 (1.09%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.82%) ARP4761
7 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.82%) DO-160
7 3 (0.82%) DO-254
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) ARP4754
8 2 (0.55%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.55%) PMO
8 2 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (3.83%) IAG
2 5 (1.37%) Docker
3 2 (0.55%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (1.64%) Terraform
2 4 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.27%) Grafana
3 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (2.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.82%) Google
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle
2 3 (0.82%) SAP
3 2 (0.55%) Ariba
3 2 (0.55%) UiPath
4 1 (0.27%) Cisco
4 1 (0.27%) Databricks
4 1 (0.27%) MathWorks
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce