The Engineer’s 2019 salary survey, which was published earlier this week, contained some notable findings, not least that engineering salaries appear to be on the increase across the board.
But perhaps one of the most significant statistics to be drawn from this year’s report is the fact that respondents working in the renewables and nuclear sectors now enjoy the highest salaries, higher than their peers in the oil and gas sector for the first time in the survey’s history.
Given the rapid pace of technological change in the energy sector and its critical importance to many of the challenges we face – from the need to transition to a zero-carbon economy, to bolstering the UK’s energy security – it’s hardly surprising that engineers working in this field are highly valued.
But in an already challenging skills market, ensuring that the sector attracts the engineers it requires to continue its upward trajectory will be a major challenge in the months and years ahead.
In this week’s poll we’re asking what, if anything, you think needs to be done to ensure the renewables sector taps into the talent it requires. Let us know your thoughts on the issue in the comments section below. The results of the poll will be published on June 18th.
I picked the “focus on young” option, school leavers need a better option than heading to overpriced university courses. An influx of quality apprentices can drive the sector at all levels for years to come
I have just passed my Honours degree with the Open University and would love to get into this field
Is there anywhere in Somerset that Are taking on?
The industry must focus on recruiting the next generation. Engineering is already struggling to recruit the 200,000 engineers needed annually. Poaching talent from elsewhere is only kicking the problem down the road.
This seems to be a good reference document: https://www.engineeringuk.com/media/1576/7444_enguk18_synopsis_standalone_aw.pdf – and supports Ms Osborne’s 200,000 figure. I’d also be interested to know what % of engineering graduates are UK nationals – and so likely to enter the UK job market – and how many overseas students, who may not …
The answer I was looking for was not included.
Stop buying overseas and make the stuff ourselves.
Dale, something like the ‘Make America Great’ campaign orchestrated by Mr. Trump, We could have the ‘Put the Great back into Britain’ I’d back that. And while we’re at it lets have Protected Status for engineers, that alone would boost the numbers of young engineers, but don’t get me started.
I think growing the talent pool requires concentration on the physical sciences (both syllabus and teaching at school) part of STEM; making it easier to learn and more interesting, than it is now.
I do believe, however, that learning is not just for the young and that there should be additional routes into the profession and access to learning – not necessarily relying on a piece of paper to say one can do the job
Dale’s comment and thinking is very sound: but almost totally at odds with the thinking of those who believe they are Right. A society whose primary activity is selling ‘stuff’ they neither own, made or grew: that rewards most those who fight others disputes, or count-up the numbers after the event(s) of commerce, diddling HMG of taxes properly due, or who ‘insure’ (a bet you hope you lose) or lend money which is not theirs even able to change the price after the ‘contract’ is made: whose livelihoods depend on that conflict, not its outcome, or who jeer, smear, sneer as they comment but offer no solutions….or who cover everything that we all do with regulations, or ‘act as leeches on the jugular of innovation….! ‘ its small wonder that now 80+ % of our so called economy is the so-cal;led ‘services’ I describe above. Jumped-up clerks have now gained complete control -and they are shortly (if present predictions are correct) to be led and encouraged by an individual described as a buffoon, even by most of his supporters. Your world? you are welcome to it!
LOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Backing_Britain