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Official ONS earnings · 209 occupations

Salaries in East 2026

What people actually earn across East, by occupation — median gross annual pay from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Typical occupation

£33,543

The midpoint across every occupation ONS publishes for this region

Lowest paid

£9,512

Median pay in the lowest-paying occupation here

Highest paid

£83,444

Median pay in the highest-paying occupation here

ONS doesn't publish a single “average wage” per region in this dataset, so the typical figure above is the midpoint of 209 published occupation medians — it describes the spread of occupations, not the average worker. Read the methodology before using it to evaluate an offer.

Highest-paying occupations in East

Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers £83,444
Marketing, sales and advertising directors £81,143
Specialist medical practitioners £79,305
Train and tram drivers £75,608 Functional managers and directors n.e.c. £69,486 Head teachers and principals £66,126
Senior police officers £65,326
Marketing and commercial managers £62,752
Electrical engineers £61,766
Programmers and software development professionals £60,203
Public relations and communications directors £60,131
Electronics engineers £58,657
Production and process engineers £56,302
Business and financial project management professionals £55,820
Research and development (R&D) managers £55,128
Human resource managers and directors £54,912
Management consultants and business analysts £54,867
Biochemists and biomedical scientists £54,211
Rail construction and maintenance operatives £54,210
Production managers and directors in construction £53,874
Paramedics £53,786 Medical radiographers £53,607 IT managers £53,172 IT network professionals £52,712 Sales accounts and business development managers £52,437

Lowest-paying occupations in East

Kitchen and catering assistants £9,512
Cleaners and domestics £10,656
Sales and retail assistants £15,065
Retail cashiers and check-out operators £15,892
Teaching assistants £15,988
Typists and related keyboard occupations £16,038
Early education and childcare practitioners £16,048
Educational support assistants £16,861
Receptionists £17,488
Library clerks and assistants £17,953

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vs East Midlands vs London vs North East vs North West vs Scotland vs South East vs South West vs Wales vs West Midlands vs Yorkshire and The Humber

Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional), Table 15. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.