UK Salary by Profession 2026
The median full-time salary for every UK profession — all 412 occupations, grouped by sector, from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (2025). Pick any job for its full pay percentiles, 11-year trend and gender pay gap.
Administrative occupations 20 jobs
Bank and post office clerks £30,265 Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks £31,560 Credit controllers £28,532 Customer service managers £37,535 Data entry administrators £28,316 Finance officers £31,943 Financial administrative occupations n.e.c. £28,996 Human resources administrative occupations £26,851 Library clerks and assistants £28,134 Local government administrative occupations £30,886 National government administrative occupations £33,000 Office managers £38,630 Office supervisors £33,174 Officers of non-governmental organisations £31,008 Other administrative occupations n.e.c. £28,294 Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants £30,269 Records clerks and assistants £28,656 Sales administrators £28,745 Stock control clerks and assistants £29,991 Transport and distribution clerks and assistants £33,508
Business and public service associate professionals 26 jobs
Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers £82,746 Brokers £56,689 Business associate professionals n.e.c. £35,209 Business sales executives £37,924 Buyers and procurement officers £37,306 Careers advisers and vocational guidance specialists £32,418 Data analysts £38,572 Estate agents and auctioneers £30,648 Estimators, valuers and assessors £39,634 Events managers and organisers £32,163 Financial accounts managers £48,980 Financial and accounting technicians £60,575 Health and safety managers and officers £46,444 Human resources and industrial relations officers £35,194 Importers and exporters £34,757 Information technology trainers £38,981 Inspectors of standards and regulations £38,963 Insurance underwriters £41,610 Legal associate professionals £34,662 Marketing associate professionals £33,412 Merchandisers £32,155 Other vocational and industrial trainers £36,357 Project support officers £35,751 Public services associate professionals £39,537 Sales accounts and business development managers £57,625 Ship and hovercraft officers —
Business, media and public service professionals 32 jobs
Actuaries, economists and statisticians £53,342 Advertising accounts managers and creative directors £48,977 Architects £42,968 Archivists and curators £34,237 Barristers and judges £50,915 Business and financial project management professionals £59,834 Business and related research professionals £41,128 Business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c. £58,341 Chartered and certified accountants £50,062 Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants £36,457 Chartered surveyors £46,184 Clergy £31,183 Construction project managers and related professionals £47,665 Environmental health professionals £41,725 Finance and investment analysts and advisers £50,330 Legal professionals n.e.c. £77,582 Librarians £38,068 Management consultants and business analysts £53,295 Marketing and commercial managers £53,703 Newspaper and periodical editors £42,451 Newspaper and periodical journalists and reporters £44,534 Probation officers — Professional/Chartered company secretaries — Public relations professionals £37,563 Quality assurance and regulatory professionals £50,083 Quality control and planning engineers £43,592 Quantity surveyors £52,537 Social workers £44,550 Solicitors and lawyers £56,977 Taxation experts £49,850 Welfare professionals n.e.c. £40,594 Youth work professionals £36,620
Caring personal service occupations 16 jobs
Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics) £33,465 Animal care services occupations n.e.c. £25,067 Care escorts £12,175 Care workers and home carers £27,468 Childminders £24,278 Dental nurses £25,742 Early education and childcare assistants £24,742 Educational support assistants £21,448 Houseparents and residential wardens £31,871 Nannies and au pairs £38,447 Nursing auxiliaries and assistants £29,084 Pest control officers £25,211 Playworkers — Senior care workers £29,381 Teaching assistants £21,239 Undertakers, mortuary and crematorium assistants £30,894
Community and civil enforcement occupations 2 jobs
Corporate managers and directors 20 jobs
Charitable organisation managers and directors — Chief executives and senior officials £99,944 Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport £83,447 Elected officers and representatives — Financial managers and directors £76,447 Functional managers and directors n.e.c. £75,711 Health services and public health managers and directors £61,573 Human resource managers and directors £57,529 Information technology directors £91,671 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale £38,447 Marketing, sales and advertising directors £94,135 Officers in armed forces — Production managers and directors in construction £56,021 Production managers and directors in manufacturing £58,640 Production managers and directors in mining and energy £63,241 Public relations and communications directors £72,887 Purchasing managers and directors £58,005 Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services — Senior police officers £55,518 Social services managers and directors £48,549
Culture, media and sports occupations 13 jobs
Actors, entertainers and presenters — Artists £47,763 Arts officers, producers and directors £45,534 Authors, writers and translators £39,459 Clothing, fashion and accessories designers £36,848 Dancers and choreographers — Design occupations n.e.c. £39,779 Fitness and wellbeing instructors £27,273 Interior designers £36,485 Musicians £46,591 Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators £32,643 Sports coaches, instructors and officials £30,108 Sports players —
