Engineering
Engineering is the application of scientific, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials, and processes.
The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialised fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application.
There are over
Employed in this sector in the Humber
This accounts for over
Of employment in the region
Did You Know?
Nationally
The Engineering industry requires more qualified people
Will there be opportunities available?
There is an annual shortfall of up to 59,000 engineering graduates & technicians to fill core engineering roles nationally
Engineering companies are projected to need 186,000 people nationally with engineering skills over the next 5 years
Careerometer
Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers. It provides access to a selection of UK headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation.
Use the boxes below to simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.
