Hospital Consultant Salary in Scotland

What most hospital consultants actually earn

Half of hospital consultants in Scotland earn between £56,902 and £144,710. Earning above £144,710 puts you in the top quarter of the profession.

ONS suppresses the detailed spread for this occupation at regional level, so this range describes the wider “Medical Practitioners” group in Scotland.

Where this figure comes from

ONS occupation group

Specialist medical practitioners

SOC 2020 code

2212

Measure

Gross annual pay, all employees

Edition

ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional

ONS publishes a sampling error of 12.5% for this figure and asks that anything above 10% is treated as imprecise — too few people in this region answered the survey for this occupation. The figure is shown because it is the one ONS published, but it is not firm enough to rank Scotland against anywhere else, so this page doesn't.

ONS doesn't measure “hospital consultant” as its own category. These figures are for the wider group “Specialist medical practitioners”, which includes this role alongside others. ONS measures specialist medical practitioners, which also covers specialty and associate specialist doctors.

Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are estimates from a survey of PAYE jobs and are not financial advice.