ICTTech

With ICT Technician (ICTTech) professional registration, you can gain a competitive edge on other technicians in your field.

ITCTech letters after your name establishes proven competence and demonstrates your commitment to professional standards and life-long learning.

Who is it for?

• ICT Technicians or practitioners work in areas such as ICT hardware, software or system installation, operation, maintenance, incident/change/problem management, administration, security, fault diagnosis and fixing.

• They typically work in a range of jobs that involve supporting or facilitating the use of ICT equipment and applications by others and will be working in all fields of ICT, for example in data centres or on pcs or out in the field diagnosing and solving faults.

How much does it cost?

Application fees and costs are payable at various stages throughout the registration process.

Once awarded Professional Registration, annual membership fees are payable to the ITP and Engineering Council.

Fees are as follows:

• Professional Registration application fee: £85

• One off administration fee £TBC

• Engineering Council registration fee: £20.66

• Annual ICTTech registration fee £22.34

• Total: £128

To remain a member of the following professional bodies, these are the ongoing annual fees:

• ITP membership

• Engineering Council Annual Registration Fee £18.40

See our full professional registration fees for a detailed breakdown.

How do I apply?

You don't need formal qualifications to become professionally registered; we can look at your experience and any vendor qualifications that you have to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding. However, you do need to be working at technician level ICT practitioner skills at around NQF/QCF Level 3 (SCQF Level 6).

You need to familiarise yourself with the ICTTech Standard and then demonstrate both competence and knowledge to the required standard to become registered.

Complete the full application form to demonstrate your competence by explaining your involvement in two recently completed technical tasks or projects to illustrate:

• what you did

• how you knew what you had to do

• how you reported on what you did

• what kind of precautions you took to prevent harm to people, equipment or data.

You will also need to explain:

• how you keep in touch with developments in your area of ICT

• how you have continued to develop your knowledge and skills.

You can demonstrate knowledge and understanding to underpin the competences through:

• An approved Level 3 Apprenticeship

• An ICT, science, maths or engineering qualification at Level 3 (Scottish Level 6) or ICT relevant vendor qualifications, such as Cisco, Microsoft or Nortel, plus relevant ICT work experience

• A job role profile aligned to Level 3.

To find out if your qualification is accredited for ICTTech take a look at the list of Engineering Council accredited qualifications.