Salary guide

Postdoc and research fellow salaries in the UK

The 77 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

£42,400

a year · from 77 adverts

By pay grade

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
Grade 6	£38,800 to £46,000	£42,400 to £48,500	7

By subject

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
Biological Sciences	£41,100 to £48,800	£44,900 to £46,900	9
Earth & Environmental Sciences	£39,900 to £46,000	£41,400 to £43,000	5
Mathematics & Statistics	£38,800 to £46,000	£42,400 to £43,600	5
Languages & Linguistics	£38,600 to £45,800	£41,600 to £42,400	4
Computer Science	£39,100 to £45,100	£41,000 to £46,800	6
Engineering	£38,400 to £44,700	£40,900 to £42,400	11
Chemistry	£38,100 to £43,300	£38,500 to £42,200	10
Physics & Astronomy	£36,600 to £44,700	£40,700 to £43,000	7
Medicine & Dentistry	£38,600 to £42,400	£37,200 to £44,900	6

By region

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
South East England	£36,600 to £44,700	£40,700 to £41,400	23
South West England	£38,800 to £46,000	£42,400 to £49,800	11
Wales	£38,100 to £41,500	£38,300 to £42,000	10
North West England	£39,900 to £46,000	£41,100 to £43,000	9
Greater London	£45,700 to £51,900	£47,600 to £50,200	7
Yorkshire and the Humber	£41,100 to £48,800	£39,100 to £44,900	6
West Midlands	£39,000 to £46,000	£42,400 to £43,600	5

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gene TherapyThe Royal Veterinary College · London £41,300–£52,500 Research Fellow A in Computational LinguisticsThe University of Surrey · Guildford £38,400–£41,900 Research Fellow in Morphological typologyThe University of Surrey · Guildford £38,400–£45,600 Research Fellow in Lung RemodellingThe University of Southampton · Southampton £37,400 Research AssociateThe University of Bath · Bath · Grade 6 £38,800–£46,000 Research FellowThe University of Southampton · Southampton £39,600–£41,900 Research Fellow in Cyber Security and PrivacyThe University of Greenwich · Greenwich £38,800–£44,700 GCARE Research Fellow in Air Pollution Modelling & MonitoringThe University of Surrey · Guildford £37,700–£38,800 Research Fellow - Offshore GeotechnicsThe University of Southampton · Southampton £37,400–£45,600 Research Fellow in Sustainable batteries for seamless textile electronics for healthcareThe University of Southampton · Southampton £37,400–£45,600

Questions

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

Based on 77 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 £42,400.

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 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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