Salary reports
What junior jobs in the UK actually pay
Every figure here comes from job adverts live on this board — 706 entry-level roles across the UK, of which 267 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 706 live listings
Median advertised salary, all junior roles
£32,000
Middle half between £28,250 and £36,591, from 267 listings advertising an annual figure.
Transparency
Most employers will not say what they pay
Of 706 junior roles on the board, 332 state a salary and 374 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 47% 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.
- Engineering£33k
- Sales£30k
- Retail & Hospitality£34k
- Data & Analytics£32k
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.
706 junior roles on the board today
Entry-level only, across the UK. No senior roles wearing a junior title.
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