The Datum Report

Occupation 5244 · Skilled trades occupations

Computer system and equipment installers and servicers

Half of full-time computer system and equipment installers and servicers in the UK earn more than £34,237 a year, and half earn less.

IT engineers install, maintain and repair the physical components of computer systems and equipment.

How people enter it

Entry is possible with a variety of academic qualifications and/or relevant experience. Entrants typically possess GCSEs/S grades and A levels/H grades, BTEC/SQA awards or a degree. Training is usually provided on-the-job supplemented by specialised courses. Postgraduate and professional qualifications, and NVQs/SVQs at levels 2 and 3 are available.

What the work involves

• installs, tests and maintains computer-related hardware (processors, memory chips, circuit boards, displays, sensors, data storage devices, printers, etc.) according to given specifications
• diagnoses hardware related faults
• repairs or replaces defective components
• advises on and installs operating soft/firm ware and may carry out upgrades
• maintains documentation to track and log work in progress and completed

Also called

Computer repairer · Computer service engineer · Hardware engineer (computer) · IT engineer · Maintenance engineer (computer servicing)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for computer system and equipment installers and servicers, 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 electronic trades n.e.c. · Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers · Electricians and electrical fitters · Security system installers and repairers · Telecoms and related network installers and repairers · Tv, video and audio servicers and repairers