Working as a plumber in the United Kingdom
What official sources say about working as a plumber in the United Kingdom: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In the United Kingdom, the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers", which includes plumbers, earns ≈ 3,471 EUR/month (gross, 2025). Plumber is a regulated profession in the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, plumbers are listed on the Temporary Shortage List — Appendix Skilled Worker SW 6.1A.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers"
- ≈ 3,471 EUR/month (gross, 2025)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Craft and related trades workers" in the United Kingdom: ≈ 3,471 EUR/month (gross, 2025), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of plumbers alone.
Regulation and recognition
Plumber is a regulated profession in the United Kingdom.
- Recognition authority
- No single UK-wide foreign-qualification authority for every plumbing job is identified in the UK regulated-professions list. HSE and Gas Safe apply to the narrower gas-work activity.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for plumber in United Kingdom: Temporary Shortage List — Appendix Skilled Worker SW 6.1A.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Plumber in the United Kingdom: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 76b518a6c4e62745606649a3f11d7b46]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/plumber/united-kingdom/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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