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Official ONS earnings · 201 occupations

Salaries in East Midlands 2026

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

Typical occupation

£31,587

The midpoint across every occupation ONS publishes for this region

Lowest paid

£4,030

Median pay in the lowest-paying occupation here

Highest paid

£76,175

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 201 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 Midlands

Marketing, sales and advertising directors £76,175 Information technology directors £71,620 Head teachers and principals £60,776 Engineering project managers and project engineers £58,303 Generalist medical practitioners £55,331
Research and development (R&D) managers £54,739
Business and financial project management professionals £50,926
Production managers and directors in construction £50,059
Production managers and directors in mining and energy £50,015
IT network professionals £49,974 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers £49,892
Production managers and directors in manufacturing £49,634
Sales accounts and business development managers £49,330 Taxation experts £49,293 IT managers £49,070 Programmers and software development professionals £48,744
Protective service associate professionals n.e.c. £48,099
Social services managers and directors £47,940
Construction and building trades supervisors £47,592
Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors £47,546
Police officers (sergeant and below) £47,228
Scaffolders, stagers and riggers £46,265
Managers in transport and distribution £46,067
Electrical and electronic trades n.e.c. £45,966
Human resource managers and directors £45,493

Lowest-paying occupations in East Midlands

School midday and crossing patrol occupations £4,030
Cleaners and domestics £10,992
Kitchen and catering assistants £13,303
Coffee shop workers £14,149
Sales and retail assistants £14,531
Educational support assistants £15,598
Early education and childcare practitioners £16,458
Higher level teaching assistants £17,257
Receptionists £17,377
Bar and catering supervisors £17,872

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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.