Stay up to date with our work
We send an email every couple of months, and we keep it short and sharp. Zero spam.
What’s new about skills in Size & Health 2024?
by by Joseph Dudley and by Heidi Thiemann
The new Size & Health report by London Economics was published last month on day one of the UK Space Conference. We were in the middle of leaving our Airbnb at the time, so it’s taken us a little while to catch up.
What’s new about skills in Size & Health 2023?
by by Joseph Dudley and by Heidi Thiemann
It’s been a big month for the space sector: a new government, a new minister, and now a new Size & Health report! This report, published by London Economics, covers 2021/22.
Development of the Space Training Catalogue and SpaceCRAFT competencies framework
by by Joseph Dudley and by Heidi Thiemann
We’ve been funded by the UK Space Agency to further develop our Space Training Catalogue and SpaceCRAFT Competencies Framework between now and March 2025.
How will the new visa salary threshold affect space?
by by Joseph Dudley and by Heidi Thiemann
The Government recently announced that the base salary threshold for Skilled Worker visas will rise in Spring 2024 to £38,700. What effect might this have on the space sector?
What’s new about skills in Size & Health 2022?
by by Joseph Dudley and by Heidi Thiemann
It’s every UK space economics nerd’s favourite time of year – a new Size & Health report has just been released! This report, published by our friends at know.space, covers 2020/21 with forecasts for 2021/22.
We’ve been named SSPI UK Space Personalities of the Year
by by Joseph Dudley and by Heidi Thiemann
We’re delighted to announce that we have have been jointly named UK Space Personality of the Year by the UK Chapter of the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) in recognition of "excellent work on space sector skills, employment, and diversity with the Space Skills Alliance".
Women in space deserve better
by by Joseph Dudley
4th October to 10th October every year is World Space Week, an annual international celebration of space. 4th October 1957 was the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, and 10th October 1967 was the signing of the Outer Space Treaty, the basis for international space law.
It's pay day for the UK space sector
by by Joseph Dudley
As a Brit, I find that talking about pay turns me into an awkward stammering Hugh Grant character. It’s all a bit unpleasant, and the sooner we can move the conversation on to something else, the better I feel. It’s perhaps strange then that Heidi Thiemann and I have spent several months analysing a dataset of salaries from almost 1500 of our colleagues in the space sector, but that’s what happens when you’re both an awkward Brit and a data nerd.
The first demographics of the UK space sector
by by Joseph Dudley
During World Space Week last year, Heidi and I launched the very first census of the UK space sector.
What you need to know about the Space Sector Skills Survey report
by by Joseph Dudley
The results of the UK Space Agency’s Space Sector Skills Survey have been published today, and besides being a contender for the most alliterative publication of the year, this hotly-awaited report finally provides some figures for the space sector’s recruitment and training needs.
Launching the 2020 Space Census
by by Joseph Dudley
In September last year, Heidi and I stood on the stage at the UK Space Conference and announced the launch of the Space Skills Alliance.
Just 8% of space job adverts are any good
by by Joseph Dudley
The average space job advert is pretty bad. Rated against 10 best practice criteria, it gets a score of just 54 out of 100. Only 8% of ads get a score of 75 or more.
Half of early career space jobs require programming skills
by by Joseph Dudley
When we talk about skills for the space sector, we tend to think immediately of space-specific skills: knowledge of orbital mechanics, of spacecraft design, of satellite data analysis. But though these are certainly important and necessary skills, the technical skill that is asked for most of all is the ability to design, develop, and deploy software.
Heidi wins award
by by Joseph Dudley
We’re delighted that our co-founder and director, Heidi Thiemann, has won a Sir Arthur Clarke Award for her services to the UK’s space sector.
We have liftoff!
by by Joseph Dudley
We’re excited to be launching the Space Skills Alliance today at the UK Space Conference. It’s an initiative Heidi and I have increasingly seen the need for, and we’re delighted to share it with the world today.