Salary survey: What’s a UK engineer worth in 2022?
The Engineer’s latest annual salary survey points to a modest average pay increase but a growing appetite for change amongst UK engineers
Across the economy the great resignation is underway. After an unsettling couple of years - where hanging on in there became the priority for hunkered down workers – job vacancies are higher than they have been for years and record numbers of people are said to be leaving their current roles to explore new opportunities. This appetite for change is one of the key findings of The Engineer’s latest annual salary survey.
According to this year’s survey, which attracted responses from almost 800 engineers across 11 different sectors, the mean average salary for UK engineers now stands at £58k which marks a modest 2.3 per cent increase on last year’s figure. And whilst more than half of our respondents (56 per cent) have received a pay increase over the past 12 months, for most this has been below the current rate of inflation.
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