Medical and dental technicians in East of England

Official occupation group: Medical and dental techniciansSOC 3213 · Updated through Jul 2026 · East of England

Official definition

Medical and dental technicians operate, calibrate and maintain cardiographic and encephalographic testing equipment, assist in the conduct of post mortems, give simple dental treatments, fit artificial limbs and hearing aids, and undertake a wide range of related medical and dental tasks.

e.g. Dental technician · Limb fitter · Dental fitter · Denture maker · Ecg technician

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Medical and dental technicians demand is falling in East of England.

ONS recorded 104 new online adverts for medical and dental technicians in East of England in Jul 2026. That is 39.5% lower than a year earlier. Advertised salary for the UK benchmark is £49,000.

Occupation pages use official SOC classifications. Local comparisons are shown only where ONS publishes an aligned observation. ONS data is generally two months late.
New adverts · East of England104Jul 2026 · -39.5% YoY
Advertised salary · UK£49,000May 2025 · lags hiring by about a year

Medical and dental technicians hiring demand

New online job adverts for medical and dental technicians in East of England

New online job adverts have decreased since Jul 2025.

104

Jul 2026 · East of England

-39.5%change over period · from Jul 2025
ONS · East of EnglandSources & methodology ↗

ONS online job adverts first appearing in each period. These indicate hiring demand and are distinct from the ONS Vacancy Survey.

Median advertised salary

Annualised asking salary for medical and dental technicians across the UK

Advertised pay is 22.5% higher than a year earlier, before inflation.

£49,000

May 2025 · UK

+22.5%vs. previous year
ONS online job adverts · UK · Nominal paySources & methodology ↗

ONS median middle-point asking salary from live online job adverts, annualised. This is advertised pay, not employee earnings or ASHE. This salary series is typically about a year behind the hiring figures.

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Skills in demand

Requirements reported in UK adverts for this occupation

ONS · Latest Jan 2025 · UKSources & methodology ↗

ONS UK new online job adverts. Each advert can report multiple requirements, so shares need not add up to 100%.

Experience employers ask for

Typical minimum: 0.5 years · UK live adverts

#Minimum experienceShare of advertsView
10 years72.0%
21 years12.2%
32 years9.5%
43 years4.0%
54+ years2.3%
ONS · Latest Jun 2025 · UKSources & methodology ↗

ONS live online job adverts reporting minimum experience. Shares describe the published experience distribution.

East of England compared with the UK

New adverts in the aligned ONS reporting period

#AreaNew advertsView
1East of England104
2United Kingdom1,169

Where hiring is strongest

New online job adverts by local authority

Where advertised pay is highest

Broader occupation group: Health and social care associate professionals

#LocationAnnual salaryView
1Shetland Islands£37,100
2Orkney Islands£34,000
3East Lothian£32,400
4Clackmannanshire£32,100
5Welwyn Hatfield£31,000
6Na h-Eileanan Siar£30,600
7Fenland£30,500
8London£30,500
9Luton£30,400
10Falkirk£30,400

ONS median annualised asking salary · 2025 · partial year. Published for the broader two-digit SOC group, not this specific occupation.

Compare occupations in the same ONS group (SOC 321) across the UK

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1Medical and dental techniciansYou’re viewing this

Dental technician · Limb fitter · Dental fitter — 48.5% of group adverts

1,169-37.6%
2Pharmaceutical technicians

Pharmaceutical technician · Checking technician · Pharmacy technician — 26.4% of group adverts

637-34.0%
3Complementary health associate professionals

Complementary health practitioner · Reiki healer · Reiki master — 13.7% of group adverts

331-23.6%
4Health associate professionals n.e.c.

Health trainer · Diet adviser · Equine dentist — 11.4% of group adverts

275-3.5%
ONS · Latest Jul 2026 · UKSources & methodology ↗

ONS UK new online job adverts. Related occupations share an official classification group. This is not a skills-match score. Year-on-year changes compare aligned published observations.

About the data

Source: Office for National Statistics. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Online job adverts indicate labour demand and are not the ONS Vacancy Survey. ONS does not endorse Jobmundo.

Methodology and metric definitions

New adverts and snapshot/live adverts remain separate. Advertised salary is asking salary, not employee earnings. Hiring charts offer six-month to five-year ranges. Salary charts show up to 60 published observations.