Engineering and manufacturing
Mechanical engineer jobs
Designing, testing and improving mechanical systems, from a single component to a whole production line.
£51,110 median full-time pay, UK, ONS 2025
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What mechanical engineer jobs pay
Median full-time pay for mechanical engineers was £51,110 across the UK in 2025. Full-time work of every kind had a median of £39,039, so this occupation sits about 1.3 times that. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it describes the occupation nationally rather than any advert on this page.
That figure is the reason this role is on the board. Every role here has a published ONS median full-time salary at or above £50,000, and it is checked against the ONS table each time the site is built rather than asserted in the copy. A role that stopped clearing it would stop the build.
Pay varies more by region than most people expect. ONS publishes it for groups of related occupations rather than single job titles, so the table beside this covers civil, mechanical, electrical, electronics, design and production engineers, and engineering project managers, not mechanical engineer jobs alone.
Median full-time pay by region, 2025
| Region | Median full-time pay |
|---|---|
| London | £58,034 |
| South East | £52,903 |
| East of England | £52,125 |
| South West | £48,793 |
| West Midlands | £50,043 |
| East Midlands | £47,366 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £46,664 |
| North West | £50,959 |
| North East | £45,691 |
| Wales | £44,240 |
| Scotland | £52,387 |
Why there are no area pages for this role
The census is the only source that publishes occupation down to local authority level, and it publishes it in groups of related jobs rather than one job at a time. Mechanical engineer jobs sit in group 212, alongside engineering project manager jobs, civil engineer jobs, electrical engineer jobs.
So there is one number for all of them in any given area. Building a page per role per area would mean the same figure appearing under several different headings, in 175 places each, which is the doorway pattern this site is built to avoid. One role carries the local pages for the group and the rest say so plainly.
For local figures on this group, see engineering project manager jobs. The pay figures above are specific to mechanical engineer jobs and are not shared with the rest of the group.
Mechanical engineer: the full picture
Design, maintenance and manufacturing are three jobs
Design work is CAD, analysis, tolerancing and iteration, and it is judged on whether the thing can be made and will last. Maintenance engineering is reliability, root cause and keeping plant running, often on call. Manufacturing engineering sits between the two, making a design producible at rate.
Pay and lifestyle differ across them more than the shared title suggests. Maintenance carries shift and call-out premiums; design generally does not.
Degree or apprenticeship
Both routes are live and both are respected. An accredited degree is the straighter path to chartership. A higher or degree apprenticeship gets you practical experience and no debt, and increasingly ends in the same qualification.
For chartership through IMechE, the accreditation of your qualification determines how much extra learning you need. It is worth checking that before choosing a course rather than discovering it a decade later.
Before you apply
- An accredited engineering degree or a strong apprenticeship route
- IMechE membership for chartered roles
- Right to work in the UK
Mechanical engineer jobs: common questions
Does mechanical engineer work pay more than £50,000 a year?
On the national figures, yes, and that is why the role is on this board at all. Median full-time pay for mechanical engineers was £51,110 across the UK in 2025, against £39,039 for full-time work of every kind. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it says nothing about what any individual advert pays.
What qualifications do I need to work as a mechanical engineer?
An accredited engineering degree or a strong apprenticeship route. IMechE membership for chartered roles. Right to work in the UK.
Where does AboveMedian have local figures for mechanical engineer jobs?
Nowhere, and the reason is worth stating. The census publishes occupation in groups of related jobs, and mechanical engineer jobs share a group with engineering project manager jobs, civil engineer jobs, electrical engineer jobs. Local pages for each of them would show the same figure under different headings, so only one role carries them. For local figures on this group, see engineering project manager jobs. Adverts themselves are UK wide.
Do you decide who gets sent to an employer?
No. You read the adverts, you choose one, and you apply to that employer yourself. Nothing on this site forwards a person to a job they did not apply to, and no employer is given a list of people.
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