Telecommunications engineering technicians
AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Providing technical assistance connected with research and the development of telecommunications equipment, or testing prototypes48
- Providing technical supervision of the manufacture, utilization, maintenance and repair of telecommunications systems to ensure satisfactory performance and compliance with specifications and regulations48
- Applying technical knowledge of telecommunications engineering principles and practices in order to identify and solve problems arising in the course of their work.47
- Preparing detailed estimates of quantities and costs of materials and labour required for the manufacture and installation of telecommunications equipment, according to the specifications given46
- Studying technical material such as blue prints and sketches to determine the method of work to be adopted39
How much does it affect you?
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For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Providing technical assistance connected with research and the development of telecommunications equipment, or testing prototypes(48)
- Providing technical supervision of the manufacture, utilization, maintenance and repair of telecommunications systems to ensure satisfactory performance and compliance with specifications and regulations(48)
- Applying technical knowledge of telecommunications engineering principles and practices in order to identify and solve problems arising in the course of their work.(47)
- Preparing detailed estimates of quantities and costs of materials and labour required for the manufacture and installation of telecommunications equipment, according to the specifications given(46)
- Studying technical material such as blue prints and sketches to determine the method of work to be adopted(39)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 45.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Providing technical assistance connected with research and the development of telecommunications equipment, or testing prototypes
- • Providing technical supervision of the manufacture, utilization, maintenance and repair of telecommunications systems to ensure satisfactory performance and compliance with specifications and regulations
- • Studying technical material such as blue prints and sketches to determine the method of work to be adopted
- • Preparing detailed estimates of quantities and costs of materials and labour required for the manufacture and installation of telecommunications equipment, according to the specifications given
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Information and communications technicians group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Information and communications technicians |
|---|---|
| Spain | 1.9% · 422 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.6% · 386 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 1.4% · 44 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 1.2% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 1.2% · 65 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 1.2% · 34 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 1.2% · 61 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 1.1% · 28 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 1.0% · 54 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 1.0% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.9% · 42 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.9% · 23 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 0.9% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.9% · 26 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 0.9% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.8% · 282 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 0.8% · 341 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 0.8% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 0.8% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.8% · 76 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 0.7% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 0.7% · 204 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 0.7% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 0.6% · 3 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 0.6% · 29 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 0.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.5% · 40 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 0.5% · 83 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 0.4% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.3% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Technicians and associate professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland5,280
- Luxembourg4,320
- Norway4,307
- Denmark4,301
- Ireland4,024
- Belgium3,903
- Iceland3,856
- Germany3,608
- Austria3,399
- Netherlands3,247
- EU273,226
- Italy3,127
- Sweden3,089
- Finland2,971
- France2,687
- Spain2,685
- Slovenia2,660
- Cyprus2,537
- Lithuania2,472
- Malta2,464
- Romania2,310
- Poland2,294
- Czechia2,275
- Estonia2,251
- Croatia2,127
- Latvia2,081
- Hungary2,054
- Greece2,050
- Portugal2,044
- Slovakia2,027
- Bulgaria1,738
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Information and communications technicians group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?