Annual Salary
£21,000 to £38,000
Average UK salary in 2024 was £37,430
(source Office for National Statistics)
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Plasterers apply plaster to walls and ceilings ready for decorating and finishing.
Average UK salary in 2024 was £37,430
(source Office for National Statistics)
You could work: between 8am and 6pm;
There will be
1.9% fewer Plasterer jobs in 2029.
As a plasterer, you'll:
You may need to wear safety clothing and use safety equipment.
You could work at a client's home, on a construction site or at a client's business.
Your working environment may be at height.
You can get into this job through:
You can do a college course that will teach you some of the skills needed for the job. Courses include:
Entry requirements for these courses vary.
You can apply to do a Plasterer Level 2 Intermediate Apprenticeship, or Craft Plasterer Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship, which may lead into a trainee position with a company.
These can take around 2 years to complete and are a mix of on-the-job training and time spent with a college or training provider.
You'll usually need:
You can begin working as a plasterer's labourer or 'mate'. You may not need formal qualifications but some employers look for on-site construction experience.
Your employer may then offer you the chance to take training on the job to qualify as a plasterer.
You'll need to:
You can find out more about becoming a plasterer from Go Construct and House Building Careers.
With experience, you could move to a supervisory job, or into related areas like:dry lining; tiling or ceiling fixing; estimating; heritage conservation; site management
You could also train apprentices in further education or set up your own business.
Plastering 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 become a plasterer in the West of England and are relevant for most regions within England.
You'll need: