How to become a Telecommunications Engineering Technician
Official title: Telecommunications Engineering Technicians
Assists with telecommunications engineering research and carries out technical work testing, operating and maintaining telecommunications systems.
Main tasks
- Provide technical help or test methods for research and development of telecommunications equipment
- Study telecommunications engineering plans, drawings and technical data to decide how to carry out work
- Prepare detailed estimates of the materials and labour costs needed to make and install telecommunications equipment from specifications
- Test, operate and maintain telecommunications systems
- Apply telecommunications engineering knowledge and practice to solve problems
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: electrical and electronic engineering (0714). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 82, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 19, five-year junior college (五專) 14, two-year junior college (二專) 9. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$1,161,000 a year
- Demand for Information and communications technology jobs is projected at about 246,000 in 2024 and about 319,000 in 2030. (+29.7%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Telecommunications Engineering Technician?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme.
How much does a Telecommunications Engineering Technician earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$1,161,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Telecommunications Engineering Technician a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 29.7% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Telecommunications Engineering Technician?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026