Vicar Salary in London

What most vicars actually earn

Half of vicars in London earn between £35,670 and £50,395. Earning above £50,395 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 “Welfare Professionals” group in London.

Where this figure comes from

ONS occupation group

Clergy

SOC 2020 code

2463

Measure

Gross annual pay, all employees

Edition

ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional

ONS publishes a sampling error of 18.3% 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 London against anywhere else, so this page doesn't.

ONS doesn't measure “vicar” as its own category. These figures are for the wider group “Clergy”, which includes this role alongside others. ONS measures clergy of all faiths.

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.