Salary guide

Research staff salaries in the UK

The 129 researcher jobs with a salary advertised on UniJobs in the last 12 months typically paid £40,000 to £45,700. Half of them had a mid-point between £37,400 and £48,400.

Typical mid-point

£42,700

a year · from 129 adverts

By pay grade

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
Grade 5	£40,400 to £46,600	£42,900 to £43,700	8
Grade 6	£45,700 to £52,900	£48,800 to £51,600	11

By subject

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
Architecture, Building & Planning	£56,200 to £62,600	–	3
Medicine & Dentistry	£45,700 to £52,900	£43,700 to £53,400	26
Economics	£40,000 to £48,800	£42,900 to £48,400	7
Nursing & Allied Health	£40,000 to £45,700	£37,300 to £50,900	11
Biological Sciences	£39,600 to £45,600	£35,300 to £42,900	9
Sociology, Social Policy & Social Work	£39,800 to £46,000	£42,600 to £42,700	9
Computer Science	£40,700 to £42,000	£40,700 to £45,500	16
Engineering	£38,000 to £41,900	£35,800 to £42,600	12
Earth & Environmental Sciences	£36,900 to £42,500	£36,400 to £42,900	6
Psychology	£35,300 to £39,900	£33,600 to £43,400	13
Business & Management	£35,000 to £37,000	–	3

By region

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
Greater London	£41,200 to £48,000	£42,900 to £49,800	35
West Midlands	£36,600 to £46,000	£36,500 to £48,400	20
North West England	£37,200 to £41,400	£33,600 to £43,000	20
South East England	£41,100 to £41,900	£35,300 to £51,300	13
Yorkshire and the Humber	£41,100 to £48,800	£44,300 to £49,800	12
South West England	£41,300 to £44,200	£40,700 to £45,900	12
East Midlands	£36,300 to £40,400	£32,700 to £41,000	10
Wales	£34,000 to £37,400	£21,600 to £37,000	6

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Research AssociateThe University of Birmingham · Birmingham £33,700–£36,300 Research Fellow (Quantitative Researcher)The University of Birmingham · Birmingham £36,600–£46,000 Assistant Professor in Laser-Based ManufacturingCoventry University · Coventry £46,100–£51,800 Research AssociateThe Nottingham Trent University · Nottingham £29,400–£33,700 Research FellowThe University of Birmingham · Birmingham £36,600–£48,800 Digit Quantitative Research FellowThe University of Leeds · Leeds £41,100–£48,800 Principal Research Fellow in Health Data IntelligenceThe University of Sunderland · Sunderland £46,800–£58,200 Research Assistant in PsychologyThe University of Surrey · Guildford £35,300–£37,400 Research Fellow - Advanced Battery Intelligence and Technology DevelopmentThe University of Surrey · Guildford £15,400–£18,800 Research Fellow (Maternity Cover)London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · London · Grade 6 £46,600–£52,900

Questions

How much does a researcher earn in the UK?

Based on 129 adverts on UniJobs in the last 12 months, a typical researcher job paid £40,000 to £45,700 a year, with a typical mid-point of £42,700.

What grade is a researcher?

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

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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