Junior engineering salaries in the UK

Transparency

Most of these employers will not say what they pay

54 of 128 junior engineering listings publish a salary. The other 74 say “competitive”, or “dependent on experience”, or nothing at all — which for somebody applying to their first job means finding out how much it pays after the interview.

42% of junior engineering roles state a salary. Every figure on this page comes from that minority, and no honest number can come from anywhere else.

Geography

Where the roles actually are

London carries 32 roles of the 80 we could place — 40% of the located engineering listings on the board. The rest are spread thinly enough that most regions have fewer roles than a single London borough.

• London32
• South West8
• Scotland7
• South East7
• North West5
• Yorkshire & the Humber5

Of 128 listings, 80 name a region specific enough to count. The rest give a town we could not place, or are advertised UK-wide.

Comparison

How this compares with other junior work

The medians across every family we can measure sit within a few thousand pounds of each other, and their middle halves overlap almost completely. The spread inside engineering alone is £9,500 — wider than the gap between the best and worst paid family on the board.

Which field you enter matters less to your first salary than which employer you land in.

Requirements

What these listings ask for

The skills named most often across junior engineering adverts on the board. They are what the listings say, not what the job needs — a distinction worth keeping in mind when one of them looks surprising.

• Testing
• Recruitment
• Python
• Agile
• SQL
• Compliance
• Git
• Troubleshooting