UK Salaries by Job

WageOra publishes verified salary information from the Office for National Statistics for some occupations, and lets you search and compare hundreds more. Where WageOra doesn't yet have a checked figure for a job, the page says so clearly rather than guessing.

Compare salaries by job

Want to compare more than one job side by side? The salary comparison tool lets you search WageOra's wider occupation catalogue and compare median annual pay for up to three jobs at once.

Understanding median annual pay

The figures on WageOra are median annual pay, not an average. The median is the middle value when everyone's pay is lined up from lowest to highest, so a handful of very high or very low earners can't pull it off course the way an average sometimes can.

Salary data vs. your take-home pay

These figures describe typical gross pay across the whole UK workforce for an occupation — they are not a prediction of what any individual earns, and they are not take-home pay. To see what a given gross salary means for your own take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance, use the Salary Calculator.

Data quality

WageOra only shows salary figures that can be traced back to a reliable source. Where the Office for National Statistics provides information about the quality of an estimate, we keep that information with the salary figure. If a figure is unavailable or not reliable enough to use, we say so rather than filling the gap with an estimate of our own.

Where our salary information comes from

The UK's main official source for pay by occupation is the Office for National Statistics' Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), 2025 (provisional). See Sources for the exact release WageOra has checked and How WageOra Works for how a figure is verified before it appears.

When salary information is unavailable

Not every job has a usable ONS figure. Sometimes ONS itself hasn't published a reliable estimate for that job; sometimes WageOra hasn't yet confirmed which official job classification a title maps to. Either way, the page says "data unavailable" rather than showing a guess or an invented number.

Featured occupation pages

Each page below explains what's known so far, and shows a worked take-home example wherever a verified figure exists.