Customer service occupations 6 jobs
Elementary administration and service occupations 26 jobs
Bar and catering supervisors £26,019 Bar staff £23,182 Cleaners and domestics £24,130 Coffee shop workers £21,598 Delivery operatives £28,749 Elementary administration occupations n.e.c. £26,631 Elementary cleaning occupations n.e.c. £25,780 Elementary sales occupations n.e.c. — Elementary storage occupations n.e.c. — Elementary storage supervisors — Exam invigilators £1,902 Hospital porters £29,409 Kitchen and catering assistants £22,886 Launderers, dry cleaners and pressers £23,331 Leisure and theme park attendants £22,294 Other elementary services occupations n.e.c. £25,344 Postal workers, mail sorters and messengers £31,677 Refuse and salvage occupations £27,857 School midday and crossing patrol occupations £21,678 Security guards and related occupations £33,832 Shelf fillers £17,538 Street cleaners £27,633 Vehicle valeters and cleaners £26,598 Waiters and waitresses £22,936 Warehouse operatives £27,832 Window cleaners £29,185
Elementary trades and related occupations 8 jobs
Elementary construction occupations n.e.c. £28,591 Elementary process plant occupations n.e.c. £29,619 Farm workers £30,101 Fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations n.e.c. £26,737 Forestry and related workers — Groundworkers £37,925 Industrial cleaning process occupations £27,306 Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers £26,152
Health and social care associate professionals 13 jobs
Child and early years officers £31,001 Complementary health associate professionals £27,888 Counsellors £31,124 Dispensing opticians £28,543 Early education and childcare practitioners £23,717 Health associate professionals n.e.c. £30,575 Higher level teaching assistants £25,434 Housing officers £34,688 Medical and dental technicians £29,931 Pharmaceutical technicians £31,044 Veterinary nurses £28,893 Welfare and housing associate professionals n.e.c. £30,087 Youth and community workers £32,654
Health professionals 24 jobs
Children's nurses £41,963 Clinical psychologists £58,366 Community nurses £40,897 Dental practitioners — Generalist medical practitioners £55,494 Medical radiographers £48,439 Mental health nurses £42,692 Midwifery nurses £46,990 Nurse practitioners £46,069 Occupational therapists £44,040 Optometrists £51,030 Other health professionals n.e.c. £42,079 Other nursing professionals £42,300 Other psychologists £34,250 Paramedics £53,818 Pharmacists £53,772 Physiotherapists £43,532 Podiatrists £47,699 Psychotherapists and cognitive behaviour therapists £47,971 Specialist medical practitioners — Specialist nurses £45,140 Speech and language therapists £45,511 Therapy professionals n.e.c. £37,599 Veterinarians £51,058
Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations 11 jobs
Air travel assistants £28,738 Beauticians and related occupations £24,124 Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors — Caretakers £28,950 Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors £28,605 Hairdressers and barbers £24,279 Housekeepers and related occupations £25,335 Leisure and travel service occupations n.e.c. £26,656 Rail travel assistants £46,062 Sports and leisure assistants £26,934 Travel agents £28,746
Other managers and proprietors 22 jobs
Betting shop and gambling establishment managers £31,961 Directors in consultancy services £73,453 Early education and childcare services proprietors — Garage managers and proprietors — Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors £29,715 Health care practice managers £42,559 Hire services managers and proprietors £31,626 Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors £36,419 Leisure and sports managers £36,026 Managers and directors in the creative industries £54,772 Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture £38,182 Managers and proprietors in forestry, fishing and related services £33,011 Managers and proprietors in other services n.e.c. £46,271 Managers in logistics £46,143 Managers in storage and warehousing £37,470 Managers in transport and distribution £47,504 Property, housing and estate managers £43,365 Publicans and managers of licensed premises £38,043 Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors £42,700 Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors £31,692 Travel agency managers and proprietors £35,105 Waste disposal and environmental services managers £49,763
Process, plant and machine operatives 25 jobs
Assemblers (electrical and electronic products) £28,620 Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods) £31,919 Assemblers and routine operatives n.e.c. £27,962 Chemical and related process operatives £33,959 Construction operatives n.e.c. £32,446 Energy plant operatives — Food, drink and tobacco process operatives £28,243 Metal making and treating process operatives £32,871 Metal working machine operatives £31,500 Mining and quarry workers and related operatives £38,301 Paper and wood machine operatives £30,360 Plant and machine operatives n.e.c. £29,259 Plastics process operatives £32,644 Printing machine assistants £29,925 Process operatives n.e.c. £31,717 Production, factory and assembly supervisors £36,777 Rail construction and maintenance operatives £46,403 Road construction operatives £38,833 Routine inspectors and testers £34,360 Scaffolders, stagers and riggers £41,548 Sewing machinists £24,813 Textile process operatives £27,915 Tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters £30,500 Water and sewerage plant operatives £39,690 Weighers, graders and sorters £30,918
Protective service occupations 5 jobs
Sales occupations 13 jobs
