Aerospace Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Aerospace Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Aerospace role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Aerospace job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 65% of Aerospace job descriptions contained aerospace as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

aerospace
65%
engineer
53%
essex
30%
military
30%
aviation
30%
repair
24%
engineering
24%
mechanical
24%
electronic
18%
mod
18%
electrical
18%
cnc
18%
stansted
18%
aircraft mechanic
18%
technician
18%
manufacturing
18%
maintenance
18%
aircraft
12%
cambridge
12%
braintree
12%
stevenage
12%
avionic
12%
private
12%
mechanic
12%
corporate
12%
stortford
12%
production
12%
walden
12%
airport
12%
machine operator
12%
test
12%
avionics
12%
defense
12%
aerial
12%
bournemouth
12%
chichester
12%
horsham
12%
matlab
12%
portsmouth
12%
raf
12%
salisbury
12%
simulink
12%
winchester
12%
testing
6%
smt
6%
tools
6%
airlines
6%
bespoke
6%
buyer
6%
cambridgeshire
6%
estimation
6%
traditional aircraft
6%
business development
6%
chemicals
6%
procurement
6%
product development
6%
sales
6%
aircraft maintenance
6%
assemble
6%
build
6%
precision
6%
schematic
6%
technical
6%
aluminium
6%
steel
6%
grinding
6%
gloucestershire
6%
gloucester
6%
dursley
6%
cnc programming
6%
cnc operator
6%
cnc milling
6%
cnc machinist
6%
haas
6%
sheet metal
6%
quotations
6%
pricing
6%
fabrication
6%
estimator
6%
estimating
6%
estimates
6%
costing
6%
c
6%
oil and gas
6%
measurement
6%
lighting
6%
led
6%
electronics
6%
electrics
6%
diagnostics
6%
debugging
6%
pcb
6%
automotive
6%
assembly
6%
xyx proto trak
6%
stroud
6%
siemens
6%
setting
6%
milling
6%

While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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