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Official ONS earnings · 219 occupations

Salaries in London 2026

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

Typical occupation

£40,110

The midpoint across every occupation ONS publishes for this region

Lowest paid

£5,711

Median pay in the lowest-paying occupation here

Highest paid

£123,796

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 219 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 London

Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers £123,796
Chief executives and senior officials £119,981
Marketing, sales and advertising directors £111,935 Financial managers and directors £107,433 Information technology directors £105,290
Specialist medical practitioners £86,528
Functional managers and directors n.e.c. £85,735
Public relations and communications directors £81,699
Train and tram drivers £77,889
Production managers and directors in manufacturing £76,710
Solicitors and lawyers £75,537 Programmers and software development professionals £74,284 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers £73,857 Head teachers and principals £71,111
Purchasing managers and directors £71,098
IT project managers £68,827
Business and financial project management professionals £67,915
Health services and public health managers and directors £67,220
Human resource managers and directors £66,725 Actuaries, economists and statisticians £66,364 Sales accounts and business development managers £66,116
Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers £64,607
IT managers £64,357 Finance and investment analysts and advisers £63,994
Rail transport operatives £63,796

Lowest-paying occupations in London

School midday and crossing patrol occupations £5,711
Shelf fillers £14,343
Retail cashiers and check-out operators £14,524
Cleaners and domestics £14,750
Kitchen and catering assistants £14,974
Sales and retail assistants £15,417
Waiters and waitresses £15,734
Early education and childcare practitioners £18,799
Educational support assistants £19,423
Housekeepers and related occupations £20,047

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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.