MBDA UK

Air Defense · Defense Manufacturing
Has an LEITruth index BSponsors visas
190Open roles65 posted in 30 days+10 this week
$73kMedian advertised pay$65k – $77k−6% vs market
38 daysTime to fillmedian of 117 closed rolesmarket: 37 days
B 79/100Truth index
Lately:+10 roles posted this weekStevenage office: 97 → 119 roles in a monthFollow changes →

Facts

as of Nov 15, 2026

MBDA UK is the British arm of the European missile systems group MBDA, headquartered in Stevenage, England, designing, developing and manufacturing missiles and missile systems for all branches of the UK armed forces and allied nations. MBDA was formed in 2001 from the merger of European missile businesses and is owned by Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo; the UK company has primary sites in Stevenage, Bristol and Bolton, corporate offices in London and smaller sites such as Henlow. It recruits systems, software, test and manufacturing engineers, project managers, procurement and security staff, and runs graduate, apprenticeship and placement programmes.

It is hiring: 190 open roles, 65 of them posted in the last 30 days.

Headquarters
Stevenage, United Kingdom
Founded
2001
Employees
1001-5000estimated range
Open roles
190 in 5 citiesAlion job postings
Official records
LEI 213800AWRZG3V7C1YQ61
Website
mbdacareers.co.uk

As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 190 open roles at MBDA UK. MBDA UK is headquartered in Stevenage, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2001. The median pay stated in its open roles is $73k, across 126 postings that state pay.

Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake

Trust

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What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
79/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securitymbdacareers.co.uk · Nov 14, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
No DMARC record
Missing
Who may send its mail (SPF)
No SPF record
Missing
HTTPS certificate
The certificate is not valid
Missing
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.

Hiring

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Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.

Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 28 of open roles.

65Posted in 30 days34% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 192
5Roles in AI3% of open roles
5Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Closed for your country
A large company (1001-5000): remote hiring from abroad is rare without a local entity
United Kingdom321On site
Spain2On site
Remote, from elsewhere0Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
MBDA UK38 days
Market, same roles37 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand99
Pay31
Your chance47
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 196 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
B
79 / 100MBDA UK scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 35 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 83% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 38 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale83%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering28▼
Operations19
Early Careers8▲
Management6▲
Hardware6
Field & Service5
Newest roles
FCAS Digital Weapons Integration Systems Engineer – Functional Integration
$76k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bristol · Stevenage · Bolton
Software Engineer
up to $86k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bristol
Product Support Manager - Export
Hybrid · Full-Time · Stevenage · Bristol
Export Contract Manager
$79k per year · Hybrid · Contractor · Bristol · Stevenage
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
English1910%
Spanish11%
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 75%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 21%Master's Degree 4%
28 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Flexible schedule12968%
Parental leave12867%
Annual leave5931%
Hybrid work74%
Health insurance74%
Professional development53%
Life insurance11%
Contract type
Full-Time 167Internship 18Contract 3
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation offered
View 190 jobsRoles matching my profile
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pay

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What its postings pay, by level.

$73kMedianmarket estimate $78k
$65k – $77kTypical rangeUSD a year
$107kHighest paying roleDigital Excellence Governance Manager
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $78k
Senior10$75k$70k – $87k
Staff+6$74k$73k – $76k
Lead30$73k$70k – $77k
$0$25k$50k$75k$100k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Visa

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Named in the work visa registers of United Kingdom.

United KingdomUK A-rated
A-ratedSponsor licence
Senior or Specialist Worker +1Visa route
189Open roles in United Kingdom

In the register as MBDA UK Limited, Stevenage

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Footprint

Hiring in 5 cities in 2 countries.

5Cities
2Countries
StevenageBusiest site
StevenageFastest growing+22 in a month
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
Stevenage United KingdomHeadquarters119Operations, Industrial Engineering, Hardware29%
Bristol United KingdomRegional office95Industrial Engineering, Operations, Hardware34%
Bolton United KingdomPlant / site53Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Operations28%
Henlow United KingdomPlant / site4Industrial Engineering, QA, Field & Service25%
Madrid SpainNot classified1Finance0%
All 5 offices
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Peers

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Ranked #7 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.

#CompanyHQOpen rolesSize
1Lockheed MartinBethesda, United States4,2595000+
2RTXArlington, United States3,6015000+
3Rolls-RoyceLondon, United Kingdom4665000+
4SaabLinköping, Sweden3885000+
5CastelionEl Segundo, United States233501-1000
6MBDA FranceLe Plessis-Robinson, France2141001-5000
7MBDA UKStevenage, United Kingdom1901001-5000
8Mach IndustriesHuntington Beach, United States182201-500
MBDA UK competitors and alternatives
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)

Tech stack

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Technologies named in job postings at MBDA UK over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

92Technologies in use
106Postings analysed
67/100Stack modernity
LanguagesMATLAB 33%C++ 21%Python 20%C# 8%
Frameworks & librariesPyTorch 3%CUDA 2%Scikit-learn 2%Django 1%
DatabasesPostgreSQL 1%SAP HANA 1%Snowflake 1%TimescaleDB 1%
Cloud & platformsLinux 8%Windows 6%Power BI 4%GitLab 2%
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Full MBDA UK tech stack92 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Milestones

Sep 28
Sep 16
First role in Spain Field Support Engineer (Spain)
2001
Founded
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press