Advertised pay, cleaned and deduplicated
Median advertised pay from 9,604 deduplicated UK trade vacancy records posted from 1 June to 7 August 2026. This is a frozen historical aggregate, not a live salary tracker.
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Key findings
2,072 adverts
Electrician vacancies carried a median advertised annual salary of £43,568, with a lower quarter of £38,000 and an upper quarter of £52,500. Sample size matters: this row is more useful than a striking figure based on a handful of adverts.
£42,420
Across 7,795 deduplicated records carrying annual pay, the lower quarter was £33,250 and the upper quarter £50,500. This combines different trades, employers and experience levels, so it is context rather than a personal pay prediction.
£280/day
The median was £280 across 203 clean day-rate adverts. A day rate is business turnover before tax, insurance, tools, travel, holidays and time without work, so it must not be presented as take-home pay.
6 rows withheld
Six annual trade rows produced implausibly low medians consistent with pay-period labelling problems. The historical advert rows cannot now resolve that issue, so those trade rows are not shown in the public table.
These are advertised medians, not guaranteed earnings. Employer mix, experience requirements and source coverage affect the result. UK Trade Jobs may earn from qualifying clicks or applications on partner listings, so this is not an independent labour-market survey.
Annual pay
The median is the middle advertised value after cleaning and deduplication. Open a route guide, search current jobs or prefill an alert from any row.
| Trade | Listings | Median | Lower quarter | Upper quarter | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity Surveyor | 706 | £60,000 | £47,500 | £70,000 | |
| Site Manager | 428 | £52,500 | £45,000 | £60,000 | |
| Roofer | 173 | £47,500 | £36,100 | £60,000 | |
| HVAC Engineer | 1,135 | £45,000 | £40,925 | £50,000 | |
| Heat Pump Installer | 44 | £45,000 | £42,500 | £51,000 | |
| Mechanic | 52 | £45,000 | £35,000 | £50,000 | |
| Gas Engineer | 689 | £44,280 | £39,900 | £50,000 | |
| Electrician | 2,072 | £43,568 | £38,000 | £52,500 | |
| Solar Panel Installer | 23 | £42,750 | £38,750 | £50,000 | |
| Drainage Engineer | 104 | £40,755 | £34,500 | £47,500 | |
| Scaffolder | 43 | £37,500 | £22,325 | £60,000 | |
| Plumber | 811 | £36,100 | £30,073 | £41,500 | |
| Carpenter | 451 | £30,307 | £22,800 | £38,086 | |
| All annual listings | 7,795 | £42,420 | £33,250 | £50,500 |
Six annual trade rows are withheld because their medians suggest possible pay-period errors in source feeds. No trade-level figure with fewer than 10 listings is shown. Published annual rows do not therefore sum to the all-listings total below.
A day rate is turnover before tax, insurance, tools, travel, holidays and quiet periods.
| Trade | Listings | Median | Lower quarter | Upper quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity Surveyor | 23 | £470 | £425 | £525 |
| Site Manager | 203 | £280 | £256 | £311 |
| Electrician | 46 | £243 | £228 | £318 |
| Plumber | 45 | £220 | £209 | £238 |
| Carpenter | 57 | £219 | £209 | £247 |
| Bricklayer | 15 | £219 | £212 | £235 |
All 449 clean day-rate listings: median £265, lower quarter £225, upper quarter £300.
Only trades with at least 10 clean hourly listings are shown.
| Trade | Listings | Median | Lower quarter | Upper quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity Surveyor | 10 | £60.00 | £56.75 | £62.00 |
| Site Manager | 38 | £26.50 | £21.25 | £30.50 |
| Electrician | 192 | £24.50 | £20.50 | £27.50 |
| Plumber | 158 | £24.00 | £20.00 | £25.50 |
| Bricklayer | 24 | £23.75 | £21.00 | £24.50 |
| Scaffolder | 12 | £23.50 | £22.25 | £26.00 |
| HVAC Engineer | 29 | £23.00 | £19.50 | £30.50 |
| Carpenter | 264 | £22.75 | £19.00 | £24.50 |
| Plasterer | 12 | £22.50 | £21.00 | £24.00 |
| Gas Engineer | 10 | £21.25 | £20.25 | £22.25 |
| Plant Operator | 97 | £21.00 | £20.00 | £22.00 |
| Painter & Decorator | 38 | £19.75 | £17.75 | £20.50 |
| Drainage Engineer | 13 | £18.00 | £15.00 | £21.50 |
| Welder | 411 | £17.00 | £15.25 | £19.00 |
All 1,332 clean hourly listings: median £21.00, lower quarter £17.00, upper quarter £24.50.
National benchmarks
£42,420
UKTJ annual advert median, June to August 2026
£39,039
UK full-time median earnings, April 2025
ONS measures employee earnings while UKTJ measures advertised vacancy pay across a different occupational and employer mix. The figures provide broad context only and do not show that one route pays more than another.
How we built this index. The frozen edition records 15,756 partner-feed vacancy rows between 1 June and 7 August 2026, of which 15,557 carried advertised pay. Plausibility rules removed annual values outside £8,000–£150,000, day rates outside £80–£1,500, hourly rates outside £7–£100 and ranges wider than 4:1, leaving 13,632 rows. We then counted each national combination of normalised employer, job title, salary minimum, salary maximum and pay period once. That produced 9,604 deduplicated advertised vacancy records: 7,795 annual, 1,332 hourly, 449 day-rate and 28 week or month rows omitted from the public rate tables. Ranges use their midpoint and published cells require at least 10 records.
The original advert-level extract was not retained and the mutable production feed no longer contains the complete historical window. We reconstructed and documented the method, but the exact 2026-Q3 row set cannot now be independently rerun from source. A future edition will require a retained, rights-approved snapshot before publication.
The public trade and rate tables do not sum to every record in the overall totals because small, unclassified and withheld groups are omitted. The historical aggregate does not preserve enough detail to reconstruct those residual groups reliably.
No. These are medians from advertised job pay, not payslips or guaranteed earnings. Adverts can lean towards experienced and hard-to-fill roles, so use the figures to compare current offers rather than predict your exact income.
After removing implausible pay values, we counted each unique combination of normalised employer, job title, salary minimum, salary maximum and pay period once. That reduced 13,632 plausible listings to 9,604 unique advertised vacancies.
Six annual medians were unusually low and consistent with possible pay-period labelling problems in a source feed. The original historical advert rows are no longer available to resolve the issue, so UK Trade Jobs withheld those rows rather than publish figures that could mislead readers.
There is no fixed update promise. A future edition will be published only when UK Trade Jobs has the necessary source permissions and a retained, auditable snapshot for the full reporting window.