UK AI Exposure · Skilled trades occupations
Security system installers and repairers
Security system installers and repairers fit, maintain and service alarm systems and other electronic security devices which provide access control and monitoring, intruder detection and security lighting.
- Employees (UK)
- 9k
- Median annual pay
- £37,991
- Exposure score ?
- 4.4/10 Moderate 8.9/10 Very high strict reading · with tools is 8.9/10 with-tools reading · strict is 4.4/10
- Wage exposure
- £150m £304m
Higher exposure than 95% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means
A meaningful slice of the task inventory is AI-reachable - the drafting, summarising, research and analysis parts especially. This role is at the point where the people who learn to direct AI well pull ahead of the people who don't.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
Treat AI as a colleague you manage, not a tool you use. Identify the tasks where you'd describe the work to a capable junior - those are the tasks AI can do for you now. Spend your time on the judgment calls and the relationships instead.
Almost every routine task in this role is within reach of today's language models. Roles at this level are getting rebuilt - often not by disappearing, but by one person using AI to do three or five people's output.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
You don't need to be afraid. You need to be the person doing the rebuilding. The operators who learn to direct AI at scale in this kind of work become hugely valuable. The ones who wait to be told what to do get told what to do - and that thing is often 'we don't need as many of you anymore.'
Where a project with Alex usually starts for this role
These are the highest-importance tasks a language model can already handle directly today. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these, so they stop eating your team's time.
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Integrate tags, readers, or software in radio frequency identification device (RFID) designs.
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Perform systems analysis or programming of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
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Test radio frequency identification device (RFID) software to ensure proper functioning.
These are the highest-importance tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these — usually the difference between an LLM that can technically do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Integrate tags, readers, or software in radio frequency identification device (RFID) designs.
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Identify operational requirements for new systems to inform selection of technological solutions.
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Perform systems analysis or programming of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Every role has three or four wedges like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days. Talk to Alex about a project →
The full task breakdown
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can already do unaided versus what still needs a human. Importance is O*NET's 1–5 rating of how central each task is to the role.
Tasks via O*NET "Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists" (17-2072.01).
What AI can already do
9 of 21 tasks · unaided
Integrate tags, readers, or software in radio frequency identification device (RFID) designs.
Perform systems analysis or programming of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Test radio frequency identification device (RFID) software to ensure proper functioning.
Perform acceptance testing on newly installed or updated systems.
Determine means of integrating radio frequency identification device (RFID) into other applications.
Provide technical support for radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Verify compliance of developed applications with architectural standards and established practices.
Develop process flows, work instructions, or standard operating procedures for radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems.
Document equipment or process details of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Where humans still hold the line
12 of 21 tasks
Identify operational requirements for new systems to inform selection of technological solutions.
Select appropriate radio frequency identification device (RFID) tags and determine placement locations.
Perform site analyses to determine system configurations, processes to be impacted, or on-site obstacles to technology implementation.
Collect data about existing client hardware, software, networking, or key business processes to inform implementation of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Install, test, or maintain radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems.
Test tags or labels to ensure readability.
Determine usefulness of new radio frequency identification device (RFID) technologies.
Train users in details of system operation.
Read current literature, attend meetings or conferences, or talk with colleagues to stay abreast of industry research about new technologies.
Define and compare possible radio frequency identification device (RFID) solutions to inform selection for specific projects.
Create simulations or models of radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems to provide information for selection and configuration.
Analyze radio frequency identification device (RFID)-related supply chain data.
Tasks via O*NET "Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists" (17-2072.01).
What AI can already do
19 of 21 tasks · with tools
Integrate tags, readers, or software in radio frequency identification device (RFID) designs.
Identify operational requirements for new systems to inform selection of technological solutions.
Perform systems analysis or programming of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Test radio frequency identification device (RFID) software to ensure proper functioning.
Select appropriate radio frequency identification device (RFID) tags and determine placement locations.
Perform site analyses to determine system configurations, processes to be impacted, or on-site obstacles to technology implementation.
Perform acceptance testing on newly installed or updated systems.
Determine means of integrating radio frequency identification device (RFID) into other applications.
Provide technical support for radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Collect data about existing client hardware, software, networking, or key business processes to inform implementation of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Test tags or labels to ensure readability.
Determine usefulness of new radio frequency identification device (RFID) technologies.
Verify compliance of developed applications with architectural standards and established practices.
Develop process flows, work instructions, or standard operating procedures for radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems.
Read current literature, attend meetings or conferences, or talk with colleagues to stay abreast of industry research about new technologies.
Document equipment or process details of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
Define and compare possible radio frequency identification device (RFID) solutions to inform selection for specific projects.
Create simulations or models of radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems to provide information for selection and configuration.
Analyze radio frequency identification device (RFID)-related supply chain data.
Where humans still hold the line
2 of 21 tasks
Install, test, or maintain radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems.
Train users in details of system operation.
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Methodology
This role's exposure score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 GPT task labels, aggregated by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 via ISCO-08 (ONS Vol 2 coding index) and US SOC 2010 (BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional. ASHE covers employees only, so self-employed workers are not counted.
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