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Construction & Built Environment
Creative & Media
Education
Engineering
Environment / Conservation
Finance & Business
Healthcare
Legal
Management
Regulatory / Quality Assurance
Science & Research
Social Care / Welfare
Technology (IT)
Transport
Waste/Environment/Utilities
2451 Architects
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Architects
  • Landscape architects and designers
2452 Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Chartered architectural technologists
  • Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants not elsewhere classified
  • Town planning officers
  • Urban designers
2453 Quantity
£34,100
£17.49 per hour
  • Quantity surveyors
2454 Chartered surveyors
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Building control surveyors
  • Chartered surveyors not elsewhere classified
  • Hydrographic surveyors
  • Land surveyors
  • Property surveyors
2455 Construction project managers and related professionals
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Construction project and contract managers
  • Construction project managers and related professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Transport planners
2471 Librarians
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Librarians
2472 Archivists, conservators and curators
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Archivists
  • Collection managers and curators
  • Conservators
  • Museum education officers
2491 Newspaper, periodical and
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors
2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Broadcast journalists
  • Newspaper and periodical journalists and reporters not elsewhere classified
  • Newspaper journalists and reporters
2493 Public relations professionals
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Press officers
  • Public relations officers
  • Public relations professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Social media managers
2494 Advertising
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Advertising account managers
3415 Musicians
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Composers and musical arrangers
  • Instrumentalists
  • Music conductors
  • Musicians not elsewhere classified
3416 Arts officers, producers and directors
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Art consultants
  • Arts officers, producers and directors not elsewhere classified
  • Broadcasting and entertainment directors
  • Broadcasting and entertainment editors
  • Broadcasting and entertainment producers
  • Studio and stage managers
2311 Higher education teaching
£36,800
£18.87 per hour
  • Higher education teaching professionals
2317 Teachers of English as a foreign
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
2319 Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Adult education tutors
  • Dance and drama school principals and owners
2322 Education
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Education managers
2323 Education
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Educational advisers
2329 Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Bursars
  • Educational administrators
  • Examiners and markers
  • Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified
2121 Civil engineers
£35,200
£18.05 per hour
  • Building and building services engineers
  • Geotechnical engineers
2122 Mechanical engineers
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Automotive engineers (professional)
  • Marine engineers and naval architects
  • Mechanical design engineers
  • Mechanical engineers not elsewhere classified
2123 Electrical engineers
£41,100
£21.08 per hour
  • Electrical engineers not elsewhere classified
  • Laser engineers
  • Power systems engineers
  • Railway signalling engineers
2124 Electronics engineers
£36,400
£18.67 per hour
  • Broadcast engineers (professional)
  • Electronics engineers not elsewhere classified
  • Telecommunications engineers (professional)
2125 Production and process engineers
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Chemical engineers
  • Control and instrumentation engineers
  • Industrial and production engineers
  • Production and process engineers not elsewhere classified
2126 Aerospace engineers
£36,700
£18.82 per hour
  • Aeronautical engineers (professional)
  • Aerospace engineers not elsewhere classified
  • Aircraft engineers (professional)
  • Avionics engineers
2127 Engineering project managers and project engineers
£36,300
£18.62 per hour
  • Engineering project managers and project engineers
2129 Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Acoustic engineers
  • Biomedical engineers
  • Brewers (qualified)
  • Clinical Engineers
  • Energy engineers
  • Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Food technologists
  • Gas engineers (professional)
  • Heating and ventilating engineers (professional)
  • Materials engineers
  • Mechatronic engineers
  • Nuclear engineers
  • Patent engineers
  • Robotics engineers
  • Traffic engineers
2481 Quality control and planning engineers
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Garment technologists
  • Planning engineers
  • Quality control and planning engineers not elsewhere classified
  • Quality control engineers
2151 Conservation professionals
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Conservation professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Conservationists
  • Ecologists
  • Heritage officers
2152 Environment professionals
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Energy managers
  • Environmental and geo- environmental engineers
  • Environmental consultants
  • Environmental professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Environmental scientists
