The Datum Report

Occupation 8145 · Process, plant and machine operatives

Tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters

Half of full-time tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters in the UK earn more than £30,500 a year, and half earn less.

Tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters fit, repair and adjust tyres, exhausts and windscreens on cars, buses, motorcycles and other motor vehicles, including fast-fit service and replacement activities.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements. Training is typically provided on-the-job, or through training programmes within larger companies. NVQs/SVQs in vehicle maintenance (service replacement) are available at levels 1 and 2.

What the work involves

• carries out inspection and assesses the nature and extent of repair necessary
• removes wheel, exhaust or windscreen using semi-automatic machinery or hand and power tools
• separates tyre from wheel and fits replacement tyre using automatic machine or by using a wheel stand and hand tools
• inflates tyre to correct pressure, refits wheel to axle and balances wheel using balancing machine
• replaces faulty parts of exhaust and refits exhaust or windscreen to vehicle

Also called

Tyre and exhaust fitter · Tyre fitter · Tyre technician · Windscreen fitter

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters, 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. 6 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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