Engineering

Labour Market Information- Engineering

• Workers within the engineering sector – including in engineering and non-engineering occupations – accounted for 19.0% of all UK employees in 2018.

• It is clear that some engineering industries are in decline. The number of workers in UK based engineering-related industries within the mining and quarrying sector, for example, decreased by 12.6% between 2017 and 2018.

• A significant proportion of those working in engineering occupations do so outside of engineering industries, which suggests that engineering skills are widely required and used beyond the sector itself. There were 1.8 million workers in engineering-related roles in other sectors in 2018, constituting 43.0% of the total workforce in engineering occupations.

• Increasingly, apprenticeships are being used as a route into Engineering.

• There is continued gender disparity in engineering: while women comprised 47.1% of the overall UK workforce in 2018, only 10.1% of workers in engineering occupations were female. Engineering UK are working hard to increase access to this profession for women and are encouraging girls to become more involved in STEM activities and degrees to close this gap.

• Most engineering and technology graduates go on to careers in engineering: 62.0% of full-time UK domiciled engineering and technology leavers entered an engineering occupation. Of all engineering disciplines, those studying civil engineering were most likely to do so (77.8%).

• Redbridge has 6.4% working the engineering related trades, which is above the UK average of 4.7%.