Hire space industry specialists in the UK
UK Space Jobs is the board for the sector's own people: spacecraft and satellite engineers, mission and ground-segment operators, Earth-observation and launch specialists. Advertise a role to them directly and pay a fixed price once.
- What it costs
- From £99 for a 30-day listing. Pay once — no subscription, no recruiter fee, no percentage of salary.
- How fast it goes live
- One working day. A person reads every advert before it publishes, usually within a couple of hours.
- Who reads it
- Systems, AIT and propulsion engineers, satellite operators, GNC and flight-software people, and the Earth-observation scientists downstream of them. Many hold or can hold clearance, most are employed, and they read this board to see which primes, start-ups and agencies are hiring.
- What it is not
- A CV database you rent, or an agency taking a fee on the hire. You post the role; candidates come to you.
Already written the advert somewhere else?
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Write the advert from scratchNot hiring yet? Start with how to hire space engineers in the UK — what the roles are, what they pay, and how to write an advert that gets answered.
There are three ways to fill a Space role. We are honest about being one of them.
Space hiring runs on constraints a generalist route cannot state: security clearance, export control, and whether the role is on the spacecraft or in the ground segment. Here is the short version, including where a board is the wrong tool.
A specialist board
You are hereFixed, from £99 per role
You know roughly who you want, the salary is competitive, and you want the applications to land in your own inbox or ATS.
You need someone headhunted out of a named competitor, or the role is confidential.
A generalist platform
Per-click or per-slot, unbounded
Volume roles where reach matters more than fit, and hiring for functions outside engineering at the same time.
Any engineering role that needs sector experience. "Space" draws applicants from aviation, automotive and anyone who finds the word exciting, and the engineer who has taken hardware through AIT is one CV in many.
A recruitment agency
Typically 15–25% of first-year salary
Chief engineers and programme leads, cleared roles that need the clearance held today, and confidential hires around a bid.
Roles you can attract directly. On a £90k salary the fee is most of a hiring budget.
Who actually reads this board
A smaller audience than a generalist site, and one that reads the constraints first. People arrive here because they work in the UK space sector and want to see who is hiring for systems, AIT, GNC, operations and Earth observation this month — and whether the advert says clearance, nationality and export control plainly.
Who we have on the board
Each one opens the live roles for it on UK Space Jobs.
Seniority mix of live roles
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Graduate and entry 3%
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Junior 2%
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Mid-level 38%
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Senior and staff 40%
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Lead and principal 15%
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Head of and director 2%
Where they are
Location pages carry the local salary picture and the companies hiring there.
How the live roles are worked
How the advert reaches them
- Search and Google Jobs
- Every listing is structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board, so it keeps working for the whole run.
- Saved alerts
- Candidates subscribe to a specialism, a salary floor and a location. Matching roles email out as they publish.
- The weekly digest
- One email, curated, read by people who are not actively applying yet — which is where most senior candidates sit.
- The rest of the network
- Add any of the other fifteen boards for +£75 each. Only worth it where the field genuinely overlaps.
Hiring now
Companies with at least one active listing on UK Space Jobs.
What Space roles pay in the UK
Built from the salaries stated in live adverts on this board, not a survey — the range employers are advertising, and its midpoint.
Space pay in the UK is compressed relative to the skills involved, which is exactly why naming the band matters: candidates comparing a prime, a start-up and an agency role need the number to weigh the mission against it. Adverts that state it, and state the clearance position, get answered.
All UK Space salary benchmarks, coming soon
| Role | Midpoint | Top salary |
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Aerospace Engineer
Aerospace Engineer jobs on UK Space Jobs
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£46k | £90k |
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Avionics Engineer
Avionics Engineer jobs on UK Space Jobs
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£67k | £80k |
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GNC Engineer
GNC Engineer jobs on UK Space Jobs
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£80k | £148k |
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Propulsion Engineer
Propulsion Engineer jobs on UK Space Jobs
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£50k | £95k |
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Satellite Communications Engineer
Satellite Communications Engineer jobs on UK Space Jobs
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£67k | £89k |
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Satellite Engineer
Satellite Engineer jobs on UK Space Jobs
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£50k | £76k |
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Space Systems Engineer
Space Systems Engineer jobs on UK Space Jobs
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£54k | £90k |
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Earth Observation Engineer
Earth Observation Engineer jobs on UK Space Jobs
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From live adverts on this board · rows link to the role
Everything we know about hiring in the UK space sector, written down
How to hire space engineers in the UK
A small sector concentrated in a handful of places, where most of the people you want are currently working in another industry. What the roles are, where they are, and how to reach engineers who are not looking for you.
Security clearance and export control in space hiring
Clearance is the constraint that quietly governs UK space recruitment: it takes months, it cannot be bought, and visa sponsorship does not solve it. What to establish before you advertise.
The other fifteen boards
Cloud, cyber, data engineering, biotech and the rest — where an adjacent board is worth adding and where it is not.
From £99 a role. Paid once.
Three tiers and three durations, priced up front. Extra boards are +£75 each and only worth adding where the field overlaps — we will tell you when it does not.
In every listing, including the cheapest one
- A person reviews the advert before it publishes
- Structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board
- Emailed to matching alert subscribers
- Applications to your inbox or straight into your ATS
- Live for 30 days, extendable
- No subscription and no auto-renewal
If it does not perform
Every listing carries an application benchmark set from the role itself — pay, contract type, working pattern. Come in under it and we extend the run and re-promote the role at no charge. It is in the terms, not a goodwill gesture.
Hiring several roles, or running an agency desk?
Bundles across roles and boards, and automatic ingestion from your ATS or a feed so nothing is re-keyed.
Works with your ATS
Send applications straight into it, or let us pull your open roles from it — and send candidates straight back.
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Not listed? We can usually build a connector in about a week — tell us about your ATS.
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