The Datum Report

Occupation 3112 · Associate professional occupations

Electrical and electronics technicians

Half of full-time electrical and electronics technicians in the UK earn more than £35,126 a year, and half earn less.

Electrical and electronics technicians perform a variety of miscellaneous technical support functions to assist with the design, development, installation, operation and maintenance of electrical and electronic systems.

How people enter it

Entrants usually possess GCSEs/S grades, a BTEC/ SQA award or a relevant certificate/diploma. Vocational qualifications in Electrical Installation, Electrical Engineering and other relevant fields at levels 2 to 4 and apprenticeships are available.

What the work involves

• plans and prepares work and test schedules based on specifications and drawings
• sets up equipment, undertakes tests, takes readings, performs calculations and records and interprets data
• plans installation methods, checks completed installation for safety and controls or undertakes the initial running of the new electrical or electronic equipment or system
• diagnoses and detects faults and implements procedures to maintain efficient operation of systems and equipment
• visits and advises clients on the use and servicing of electrical and electronic systems and equipment
• interprets and reviews technical drawings

Also called

Avionics technician · Electrical technician · Electronics technician · Installation engineer (electricity supplier)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for electrical and electronics technicians, 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. 2 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

Classified alongside this

Building and civil engineering technicians · Engineering technicians · Laboratory technicians · Planning, process and production technicians · Quality assurance technicians · Science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c.