Engineering Council Registration Fees 2027

Professional Registration fees are collected initially on first registration, thereafter on 1 January annually. These annual professional registration fees from Chartered Engineers, Incorporated Engineers, and Engineering Technicians allow the Engineering Council and EngineeringUK to ensure quality in the profession today and invest in shaping its future workforce for tomorrow.

Please note that all Serving Army Regular, Reserve Army, or those on Full Time Reserve Service, who are Professional Registrants (Engineering Technicians, Incorporated Engineers, and Chartered Engineers) are all now eligible for the reimbursement of their annual professional subscriptions and registration fees, which now also includes the first year of being a Professional Registrant. You can claim back via JPA and the procedure to follow is laid down in:

2025DIN01-039-Military Refund of Engineering Professional Body Fees.docx

The new rates are confirmed:

EngineeringUK’s ambition is to work in partnership with others to inform and inspire young people and grow the number and diversity of tomorrow’s engineers. The professional registration fees paid by you as an individual engineer help fund core activity, which the Engineering Council and EngineeringUK supplement with corporate membership fees and fundraising. We are more than half-way through EngineeringUK’s 2023-28 strategy with its vision, that the UK has the diverse workforce needed for engineering and technology to thrive and to drive economic prosperity, improve sustainability and achieve net zero, at its heart. That work is underpinned by ongoing commitments to environmental sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion.

Remember that professional registration fees also fund the Engineering Council in its role as the profession’s regulatory body. This includes setting and maintaining internationally recognised professional standards as well as managing the national Register of over 212,000 engineers and technicians who have been assessed against these standards and awarded one of its four professional titles.  The launch of the Engineering Council 2030 Strategy highlights how important regulatory work is in the context of increasing public scrutiny on how the profession is regulated further to tragedies such as the Grenfell Tower and the Horizon inquiry and the focus in 2027 will remain on delivering the 2030 Strategy following the launch this year. The Strategy’s goal is to strengthen regulation of the engineering profession so that engineers and technicians are trusted and empowered to apply the highest professional standards in shaping a safe, sustainable and successful future.