FOI_26-289 Careers advertisements from arms trade companies

Date of response: 22 October 2026

We have now considered your request of 21 October 2026 for the following information:

Question 1. In the below request, the phrase ‘arms trade companies' relates to any company on the SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing companies and Defence News Top 100 lists.

This includes, and if necessary, to fit within the time/cost limitations, can be limited to:

BAE Systems

Babcock

QinetiQ

Rolls-Royce

Serco

Cobham

Raytheon (RTX)

Airbus

General Dynamics

Leonardo MW

Lockheed Martin

Thales

MBDA

Elbit Systems

Northrop Grumman

L3 Harris Technologies

General Electric

AVIC

GKN Aerospace

Boeing

Ministry of Defence (MoD)

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)

You previously disclosed that a number of the above companies have had job adverts listed on the careers site over the last 8 years. FOI_26-239 Academic partnerships with arms trade companies

Please provide how many such adverts there were for each company by year. And include the total number of job adverts for each year for all jobs.

Our response:

Please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_26-289 Appendix A.

We have provided the total number of all job advertisements listed on our Careers web pages (positions available to students only) and where applicable, we have noted the company name (for those noted in response to FOI_26-239) and the number of adverts for that company. Where a company is not noted there were 0 advertisement from them in that year.