Engineering adds £645bn a year to the UK economy

Research from the Royal Academy of Engineering has revealed that the engineering sector adds an estimated £645bn to the UK’s annual economy.

The work, published by the Royal Academy to mark National Engineering Day, found that the UK has 729,000 engineering businesses, accounting for a tenth of all businesses in the country. 

The ‘engineering economy’ employs eight million people, and the economic output from an engineering job is 23% higher on average than other jobs in the UK. 

There are 13 hotspots where more than a third of adults are employed in the engineering economy, including Aberdeenshire, Flintshire and Cumbria.

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