What every job in the UK pays, and how to get in
Pay, demand, who does the work and the routes in, for all 412 occupations. Built from official data, with every figure sourced and dated.
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SOC 2020 · 9 groups · 412 jobsManagers and directors
42 jobs- Financial managers and directors£76,400
- Retail manager£38,400
- Marketing, sales and advertising directors£94,100
- Human resource managers and directors£57,500
Show all 42
- Betting shop and gambling establishment managers£32,000
- Charitable organisation managers and directors
- Chief executives and senior officials£99,900
- Construction manager£56,000
- Directors in consultancy services
- Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport£83,400
- Early education and childcare services proprietors
- Functional managers and directors n.e.c.£75,700
- Garage managers and proprietors
- GP practice manager£42,600
- Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors£29,700
- Health service manager£61,600
- Hire services managers and proprietors£31,600
- Hotel manager£36,400
- Information technology directors£91,700
- Leisure and sports managers and proprietors£36,000
- Managers and directors in the creative industries£54,800
- Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture£38,200
- Managers and proprietors in forestry, fishing and related services£33,000
- Managers and proprietors in other services n.e.c.£46,300
- Managers in logistics£46,100
- Managers in transport and distribution£47,500
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- Officers in armed forces
- Production managers and directors in manufacturing£58,600
- Production managers and directors in mining and energy£63,200
- Property, housing and estate managers£43,400
- Public relations and communications directors£72,900
- Publican£38,000
- Purchasing manager£58,000
- Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors£42,700
- Restaurant manager£31,700
- Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services
- Senior police officers£66,700
- Social services manager£48,500
- Travel agency managers and proprietors£35,100
- Warehouse manager£37,500
- Waste disposal and environmental services managers£49,800
Professional jobs
97 jobs- Software developer£56,900
- Secondary education teaching professionals£47,600
- Primary education teaching professionals£45,900
- Other registered nursing professionals£42,300
Show all 97
- Actuary£53,300
- Advertising accounts managers and creative directors£49,000
- Aerospace engineers£55,800
- Architect£47,100
- Architectural technologist£36,500
- Archivist£34,200
- Barrister£50,900
- Biologist£45,400
- Biomedical scientist£47,900
- Business analyst£53,300
- Business and financial project management professionals£59,800
- Business and related research professionals£41,100
- Business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c.£58,300
- Chartered and certified accountants£50,100
- Chartered surveyors£46,200
- Chemist£40,000
- Children's nurse£42,000
- Civil engineers£51,400
- Clergy£31,200
- Clinical psychologist£58,400
- Cognitive behavioural therapist£48,000
- Conservation professionals£40,100
- Construction project managers and related professionals£47,700
- Cyber security professionals£54,600
- Dental practitioners
- Early education and childcare services managers£30,100
- Education advisers and school inspectors£44,500
- Education managers£46,600
- Electrical engineers£60,300
- Electronics engineers (professional)£52,500
- Engineering professionals n.e.c.£48,800
- Engineering project managers and project engineers£53,100
- Environment professionals£43,400
- Environmental health professionals£41,700
- Financial adviser£50,300
- Further education teaching professionals£42,200
- GP£55,500
- Graphic designer£32,500
- Head teachers and principals£72,200
- Higher education teaching professionals£52,800
- Information technology professionals n.e.c.£54,100
- IT managers£56,400
- IT network professionals£48,900
- IT project manager£58,400
- IT quality and testing professionals£47,100
- Legal professionals n.e.c.£35,500
- Librarian£38,100
- Marketing manager£53,700
- Mechanical engineers (professional)£51,100
- Mental health nurse£42,700
- Midwife£47,000
- Natural and social science professionals n.e.c.£43,400
- Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters£44,500
- Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors£42,500
- Nursery education teaching professionals£37,600
- Occupational therapist£44,000
- Optometrist£51,000
- Other educational professionals n.e.c£39,100
- Other health professionals n.e.c.£42,100
- Other psychologists
- Other researchers, unspecified discipline£44,600
- Paramedic£53,800
- Pharmacist£53,800
- Physicist£55,500
- Physiotherapist£43,500
- Podiatrist£47,700
- Probation officer
- Production and process engineers£47,900
- Professional/Chartered company secretaries
- Public relations professionals£37,600
- Quality assurance and regulatory professionals£50,100
- Quality control and planning engineers£43,600
- Quantity surveyor£52,500
- Radiographer£48,400
- Registered community nurses£40,900
- Registered nurse practitioners£46,100
- Registered specialist nurses£45,100
- Research and development (R&D) managers£55,500
- Social and humanities scientists£39,900
- Social worker£44,600
- Solicitor£57,000
- Special and additional needs education teaching professionals£47,400
- Specialist medical practitioners and consultants£92,800
