COMPANIES AND EMPLOYMENT


• In 2018 aerospace companies in the UK directly employed 102,200 people across the UK – the vast majority worked full-time and 5,300 worked part-time.


Manufacture MRO


TOTALS


UK aerospace employment in 2018 (thousands) Full-time 78.5 18.4 96.9


Part-time 3.8 1.5 5.3


All


82.3 19.9


102.2


• In addition, it is widely reported that the aerospace sector supports 20,000 to 30,000 additional jobs through the supply-chain.


• As of March 2018, there were 875 aerospace manufacturing companies in the UK, spread across 980 workplaces, generating an annual turnover of > £38 billion.


• An estimate 1,835 companies are engaged in aerospace MRO activities in the UK, employing just under 20,000 people and producing around £4 billion GVA in 2016.


• The table below shows the number of aerospace companies, split into manufacture and MRO activities, by workforce size, in the UK. There are 2,420 aerospace companies with fewer than 10 employees.


• The charts below provide an overview of the geographical spread of the manufacture and MRO sub-sectors of the aerospace sector. The figures provided in each chart represent the number of companies within a UK region.


Manufacture MRO


0-4 645


1,700


No. of aerospace companies, by workforce size band, 2018 5-9


35 40


10-19 15


25


20-49 30


20


50-99 25


20


100-249 25


15


250+ 45


15


Total 820


1,835


5


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