Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers: salary in the UK
About £50,213 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +5.8% on last year
£5,698 a month About £4,184 a month after tax 6 thousand full-time jobs
Gross pay before tax, including bonuses, commission and overtime. Not included: benefits in kind such as a company car. About the data
Pay range
The dark part is the middle half of full-time employees (25% to 75%); the light bar runs from 10% to 90%. ONS doesn't publish the highest or lowest salary, and x means a figure wasn't published.
Pay by year
The median went from £45,726 in 2021 to £68,372 in 2026 (+50%); for all full-time employees in the UK it changed by +31% over the same years.
Figures by year
| P10 | P25 | Median | P75 | P90 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | x | x | £45,726 | x | x |
| 2022 | x | x | £45,125 | x | x |
| 2023 | x | x | £52,320 | x | x |
| 2024 | x | x | £56,983 | x | x |
| 2025 | x | x | £64,644 | x | x |
| 2026 | x | £49,729 | £68,372 | x | x |
ONS figures for each year, not adjusted for inflation. Years before 2021 used a different occupation classification, so they can't be compared. Earlier years are ONS's revised figures; the latest is provisional.
Half of full-time employees in this occupation earn less than £68,372 a year and half earn more. That is 67% more than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
Ranked by median, it is number 13 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £4,184 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £4,025 in Scotland.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | x | x |
| 20th | x | x |
| 25th (P25) | £49,729 | £4,144 |
| 30th | £58,963 | £4,914 |
| 40th | £62,679 | £5,223 |
| Median (50th) | £68,372 | £5,698 |
| 60th | £72,082 | £6,007 |
| 70th | x | x |
| 75th (P75) | x | x |
| 80th | x | x |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £69,455 | £70,927 | x |
| Women | x | x | x |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £50,213 | £4,184 |
| Scotland | £48,296 | £4,025 |
After Income Tax and National Insurance for 2026 to 2027, with the standard tax code and no pension or student loan. Work out your own take-home pay · Take-home pay on £68,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 39 job titles to SOC 5236 Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Body maker
- Brake examiner
- Carriage and wagon examiner
- Carriage and wagon fitter
- Carriage and wagon stripper
- Carriage body maker
- Carriage examiner
- Carriage fitter
- Carriage repairer
- Coach examiner
- Coach repairer
- Engine tuber
- Engineer
- Finisher
- Fitter
- Fixer
- Fleet engineer
- Frame fitter
- Lifter
- Locking fitter
- Locomotive boiler stripper
- Locomotive engineer
- Locomotive fitter
- Locomotive stripper
- Maintenance fitter
- Mechanical fitter
- Railway engineer
- Rolling stock engineer
- Rolling stock technician
- Service engineer
- Stripper
- Train engineer
- Train maintainer
- Tube fitter
- Tuber
- Wagon examiner
- Wagon fitter
- Wheel and axle mounter
- Wheeler
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Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2026 provisional, Table 14.7a (full-time employees, gross annual pay, UK, tax year ending 5 April 2026). Provisional figures may be revised.