Teachers and lecturers
Emerging Technologies
Pioneering the Frontiers
Everything for teaching or advising on Emerging Technologies careers in one place: the classroom pack, the career guide and, as employers add them, their articles, videos and resources. The career family has 9 areas of work.
Classroom pack
The Emerging Technologies classroom pack is in development. A pack is published only once it has been built and its sources checked. Until then, the career guide is ready.
See which packs are openCareer guide
Every area of work, how people get in, pay and hiring, skills and where to find out more, built from the TechSkills Career Matrix with sources and dates shown.
Hands-on routes in Emerging Technologies
Some careers in this family are practical and on site rather than desk based. From the Career Matrix, with roles and pay in the career guide.
Area 02: Robotics & Automation
Industrial Automation
Keeping factories and production lines running: PLCs, robots, sensors, conveyors.
Automation & Controls Engineering Technician, Mechatronics Maintenance Technician, Aircraft Maintenance Technician
Area 07: Climate & Green Technology Engineering
Utilities Technology
Modernising the UK's energy, water and metering networks, on-site and in the field.
Water Industry Network Technician, Dual Fuel Smart Meter Installer, Overhead Linesperson / Substation Fitter, Battery Manufacturing Technician
Area 09: Manufacturing & Production Engineering
Manufacturing & Production Engineering
Hands-on entry into keeping factories and production lines running, through a paid apprenticeship rather than an engineering degree.
Engineering Manufacturing Technician Apprentice, Process Industry Technician Apprentice, Production Support Technician
From the industry
Resources and articles from employers working in Emerging Technologies. Nothing is published until the TechSkills team has read it, and everything names the organisation that shared it.
Resources shared by employers
The first employer resources are on their way. If you work for an employer with a TechSkills portal account, you can share a resource from your portal and it will appear here once it has been reviewed.
Articles and stories
Industry Insights
Beyond the Silos: Why the UK's 2035 Economic Ambitions Require an Open Infrastructure
techUK argues the UK's digital infrastructure is at a genuine turning point: keep building isolated, incompatible platforms and risk 'platform sprawl', or commit to open, standardised architecture that keeps skills and systems portable across cloud, government and industry.
Industry Insights
Event Round-Up: Future Careers in Emerging Tech
A round-up of techUK's Future Careers in Emerging Tech event, where panellists made the case that routes into AI, quantum, cybersecurity and semiconductors run through far more than traditional STEM degrees - and that soft skills matter just as much as technical ones.
Over the coming months this is where employers will add their own articles, videos, lesson ideas and day-in-the-life stories for teachers. Nothing appears here until the TechSkills team has read it and published it, and every piece names the organisation that shared it.