Median monthly pay of payrolled employees, England's regions and the UK's nations
Latest month is an early estimate
The middle monthly pay of employees paid through PAYE in England's nine regions, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the UK, in the latest two months, £, from HM Revenue and Customs' Real Time Information, seasonally adjusted. HMRC does not publish England.
Median monthly pay, UK
£2,660
Sep 2026 · early estimate
Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 12:50 UTC- Sep 2026
- Aug 2026
Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
13 rows
| Area | Sep 2026 | Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| London | £3,119 | £3,120 |
| South East | £2,802 | £2,799 |
| East of England | £2,718 | £2,721 |
| Scotland | £2,698 | £2,686 |
| Wales | £2,560 | £2,543 |
| North West | £2,556 | £2,549 |
| East Midlands | £2,552 | £2,545 |
| South West | £2,552 | £2,551 |
| West Midlands | £2,540 | £2,544 |
| North East | £2,524 | £2,511 |
| Northern Ireland | £2,508 | £2,495 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £2,505 | £2,495 |
| United Kingdom | £2,660 | £2,659 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 28 October 2026, 12:38 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted/dataSHA-256 08a18de21112fa57ead8685022194b7c6afd5b81a3afb5047e1a5a57283f108f · 2,684 bytes
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted/current/dataSHA-256 2ed181163e997f1d5d75dccf9a32655245579257dc90eea62e824fdf2ef428a2 · 22,276 bytes
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted/current/rtisaoct2026.xlsxSHA-256 ae99aba459993890e711d5c54e95a8a3b73f9ab29af0ec08d5322988ba73d46a · 1,528,944 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 12:50 UTC Run at 28 October 2026, 12:50 UTC; 26 of 26 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-28T12:38:30Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 26 of 26 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 26 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 26 of 26 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | ONS edition is current | the current edition counts at 2026-09-30, 28 days before retrieval (limit 120) |
| Pass | Sheet 2's UK figures agree | 2 of 2 figures match column 'Median pay' of sheet '2. Median pay (UK)' in the stored workbook |
| Pass | The hub's median-pay-by-nation agrees | 8 of 8 figures match median-pay-by-nation's record (the same workbook's nations, read by that dataset) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Half of payrolled employees are paid more than the median and half less, before tax. HMRC publishes no median for England, and a median cannot be built from the regions' medians. Pay is counted where employees live. The latest month is an early estimate from incomplete returns, revised a month later.