- Speech and language therapist£45,500
- Systems analyst£60,300
- Taxation experts£49,900
- Teachers of English as a foreign language£37,500
- Teaching professionals n.e.c.£34,400
- Therapy professionals n.e.c.£37,600
- Veterinarians£51,100
- Web designer£48,600
- Welfare professionals n.e.c.£40,600
- Youth work professionals£36,600
Technical and associate professional
68 jobs- Business development manager£57,600
- Advertising and marketing associate professionals£33,400
- Police officer
- Human resources officer£35,200
Show all 68
- Accounting technician£60,600
- Actors, entertainers and presenters
- Air traffic controller£82,700
- Artists£47,800
- Arts officers, producers and directors£45,500
- Brokers£56,700
- Business associate professionals n.e.c.£35,200
- Business sales executives£37,900
- Buyers and procurement officers£37,300
- CAD technician£35,200
- Careers adviser£32,400
- Child and early years officers£31,000
- Civil engineering technician£37,200
- Clothing, fashion and accessories designers£36,800
- Complementary health associate professionals£27,900
- Counsellor£31,100
- Dancer
- Data analysts£38,600
- Database administrators and web content technicians£38,000
- Dental technician£29,900
- Design occupations n.e.c.£39,800
- Dispensing optician£28,500
- Early education and childcare practitioners£23,700
- Electrical and electronics technicians£35,100
- Engineering technicians£44,800
- Estate agent£30,600
- Estimator£39,600
- Events manager£32,200
- Financial accounts managers£49,000
- Fire service officers (watch manager and below)£44,000
- Fitness instructor£27,300
- Health and safety managers and officers£46,400
- Health associate professionals n.e.c.£30,600
- Higher level teaching assistants£25,400
- Housing officer£34,700
- Importers and exporters£34,800
- Information technology trainers£39,000
- Inspectors of standards and regulations£39,000
- Insurance underwriter£41,600
- Interior designer£36,500
- IT support technician£35,100
- IT technicians£35,300
- Laboratory technician£28,200
- Legal associate professionals£34,700
- Merchandisers£32,200
- Musician£46,600
- Non-commissioned officers and other ranks
- Other vocational and industrial trainers£36,400
- Pharmacy technician£31,000
- Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators£32,600
- Planning, process and production technicians£36,900
- Prison officer£41,300
- Project support officers£35,800
- Protective service associate professionals n.e.c.£44,000
- Public services associate professionals£39,500
- Quality assurance technicians£34,000
- Science, engineering and production technicians n.e.c.£36,100
- Ship and hovercraft officers
- Sports coach£30,100
- Sports players
- Veterinary nurse£28,900
- Welfare and housing associate professionals n.e.c.£30,100
- Writer£39,500
- Youth and community workers£32,700
Administrative and secretarial
27 jobs- Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks£31,600
- National government administrative occupations£33,000
- Records clerks and assistants£28,700
- Local government administrative occupations£30,900
Show all 27
- Bank and post office clerks£30,300
- Company secretary
- Credit controller£28,500
- Customer services manager£37,500
- Data entry administrators£28,300
- Finance officer£31,900
- Financial administrative occupations n.e.c.£29,000
- Human resources administrative occupations£26,900
- Legal secretary£27,000
- Library assistant£28,100
- Medical secretary£27,000
- Office manager£38,600
- Office supervisors£33,200
- Officers of non-governmental organisations£31,000
- Other administrative occupations n.e.c.£28,300
- Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants£30,300
- Personal assistants and other secretaries£35,000
- Receptionist£24,700
- Sales administrator£28,700
- School secretary£26,500
- Stock control assistant£30,000
- Transport and distribution clerks and assistants£33,500
- Typists and related keyboard occupations£27,200
Skilled trades
57 jobs- Chefs£30,000
- Electrician£39,600
- Carpenter£34,000
- Landscaper£28,500
Show all 57
- Agricultural and fishing trades n.e.c.£30,100
- Air-conditioning and refrigeration installers and repairers£41,200
- Aircraft maintenance and related trades£45,800
- Baker£29,100
- Boat builder£33,900
- Bricklayer£33,000
- Butcher£28,900
- Catering manager£29,800
- Computer system and equipment installers and servicers£34,200
- Construction and building trades n.e.c.£34,800
- Construction and building trades supervisors£45,000
- Cooks£24,200
- Electrical and electronic trades n.e.c.£48,600
- Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers£41,700
- Farmer£35,300
- Fishmongers and poultry dressers£25,400
- Florist£23,700
- Footwear and leather working trades£25,400
- Furniture maker£33,100
- Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers£28,900
- Groundsperson£28,300
- Horticultural trades£27,300
- Maintenance fitter£40,800
- Metal machining setters and setter-operators£35,700
- Metal plate workers, smiths, moulders and related occupations£37,100
- Other skilled trades n.e.c.£29,300
- Painter and decorator£32,800
- Pipe fitter£42,600
- Plasterer£34,000
- Plumber£37,900
- Pre-press technicians£27,500
- Precision instrument makers and repairers£40,100
- Print finishing and binding workers£27,300
- Printers£33,000
- Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers£64,300
- Roofer£31,900
- Security systems installer£39,000
- Sheet metal workers£32,200
- Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors£45,200
- Steel erector£35,800
- Stonemason£33,900
- Tailor£25,200
- Telecoms and related network installers and repairers£40,000
- Textiles, garments and related trades n.e.c.£26,600
- Tiler£32,900
- Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out£39,900
- TV, video and audio servicers and repairers
- Upholsterers£27,900
- Vehicle body repairer£35,000
- Vehicle paint technicians£34,500
- Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians£37,500
- Welding trades£35,300
- Window fabricator£29,400
Caring, leisure and other services
29 jobs- Care worker£27,500
- Nursing auxiliaries and assistants£29,100
- Educational support assistants£21,400
- Teaching assistant£21,200
Show all 29
- Air travel assistants£28,700
- Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics)£33,500
- Animal care services occupations n.e.c.£25,100
- Beauticians and related occupations£24,100
- Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors
- Care escorts
- Caretaker£29,000
- Childminder£24,300
- Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors£28,600
- Dental nurse£25,700
- Early education and childcare assistants£24,700
- Hairdresser£24,300
- Housekeepers and related occupations£25,300
- Houseparents and residential wardens£31,900
- Leisure and travel service occupations n.e.c.£26,700
- Nannies and au pairs£38,400
- Parking and civil enforcement occupations£29,600
- Pest controllers£28,300
- Playworker
- Police community support officer£35,700
- Rail travel assistants£46,100
- Senior care worker£29,400
- Sports and leisure assistants£26,900
- Travel agent£28,700
- Undertakers, mortuary and crematorium assistants£30,900
Sales and customer service
19 jobs- Sales assistant£25,100
- Sales supervisors - retail and wholesale£29,200
- Retail cashiers and check-out operators£24,600
- Pharmacy assistant£23,800
Show all 19
- Call and contact centre occupations£27,000
- Collector salespersons and credit agents
- Communication operators£36,400
- Customer service occupations n.e.c.£27,800
- Customer service supervisors£35,700
- Debt, rent and other cash collectors£29,100
- Market research interviewers
- Market trader
- Roundspersons and van salespersons£27,400
- Sales related occupations n.e.c.£31,500
- Shopkeepers and owners - retail and wholesale£36,300
- Telephone salespersons£30,500
- Telephonists£31,600
- Vehicle and parts salespersons and advisers£31,900
- Visual merchandiser£25,800
Process, plant and machine operatives
39 jobs- Delivery drivers and couriers£27,900
- Heavy and large goods vehicle drivers£39,900
- Taxi driver£26,800
- Food, drink and tobacco process operatives£28,200
Show all 39
- Air transport operatives£34,700
- Assemblers (electrical and electronic products)£28,600
- Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods)£31,900
- Assemblers and routine operatives n.e.c.£28,000
- Bus or coach driver£36,300
- Chemical and related process operatives£34,000
- Construction operatives n.e.c.£32,400
- Crane driver£46,500
- Driving instructor
- Energy plant operatives
- Fork-lift truck drivers£31,300
- Marine and waterways transport operatives£39,400
- Metal making and treating process operatives£32,900
- Metal working machine operatives£31,500
- Mobile machine drivers and operatives n.e.c.£37,900
- Other drivers and transport operatives n.e.c.£35,700
- Plant and machine operatives n.e.c.£29,300
- Plastics process operatives£32,600
- Printing machine assistants£29,900
- Process operatives n.e.c.£31,700
- Production, factory and assembly supervisors£36,800
- Quarry worker£38,300
- Rail construction and maintenance operatives£46,400
- Rail transport operatives£57,100
- Road construction operatives£38,800
- Road transport drivers n.e.c.£32,900
- Routine inspectors and testers£34,400
- Scaffolder£41,500
- Sewing machinist£24,800
- Textile operative£27,900
- Train driver£76,300
- Water and sewerage plant operatives£39,700
- Weighers, graders and sorters£30,900
- Windscreen fitter£30,500
- Wood machinist£30,400
Elementary jobs
34 jobs- Cleaner£24,100
- Kitchen and catering assistants£22,900
- Warehouse operatives£27,800
- Waiter£22,900
Show all 34
- Bar and catering supervisors£26,000
- Bar staff£23,200
- Coffee shop workers£21,600
- Delivery operatives£28,700
- Elementary administration occupations n.e.c.£26,600
- Elementary cleaning occupations n.e.c.£25,800
- Elementary construction occupations n.e.c.£28,600
- Elementary process plant occupations n.e.c.£29,600
- Elementary sales occupations n.e.c.
- Elementary storage occupations n.e.c.£35,900
- Elementary storage supervisors£31,000
- Exam invigilators
- Farm worker£30,100
- Fishing and other elementary agriculture occupations n.e.c.£26,700
- Forestry worker
- Groundworkers£37,900
- Hospital porter£29,400
- Industrial cleaner£27,300
- Launderers, dry cleaners and pressers£23,300
- Leisure and theme park attendants£22,300
- Other elementary services occupations n.e.c.£25,300
- Packer£26,200
- Postal workers, mail sorters and messengers£31,700
- Refuse and salvage occupations£27,900
- School midday and crossing patrol occupations£21,700
- Security guards and related occupations£33,800
- Shelf fillers£24,900
- Street cleaners£27,600
- Vehicle valeters and cleaners£26,600
- Window cleaners£29,200
Pay is typical full-time pay for employees. Each sector lists the jobs the most people do first.
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