Browse All UK Job Salaries
Official ONS ASHE 2025 median salary data for 412 occupations. Select a job to see national figures, regional breakdown, and city-by-city comparison.
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Actors, entertainers and presenters Actuaries, economists and statisticians £51,520 Advertising accounts managers and creative directors £46,356 Aerospace engineers £55,817 Agricultural and fishing trades n.e.c. £27,676 Air transport operatives £32,376 Air travel assistants £28,808 Air-conditioning and refrigeration installers and repairers £41,166 Aircraft maintenance and related trades £44,704 Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers £107,712 Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics) £31,516 Animal care services occupations n.e.c. £23,345 Architects £45,625 Archivists and curators £33,096 Artists Arts officers, producers and directors £39,643 Assemblers (electrical and electronic products) £28,241 Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods) £31,041 Assemblers and routine operatives n.e.c. £26,975 Authors, writers and translators £36,865
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Bakers and flour confectioners £26,983 Bank and post office clerks £27,671 Bar and catering supervisors £22,552 Bar staff £9,166 Barristers and judges £34,253 Beauticians and related occupations £15,009 Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors Betting shop and gambling establishment managers Biochemists and biomedical scientists £45,269 Biological scientists £43,781 Boat and ship builders and repairers £32,600 Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks £27,743 Bricklayers £32,480 Brokers £51,026 Building and civil engineering technicians £36,912 Bus and coach drivers £33,947 Business and financial project management professionals £57,874 Business and related research professionals £39,941 Business associate professionals n.e.c. £33,035 Business sales executives £36,498 Business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c. £55,106 Butchers £27,929 Buyers and procurement officers £36,230
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CAD, drawing and architectural technicians £34,465 Call and contact centre occupations £25,440 Care escorts £12,175 Care workers and home carers £21,487 Careers advisers and vocational guidance specialists £30,045 Caretakers £25,147 Carpenters and joiners £33,797 Catering and bar managers £27,888 Charitable organisation managers and directors Chartered and certified accountants £45,538 Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants £34,951 Chartered surveyors £45,673 Chefs £26,531 Chemical and related process operatives £33,531 Chemical scientists £39,668 Chief executives and senior officials £89,835 Child and early years officers £29,347 Childminders Children's nurses £34,173 Civil engineers £50,602 Cleaners and domestics £11,852 Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors £24,931 Clergy £30,655 Clinical psychologists £45,954 Clothing, fashion and accessories designers £36,731 Coffee shop workers £12,170 Collector salespersons and credit agents Communication operators £34,934 Community nurses £33,764 Company secretaries and administrators Complementary health associate professionals Computer system and equipment installers and servicers £34,073 Conservation professionals £37,949 Construction and building trades n.e.c. £34,378 Construction and building trades supervisors £45,000 Construction operatives n.e.c. £30,237 Construction project managers and related professionals £45,613 Cooks £17,885 Counsellors £27,082 Crane drivers £46,392 Credit controllers £26,981 Customer service managers £32,983 Customer service occupations n.e.c. £24,438 Customer service supervisors £34,033 Cyber security professionals £54,816
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Dancers and choreographers Data analysts £38,107 Data entry administrators £26,534 Database administrators and web content technicians £36,015 Debt, rent and other cash collectors £27,454 Delivery drivers and couriers £24,627 Delivery operatives £25,541 Dental nurses £22,615 Dental practitioners Design occupations n.e.c. £37,017 Directors in consultancy services £73,453 Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport £80,518 Dispensing opticians £27,645 Driving instructors
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Early education and childcare assistants £19,165 Early education and childcare practitioners £19,516 Early education and childcare services managers £28,511 Early education and childcare services proprietors Education advisers and school inspectors £41,535 Education managers £45,043 Educational support assistants £17,086 Elected officers and representatives Electrical and electronic trades n.e.c. £48,171 Electrical and electronics technicians £35,018 Electrical engineers £59,930 Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers £41,111 Electricians and electrical fitters £39,187 Electronics engineers £51,973 Elementary administration occupations n.e.c. £23,005 Elementary cleaning occupations n.e.c. £25,688 Elementary construction occupations n.e.c. £26,723 Elementary process plant occupations n.e.c. £28,600 Elementary sales occupations n.e.c. Elementary storage occupations n.e.c. £31,589 Elementary storage supervisors £30,480 Energy plant operatives Engineering professionals n.e.c. £47,985 Engineering project managers and project engineers £52,451 Engineering technicians £44,330 Environment professionals £41,555 Environmental health professionals £40,044 Estate agents and auctioneers £26,988 Estimators, valuers and assessors £37,809 Events managers and organisers £29,101 Exam invigilators £1,902
