The role of an Engineer is both vital and highly sought after. With the rapid advancement of technology and the growing demand for innovative designs and solutions, skilled engineers are in constant demand. Whether developing groundbreaking infrastructure projects in London, creating sustainable technologies for startups in Manchester, or designing bespoke systems for businesses in Edinburgh, professionals in this field enjoy strong career prospects and the opportunity to shape the future through impactful solutions that drive progress across industries.
Engineer salary
Base pay £29K – £47K/yr
£37K/yr average base pay
The estimated total pay for a Engineer is £39,270 per year, with an average salary of £36,968 per year. This number represents the median, which is the midpoint of the ranges from our proprietary Total Pay Estimate model and based on salaries collected from our users. The estimated additional pay is £2,302 per year. Additional pay could include cash bonus, commission, tips, and profit sharing.
What do Engineer earn
How much does a Engineer make in United Kingdom?
£39,139/yr
Highest paying cities for Engineer near United Kingdom
- Biggin Hill
£51,349 per year8 salaries reported - London
£44,804 per year2.6k salaries reported - Glasgow
£39,070 per year322 salaries reported - Birmingham
£38,582 per year487 salaries reported - Bristol
£38,506 per year675 salaries reported - Manchester
£38,433 per year530 salaries reported - Leeds
£37,437 per year300 salaries reported - Southampton
£36,726 per year181 salaries reported - Liverpool
£35,822 per year149 salaries reported
What’s on Quora?
What is the average salary of a engineer?
I am eligible to answer this question not for myself but for my friend. This is the story of a friend who moved from ~6 LPA to ~40 LPA in less than 5 years.
A short story to understand the background first
Let’s call my friend, Varun.
We both are graduates from Delhi College of Engineering (Sushant Singh Rajput is our Idol too) from the batch of 2015.
In 2020, I am exactly standing at a juncture where it has been 5 years since we graduated.
Varun was an average college graduate from Electronics and Communication. He barely managed to score 70% where toppers in his batch were scoring 90% towards the end of their B.Tech.
He sat for more than 16 companies on campus till September. Got rejected from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Airtel, NXP semiconductors and what not.
You name a technical company & he had a rejection story to share at the end of the process.
His financial background was so weak, that we used to ask him if we could help him out with his daily expenses.
He never allowed us.
We never used to go to an extravagant place where we could spend lavishly. The friendship was built on that level of mutual understanding.
After so many rejections, he understood a pattern. It was already September of the placement season.
The companies on campus were demanding software profiles more than any other profiles. Both the offer rollouts and the companies visiting the campus were large in number.
He locked himself for some days to start learning the basics of programming. He used to apply in coding companies only to analyse later why he was getting rejected again & again.
Now, we were in December. Placement season would end in the next 4 months. All his friends were placed. Some batch mates even used to party in hostel rooms besides his room while he started learning one coding language after the other.
Towards the end of December, he was finally placed at a modest salary of 6.8 LPA in Gurgaon. To & Fro travel from Ghaziabad to Gurgaon almost made his life miserable.
For 2 years, he looked out for a switch never for the sake of salary but for a better location.
Luckily, he moved to an E-Commerce profile in a start-up. He was still in the same coding profile but now working at 13.8 LPA. In another year of service, he understood a similar pattern again.
The companies were now paying huge sums of money for the same coding profiles but for other relevant coding languages. In a matter of 7 months, he became almost an expert of multiple languages.
He started applying to many companies and was still getting rejected by most of them (He never had that communication skills which many companies now demanded as a “required” one)
Luckily, last year he made a switch to a behemoth which is paying him 40 LPA.
The journey is no less than an inspiration for many of us who stop for the lookouts of better profiles & better companies just because we fail too early or become complacent with what we get.
Today, he is still not well off financially but has built a new home for his family & has saved enough money for his sister’s CA preparation.
Varun is certainly that guy who deserves the limelight but is too shy to come out and tell his own story.
Be like Varun.
Happy Reading.
Top Answer
- Mention the country & discipline
- Normal engineering disciplines (if lucky) in India will get Rs. 5 lakhs or Rs.5,00,000 per annum (all inclusive)
- Else, if missed out campus placements, then expect not more than Rs. 2,00,000 per annum
- Civil or Electronics or Mechanical (some selective) are difficult to get placements.
