Vehicle Technicians, Mechanics and Electricians
Wages
New workers start around Ā£19,295. Normal pay is Ā£30,732 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to Ā£46,879.
Available jobs
In the past year there were 166,650 vacancies for this type of job
Projected job growth over the next 8 years
Related courses
People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.
What they do most days?
Repairs and services air conditioning, heating and engine-cooling systems.
Installs additional electrical amenities such as radio/CD players, aerials.
Checks condition of electrical/electronic systems and carries out servicing tasks.
Diagnoses faults in electrical/electronic circuitry, removes faulty components and fits replacements.
Carries out routine maintenance checks on oil and air filters, brakes and other vehicle parts/systems.
Reassembles, tests, adjusts and tunes the appropriate parts, systems or entire engine.
Removes, dismantles, repairs and replaces defective parts and prepares new parts using appropriate tools.
Visually checks, test drives or uses test equipment to diagnose engine and mechanical faults.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.