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Salary guide

Postdoc and research fellow salaries in the UK

The 191 postdoc or research fellow jobs with a salary advertised on UniJobs in the last 12 months typically paid £38,800 to £46,000. Half of them had a mid-point between £40,700 and £44,900.

Typical mid-point
£42,200
a year · from 191 adverts

By pay grade

Typical salaryMiddle halfJobs
Grade 5£36,000 to £46,500£40,800 to £41,6008
Grade 6£42,800 to £48,500£42,400 to £48,80012
Grade 7£44,200 to £50,400£45,300 to £48,0007
Level 5£36,300 to £47,000£41,600 to £41,6004

By subject

Typical salaryMiddle halfJobs
Architecture, Building & Planning£49,500 to £53,600–3
Nursing & Allied Health£46,000 to £51,400£45,700 to £50,9006
History & Archaeology£44,200 to £50,400–3
Agriculture, Food & Veterinary Science£40,300 to £47,200£41,000 to £45,4004
Biological Sciences£39,700 to £47,000£41,900 to £44,90026
Earth & Environmental Sciences£39,900 to £46,000£40,900 to £44,20014
Mathematics & Statistics£38,800 to £46,000£42,400 to £43,6009
Languages & Linguistics£38,600 to £45,800£41,600 to £42,4004
Computer Science£38,600 to £45,800£41,200 to £45,90012
Physics & Astronomy£37,400 to £46,000£41,000 to £44,00019
Engineering£38,400 to £46,000£40,700 to £42,70029
Psychology£37,400 to £46,000£38,500 to £45,1009

By region

Typical salaryMiddle halfJobs
West Midlands£36,600 to £46,000£40,800 to £41,60050
South East England£37,400 to £44,700£40,700 to £41,50033
North West England£39,700 to £46,000£41,700 to £43,00024
Yorkshire and the Humber£41,100 to £48,800£44,900 to £44,90019
Greater London£45,700 to £51,900£47,900 to £49,80017
Wales£38,400 to £42,500£38,400 to £42,70016
South West England£38,800 to £47,000£42,400 to £46,30015
Scotland£41,900 to £47,000£43,800 to £45,3006
East Midlands£38,800 to £44,900£37,700 to £42,5006
North East England£39,600 to £41,900–3

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Research FellowThe University of Birmingham · Birmingham £37,400–£47,000 Research AssociateThe University of Birmingham · Birmingham £33,000 Research Associate in Biomaterials ScienceThe University of Lancaster · Lancaster £33,000–£37,700 Research Associate Grade 7: PEEN (Plasmon-Enhanced Expansion Nanoscopy)University of Glasgow · Glasgow £41,900–£47,000 Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow in Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics (Fixed term)University of Nottingham · Nottingham £32,100–£35,600 Research FellowCoventry University · Coventry £38,800–£42,300 Postdoctoral ResearcherBirkbeck College · London · Grade 7 £45,100–£51,400 Research Fellow – Bioinformatics and Data SciencesThe University of Surrey · Guildford £38,400–£47,000 Research FellowUniversity of Warwick · Coventry · Level 5 £36,300–£47,000 Research FellowUniversity of Warwick · Coventry · Level 5 £36,300–£47,000

Questions

How much does a postdoc or research fellow earn in the UK?

Based on 191 adverts on UniJobs in the last 12 months, a typical postdoc or research fellow job paid £38,800 to £46,000 a year, with a typical mid-point of £42,200.

What grade is a postdoc or research fellow?

Universities set their own grades. In adverts on UniJobs, postdoc or research fellow jobs were most often advertised at Grade 5, Grade 6 or Grade 7.

How these figures work. They come only from salaries stated in job adverts on UniJobs over the last 12 months, per year, in pounds. "Typical salary" is the middle of the advertised starting points to the middle of the advertised top points. "Middle half" is the range of mid-points that half of the adverts fell within. Pay grades are set by each university, so the same grade can pay differently from place to place, and figures update as new jobs are posted.

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