Open data

The UK junior job market, as a file you can use

Every junior, graduate, apprentice and entry-level role advertised on this board, counted by where it is, what field it is in, how it is contracted and who is hiring — with what those roles advertise in pay, and how many of them say anything about pay at all. 261 rows, rebuilt every morning, free to use with a credit.

CC-BY-4.0 · Current to 2026-11-04 · 1934 live listings

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The headline

46% of UK junior adverts state what they pay

This is the number the dataset exists for. Job boards publish salary averages; almost nobody publishes how much of the market refuses to give one. It is measured here the only honest way it can be — by counting the adverts that carry a figure against the adverts that do not, on a board that lists both.

Of 1934 entry-level roles advertised in the UK today, 882 state a salary and 1052 do not. The median of the ones that do is £31,822.

Over time

How the market has moved since we started counting

The board banks these figures every morning and never rewrites them. A listing that comes down takes its row with it, so this is the one part of the dataset that cannot be reconstructed after the fact — it exists because it was recorded as it passed.

Share of live junior adverts that state a salary, by day.

Junior roles live on the board, by day.

Over 46 days: −1 point on the disclosure rate, +1050 roles on the board.

The whole series is a second CSV, one row per slice per day, under the same licence.

What is in it

Five ways the same board is counted

One row per slice. Each carries the number of roles, how many disclose pay, the disclosure rate, and the median and quartiles of the advertised annual salaries — plus the URL of the page on this site showing the roles the row was counted from, so any figure can be checked against the adverts behind it.

Whole board
Every junior role, as one row.
1 row
Field
Engineering, healthcare, trades and the rest.
15 rows
Location
Towns and cities with at least two roles of their own.
221 rows
Contract type
Apprenticeship, internship, placement, permanent.
6 rows
Working pattern
Remote, hybrid, on-site.
3 rows
Industry
The employer's sector, where the source states one.
15 rows

Preview

Junior hiring by field

Slice	Roles	State pay	Median	Middle half
Engineering	359	43%	£33,000	£29,000–£39,520
Data & Analytics	210	31%	£32,500	£28,000–£38,000
Design	131	40%	£30,000	£27,500–£36,000
Product	44	39%	—	—
Marketing	140	41%	£30,000	£27,500–£35,000
Sales	225	59%	£30,105	£28,000–£35,000
Customer Support	30	37%	—	—
Finance & Accounting	77	45%	£38,500	£30,000–£42,500
HR & Recruitment	96	49%	£27,500	£25,250–£30,000
Healthcare	70	14%	—	—
Retail & Hospitality	256	63%	£34,250	£31,500–£38,000
Trades & Construction	70	47%	£29,250	£27,500–£35,000
Admin & Operations	170	49%	£28,000	£24,650–£33,500
Education	31	29%	—	—
Legal	25	40%	—	—

Medians are shown only where at least 20 listings in the slice advertise an annual figure. A dash is a slice we hold data for and will not put a number on.

Junior hiring by place

Slice	Roles	State pay	Median	Middle half
England	1822	45%	£32,000	£28,000–£36,046
London	679	38%	£35,000	£30,000–£42,000
Canary Wharf	90	33%	£33,000	£30,000–£37,500
Croydon	90	32%	£32,750	£30,000–£40,000
Romford	90	33%	£32,500	£27,500–£37,500
Stratford	90	32%	£32,500	£30,000–£38,500
South East	178	35%	£32,500	£28,000–£35,000
Basingstoke	90	32%	£32,500	£30,000–£38,500
Brighton	92	30%	£32,500	£30,000–£38,500
Canterbury	90	32%	£32,750	£30,000–£38,500

The ten busiest of 221 places in the file.

Licence

Free to use, including commercially

Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Use it in an article, a dissertation, a report or a product. The one condition is attribution:

Junior Jobs UK — https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/data

Or in HTML, which is what most people need:

Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/data">Junior Jobs UK</a>, CC-BY-4.0

What is published is aggregate: counts and quantiles we measured. The individual adverts are not ours to redistribute and are not in the file.

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Junior salaries in the UK 2026

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Junior engineering salaries in the UK 2026

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Junior sales salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/sales">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Junior retail & hospitality salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/retail">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Junior admin & operations salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/operations">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Junior data & analytics salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/data">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Junior marketing salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/marketing">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Junior hr & recruitment salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/hr">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Junior design salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/design">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Junior finance & accounting salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/finance">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Junior trades & construction salaries in the UK 2026

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  Source: <a href="https://onlyjuniorjobs.co.uk/salary/trades">Junior Jobs UK</a>
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Methodology

How the figures are arrived at

Salary figures use the midpoint of each advertised annual range. Hourly and day rates count towards disclosure but not towards pay, because annualising them would invent a working week the advert never stated. Median, p25 and p75 are null below 20 priced listings, where the quartiles move by more than the figures they describe.

The board itself is entry-level only, so every row is a fact about junior hiring rather than a junior slice of a general board. A role advertised UK-wide counts towards the national rows and towards no single town, which is why the places add up to less than the board.

Figures change daily as adverts open and close. Quote the date on this page alongside the number, or link to it and let it stay current. The longer write-up lives on the salary reports.

1934 junior roles on the board today

Entry-level only, across the UK. No senior roles wearing a junior title.

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