A few months ago, Spain He promised to increase your investment in defense to 2% of GDP. According to data of the Industrial and Technological Plan for the Security and Defense presented by the Government, that effort implies mobilizing 10,471 million euros in 2025 and take a big step and place at the level of commitments assumed with NATO, but without touching social spending or increasing taxes.
These investments in the defense industry, beyond moral or political debates, can be an opportunity to An impulse to industry national, directly affecting the reactivation of factories and companies that for years have been references in technology and production.
More qualified employment. The estimates, both of the Government and the different sectoral employers, indicate that, between direct and indirect jobs, 96,000 new jobs such as sectors such as aeronautics, robotics, programming and manufacturing will be created. This change not only It implies more workbut also an investment in continuous training and new opportunities for young people seeking to join the labor market.
Specialties such as telecommunications engineering, aeronautics, electronics or cybersecurity experts are between The most wanted profiles In this sector, but also specialized profiles in the manufacture of weapons such as welding, assembly specialists or sheet experts who leave the different degrees of FP.
Chords to the qualification. This requirement of highly qualified personnel is also collected in the wages that this sector offers. According to KPMG data published by Fifodiesthe average salary of the employees of the defense sector are 85% higher than the Spanish average, which stood at 25,896 euros per year. This implies that, on average, the qualified employees of this sector would be charging salaries of 47,907 euros per year.
Most of these well -paid jobs have occurred in the aeronautical subsector, followed by the Naval, which are the ones that have grown the most In recent years and lead sales figures by monopolizing 74.5% of the total sector billing.
A booming sector. The defense industry, together with aeronautics and security, is living a moment of great impulse in which, given The technological pressure that we are seeing in conflicts Like Ukrainean important effort is being made in R&D. That implies more research and Capture employees with high qualification.
According to data of Aesmide (Association of Contractor Companies with Public Administrations), in 2023, the defense -related sectors reached a turnover of 13.9 billion euros, of which 1.2 billion were to the aerospace sectorwhich registered a reinvestment in R & D+I of 15.5% of its turnover, according to The annual report De TEDAE (Spanish Association of Technology Companies for Defense, Security, Aeronautics and Space (TEDAE).
Within this figure, defense and security they contributed more than 8,000 million, and the impact on employment was 115,000 direct jobs and 95,000 indirects distributed in different parts of the country, with Madrid, Andalusia and the Basque Country in the head.
The opportunities are not only in Spain. However, Spanish companies They are not the only that have been launched to the qualified talent hunt: the increase in defense spending has been activated throughout the continent up to 30%, So, according toor published by The confidentialthe whole sector in Europe will compete for capturing that talent.
That battle for talent has made educational initiatives oriented to train new professionals that nourish the demand for labor that this sector will live in the coming years.
Spanish giants wake up. The spin of Spain towards a greater investment in defense is promoting reference companies in the sector such as Indra and Navantia to expand their templates to respond to new demands. The steel industry, key to the manufacture and maintenance of military equipment, is also reactivating and plans to generate thousands of indirect jobs thanks to the increase in demand for the production of pieces and systems.
Last July, Indra announced Its intention to incorporate 2,400 new employees into their defense divisions. 65% of these places would be destined for experienced personnel in the sector, while 35% of vacancies were reserved for young talent. For its part, Navantia has begun to incorporate new personnel with 45 new vacancies for its chopped Puerto Real in Cádiz, before the increase in orders for orders new patrolmen for the army.
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