Edinburgh, 30 October 2025 – The UK space sector is growing fast, but demand for skilled, hands-on talent is outpacing supply. Professionals transitioning from the armed forces and oil & gas sector bring valuable experience, but targeted training is needed to fill critical gaps in areas such as assembly, integration and testing (AIT), advanced composites manufacturing, avionics and embedded systems engineering, and software development and integration. Understanding these gaps is key to developing practical, short-course programs that equip the workforce for immediate impact.
The Space Scotland Skills Employers Group is bringing together key industry representatives to explore the skills the sector urgently needs and how training can address these gaps. This discussion will focus on identifying the most pressing skills shortages, mapping suitable training courses, and understanding the scale and location requirements for delivery.
We want the right voices from your organisation involved. Please speak with your teams to highlight priority skills gaps and any existing courses that could help and send along the most suitable representative for a discussion on 10thNovember 2025 from 13:00 to 14:00.
Agenda:
- Welcome and Introductions (10 mins)
- Discussion on identified critical skills (15 mins)
- Mapping training solutions (20 mins)
- Delivery needs and next steps (10 mins)
- Summary and close (5 mins)
If you or a representative would like to attend the discussion, please fill out this short form.
About Space Scotland
Space Scotland is a not-for-profit company set up in 2021 to provide an environment that enables the development of the Scottish space sector and its various clusters through active engagement with industry, academia and government representatives. An industry-led initiative, Space Scotland actively supports the entirety of Scotland’s rare ‘end-to-end’ space ecosystem and value chain, to reinforce the wider UK proposition.
Media Contact
Space Scotland
Viktoria Urban, Marketing and Communications Lead
+44 7398 615819
viktoria@spacescotland.org