Job types within Defence
Defence
Due to its sheer size and volume, the defence industry supports many defence jobs in the development of other high technology industries - because workers in defence jobs are at the forefront of innovation. Defence jobs are an appealing sector for graduates particularly, because defence jobs encourage engineers and scientists to work in world-renowned organisations with diverse, cutting-edge technologies. There are tremendous defence jobs opportunities to work on collaborative programmes.
The UK has the world's second largest (as a percentage of GDP) defence industry, employing an estimated 345,000 people in defence jobs. Almost half of all shipbuilding and aerospace jobs in the UK are defence jobs. Nearly 40% of the electronics industry is also supported by defence jobs - additional defence jobs could total as many as 1.5m across the UK. Defence jobs are one of the UK's great success stories because approximately 40% of its output goes to export - nearly £4.1bn in 2001.
Defence jobs cover a wide range of industries and disciplines; from aircraft, warships and armoured fighting vehicles, through communications, radar, propulsion, munitions and support services, building and construction, electronics, computer systems and software, to civilian defence jobs in basic management and administration of logistics, such as financial and support activities.
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