The Engineering Industry Labour Report 2025
The Engineering Industry Labour Report 2025
We connect organisations with control systems engineers for permanent and contract roles in defence, marine, manufacturing, and MedTech. Candidates we work with have expertise in PLC programming, SCADA systems, motion control, industrial automation, PID tuning, and control loop optimisation. Whether you’re delivering automated production lines, marine propulsion systems, medical instrumentation, or defence control platforms, we ensure you can access engineers with the right technical knowledge.
Our network includes engineers proficient in software and hardware tools such as Siemens TIA Portal, Rockwell Studio 5000, LabVIEW, MATLAB/Simulink, and ABB Control Systems. They also understand relevant standards and safety protocols, and safety integrity levels (SIL), ensuring their knowledge aligns with operational and compliance needs.
Every recruitment process is designed around your project and team. By collaborating with hiring managers, we connect you with engineers whose control systems expertise, programming skills, and understanding of operational constraints allows them to contribute immediately to both contract and permanent roles.
Exploring potential roles? Looking for a new challenge or career path? Whatever your reasons, our expert team is here to find you the ideal control systems engineer role. We’ll take the time to understand your background, skills and future ambitions – only matching you with the most suitable roles.
We’re always interested in hearing from candidates with strong backgrounds working with systems and software such as SOLIDWORKS, Amtech, EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical and Zuken. To get started, upload your CV or browse our open positions today. We’ll be in touch when a vacancy fits.
£30-£39 per hourDidcot
Responsibilities: * Control panel building * Panel wiring to IPC standards * Rack building and wiring * Cable pulling * Prototype wiring * Adding connectors to cables * Working to diagrams and schematics * 18th edition electrical would be preferred
£35-£50 per hourDerby
* Sound understanding of cyber software measures (encryption key management, CAN message authentication, hardware implementations like HSM, etc) * Requirements capture - Threat analysis Attack Tree, TARA, Cyber Goals and Cyber requirements etc * Lead in identifying suitable cyber measures and approving proposed solutions * Reviewing component validation plans and organising resources to support * Generate test plan and deliver validation penetration and fuzz testing
£38,000-£42,000 per annumBerkshire
The role is field-based, covering the South and M4 corridor, and would suit someone based around Reading, Basingstoke, Newbury or Farnborough. You'll be installing, commissioning and maintaining water treatment equipment on customer sites, carrying out planned maintenance and fault-finding, and working closely with clients and contractors on live sites.
£65-£75 per hour
Experience required: * Electronic design & engineering experience * Altium experience (preferred others considered) * Excellent PCB design, layout and schematic capture experience * Knowledge of SIL preferred. * Power electronics experience preferred * Analogue & Digital design experience * Understanding of embedded software would be an advantage * Previous marine/defence experience (advantageous not a necessity)
£30-£39 per hourDidcot
Murray McIntosh are currently seeking an Electrical Technician to work for a client of ours on a contract basis as detailed below: Responsibilities: * Control panel building * Panel wiring to IPC standards * Rack building and wiring * Cable pulling * Prototype wiring * Adding connectors to cables * Working to diagrams and schematics * 18th edition electrical would be preferred
£55,000-£65,000 per annumTaunton
Responsibilities and skills: * Previous experience in a similar role * Experience of producing Safety Management Plans and Safety Case documentation * Experience of Conducting Risk identification and Hazard assessments * Previous experience in Creating and maintenance of hazard logs maintenance, evidence gathering and requirements validation * Previous experience in defence would be ideal * Ideally be trained to Ship Safety Management Organisation (SSMO) level or equivalent
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