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Spire is making a fundamental shift in how it operates its constellation. We are moving from a model where trained operators watch dashboards and escalate to experts, to one where the system is fully autonomous,...
Glasgow, Alba / Scotland, G2 1AL, United Kingdom
Senior AOCS Engineer | Guildford | On-site / Hybrid | Competitive salary & packageAre you an AOCS Engineer with experience designing, building, and flying Spacecraft? Do you want to work on the cutting edge of...
Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
BristolWant to work for growing team with the motivation to excel and a good team spirit? Where you will have the opportunity to apply your experience and passion for navigation sensor technologies to support the...
Filton, United Kingdom
Supply Chain Quality ManagerWe are looking for a Supply Chain Quality Manager to support supplier readiness during transfer of work from industrialisation to series production and entry into service.Key responsibilitiesLead supplier quality activities during production...
Chester, Cheshire, CH65 9HY, United Kingdom
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead the technical aspects of complex space missions, ensuring requirements are valid and well-defined. You will manage system requirements, technical budgets, and sub-system interfaces, and collaborate with internal and external teams to resolve technical discrepancies and ensure mission success.
Glasgow, Alba / Scotland, G2 1AL, United Kingdom
The Supply Chain Quality Manager will act as the primary operational interface with suppliers, building strong partnerships and ensuring on-time, on-quality, and on-cost performance. Responsibilities include managing supplier milestones, leading progress meetings, and driving improvement actions. The role involves close collaboration with internal teams and external partners to support development and industrialisation phases, with a focus on aerospace and space systems.
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Explore UK Space roles across satellite engineering, spacecraft design, and avionics.
Advance your Space career with expert advice, practical job search tips, and insightful industry guides.
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Advertising space jobs in the UK requires a different approach to most technical hiring. The candidate pool spans satellite engineers, propulsion specialists, mission analysts, ground segment software developers, space systems architects and commercial space professionals — a highly specific multidisciplinary community that general job boards are poorly equipped to reach. The strongest space candidates are often embedded in ESA programmes, academic research groups, UK Space Agency-funded projects or established primes, and move between roles through sector-specific networks, industry bodies and conference communities rather than mainstream platforms. This guide, published by UKSpaceJobs.co.uk, covers where to advertise space industry roles in the UK in 2026, how the main platforms compare, what employers should expect to pay, and what the data says about hiring across different role types.
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The UK space sector is in the middle of something that feels genuinely historic. A combination of government commitment, private capital, and technological progress has transformed Britain's position in the global space economy from a capable but secondary player into a nation with serious sovereign ambitions — and a jobs market that is expanding to match them. This is not the space industry of previous generations, defined by a small number of government agencies, a handful of prime contractors, and career pathways accessible only to a narrow band of elite engineers and scientists. The new space economy is broader, faster-moving, and more commercially driven than anything the sector has previously seen. Satellite manufacturing has been democratised by small sat technology. Launch is becoming domestic. Space data is flowing into applications across agriculture, insurance, climate monitoring, maritime, and defence at a scale that is creating entirely new categories of commercial hiring. And the defence and national security dimensions of space have elevated the sector's strategic importance to a degree that is driving sustained public investment in the talent pipeline. For job seekers, the UK space jobs market of 2026 represents an opportunity that is both more accessible and more technically demanding than at any previous point. The candidates who will thrive over the next three years are those who understand where the sector is heading — which programmes are moving from development into operation, which technologies are defining the architecture of modern space systems, and how the definition of a space career is expanding well beyond the spacecraft engineering core toward a much wider ecosystem of roles across the full space value chain. This article breaks down what the UK space jobs market is likely to look like through to 2028 — covering the titles emerging right now, the technologies driving employer demand, the skills that will matter most, and how to position your career at the leading edge of one of the most exciting sectors in the UK economy.
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The space industry is entering a new era of growth, innovation, and commercial opportunity. Satellites, space exploration, Earth observation, space data analytics, launch systems and space infrastructure are all areas seeing rapid expansion, bringing demand for engineers, scientists, operations specialists and software developers. For professionals exploring opportunities on www.UKSpaceJobs.co.uk , identifying employers that are scaling, securing major contracts, attracting investment, or establishing UK operations is vital. This article highlights the most exciting space employers to watch in 2026, including UK space start‑ups, established aerospace organisations with UK teams, and global firms investing in British space talent.
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