Aerospace
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Aerospace over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 380 519
Rank change year-on-year +166 +139 -38
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1,432 867 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 0.88% 0.66%
As % of the General category 2.39% 1.30% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 608 230 436
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £33,770
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,159 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +12.32% -5.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,575 £85,000 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +13.40% -3.00%

All General Skills
UK

Aerospace 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 59,988 66,684 106,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.88% 67.99% 64.91%
Number of salaries quoted 39,878 36,263 51,463
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aerospace over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Aerospace in the UK

Aerospace
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aerospace within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +178 1,328 £55,000 -3.51% 985
UK excluding London +128 1,291 £53,750 -2.27% 962
South West +111 519 £50,000 -10.71% 209
Work from Home +85 383 £50,000 -9.91% 257
South East +86 307 £60,000 +9.09% 261
East of England +71 202 £51,250 -21.15% 137
North of England +106 155 £55,000 +10.00% 160
North West +72 99 £54,625 +9.25% 107
London +132 82 £67,500 +16.38% 74
Midlands -45 61 £39,000 -44.29% 150
East Midlands -24 43 £37,500 -41.18% 56
Yorkshire +62 34 £45,000 -16.28% 35
Scotland -80 31 £55,000 -17.91% 62
North East +16 22 £65,000 - 18
West Midlands -18 18 £45,000 -35.71% 91
Wales -15 9 - - 35
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 3

