2021 salary survey points to 10 per cent average pay increase for engineers

Every year, The Engineer surveys professionals from across industry to ask how much they are earning, where in the UK they are based, what sector they’re working in and a host of other questions related to job satisfaction, employee benefits and attitudes to the big issues facing industry.

This year’s survey - which can be read in full here - attracted responses from 845 engineers working across 11 different sectors. The demographic of the response group is broadly in line with our previous survey - which was carried out in 2019 - with 95 per cent of our respondents working on a full time basis and 91 per cent in permanent roles. 45 per cent of those taking part describe themselves as senior engineers, whilst 66 per cent have worked in engineering for 20 years or more. 67.4 per cent of this year’s sample group are aged 45 or over.