The Datum Report

Occupation 5246 · Skilled trades occupations

Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers

Half of full-time electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers in the UK earn more than £41,662 a year, and half earn less.

Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers maintain, service and repair domestic appliances, office machinery and electricity plant machinery, appliances and wiring.

How people enter it

Academic qualifications may not be required, though some GCSEs/S grades or an equivalent qualification may be an advantage. NVQs/SVQs are available at levels 1, 2 and 3. Apprenticeships combining practical work experience and technical training are available at levels 2 and 3. Entrants must have good eyesight and normal colour vision.

What the work involves

• examines drawings, specifications and wiring diagrams to determine the method and sequence of operations
• maintains and repairs electricity plant machinery, domestic appliances, office machinery and other electrical assembly and replaces worn parts and faulty wiring
• diagnoses faults using test equipment and investigates their causes
• writes reports on maintenance work and implements systems to ensure all equipment is properly maintained
• responds to call outs for unplanned/emergency repair work, both for domestic clients and in industrial settings

Also called

Domestic appliance engineer · Maintenance man (electricity supplier) · Machine repairer (office machinery) · Repairer (electrical machinery) · Service engineer (domestic electrical appliances)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers, 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

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