Career spotlight
Bakers and flour confectioners
Average National Salaries (2020)
Age 20
£13,000
Age 35
£23,400
Age 50
£25,480
Average salary in the East Midlands: £17,160
What does this career do?
Bakers and flour confectioners prepare and bake dough, pastry and cake mixtures and make and finish flour confectionary products by hand.
Typical tasks
- weighs ingredients according to recipe
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mixes ingredients using hand or machine to obtain the required consistency
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rolls and cuts pastry, stretches, kneads and moulds dough to form bread, rolls and buns
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fills and glazes pastry, mixes ingredients for cakes
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bakes bread, pastry and cakes
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makes cake decorations, spreads icing, fillings and toppings on products.
Current entry requirements
There are no formal academic entry requirements. Training is typically received on-the-job or by apprenticeship. Apprenticeships and traineeships leading to NVQs/SVQs at Levels 2 and 3 are available.
Percentage in work
Due to insufficient sample sizes, some data was excised.
Predicted employment status in 2022
Full-time
Part-time
Self Employed
Predicted employment levels in the East Midlands
Career related courses available at West Notts
There are no current courses offered by West Notts that are related to this career.
About the statistics
Data is powered by LMI for All and is sourced from labour market statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Institute for Employment Research, the Department for Works and Pensions, and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.