Building trades

25 career areas

• Bricklayers Average salary: £33,030
  UK employment: +1.9% last 3 years
• Carpenters and joiners Average salary: £34,010
  UK employment: -10.8% last 3 years
• Construction and building trades Average salary: £34,820
  UK employment: +0% last 3 years
• Construction operatives Average salary: £32,450
  UK employment: +17% last 3 years
• Electrical and electronic trades Average salary: £48,570
  UK employment: -45.6% last 3 years
• Electricians and electrical fitters Average salary: £39,650
  UK employment: -9.8% last 3 years
• Elementary construction occupations Average salary: £28,590
  UK employment: -25.8% last 3 years
• Floorers and wall tilers Average salary: £32,860
  UK employment: -18.2% last 3 years
• Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers Average salary: £33,080
  UK employment: +15% last 3 years
• Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers Average salary: £28,940
  UK employment: +90.2% last 3 years
• Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters Average salary: £29,440
  UK employment: -9.2% last 3 years
• Groundworkers Average salary: £37,930
  UK employment: -8.2% last 3 years
• Other skilled trades Average salary: £29,340
  UK employment: -30.3% last 3 years
• Painters and decorators Average salary: £32,760
  UK employment: -9.2% last 3 years
• Pipe fitters Average salary: £42,580
  UK employment: -64.8% last 3 years
• Plasterers Average salary: £34,020
  UK employment: -19.3% last 3 years
• Plumbers & heating and ventilating installers and repairers Average salary: £37,880
  UK employment: -0.3% last 3 years
• Process operatives Average salary: £31,720
  UK employment: -30.1% last 3 years
• Road construction operatives Average salary: £38,830
  UK employment: -35.9% last 3 years
• Roofers, roof tilers and slaters Average salary: £31,910
  UK employment: -31.4% last 3 years
• Scaffolders, stagers and riggers Average salary: £41,550
  UK employment: +4.4% last 3 years
• Security system installers and repairers Average salary: £39,000
  UK employment: -23.9% last 3 years
• Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors Average salary: £45,150
  UK employment: -2.7% last 3 years
• Steel erectors Average salary: £35,820
  UK employment: +34.4% last 3 years
• Stonemasons and related trades Average salary: £33,940
  UK employment: -25.6% last 3 years