The Datum Report

Occupation 5250 · Skilled trades occupations

Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors

Half of full-time skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors in the UK earn more than £45,150 a year, and half earn less.

Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors oversee operations and directly supervise and coordinate the activities of workers in skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades.

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 would be required together with significant, relevant work experience.

What the work involves

• directly supervises and coordinates the activities of skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades workers
• establishes and monitors work schedules to meet productivity requirements
• liaises with managers and other departments and contractors to resolve operational problems
• determines or recommends staffing and other needs to meet productivity requirements
• reports as required to managerial staff on departmental activities

Also called

Electrical supervisor · Maintenance supervisor (manufacturing) · Service manager (garage) · Workshop manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors, 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.

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