  • Sustainability officers
2421 Chartered and certified accountants
£34,500
£17.69 per hour
  • Auditors (qualified accountant)
  • Financial accountants (qualified)
  • Forensic accountants
2422 Finance and investment analysts and advisers
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Credit analysts
  • Finance and investment analysts and advisers not elsewhere classified
  • Financial advisers and planners
  • Financial analysts
  • Mortgage advisers
2423 Taxation experts
£34,000
£17.44 per hour
  • Taxation experts
2431 Management consultants and business analysts
£35,100
£18.00 per hour
  • Business analysts and consultants
  • Management advisers and consultants
  • Management consultants and business analysts not elsewhere classified
  • Risk analysts
2432 Marketing and commercial managers
£35,000
£17.95 per hour
  • Commercial managers
  • Marketing and commercial managers not elsewhere classified
  • Marketing managers
2433 Actuaries, economists and statisticians
£38,600
£19.79 per hour
  • Actuaries and actuarial analysts
  • Actuaries, economists and statisticians not elsewhere classified
  • Economists
  • Mathematicians
  • Statistical data scientists
  • Statisticians
2434 Business and
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Intelligence analysts
2439 Business, research and administrative professionals not
£39,600
£20.31 per hour
  • Policy officers
2440 Business and financial project management professionals
£39,500
£20.26 per hour
  • Business and financial project management professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Business change managers
  • Clinical trials coordinators
  • Risk managers
2240 Veterinarians
£34,600
£17.74 per hour
  • Veterinarians
2411 Barristers and judges
£41,600
£21.33 per hour
  • Barristers and advocates
  • Barristers and judges not elsewhere classified
  • Judges
2412 Solicitors and lawyers
£36,100
£18.51 per hour
  • Commercial solicitors and lawyers
  • Criminal solicitors and lawyers
  • Family solicitors and lawyers
  • Property solicitors and lawyers
  • Solicitors and lawyers not elsewhere classified
2419 Legal professionals not elsewhere classified
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Conveyancers
  • Legal professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Litigation executives
  • Paralegals
  • Patent and trademark attorneys
1111 Chief executives and senior officials
£61,600
£31.59 per hour
  • Chairpersons
  • Chief executives
  • Chief executives and senior officials not elsewhere classified
  • Diplomats and foreign office officials
  • Senior public service officials
1121 Production managers and
£38,500
£19.74 per hour
  • Production managers and directors in manufacturing
1122 Production managers and
£37,400
£19.18 per hour
  • Production managers and directors in construction
1123 Production managers and directors in mining and energy
£37,800
£19.38 per hour
  • Managers and directors in the extraction of fossil fuels
  • Managers and directors in the production of energy
  • Production managers and directors in mining and energy not elsewhere classified
1131 Financial managers and directors
£52,600
£26.97 per hour
  • Bank, building society and post office managers
  • Company secretaries and finance managers and directors
  • Financial managers and directors not elsewhere classified
  • Investment bankers and directors
1132 Marketing, sales and advertising directors
£61,100
£31.33 per hour
  • Advertising and marketing directors
  • Marketing, sales and advertising directors not elsewhere classified
  • Sales directors
1133 Public relations and communications
£54,000
£27.69 per hour
  • Public relations and communications directors
1134 Purchasing managers and directors
£38,300
£19.64 per hour
  • Estimating managers and directors
  • Procurement and purchasing managers and directors
  • Purchasing managers and
1135 Charitable organisation
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Charitable organisation managers and directors
1136 Human resource managers and directors
£37,100
£19.03 per hour
  • Employee relations managers
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion managers
  • Human resources managers and directors not elsewhere classified
  • Learning and development managers and directors
  • Recruitment managers and directors
1137 Information technology directors
£60,200
£30.87 per hour
  • Information security directors
  • Information technology directors not elsewhere classified
  • Information technology operations directors
  • Information technology programme managers and directors
  • Information technology technical directors
1139 Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified
£52,300
£26.82 per hour
  • Accounts directors
  • Administration directors
  • Complaints and customer service directors
  • Events directors
  • Functional managers and directors not elsewhere classified
  • Intellectual property managers and directors
  • Municipal clerks
  • Research and development (R&D) directors
1140 Directors in
£57,000
£29.23 per hour
  • Supply chain directors
1162 Senior police officers
£44,800
£22.97 per hour
  • Chief inspectors
  • Chief superintendents
  • Chief, deputy chief and assistant chief constables
  • Senior police officers not elsewhere classified
1163 Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services
£43,100
£22.10 per hour
  • Senior officers in ambulance services
  • Senior officers in fire services
  • Senior officers in immigration services
  • Senior officers in prison services
  • Senior officers in revenue and customs
1171 Health services and public health managers and directors
£35,200
£18.05 per hour
  • Clinical governance and information managers
  • Health services and public health managers and directors not elsewhere classified
