Professional & Technical Salaries (2025)
✓ Sourced directly from ONS ASHE & BLS OES · Checked for accuracy at every rebuild · First published: 2026-08-25 · Last updated: 2026-10-25
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ONS ASHE 2025 (provisional) · BLS OES May 202520 job titles, sorted by UK median salary.
Professional & Technical pay at a glance
In the UK, the 20 professional & technical occupations with ONS data have median pay ranging from £30,655 (Clergy) to £51,950 (Quantity Surveyors); the average of those medians is about £41,108. In the US, the 16 occupations with BLS data range from $45,930 (Youth Work Professionals) to $166,790 (Marketing and Commercial Managers), averaging about $91,902. These are unweighted averages of the occupation medians listed below, not official category-wide figures, and UK and US figures are never converted or combined.
| Job title | UK median | US median |
|---|---|---|
| Quantity Surveyors | £51,950 | $78,740 |
| Management Consultants and Business Analysts | £51,729 | $101,860 |
| Marketing and Commercial Managers | £50,589 | $166,790 |
| Information Technology Professionals N.E.C. | £50,459 | — |
| Quality Assurance and Regulatory Professionals | £47,969 | $80,730 |
| Chartered Surveyors | £45,673 | $75,440 |
| Architects | £45,625 | $99,280 |
| Social Workers | £42,708 | $71,900 |
| Newspaper and Periodical Editors | £41,583 | — |
| Environment Professionals | £41,555 | $82,220 |
| Optometrists | £38,743 | $136,570 |
| Conservation Professionals | £37,949 | $73,010 |
| Other Nursing Professionals | £36,775 | $97,550 |
| Public Relations Professionals | £36,336 | $74,750 |
| Podiatrists | £35,920 | $160,300 |
| Chartered Architectural Technologists, Planning Officers and Consultants | £34,951 | — |
| Youth Work Professionals | £34,630 | $45,930 |
| Welfare Professionals N.E.C. | £33,269 | — |
| Archivists and Curators | £33,096 | $64,550 |
| Clergy | £30,655 | $60,810 |
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Check Price →Data: ONS ASHE Table 14/15, 2025 provisional · BLS OES, May 2025 · Page built 2026-10-25