What Work Nottinghamshire for Young People 2015/16 | Page 10

What Work Nottinghamshire 2015 / 2016

HI-TECH / ADVANCED
ENGINEERING

Technology is the main reason for old jobs disappearing. With nine out
of 10 new jobs today needing some level of IT skills it’s hard to escape
it. There are so many exciting and rewarding careers within science,
engineering and technology – fashion, gaming, digital media, music, motor
sport, aerospace...Why not become expert and help the UK become the
best innovators in the world?

What is happening?

Skills & qualities

• Around 14,500 people work in the IT and telecoms
sector in Notts1 – a large increase in the last year –
and many more will be doing the same jobs but for
other organisations.
• BT recruitment drive for jobs installing household
broadband.

Useful subjects

• High numbers of telecoms companies in Newark
& Sherwood district and Nottingham. Clusters
of IT businesses in Broxtowe, Nottingham and
Rushcliffe.
• IT industry is desperately seeking girls! Young
women make up less than 20% of the IT workforce.
• Automotive (vehicles) electronics, consumer
electronics (for example digital cameras, tablets,
smart phones) are growing areas and need skilled
young people to research and design new products
and parts.
• Demand for engineers skilled in design,
electronics, vehicles, aerospace (yes these
are all hi-tech jobs!), games designers, cyber
security experts and data analysts. Big
investment from the government in these
areas means thousands of apprenticeship and
graduate openings.

Local employers
• BT

• Vodafone

• Timico

• Changan

• Rolls Royce

• Sygnature

• Emnet

• Chinook Sciences

• Alliance Boots

• Alkane Energy

• Glenair UK

What could you earn?*

8

£21,900

Biological scientist

£38,100

Mechanical engineer

£40,600

Design engineer

£38,500

Web designer

£29,200

Motor mechanic

£24,200
£31,400

Software developer

• One in five jobs in Greater Nottingham is
related to science.

Lab technician

Telecoms engineer

• According to Engineering UK there could be
2.74m job openings between 2010 and 2020
across a range of engineering jobs.

£40,000

1 Business Register and Employment Survey 2013 2 e-skills 3 Engineering UK * Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2014. Average
full-time (median) salary rounded to the nearest £100. Doesn’t include self employed.