European Space Workforce

2016 – European Space Agency Employment

At ##%, the percentage of female employees is slightly ## in the European Space Agency (ESA) than the European space workforce as a whole, but the proportion of young professionals…

2015 – European Space Industry Employment

The European space workforce included ## workers in 2015, according to Eurospace, an association of the European space manufacturing industry. Eurospace conducts annual surveys of European firms involved... The European…

2015 – European Space Industry Employment

Data on the European space workforce is collected annually via surveys by Eurospace, an association of the European space manufacturing industry. The survey focuses on design, development, and... Data on…

2014 – European Space Industry Employment

Each year, Eurospace, an association of the European space manufacturing industry, carries out a survey of the European space industry. The survey focuses on design, development, and manufacturing; it does…

In 2015, the survey included new companies, resulting in more than ## additional workers. More than half of the newly added workers were in Spain, with the rest falling in…

2011 – European Space Agency Employment

As of June 2011, the European Space Agency (ESA) directly employed ## people, and another ## people worked on-site as contractors. More than half of ESA’s employees were engineers and…

2011 – European Space Industry Employment

The number of European space workers counted has expanded by ##% over five years, from ## full-time equivalent (FTE) employees at the end of 2005 to ## FTE employees in…

2011 – European Space Workforce

The nonprofit European space industry association Eurospace tracks European space employment through annual surveys of European space-related companies, as well as multinational space companies employing personnel in Europe. In 2010,…

2008 – European Space Agency Employment

In addition to European public technical colleges, ESA maintains the European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands and the European Astronauts Centre in Germany, which trains astronauts for…

2008 – European Space Industry Employment

While there is no single number reported for the pan-European space sector workforce, several data points, when viewed in combination, indicate that at least ## and possibly more than ##…