Salary guide

Research staff salaries in the UK

The 48 researcher jobs with a salary advertised on UniJobs in the last 12 months typically paid £41,000 to £45,700. Half of them had a mid-point between £41,000 and £48,800.

Typical mid-point

£42,900

a year · from 48 adverts

By pay grade

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
Grade 6	£45,700 to £51,900	£48,800 to £48,800	5

By subject

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
Medicine & Dentistry	£47,000 to £59,400	£51,000 to £57,600	7
Economics	£41,100 to £48,800	£42,900 to £48,800	5
Nursing & Allied Health	£40,000 to £45,700	–	3
Sociology, Social Policy & Social Work	£39,800 to £45,300	£41,900 to £46,100	4
Computer Science	£40,400 to £42,000	£40,900 to £44,300	10
Engineering	£38,500 to £41,700	£38,300 to £41,800	4
Psychology	£37,300 to £40,400	£33,700 to £44,500	6

By region

	Typical salary	Middle half	Jobs
Greater London	£41,500 to £46,900	£42,900 to £48,800	18
Yorkshire and the Humber	£42,000 to £52,000	£44,900 to £57,600	7
North West England	£32,500 to £36,200	£33,300 to £41,100	6
South East England	£41,200 to £43,500	£41,100 to £48,800	6
East Midlands	£38,300 to £42,000	£38,400 to £41,000	4
West Midlands	£41,000 to £41,000	–	3

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Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Associate (AKT)Royal Holloway and Bedford New College · Egham £41,400 Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT) - Associate in Veterinary Translational Research (fixed term up to 3 months)Harper Adams University · Newport £42,300 Senior Research Fellow - Flagship Delivery ManagerThe University of Southampton · Southampton £47,000–£59,400 Research and Innovation Associate — Researching the Hidden Workforce (6 Month Fixed Term Contract)The University of West London · London £39,800 Research FellowThe University of Southampton · Southampton £37,400–£45,600 AKT Associate (AI Scientist) - 3 months Full-time FTCThe University of West London · London £40,800 Research AssistantRoyal Holloway and Bedford New College · Egham £34,700 Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT) Associate in Reinforcement LearningThe University of Bath · Bath £38,800–£46,000 Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT) Associate in Automated Organic SynthesisThe University of Bath · Bath £43,500 Research Fellow or Assistant Professor in Epidemiology (UK-PHRST)London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · London · Grade 6 £45,700–£61,000

Questions

How much does a researcher earn in the UK?

Based on 48 adverts on UniJobs in the last 12 months, a typical researcher job paid £41,000 to £45,700 a year, with a typical mid-point of £42,900.

What grade is a researcher?

Universities set their own grades. In adverts on UniJobs, researcher 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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