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Farm workers Farmers £32,728 Finance and investment analysts and advisers £47,776 Finance officers £28,610 Financial accounts managers £45,162 Financial administrative occupations n.e.c. £25,936 Financial and accounting technicians £53,265 Financial managers and directors £65,336 Fire service officers (watch manager and below) £40,775 Fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations n.e.c. Fishmongers and poultry dressers Fitness and wellbeing instructors Floorers and wall tilers £32,663 Florists Food, drink and tobacco process operatives £27,267 Footwear and leather working trades £25,116 Forestry and related workers Fork-lift truck drivers £31,016 Functional managers and directors n.e.c. £69,996 Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers £30,328 Further education teaching professionals £38,642
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Garage managers and proprietors Gardeners and landscape gardeners £27,057 Generalist medical practitioners £51,756 Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters £28,623 Graphic and multimedia designers £31,236 Groundsmen and greenkeepers £27,519 Groundworkers £37,849
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Hairdressers and barbers £15,064 Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors Head teachers and principals £70,977 Health and safety managers and officers £44,551 Health associate professionals n.e.c. £25,017 Health care practice managers £38,941 Health services and public health managers and directors £55,879 Higher education teaching professionals £46,494 Higher level teaching assistants £22,050 Hire services managers and proprietors £31,763 Horticultural trades £24,613 Hospital porters £27,988 Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors £33,008 Housekeepers and related occupations £16,618 Houseparents and residential wardens £26,499 Housing officers £32,542 Human resource managers and directors £54,474 Human resources administrative occupations £25,531 Human resources and industrial relations officers £33,012
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Importers and exporters £34,757 Industrial cleaning process occupations £26,236 Information technology directors £90,081 Information technology professionals n.e.c. £50,459 Information technology trainers £36,621 Inspectors of standards and regulations £37,236 Insurance underwriters £38,666 Interior designers £34,962 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers £59,593 IT managers £55,502 IT network professionals £48,294 IT operations technicians £34,656 IT project managers £58,016 IT quality and testing professionals £44,973 IT user support technicians £34,314
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Laboratory technicians £26,861 Large goods vehicle drivers £39,141 Launderers, dry cleaners and pressers £20,464 Legal associate professionals £32,438 Legal professionals n.e.c. £33,822 Legal secretaries £24,263 Leisure and sports managers £33,342 Leisure and theme park attendants Leisure and travel service occupations n.e.c. Librarians Library clerks and assistants £18,659 Local government administrative occupations £27,642
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Management consultants and business analysts £51,729 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale £36,006 Managers and directors in the creative industries £50,868 Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture £34,976 Managers and proprietors in forestry, fishing and related services £31,126 Managers and proprietors in other services n.e.c. £43,382 Managers in logistics £45,104 Managers in storage and warehousing £36,620 Managers in transport and distribution £46,734 Marine and waterways transport operatives £39,405 Market and street traders and assistants Market research interviewers Marketing and commercial managers £50,589 Marketing associate professionals £30,479 Marketing, sales and advertising directors £90,000 Mechanical engineers £50,594 Medical and dental technicians £29,119 Medical radiographers £44,324 Medical secretaries £24,071 Mental health nurses £40,028 Merchandisers £26,554 Metal machining setters and setter-operators £35,394 Metal making and treating process operatives £31,893 Metal plate workers, smiths, moulders and related occupations £37,035 Metal working machine operatives £31,344 Metal working production and maintenance fitters £40,002 Midwifery nurses £39,327 Mining and quarry workers and related operatives £38,301 Mobile machine drivers and operatives n.e.c. £36,408 Musicians
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Nannies and au pairs £22,955 National government administrative occupations £31,363 Natural and social science professionals n.e.c. £41,706 Newspaper and periodical editors £41,583 Newspaper and periodical journalists and reporters £42,169 Non-commissioned officers and other ranks Nurse practitioners £41,392 Nursery education teaching professionals £31,425 Nursing auxiliaries and assistants £24,761
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Occupational therapists £37,201 Office managers £35,000 Office supervisors £32,265 Officers in armed forces Officers of non-governmental organisations Optometrists £38,743 Other administrative occupations n.e.c. £23,385 Other drivers and transport operatives n.e.c. £32,066 Other educational professionals n.e.c £35,079 Other elementary services occupations n.e.c. Other health professionals n.e.c. £38,033 Other nursing professionals £36,775 Other psychologists £34,250 Other researchers, unspecified discipline £42,463 Other skilled trades n.e.c. £26,800 Other vocational and industrial trainers £33,236
