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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 372 525
Rank change year-on-year +153 +153 -33
Permanent jobs citing Aerospace 1,384 884 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 0.89% 0.66%
As % of the General category 2.32% 1.31% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 586 224 425
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,015 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,159 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +12.32% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,375 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £85,000 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +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 59,575 67,663 103,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.23% 64.52%
Number of salaries quoted 39,717 36,616 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,059 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £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 18 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 18 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 +177 1,281 £55,000 -3.51% 891
UK excluding London +113 1,246 £54,000 -1.82% 886
South West +102 493 £50,000 -10.71% 201
Work from Home +93 381 £50,000 -9.09% 262
South East +89 296 £60,000 +9.09% 251
East of England +66 200 £52,500 -19.23% 110
North of England +115 150 £55,000 +10.00% 153
North West +66 95 £56,000 +12.00% 111
London +129 79 £67,500 +17.39% 51
Midlands -46 61 £39,000 -42.22% 140
East Midlands -16 42 £37,500 -31.82% 58
Yorkshire +70 33 £45,000 -21.74% 32
Scotland -86 31 £55,000 -17.91% 50
North East +12 22 £65,000 - 10
West Midlands -20 19 £45,000 -35.71% 82
Wales -22 8 - - 37
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 2

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 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.95%) Apache
2 27 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.37%) IIS
4 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.65%) Confluence
6 5 (0.36%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.29%) TWiki
8 2 (0.14%) WinCC
9 1 (0.072%) Moodle
Applications
1 49 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.16%) Siemens NX
5 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.65%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.58%) GNU Octave
6 8 (0.58%) Simulink
7 5 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.22%) CATIA
9 2 (0.14%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (2.46%) Siebel CRM
2 8 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.14%) Primavera
4 2 (0.14%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.072%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 196 (14.16%) Azure
2 160 (11.56%) AWS
3 45 (3.25%) OpenShift
4 38 (2.75%) GCP
5 32 (2.31%) Serverless
6 31 (2.24%) SaaS
7 30 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (2.17%) OCI
8 29 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.65%) GitHub
12 9 (0.65%) Power Platform
13 8 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.43%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.36%) Azure Pipelines
16 3 (0.22%) Azure Sentinel
16 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Purview
16 3 (0.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.35%) Firewall
2 36 (2.60%) DNS
3 28 (2.02%) Network Security
4 27 (1.95%) AMQP
5 25 (1.81%) WAN
6 21 (1.52%) DHCP
6 21 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.30%) HTTP
8 16 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
8 16 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
9 15 (1.08%) Ethernet
9 15 (1.08%) Internet
10 14 (1.01%) SD-WAN
10 14 (1.01%) Wireless
11 11 (0.79%) 5G
11 11 (0.79%) LAN
11 11 (0.79%) RS-232
11 11 (0.79%) VSAN
12 7 (0.51%) SAN
13 5 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.18%) Big Data
2 33 (2.38%) Oracle BI EE
2 33 (2.38%) Siebel EIM
2 33 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.10%) Hadoop
4 27 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
5 23 (1.66%) Data Vault
6 15 (1.08%) Data Lake
7 10 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.65%) Power BI
9 8 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.22%) MySQL
12 2 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.14%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.072%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.072%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 77 (5.56%) JIRA
2 50 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 48 (3.47%) Git
4 24 (1.73%) Selenium
5 20 (1.45%) LabVIEW
6 15 (1.08%) Robot Framework
6 15 (1.08%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (1.01%) Subversion
8 11 (0.79%) Rational Rhapsody
9 8 (0.58%) eggPlant
10 5 (0.36%) ClearCase
10 5 (0.36%) ClearQuest
11 3 (0.22%) Android Studio
11 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.22%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.22%) JMeter
11 3 (0.22%) TestRail
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Continuum
12 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 240 (17.34%) Manufacturing
2 196 (14.16%) Social Skills
3 174 (12.57%) Automotive
4 125 (9.03%) Electronics
5 123 (8.89%) Finance
6 115 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (6.00%) Aviation
8 78 (5.64%) Military
9 60 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
10 46 (3.32%) Retail
11 44 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (2.53%) Law
13 35 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 34 (2.46%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.73%) Public Sector
16 24 (1.73%) Publishing
17 21 (1.52%) Marketing
18 20 (1.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 201 (14.52%) Senior
2 174 (12.57%) Systems Engineer
3 170 (12.28%) Software Engineer
4 116 (8.38%) Lead
5 89 (6.43%) Developer
6 76 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 75 (5.42%) Architect
