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Official ONS earnings · 190 occupations

Salaries in Yorkshire and The Humber 2026

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

Typical occupation

£31,735

The midpoint across every occupation ONS publishes for this region

Lowest paid

£4,311

Median pay in the lowest-paying occupation here

Highest paid

£87,240

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 190 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 Yorkshire and The Humber

Specialist medical practitioners £87,240
Head teachers and principals £82,282 Marketing, sales and advertising directors £79,606
Financial and accounting technicians £63,056
Generalist medical practitioners £61,026
Purchasing managers and directors £60,189
Electrical and electronic trades n.e.c. £56,587
Solicitors and lawyers £54,992 Cyber security professionals £54,864
Rail transport operatives £54,167
IT business analysts, architects and systems designers £53,806
Health services and public health managers and directors £52,783
Business and financial project management professionals £52,022
IT project managers £51,108
Financial managers and directors £50,891
Production managers and directors in construction £50,602
IT managers £50,585 Functional managers and directors n.e.c. £49,069 Sales accounts and business development managers £48,877 Engineering project managers and project engineers £48,838 Human resource managers and directors £48,675 Civil engineers £48,160
Specialist nurses £47,290
Managers in transport and distribution £47,196
Production managers and directors in manufacturing £47,050

Lowest-paying occupations in Yorkshire and The Humber

School midday and crossing patrol occupations £4,311
Company secretaries and administrators £10,971
Cleaners and domestics £11,319
Kitchen and catering assistants £11,988
Care escorts £14,451
Sales and retail assistants £14,657
Receptionists £16,958
Teaching assistants £17,293
Retail cashiers and check-out operators £17,362
Educational support assistants £17,485

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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.