Collector salespersons and credit agents — Debt, rent and other cash collectors £29,097 Market and street traders and assistants — Pharmacy and optical dispensing assistants £23,783 Retail cashiers and check-out operators £24,622 Roundspersons and van salespersons £27,401 Sales and retail assistants £25,056 Sales related occupations n.e.c. £31,480 Sales supervisors - retail and wholesale £29,172 Shopkeepers and owners - retail and wholesale £36,304 Telephone salespersons £30,495 Vehicle and parts salespersons and advisers £31,851 Visual merchandisers and related occupations £25,845
Science, engineering and technology associate professionals 11 jobs
Building and civil engineering technicians £37,229 CAD, drawing and architectural technicians £35,221 Database administrators and web content technicians £37,995 Electrical and electronics technicians £35,126 Engineering technicians £44,843 IT operations technicians £35,259 IT user support technicians £35,128 Laboratory technicians £28,210 Planning, process and production technicians £36,895 Quality assurance technicians £33,972 Science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c. £36,102
Science, research, engineering and technology professionals 28 jobs
Aerospace engineers £55,839 Biochemists and biomedical scientists £47,892 Biological scientists £45,382 Chemical scientists £39,983 Civil engineers £51,366 Conservation professionals £40,083 Cyber security professionals £54,647 Electrical engineers £60,303 Electronics engineers £52,518 Engineering professionals n.e.c. £48,776 Engineering project managers and project engineers £53,064 Environment professionals £43,362 Graphic and multimedia designers £32,510 Information technology professionals n.e.c. £54,107 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers £60,288 IT managers £56,438 IT network professionals £48,907 IT project managers £58,373 IT quality and testing professionals £47,118 Mechanical engineers £51,110 Natural and social science professionals n.e.c. £43,384 Other researchers, unspecified discipline £44,580 Physical scientists £55,518 Production and process engineers £47,946 Programmers and software development professionals £56,914 Research and development (R&D) managers £55,519 Social and humanities scientists £39,899 Web design professionals £48,629
Secretarial and related occupations 7 jobs
Skilled agricultural and related trades 5 jobs
Skilled construction and building trades 12 jobs
Bricklayers £33,030 Carpenters and joiners £34,014 Construction and building trades n.e.c. £34,822 Construction and building trades supervisors £45,021 Floorers and wall tilers £32,861 Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters £29,436 Painters and decorators £32,763 Plasterers £34,016 Plumbers & heating and ventilating installers and repairers £37,881 Roofers, roof tilers and slaters £31,906 Steel erectors £35,824 Stonemasons and related trades £33,938
Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades 23 jobs
Air-conditioning and refrigeration installers and repairers £41,166 Aircraft maintenance and related trades £45,779 Boat and ship builders and repairers £33,896 Computer system and equipment installers and servicers £34,237 Electrical and electronic trades n.e.c. £48,571 Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers £41,662 Electricians and electrical fitters £39,647 Metal machining setters and setter-operators £35,718 Metal plate workers, smiths, moulders and related occupations £37,058 Metal working production and maintenance fitters £40,760 Pipe fitters £42,580 Precision instrument makers and repairers £40,062 Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers £64,322 Security system installers and repairers £39,002 Sheet metal workers £32,207 Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors £45,150 Telecoms and related network installers and repairers £39,998 Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out £39,902 TV, video and audio servicers and repairers — Vehicle body builders and repairers £34,999 Vehicle paint technicians £34,531 Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians £37,458 Welding trades £35,344
Teaching and other educational professionals 13 jobs
Early education and childcare services managers £30,140 Education advisers and school inspectors £44,549 Education managers £46,581 Further education teaching professionals £42,218 Head teachers and principals £72,192 Higher education teaching professionals £52,835 Nursery education teaching professionals £37,593 Other educational professionals n.e.c £39,114 Primary education teaching professionals £45,939 Secondary education teaching professionals £47,632 Special needs education teaching professionals £47,432 Teachers of English as a foreign language £37,514 Teaching professionals n.e.c. £34,396
Textiles, printing and other skilled trades 17 jobs
Bakers and flour confectioners £29,117 Butchers £28,859 Catering and bar managers £29,789 Chefs £30,010 Cooks £24,228 Fishmongers and poultry dressers £25,394 Florists £23,713 Footwear and leather working trades £25,357 Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers £33,078 Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers £28,936 Other skilled trades n.e.c. £29,340 Pre-press technicians £27,497 Print finishing and binding workers £27,315 Printers £33,019 Tailors and dressmakers £25,212 Textiles, garments and related trades n.e.c. £26,573 Upholsterers £27,909
Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives 14 jobs
Air transport operatives £34,700 Bus and coach drivers £36,340 Crane drivers £46,463 Delivery drivers and couriers £27,854 Driving instructors — Fork-lift truck drivers £31,279 Large goods vehicle drivers £39,905 Marine and waterways transport operatives £39,358 Mobile machine drivers and operatives n.e.c. £37,864 Other drivers and transport operatives n.e.c. £35,670 Rail transport operatives £57,088 Road transport drivers n.e.c. £32,892 Taxi and cab drivers and chauffeurs £26,783 Train and tram drivers £76,327
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