Career change to security systems engineer

[PeterJames]

1 hour ago, Nero said:

What can a fully trained top end engineer look to earn in the industry? And do you cover alarms/cctv/ access control or would an engineer generally specialise in one area?

Again this is dependant on area company skill set ote ect, but there is a discussion in the trade are of this forum with reports of £50k+ I reckon our best engineer would be max £45k inc OTE and I recon thats a high estimate. Average would be in the region of £30k ish plus ote. Call-out for some companies is an earner for engineers, but we dont get that many calls out of hours nowadays.

[Nero]

19 minutes ago, PeterJames said:

Again this is dependant on area company skill set ote ect, but there is a discussion in the trade are of this forum with reports of £50k+ I reckon our best engineer would be max £45k inc OTE and I recon thats a high estimate. Average would be in the region of £30k ish plus ote. Call-out for some companies is an earner for engineers, but we dont get that many calls out of hours nowadays.

And does an engineer cover alarms/cctv/access control or do they mainly concentrate on one or the other?

[datadiffusion]

Depends, the more profitable of the locals here does about 1 intruder alarm a year, 2 CCTV jobs and 3000 nursecall / fire...

[PeterJames]

11 minutes ago, Nero said:

And does an engineer cover alarms/cctv/access control or do they mainly concentrate on one or the other?

All ours are multi skilled, but we try to put round pegs in round holes. We have installation engineers that are able to do the odd service, and service engineers that are able to help out installing. 

[goncall]

Nero,I'd stick with sky you won't make 40-50k in this game some do but as many say the industry is on its way down not up

[Nero]

1 minute ago, goncall said:

Nero,I'd stick with sky you won't make 40-50k in this game some do but as many say the industry is on its way down not up

How come? How can the industry be on the way down? Surely there's always gonna be a need for security systems? More so today than ever in the world we live in..

[MrHappy]

4 minutes ago, goncall said:

Nero,I'd stick with sky

 

I'd assume basic employed directly with sky would be comparable to an alarm co. ?

 

I'd assume OTE would be daylight hrs on a weekend ?

 

I'd also assume most SKY work is easier than security ?

[Amps]

We've just lost an engineer to a Sky who is following the 40k carrot. No idea how many hours it takes to hit 40k though.

[goncall]

4 minutes ago, Nero said:

How come? How can the industry be on the way down? Surely there's always gonna be a need for security systems? More so today than ever in the world we live in..

More people want sky than an alarm,more people will pay 100 a month for sky and moan at 100 a year for an alarm etc etc

[Nero]

There's no future working for sky. No one will have a dish in ten years or even a set top box. We'll all have an app in our smart TVs. Sky Q is being launched without a dish next year. Need I say anymore.