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Official ONS earnings · 142 occupations

Salaries in North East 2026

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

Typical occupation

£30,758

The midpoint across every occupation ONS publishes for this region

Lowest paid

£10,408

Median pay in the lowest-paying occupation here

Highest paid

£72,472

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 142 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 North East

Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers £72,472 Information technology directors £72,018 Head teachers and principals £71,526
Rail transport operatives £61,477
Research and development (R&D) managers £60,883
Sales accounts and business development managers £57,895 Construction project managers and related professionals £55,195 IT managers £54,629 Programmers and software development professionals £54,279 Functional managers and directors n.e.c. £49,877 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers £49,429
Management consultants and business analysts £49,267
Specialist nurses £48,666
Police officers (sergeant and below) £48,045
Rail travel assistants £47,622
Managers in transport and distribution £45,905 Medical radiographers £45,791 Engineering professionals n.e.c. £45,705 Information technology professionals n.e.c. £45,159
Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors £45,000
Education managers £44,615
Secondary education teaching professionals £44,406
Fire service officers (watch manager and below) £44,351
Production and process engineers £44,220
Quantity surveyors £43,588

Lowest-paying occupations in North East

Kitchen and catering assistants £10,408
Cleaners and domestics £10,997
Sales and retail assistants £14,015
Receptionists £16,803
Pharmacy and optical dispensing assistants £17,573
Early education and childcare assistants £18,185
Teaching assistants £20,256
Data entry administrators £20,506
Cooks £20,553
Air travel assistants £20,878

Compare North East with another region

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vs East of England vs East Midlands vs London 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.