UK engineers optimistic about 2023 reveals latest survey from The Engineer

This November, in order to find out how industry’s engineers are feeling about the challenges they face, The Engineer conducted its latest end-of-year business confidence survey. 

We asked our readers  - drawn from across industry - to tell us how they are feeling about the year ahead, what technology areas and sectors they expect to dominate, and how they expect their own organisations to perform.

What’s more, by comparing this year’s results with those of our previous survey (published in December 2020) we are able gauge whether confidence levels have improved or declined over the past two years. The key findings are highlighted here. 

Conducted during November 2022, and sponsored by enterprise software specialist Planview, the survey was completed by 146 respondents from a range of different sectors. The largest single response group (29 per cent of respondents) was from manufacturing, with the next largest sample groups from the electronics, defence & security and aerospace sectors, which each accounted for six per cent of the response group.