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This is a community for Instrumentation and Controls Technicians. It's a career-orientated place to talk about the trade, ask questions, etc. Check out the Resources below.

16k subscribers120 posts / mo in Sep 202698 authors / mosince 2011

r/instrumentation has 16k members (+41% over the last 12 months). It gets about 120 posts a month from 98 people. Top topics: Apprenticeships Advice, Electrician Apprenticeship and Civil Engineering Careers.

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Size and growth

How r/instrumentation has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+41%in 12 months · +9.7% in 3 months · +3.1% in 1 month
Oct 202616k
Growing16k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+48%vs Sep 2025 · +25% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026120
BusierPeaked at 127 in Nov 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/instrumentation

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Apprenticeships Advice18%
  2. Electrician Apprenticeship2.7%
  3. Civil Engineering Careers1.1%
  4. HVAC Trades0.7%
  5. FPV Drone Hobby0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. ibiblio
  2. Emerson
  3. LinkedIn
  4. Scribd

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Everything else about r/instrumentation

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research