Average salaries in the UK
Official full-time pay figures by city, region and role, from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, April 2025. Use them to check whether an offer or your current salary is in line with the market, then see how to negotiate.
- UK median full-time pay
- £39,039
- Change on a year earlier
- +4.3%
- Top 25% earn more than
- £54,009
- Top 10% earn more than
- £76,903
By city
- London£49,692
- Reading£49,062
- Cambridge£45,762
- Aberdeen£43,719
- Edinburgh£43,715
- Oxford£43,502
- Bristol£42,160
- Glasgow£40,554
- Manchester£40,479
- Birmingham£38,556
- Liverpool£38,430
- Cardiff£38,225
- Leeds£37,821
- Sheffield£37,074
- Newcastle£36,726
- Nottingham£34,868
Median gross annual pay for full-time jobs based in each city's council area.
By region and nation
| Region | Median | Change | 75th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | £49,692 | +4.7% | £73,667 |
| South East | £39,983 | +2.4% | £55,000 |
| Scotland | £39,719 | +3.7% | £52,500 |
| East | £38,597 | +4.4% | £52,984 |
| North West | £37,361 | +6.2% | £51,167 |
| South West | £37,195 | +4.6% | £50,000 |
| West Midlands | £37,064 | +6.1% | £50,611 |
| Northern Ireland | £37,052 | +8.2% | £50,197 |
| Wales | £35,796 | +4.5% | £47,569 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £35,682 | +3.7% | £48,430 |
| East Midlands | £35,600 | +5% | £48,196 |
| North East | £34,403 | +4.2% | £46,220 |
By role
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 (provisional), Table 7.7a (work geography). Gross annual pay for full-time employee jobs, April 2025. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See how we use this data.