Annual Salary
£17,000 to £40,000
Average UK salary in 2024 was £37,430
(source Office for National Statistics)
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Cavity insulation installers fit insulation, soundproofing materials and cladding in buildings.
Average UK salary in 2024 was £37,430
(source Office for National Statistics)
You could work: weekends;
There will be
0.5% fewer Cavity insulation installer jobs in 2029.
As an installer you would:
You could work at a client's business, at a client's home or on a construction site.
Your working environment may be at height, cramped and physically demanding.
You can get into this job through:
You could learn some relevant skills through a college course like:
These courses will give you some of the skills and knowledge you'll need to apply for trainee jobs.
You may need:
The following apprenticeships are relevant to this role:
You'll usually need:
You could apply directly for jobs. Employers will usually look for GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) in subjects like English, maths or design and technology.
Experience in construction, lagging or cladding could be useful.
You'll need to:
You can find out more about working in cavity insulation from Go Construct.
With experience, you could become a team leader, site supervisor or estimator. You could also set up your own installation business.
Insulation and building treatment skills are important to retrofitting domestic and commercial buildings.
Retrofit careers
Retrofitting includes a wide variety of jobs and skills that help to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings. When a property has been retrofitted it can retain heat for longer. This increases the comfort of a home whilst also lowering energy usage which can result in lowered energy costs and carbon emissions.
There are a wide variety of retrofitting jobs requiring lots of different skills including working in the construction industry.
For example in the West of England area Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) indicate that over 250,000 homes in the West of England require retrofitting. That’s a huge amount of retrofitting work over the next few years to meet the region’s net zero targets.
These pathway maps show how you can get into insulation and building treatment in the West of England and are relevant for most regions within England.
You'll need: