What is take-home for an electrical engineer on the £60,303 median?

With no pension contribution, take-home in England in 2026/27 is about £45,533 a year, or £3,794 a month, after £11,553 Income Tax and £3,217 National Insurance. With a 5% pension contribution by salary sacrifice it is about £43,784. At the £43,003 lower quartile, with no pension, it is about £34,482.

Do chartered electrical engineers earn more?

ONS does not measure it. The nearest published figure is The Engineer’s 2025 Salary Survey, reported by the Engineering Council on 5 June 2025: of 621 respondents across 12 sectors, registered engineers earned £7,000 more than those who were not registered. The respondents chose to take part, the figure covers every registration title, and it is not adjusted for experience or seniority, so it cannot say how much chartership itself adds.

Is a contract inside IR35 taxed like employment?

Largely, yes. When the off-payroll rules apply, the fee-payer deducts Income Tax and employee National Insurance from the deemed payment as it would from a salary, and pays employer National Insurance on it, so the take-home on a given gross follows the same 20%, 40% and 8% or 2% bands as the median figure above. What differs is what the day rate has to cover: no employer pension contribution, sick pay or paid holiday unless the contract says otherwise.

Electrical Engineer Salary 2026/27: ONS Pay and Take-Home

ONS classifies electrical engineers as SOC 2020 unit group 2123. Their full-time median was £60,303 in ASHE 2025, with a quarter of the group below £43,003 and a quarter above £73,899. Professional registration as IEng or CEng runs through an institution licensed by the Engineering Council, such as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Typical pay & take-home

Median gross: £60,303
ASHE 2025, 25th to 75th percentile: £43,003–£73,899
Take-home at median: £45,533 England, no pension applied — use the salary calculator for your scheme.

At the median for this profession, you earn about 54% above the UK full-time median (£39,039), placing you between the 75th percentile (£54,009) and the 90th percentile (£76,903) of UK full-time earnings.

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What influences electrical engineer pay

Electrical engineering has no national pay scale, so this page anchors on the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. For SOC 2020 2123, the April 2025 full-time median was £60,303, with the 10th percentile at £33,986, the lower quartile at £43,003 and the upper quartile at £73,899. ONS did not publish a reliable 90th percentile, and the table does not split the group by sector, seniority or registration.

Registration as Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng) is assessed against the Engineering Council standard UK-SPEC, through a licensed institution such as the IET. ONS does not measure what registration adds to pay. The Engineering Council reports The Engineer’s 2025 Salary Survey, in which registered engineers earned £7,000 more than unregistered respondents, but that covers every engineering sector and registration title and is not adjusted for experience.

The median is a higher-rate salary. With no pension contribution, about £10,033 of it sits above the £50,270 threshold and is taxed at 40%, with 2% National Insurance on the same slice. A 5% salary sacrifice pension cuts that slice to about £7,018.

Career progression

ASHE does not publish electrical engineering pay by career stage. These are points in the April 2025 full-time pay distribution for SOC 2020 2123.
10th percentile: £33,986.
Lower quartile: £43,003.
Median: £60,303.
Upper quartile: £73,899. ONS did not publish a reliable 90th percentile for the group.
Professional registration as IEng or CEng through a licensed institution such as the IET, assessed against UK-SPEC.

Frequently asked questions

What is take-home for an electrical engineer on the £60,303 median?: With no pension contribution, take-home in England in 2026/27 is about £45,533 a year, or £3,794 a month, after £11,553 Income Tax and £3,217 National Insurance. With a 5% pension contribution by salary sacrifice it is about £43,784. At the £43,003 lower quartile, with no pension, it is about £34,482.
Do chartered electrical engineers earn more?: ONS does not measure it. The nearest published figure is The Engineer’s 2025 Salary Survey, reported by the Engineering Council on 5 June 2025: of 621 respondents across 12 sectors, registered engineers earned £7,000 more than those who were not registered. The respondents chose to take part, the figure covers every registration title, and it is not adjusted for experience or seniority, so it cannot say how much chartership itself adds.
Is a contract inside IR35 taxed like employment?: Largely, yes. When the off-payroll rules apply, the fee-payer deducts Income Tax and employee National Insurance from the deemed payment as it would from a salary, and pays employer National Insurance on it, so the take-home on a given gross follows the same 20%, 40% and 8% or 2% bands as the median figure above. What differs is what the day rate has to cover: no employer pension contribution, sick pay or paid holiday unless the contract says otherwise.

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