The Datum Report

Occupation 2124 · Professional occupations

Electronics engineers (professional)

Half of full-time electronics engineers (professional) in the UK earn more than £52,518 a year, and half earn less.

Professional electronics engineers undertake research and design, direct construction and manage the operation and maintenance of electronic motors, communications systems, microwave systems, and other electronic equipment.

How people enter it

Professional electronics engineers usually possess an accredited university degree or equivalent qualification. After qualifying, periods of appropriate training and experience are required before membership of a chartered engineering institution is attainable. Incorporated engineers possess an accredited university degree, BTEC/SQA award or an apprenticeship. All routes are followed by periods of appropriate training and relevant experience.

What the work involves

• undertakes research and advises on all aspects of telecoms equipment, radar, telemetry and remote-control systems, data processing equipment, microwaves and other electronic equipment
• conceives and develops engineering designs from product ideas in electronics engineering
• determines and specifies appropriate production and/or installation methods and quality and safety standards
• organises and establishes control systems to monitor performance and evaluate designs
• tests, diagnoses faults and undertakes repair of electronic equipment

Also called

Broadcasting engineer (professional) · Electronics designer · Electronics engineer (professional) · Microwave engineer (professional)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for electronics engineers (professional), full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 4 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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Aerospace engineers · Civil engineers · Electrical engineers · Engineering professionals n.e.c. · Engineering project managers and project engineers · Mechanical engineers (professional) · Production and process engineers