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Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers £25,087 Painters and decorators £30,889 Paper and wood machine operatives £29,640 Paramedics £50,294 Parking and civil enforcement occupations £27,766 Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants £29,329 Personal assistants and other secretaries £25,233 Pest control officers £27,487 Pharmaceutical technicians £28,381 Pharmacists £47,508 Pharmacy and optical dispensing assistants £17,993 Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators £30,396 Physical scientists £53,142 Physiotherapists £37,917 Pipe fitters £42,580 Planning, process and production technicians £36,062 Plant and machine operatives n.e.c. £29,142 Plasterers £33,789 Plastics process operatives £29,644 Playworkers Plumbers & heating and ventilating installers and repairers £36,563 Podiatrists £35,920 Police community support officers £35,189 Police officers (sergeant and below) Postal workers, mail sorters and messengers £29,761 Pre-press technicians £27,496 Precision instrument makers and repairers £37,031 Primary education teaching professionals £42,031 Print finishing and binding workers £25,296 Printers £31,367 Printing machine assistants £29,657 Prison service officers (below principal officer) £31,603 Probation officers Process operatives n.e.c. £30,843 Production and process engineers £47,711 Production managers and directors in construction £54,947 Production managers and directors in manufacturing £52,885 Production managers and directors in mining and energy £63,241 Production, factory and assembly supervisors £35,092 Professional/Chartered company secretaries Programmers and software development professionals £55,587 Project support officers £34,207 Property, housing and estate managers £41,115 Protective service associate professionals n.e.c. £41,592 Psychotherapists and cognitive behaviour therapists £38,230 Public relations and communications directors £72,020 Public relations professionals £36,336 Public services associate professionals £38,454 Publicans and managers of licensed premises £37,427 Purchasing managers and directors £56,779
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Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers £64,322 Rail construction and maintenance operatives £44,445 Rail transport operatives £56,925 Rail travel assistants £45,240 Receptionists £18,152 Records clerks and assistants £26,312 Refuse and salvage occupations £27,576 Research and development (R&D) managers £54,857 Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors £40,661 Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors £30,513 Retail cashiers and check-out operators £14,018 Road construction operatives £38,315 Road transport drivers n.e.c. £28,725 Roofers, roof tilers and slaters £30,961 Roundspersons and van salespersons £26,984 Routine inspectors and testers £33,982
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Sales accounts and business development managers £56,021 Sales administrators £27,132 Sales and retail assistants £14,491 Sales related occupations n.e.c. £28,870 Sales supervisors - retail and wholesale £26,112 Scaffolders, stagers and riggers £40,797 School midday and crossing patrol occupations £4,263 School secretaries £22,155 Science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c. £34,475 Secondary education teaching professionals £44,246 Security guards and related occupations £30,819 Security system installers and repairers £37,991 Senior care workers £27,417 Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services Senior police officers £66,514 Sewing machinists £22,767 Sheet metal workers £31,920 Shelf fillers £15,809 Ship and hovercraft officers Shopkeepers and owners - retail and wholesale £35,083 Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors £44,793 Social and humanities scientists £38,591 Social services managers and directors £45,155 Social workers £42,708 Solicitors and lawyers £53,314 Special needs education teaching professionals £40,363 Specialist medical practitioners £88,997 Specialist nurses £41,095 Speech and language therapists £35,002 Sports and leisure assistants £14,366 Sports coaches, instructors and officials £12,570 Sports players Steel erectors £34,782 Stock control clerks and assistants £28,851 Stonemasons and related trades £33,938 Street cleaners £26,330
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Tailors and dressmakers Taxation experts £46,280 Taxi and cab drivers and chauffeurs Teachers of English as a foreign language Teaching assistants £18,024 Teaching professionals n.e.c. Telecoms and related network installers and repairers £39,652 Telephone salespersons £26,944 Telephonists Textile process operatives £25,572 Textiles, garments and related trades n.e.c. £26,173 Therapy professionals n.e.c. £32,287 Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out £38,584 Train and tram drivers £76,176 Transport and distribution clerks and assistants £32,060 Travel agency managers and proprietors £34,505 Travel agents £26,426 TV, video and audio servicers and repairers Typists and related keyboard occupations Tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters £30,429
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Vehicle and parts salespersons and advisers £31,750 Vehicle body builders and repairers £34,848 Vehicle paint technicians £34,531 Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians £36,560 Vehicle valeters and cleaners £24,875 Veterinarians £45,362 Veterinary nurses £26,666 Visual merchandisers and related occupations £25,488
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Waiters and waitresses £10,000 Warehouse operatives £26,574 Waste disposal and environmental services managers £48,927 Water and sewerage plant operatives £39,057 Web design professionals £46,639 Weighers, graders and sorters £29,141 Welding trades £34,742 Welfare and housing associate professionals n.e.c. £26,640 Welfare professionals n.e.c. £33,269 Window cleaners £25,002
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Data source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025. Methodology