8 57 (4.12%) Consultant
9 56 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 55 (3.97%) Embedded Engineer
10 55 (3.97%) Programmer
10 55 (3.97%) Project Manager
11 51 (3.68%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 50 (3.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 46 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
14 42 (3.03%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 34 (2.46%) Senior Developer
15 34 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (2.46%) Technical Architect
16 33 (2.38%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (5.49%) .NET
2 61 (4.41%) AngularJS
3 41 (2.96%) XML
4 35 (2.53%) React
5 33 (2.38%) OpenAPI
5 33 (2.38%) Swagger
6 32 (2.31%) Spring
7 31 (2.24%) Spring Boot
8 29 (2.10%) .NET Framework
8 29 (2.10%) Node.js
8 29 (2.10%) REST
9 27 (1.95%) gRPC
9 27 (1.95%) Material-UI
9 27 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
10 26 (1.88%) ASP.NET Web API
10 26 (1.88%) Entity Framework
10 26 (1.88%) SubSonic
11 23 (1.66%) HTML
12 21 (1.52%) ASP.NET
13 15 (1.08%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 53 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 38 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (2.53%) IoT
5 33 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
7 27 (1.95%) Operational Technology
8 24 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 24 (1.73%) FPGA
8 24 (1.73%) Robotics
9 22 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
10 19 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.37%) FMCG
10 19 (1.37%) Verilog
10 19 (1.37%) VHDL
11 18 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.08%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.08%) Fat Client
12 15 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 15 (1.08%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 288 (20.81%) Linux
2 138 (9.97%) Windows
3 47 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.17%) CentOS
5 30 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.10%) Debian
7 14 (1.01%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.29%) Android
11 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.22%) VMS
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (32.59%) Agile
2 384 (27.75%) Collaborative Working
3 282 (20.38%) Actionable Insight
4 213 (15.39%) Software Engineering
5 207 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (11.63%) DevOps
7 158 (11.42%) Project Management
8 134 (9.68%) Systems Engineering
9 124 (8.96%) Validation
10 118 (8.53%) Scrum
11 111 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
12 89 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 87 (6.29%) SDLC
14 85 (6.14%) Kanban
14 85 (6.14%) Mentoring
15 78 (5.64%) Coaching
16 75 (5.42%) Configuration Management
17 73 (5.27%) Requirements Analysis
17 73 (5.27%) Technical Analysis
18 72 (5.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 179 (12.93%) Python
2 103 (7.44%) C
3 102 (7.37%) Java
4 101 (7.30%) SQL
5 83 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 78 (5.64%) JavaScript
7 77 (5.56%) C#
8 59 (4.26%) Bash
9 44 (3.18%) C++
10 29 (2.10%) MATLAB
11 23 (1.66%) Embedded C
12 11 (0.79%) Ada
13 10 (0.72%) VB
14 6 (0.43%) VB6
15 5 (0.36%) Perl
16 4 (0.29%) Lua
16 4 (0.29%) Ruby
16 4 (0.29%) Tcl
17 3 (0.22%) Embedded C++
17 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 591 (42.70%) Security Cleared
2 292 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 262 (18.93%) DV Cleared
4 244 (17.63%) Degree
5 54 (3.90%) HNC
6 53 (3.83%) HND
7 33 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.24%) DBS Check
9 27 (1.95%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.52%) PMI Certification
12 19 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (0.87%) NVQ Level 3
15 11 (0.79%) PhD
16 10 (0.72%) CISMP
16 10 (0.72%) IISP
16 10 (0.72%) PMP
17 9 (0.65%) CCDA
17 9 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.49%) QA
2 28 (2.02%) NIST
3 25 (1.81%) ISO 9001
4 18 (1.30%) NIST 800
5 17 (1.23%) SLA
6 14 (1.01%) JSP 440
6 14 (1.01%) RMADS
7 13 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.94%) NCSC
8 12 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 8 (0.58%) PMO
10 7 (0.51%) DO-254
11 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.29%) GDPR
12 4 (0.29%) ISO 14001
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Infosec
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.22%) MISRA
System Software
1 76 (5.49%) Docker
2 70 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.75%) Hyper-V
4 27 (1.95%) Active Directory
5 22 (1.59%) VMware NSX
6 17 (1.23%) Firmware
6 17 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.94%) vSphere
8 9 (0.65%) Forefront TMG
8 9 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.22%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 167 (12.07%) Ansible
2 109 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 83 (6.00%) Terraform
4 47 (3.40%) Puppet
5 20 (1.45%) SCCM
6 13 (0.94%) WSUS
7 12 (0.87%) SCOM
8 9 (0.65%) Fluentd
8 9 (0.65%) logstash
9 7 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.36%) Cisco Prime
10 5 (0.36%) Opsview
11 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.29%) vRealize
12 3 (0.22%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.14%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.14%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 125 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.44%) VMware
3 74 (5.35%) Oracle
4 51 (3.68%) Cisco
5 44 (3.18%) Red Hat
6 37 (2.67%) Google
7 34 (2.46%) Siebel
8 32 (2.31%) SAP
9 31 (2.24%) SaltStack
9 31 (2.24%) Thales
10 21 (1.52%) Siemens
11 19 (1.37%) Splunk
12 17 (1.23%) ServiceNow
13 15 (1.08%) Citrix
14 14 (1.01%) Juniper
15 13 (0.94%) Blue Coat
15 13 (0.94%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.94%) Infoblox
15 13 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.94%) Riverbed