Gilded youth | Features

Who’s in most demand
	% rise	average pay
graduate geotechnical engineer	19	£16,208
graduate transportation planner	19	£16,500
building surveyor, age 22, two years’ experience	16.6	£17,833
bridge engineer, two years’ experience	15.7	£20,500
graduate bridge engineer	15.4	£16,292
infrastructure graduate engineer	14.6	£15,959
geotechnical engineer, two years’ experience	14.3	£20,167
infrastructure engineer, two years’ experience	14	£20,250
chartered building surveyor, age 25	13.9	£23,958
assistant project quantity surveyor, age 22, one or two years’ experience	13.9	£17,958
graduate structural engineer	13.4	£16,083
structural engineer, two years’ experience	13	£21,000
graduate water engineer	12.9	£15,333
CAD architectural technician, three years’ experience	12.1	£19,000
senior architectural technologist	11.6	£25,667
graduate project quantity surveyor	11.5	£14,833
graduate building surveyor/trainee, age 22	11.5	£14,917
senior traffic planner, four years’ experience	10.4	£24,542

Architects
	London and South	% rise	Wales and West	% rise	Midlands	% rise	North and Scotland	% rise	Ireland	% rise	national rise*
partner/director	44,750	2.5	40,000	8.8	39,000	3.5	37,000	2.8	48,500	24.4	4.6
associate	39,667	7.7	35,000	21.7	29,833	0.6	30,000	7.1	34,500	6.2	7.1
six years’ experience	32,667	8.9	29,500	20.4	27,000	3.9	25,875	10.1	30,000	13.2	8.0
newly qualified, CAD experience	25,333	8.6	21,000	15.1	20,667	14.8	18,000	14.3	20,000	21.2	7.9
architectural assistant, part II	20,000	9.1	17,000	13.3	16,167	7.8	15,250	10.9	18,250	14.1	8.9
CAD technician, 10 years’ experience	28,333	11.1	21,500	0	23,333	6.1	22,000	6.0	22,000	(12.0)	7.9
CAD technician, three years’ experience	24,000	16.1	17,000	3.0	19,000	16.3	16,667	12.1	20,500	10.8	12.6
senior technologist, 10 years’ experience	29,000	9.4	25,000	22.0	26,333	14.5	23,000	6.4	28,500	9.6	11.6
technologist, three years’ experience	23,667	9.2	18,000	16.1	21,000	16.7	16,250	4.8	20,800	6.7	9.2
junior technologist	14,667	2.3	13,000	6.1	14,000	17.5	12,750	6.3	15,500	10.7	6.7
senior interior designer	34,000	5.2	27,000	5.9	29,667	14.8	24,000	4.1	26,000	0.0	7.6
graduate interior designer	15,667	9.3	13,000	4.0	12,667	(1.3)	12,250	4.3	13,000	(10.3)	2.6
space planner, eight to 10 years’ experience	32,000	3.2	24,500	8.9	24,000	2.9	21,750	4.8	n/a	n/a	4.5
landscape architect, eight to 10 years’ experience	28,000	(1.2)	25,000	6.4	26,000	11.4	22,750	2.3	n/a	n/a	4.1

Quantity surveyors
	London and South	% rise	Wales and West	% rise	Midlands	% rise	North and Scotland	% rise	Ireland	% rise	national rise*
partner/director, age 45	46,333	1.5	42,500	3.7	43,333	6.6	39,750	(0.3)	52,500	31.3	2.8
associate, age 35-40, ARICS	39,833	6.7	35,500	4.4	34,000	(1.9)	33,125	3.9	38,500	20.3	2.4
senior surveyor, age 32, six years’ experience	34,333	2.5	28,000	(0.9)	29,667	3.5	30,500	13.5	33,500	28.9	6.5
surveyor, 27-30, ARICS	29,333	4.1	26,000	4.0	25,666	4.1	26,250	11.7	28,500	29.6	7.5
newly qualified surveyor, aged 25	26,167	1.3	22,000	8.6	22,000	6.5	21,250	11.1	21,750	27.9	8.5
assistant surveyor, aged 22, 1-2 years’ experience	21,167	13.4	18,500	15.6	17,000	9.7	16,500	16.8	17,000	21.4	13.9
graduate surveyor	17,333	9.5	14,000	3.7	13,333	3.9	14,500	19.6	15,000	30.4	11.5
claims surveyor, age 35, five years’ experience	45,000	18.9	34,000	3.0	31,333	(4.1)	30,000	2.1	n/a	n/a	3.0
project manager, age 38, five years’ experience	39,000	5.9	32,000	(3.0)	34,000	2.0	32,750	(0.4)	n/a	n/a	1.5

Engineers
	London and South	% rise	Wales and West	% rise	Midlands	% rise	North and Scotland	% rise	Ireland	% rise	national rise*
structural engineers
associate	36,667	10.0	32,500	6.6	33,000	5.3	32,750	4.4	38,500	22.2	6.5
senior, more than five years’ experience	29,333	11.4	27,000	9.1	27,000	8.0	25,375	2.0	28,500	9.6	6.6
graduate	17,000	14.6	17,500	25.0	15,667	6.8	15,000	10.1	15,500	14.8	13.4
infrastructure engineers
principal, 11 years’ experience	32,583	7.4	30,000	3.5	33,667	17.5	30,250	6.6	36,000	18.0	8.2
graduate, more than two years’ experience	16,500	10.0	17,250	32.7	15,333	8.2	15,375	16.0	15,000	5.3	14.6
bridge engineer
associate, more than 13 years’ experience	34,000	4.6	31,500	0.8	32,333	5.4	32,000	4.5	37,500	25.0	4.7
geotech engineer
principal, 11 years’ experience	32,833	4.2	35,000	15.7	31,000	11.4	30,500	6.6	n/a	n/a	9.3

Building surveyors
	London and South	% rise	Wales and West	% rise	Midlands	% rise	North and Scotland	% rise	Ireland	% rise	national rise*
partner/director, age 40-45	46,667	1.1	42,000	0.6	41,333	(2.4)	41,250	4.4	n/a	n/a	0.8
associate, age 32, six years’ experience	38,000	8.6	33,000	10.0	32,000	1.1	32,625	12.5	n/a	n/a	7.6
chartered building surveyor, age 25,	28,333	16.4	23,500	20.5	22,500	9.8	22,000	11.4	21,500	26.5	13.9
one year’s experience
maintenance surveyor, age 28, eight years’ trade,	28,000	18.3	19,000	(2.6)	19,667	(1.7)	19,750	3.6	n/a	n/a	6.8
two years’ experience
planning supervisor, age 40, 10 years’ experience	33,167	3.7	24,500	(3.0)	27,333	6.5	24,750	1.5	n/a	n/a	2.6