United Kingdom
Higher education teaching professionals salary in the United Kingdom
Median annual pay
£52,835
Higher education teaching professionals in the United Kingdom earn a median of £52,835 a year, about £26.74 an hour.
Median
£52,835
per year
Hourly
£26.74
at 38 hrs/week
Mean
£55,437
pulled up by top earners
Workers
188,000
in this occupation
What that is worth in US dollars
Converted at today's rate
$70,213
2026-07-29 ECB reference rate
vs
Adjusted for local prices
$75,314
World Bank PPP, 2025
The first number is what the salary converts to if you moved the money. The second is what it actually buys in the United Kingdom. When those two disagree, the second one is the one that tells you how well someone lives on this wage.
How United Kingdom measured this
1% sample of PAYE records, full-time employees
Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) Table 14, 2025 provisional · Open Government Licence v3.0
Related occupations in the United Kingdom
- Secondary education teaching professionals £47,632
- Primary education teaching professionals £45,939
- Head teachers and principals £72,192
- Education managers £46,581
- Further education teaching professionals £42,218
- Special needs education teaching professionals £47,432
- Early education and childcare services managers £30,140
- Education advisers and school inspectors £44,549
- Other educational professionals n.e.c £39,114
- Teaching professionals n.e.c. £34,396
- Nursery education teaching professionals £37,593
- Teachers of English as a foreign language £37,514