Pay
UK jobs by salary band
Half of full-time employees in the UK earned less than £39,039a year a year in the latest ONS figures, and half earned more. ONS publishes a median for 382 occupation groups; most of them sit between £25,000 and £50,000. Pick a band to see the jobs in it, which need a degree, and how people get in.
Updated
Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 (provisional), Table 14.7a, published . Median gross annual pay for full-time employee jobs in the UK, tax year ending 5 April 2025. Figures are for whole SOC 2020 occupation groups and exclude the self-employed.
How many occupations sit in each salary band
| Median pay band | Occupation groups |
|---|---|
| Under £25,000 | 22 |
| £25,000 to £29,999 | 82 |
| £30,000 to £39,999 | 148 |
| £40,000 to £49,999 | 74 |
| £50,000 to £59,999 | 38 |
| £60,000 and over | 18 |
Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 (provisional), Table 14.7a, published . Median gross annual pay for full-time employee jobs in the UK, tax year ending 5 April 2025. Figures are for whole SOC 2020 occupation groups and exclude the self-employed.
How your salary compares
These are the points that split UK full-time employee jobs by pay. For example, 10% of full-time jobs paid less than £23,990 and 90% paid less than £76,903.
| Share of jobs paying less | Annual pay |
|---|---|
| 10% | £23,990 |
| 20% | £27,495 |
| 25% | £29,262 |
| 30% | £30,935 |
| 40% | £34,779 |
| 50% (median) | £39,039 |
| 60% | £44,203 |
| 70% | £50,115 |
| 75% | £54,009 |
| 80% | £59,083 |
| 90% | £76,903 |
Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 (provisional), Table 14.7a, published . Percentiles of gross annual pay for all full-time employee jobs in the UK (the All employees row of Table 14.7a).
Before you compare
These figures are gross pay before tax, for full-time employee jobs, from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. They leave out the self-employed and people who had been in their job for less than a year. ONS publishes the 2026 figures on 22 October 2026.