The Datum Report

Occupation 3114 · Associate professional occupations

Building and civil engineering technicians

Half of full-time building and civil engineering technicians in the UK earn more than £37,229 a year, and half earn less.

Building and civil engineering technicians perform a variety of technical support functions to assist civil and building engineers.

How people enter it

Entrants usually possess a relevant BTEC/SQA award, level 3 diploma or HNC/HND. Some entrants may posess a degree. The status of engineering technician is obtained after a period of further training at work and upon gaining the membership of a professional engineering institution.

What the work involves

• sets up apparatus and equipment and undertakes field and laboratory tests of soil and work materials
• performs calculations and collects, records and interprets data
• sets out construction site, supervises excavations and marks out position of building work to be undertaken
• inspects construction materials and supervises work of contractors to ensure compliance with specifications and arranges remedial work as necessary
• creates and designs plans (using computer aided software)
• estimates project costs
• estimates timescales for project delivery

Also called

Building services consultant · Civil engineering technician · Survey technician · Technical assistant (civil engineering)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for building and civil engineering 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. 3 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

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