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Higher education teaching professionals vs. Programmers and software development professionals

Two occupations, one country. Gross annual pay for full-time employee jobs, ASHE 2025 (provisional).

Data released ASHE 2025 (provisional) ONS ASHE · SOC 2020 4-digit
Fig. 1 — Side by side

Both distributions, one scale

10th to 90th percentile, median struck in red
40k60k80k100k HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING PROFESSIONALS £52,835 PROGRAMMERS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS £56,914
Table 1 — The figures

Point by point

Published percentiles for both metros; the last column is Programmers and software development professionals against Higher education teaching professionals.

Higher education teaching professionalsProgrammers and software development professionalsΔ
Employment188,000343,000+82.4%
10th percentile£32,871£32,835−0.1%
25th percentile£42,062£42,289+0.5%
Median£52,835£56,914+7.7%
75th percentile£66,191£75,794+14.5%
90th percentile£77,707£102,860+32.4%
Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 (provisional). Gross annual pay, full-time employee jobs.
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