  • Healthcare service managers and directors
1172 Social services managers and
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Social services managers and directors
1241 Managers in transport and distribution
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Airport managers
  • Depot and fleet managers
  • Dispatch and distribution managers
  • Harbour and port managers
  • Managers in transport and distribution not elsewhere classified
  • Road traffic managers
1254 Waste disposal
£33,800
£17.33 per hour
  • Landfill site managers
1255 Managers and directors in the creative industries
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Art gallery managers and directors
  • Film and television production managers
  • Managers and directors in the creative industries not elsewhere classified
  • Publishing managers and directors
  • Radio production managers
  • Sport and talent agents
  • Theatre production managers
2482 Quality assurance and regulatory professionals
£33,800
£17.33 per hour
  • Compliance and regulatory professionals
  • Quality assurance professionals
2483 Environmental health professionals
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Environmental health professionals
2111 Chemical scientists
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Analytical chemists
  • Chemical scientists not elsewhere classified
  • Industrial chemists
  • Nuclear and radiochemists
  • Research and development chemists
2112 Biological scientists
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Agricultural scientists
  • Biological scientists not elsewhere classified
  • Biologists
  • Botanical and horticultural scientists
  • Microbiologists and bacteriologists
  • Pathologists
  • Pharmacologists
  • Zoological scientists
2113 Biochemists and
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Biochemists
2114 Physical scientists
£38,200
£19.59 per hour
  • Geologists
  • Geophysicists
  • Hydrogeologists and hydrologists
  • Meteorologists
  • Physical scientists not elsewhere classified
2115 Social and humanities scientists
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Anthropologists
  • Archaeologists
  • Behavioural scientists
  • Epidemiologists
  • Genealogists
  • Geographic information systems (GIS) analysts
  • Historians
  • Political scientists
  • Public health analysts
  • Social and humanities scientists not elsewhere classified
2119 Natural and social science professionals not elsewhere classified
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Sports scientists
2161 Research and development (R&D) managers
£38,100
£19.54 per hour
  • Laboratory managers
  • Research and development (R&D) design managers
  • Research and development (R&D) managers not elsewhere classified
2162 Other researchers,
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Other researchers, unspecified discipline
2462 Probation
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Probation officers
2464 Youth work
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Youth work professionals
2469 Welfare professionals not elsewhere classified
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Children and family services professionals
  • Mediators and restorative practice professionals
  • Welfare professionals not elsewhere classified
2131 IT project
£40,700
£20.87 per hour
  • IT project managers
2132 IT managers
£38,500
£19.74 per hour
  • IT information managers
  • IT managers not elsewhere classified
  • IT product managers
  • IT service delivery managers
  • IT systems managers
  • IT test managers
  • Network managers
  • Software development managers
  • Technical support managers
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers
£38,400
£19.69 per hour
  • Computer analysts and scientists
  • Data architects
  • Data engineers
  • IT systems architects
2134 Programmers and software development professionals
£38,300
£19.64 per hour
  • Computer games designers
  • Computer programmers
  • Programmers and software development professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Software developers
2135 Cyber security professionals
£34,000
£17.44 per hour
  • Cyber operational defence specialists
  • Cyber security management and governance specialists
  • Cyber security professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Forensic computer specialists
  • Secure system development specialists
2136 IT quality and testing professionals
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • IT quality and testing professionals
2137 IT network
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • IT network professionals
2139 Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified
£36,600
£18.77 per hour
  • DevOps engineers
  • IT consultants
  • Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified
  • Webmasters and website managers
2141 Web design professionals
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Application designers
  • UI and UX designers and researchers
  • Web design professionals not
  • Web designers
2142 Graphic and multimedia designers
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Graphic and multimedia designers not elsewhere classified
  • Multimedia animators
1241 Managers in transport and distribution
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Airport managers
  • Depot and fleet managers
  • Dispatch and distribution managers
  • Harbour and port managers
  • Managers in transport and distribution not elsewhere classified
  • Road traffic managers
1254 Waste disposal
£33,800
£17.33 per hour
  • Landfill site managers
2483 Environmental health professionals
£33,400
£17.13 per hour
  • Environmental health professionals

Software Developer

£38,300
£19.64 per hour

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