Salary reports

What junior jobs in the UK actually pay

Every figure here comes from job adverts live on this board — 1934 entry-level roles across the UK, of which 744 publish an annual salary. Nobody was surveyed and nothing is estimated. It changes when the board changes, which is every morning.

Updated daily · Based on 1934 live listings

Median advertised salary, all junior roles

£31,822

Middle half between £28,000 and £36,400, from 744 listings advertising an annual figure.

Transparency

Most employers will not say what they pay

Of 1934 junior roles on the board, 882 state a salary and 1052 do not. For someone applying to their first job that means the majority of the market asks them to spend an application, and often an interview, before finding out what the work pays.

Only 46% of UK entry-level job adverts state a salary. Every number on this page is drawn from that minority, because no honest number can come from anywhere else.

By field

What each kind of junior work pays

The medians sit within a few thousand pounds of one another and their middle halves overlap almost entirely. The spread inside any single field is wider than the gap between the highest and lowest paid field on the board.

£24k£43k

Which field you enter matters less to a first salary than which employer you land in.

Reports

The full breakdown by field

Each report gives the median, the quartile range, how many employers in that field disclose pay, where the roles are and what they ask for.

Methodology

How these numbers were worked out

Medians and quartiles come from live listings advertising an annual figure, taking the midpoint of each advertised range. Hourly and day rates count towards how many employers disclose pay but not towards what the pay is: annualising them would mean inventing a working week the advert never stated.

A field only gets its own report once at least 20 of its listings advertise an annual salary. Below that the quartiles swing by more than the numbers they describe — at ten listings the upper quartile moves by £37,000 under resampling, and a sample of three agrees with itself perfectly while telling you nothing. 10 of 15 fields clear that bar today.

These pages are free to quote with a link back. The figures behind them are published as a file under CC BY on the open data page, along with the counts by place, contract type and industry. If you need a cut we do not publish, ask.

1934 junior roles on the board today

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

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