The Datum Report

Occupation 3119 · Associate professional occupations

Science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c.

Half of full-time science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £36,102 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of technical support functions not elsewhere classified in minor group 311: Science, engineering and production technicians.

How people enter it

Entry varies from employer to employer. Entrants usually possess GCSEs/S grades, a BTEC/SQA award or HNC/HND. Professional qualifications are available and may be required in some areas of work.

What the work involves

• sets up apparatus for experimental, demonstration or other purposes
• undertakes tests and takes measurements and readings
• performs calculations and records and interprets data
• otherwise assists technologists as directed
• sets up school laboratories for demonstrations and experiments, operates and maintains equipment and supports the teaching of students

Also called

School technician · Technical assistant · Technician · Textile consultant · Workshop technician

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c., 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. 11 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 · Electrical and electronics technicians · Engineering technicians · Laboratory technicians · Planning, process and production technicians · Quality assurance technicians