Aerospace
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 29 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.96%) Apache
2 28 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.33%) IIS
4 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.63%) Confluence
6 5 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.28%) TWiki
8 1 (0.070%) Moodle
8 1 (0.070%) WinCC
Applications
1 49 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.12%) Siemens NX
5 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.63%) OrCAD
5 9 (0.63%) Simulink
6 8 (0.56%) GNU Octave
7 5 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.21%) CATIA
9 2 (0.14%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.070%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (2.44%) Siebel CRM
2 8 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 2 (0.14%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.070%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 209 (14.59%) Azure
2 172 (12.01%) AWS
3 50 (3.49%) OpenShift
4 38 (2.65%) GCP
5 35 (2.44%) SaaS
6 33 (2.30%) Serverless
7 31 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (2.09%) OCI
9 28 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.63%) GitHub
12 9 (0.63%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.42%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.35%) Azure Pipelines
15 3 (0.21%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.21%) Power Automate
15 3 (0.21%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.38%) Firewall
2 39 (2.72%) DNS
3 28 (1.96%) AMQP
3 28 (1.96%) Network Security
4 26 (1.82%) WAN
5 24 (1.68%) DHCP
5 24 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.47%) HTTP
7 19 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
7 19 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
8 15 (1.05%) Ethernet
8 15 (1.05%) Internet
8 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.98%) Wireless
10 11 (0.77%) LAN
10 11 (0.77%) RS-232
10 11 (0.77%) VSAN
11 9 (0.63%) 5G
12 7 (0.49%) SAN
13 5 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.14%) Big Data
2 34 (2.37%) Oracle BI EE
2 34 (2.37%) Siebel EIM
2 34 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 30 (2.09%) Hadoop
4 28 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
5 23 (1.61%) Data Vault
6 15 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.63%) Power BI
9 8 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.28%) MySQL
10 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.14%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.070%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.070%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 81 (5.66%) JIRA
2 53 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.42%) Git
4 24 (1.68%) Selenium
5 19 (1.33%) LabVIEW
6 16 (1.12%) Robot Framework
6 16 (1.12%) Visual Studio
7 14 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.98%) Subversion
8 11 (0.77%) Rational Rhapsody
9 9 (0.63%) eggPlant
10 5 (0.35%) ClearCase
10 5 (0.35%) ClearQuest
11 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.28%) JMeter
12 3 (0.21%) Android Studio
12 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) TestRail
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Continuum
General
1 243 (16.97%) Manufacturing
2 196 (13.69%) Social Skills
3 175 (12.22%) Automotive
4 126 (8.80%) Electronics
5 120 (8.38%) Finance
6 115 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (6.22%) Aviation
8 78 (5.45%) Military
9 59 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
10 44 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (3.00%) Retail
12 41 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (2.44%) Law
14 34 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
14 34 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.68%) Public Sector
16 24 (1.68%) Publishing
17 20 (1.40%) Games
17 20 (1.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 216 (15.08%) Senior
2 182 (12.71%) Systems Engineer
3 174 (12.15%) Software Engineer
4 115 (8.03%) Lead
5 90 (6.28%) Developer
6 79 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 75 (5.24%) Architect
8 60 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 58 (4.05%) Embedded Engineer
10 57 (3.98%) Programmer
11 56 (3.91%) Consultant
11 56 (3.91%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 56 (3.91%) Project Manager
12 51 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
13 50 (3.49%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 44 (3.07%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 35 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 34 (2.37%) Senior Software Engineer
16 34 (2.37%) Siebel Developer
16 34 (2.37%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.38%) .NET
2 61 (4.26%) AngularJS
3 41 (2.86%) XML
4 35 (2.44%) React
5 34 (2.37%) OpenAPI
5 34 (2.37%) Swagger
6 32 (2.23%) Spring
6 32 (2.23%) Spring Boot
7 30 (2.09%) REST
8 29 (2.03%) .NET Framework
8 29 (2.03%) Node.js
9 28 (1.96%) gRPC
9 28 (1.96%) Material-UI
9 28 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
10 26 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web API
10 26 (1.82%) Entity Framework
10 26 (1.82%) SubSonic
11 22 (1.54%) ASP.NET
11 22 (1.54%) HTML
12 15 (1.05%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.26%) Management Information System
2 54 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 42 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (2.44%) IoT
5 34 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
7 27 (1.89%) Operational Technology
8 26 (1.82%) Robotics
9 24 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 24 (1.68%) FPGA
10 22 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
11 19 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.33%) Verilog
11 19 (1.33%) VHDL
12 18 (1.26%) Client/Server
12 18 (1.26%) FMCG
12 18 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.05%) Fat Client
13 15 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
13 15 (1.05%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 298 (20.81%) Linux
2 144 (10.06%) Windows
3 51 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.16%) CentOS
5 31 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 30 (2.09%) Debian
7 14 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (0.49%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.28%) Android
11 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.21%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.070%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (33.03%) Agile
2 407 (28.42%) Collaborative Working
3 282 (19.69%) Actionable Insight
4 218 (15.22%) Software Engineering
5 210 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
6 170 (11.87%) DevOps
7 158 (11.03%) Project Management
8 144 (10.06%) Systems Engineering
9 128 (8.94%) Validation
10 126 (8.80%) Scrum
11 108 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
12 92 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 90 (6.28%) Kanban
14 89 (6.22%) SDLC
15 84 (5.87%) Mentoring
16 78 (5.45%) Coaching
17 76 (5.31%) CI/CD
17 76 (5.31%) Technical Analysis
18 74 (5.17%) Configuration Management
19 72 (5.03%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 184 (12.85%) Python
2 109 (7.61%) Java
3 103 (7.19%) C
4 101 (7.05%) SQL
5 89 (6.22%) PowerShell
6 82 (5.73%) JavaScript
7 75 (5.24%) C#
8 62 (4.33%) Bash
9 41 (2.86%) C++
10 29 (2.03%) MATLAB
11 23 (1.61%) Embedded C
12 10 (0.70%) Ada
13 9 (0.63%) VB
14 6 (0.42%) VB6
15 4 (0.28%) Lua
15 4 (0.28%) Perl
15 4 (0.28%) Ruby
15 4 (0.28%) Tcl
16 3 (0.21%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 613 (42.81%) Security Cleared
2 304 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 281 (19.62%) DV Cleared
4 241 (16.83%) Degree
5 54 (3.77%) HNC
6 52 (3.63%) HND
7 33 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.16%) DBS Check
9 27 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (1.40%) PMI Certification
12 19 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (0.84%) NVQ Level 3
15 11 (0.77%) PhD
16 10 (0.70%) CISMP
16 10 (0.70%) IISP
16 10 (0.70%) PMP
17 9 (0.63%) CCDA
17 9 (0.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.59%) QA
2 28 (1.96%) NIST
3 25 (1.75%) ISO 9001
4 18 (1.26%) NIST 800
5 17 (1.19%) SLA
6 14 (0.98%) JSP 440
6 14 (0.98%) RMADS
7 13 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.91%) NCSC
8 12 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 7 (0.49%) DO-254
9 7 (0.49%) PMO
10 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.28%) GDPR
11 4 (0.28%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.21%) HMG Infosec
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.21%) MISRA
System Software
1 84 (5.87%) Docker
2 76 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.89%) Active Directory
5 25 (1.75%) VMware NSX
6 17 (1.19%) Firmware
6 17 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.91%) vSphere
8 9 (0.63%) Forefront TMG
8 9 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 178 (12.43%) Ansible
2 118 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 89 (6.22%) Terraform
4 51 (3.56%) Puppet
5 20 (1.40%) SCCM
6 13 (0.91%) WSUS
7 12 (0.84%) SCOM
8 9 (0.63%) Fluentd
8 9 (0.63%) logstash
9 7 (0.49%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
10 5 (0.35%) Opsview
11 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.28%) vRealize
12 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) Functional Safety
13 2 (0.14%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.070%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 127 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 112 (7.82%) VMware
3 75 (5.24%) Oracle
4 54 (3.77%) Cisco
5 48 (3.35%) Red Hat
6 37 (2.58%) Google
7 35 (2.44%) Siebel
8 32 (2.23%) SaltStack
8 32 (2.23%) SAP
9 31 (2.16%) Thales
10 20 (1.40%) Siemens
10 20 (1.40%) Splunk
11 17 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.05%) Citrix
13 14 (0.98%) Juniper
14 13 (0.91%) Blue Coat
14 13 (0.91%) CheckPoint
14 13 (0.91%) Infoblox
14 13 (0.91%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.91%) Riverbed