Real salaries from real job listings

What this site does

UK Salary Tracker shows you what employers are actually advertising for specific roles in specific locations — pulled live from Reed.co.uk, one of the UK's largest job boards. Search any job title and location to see the average advertised salary, the full salary range, and the live listings behind the numbers.

Where the data comes from

All salary data is sourced directly from Reed's job listings API. When you search, we fetch up to 100 current listings matching your job title and location, filter to those with an advertised salary, and calculate the average from the midpoint of each listing's min–max range.

We exclude listings with a stated minimum salary below £10,000 — these are typically day rates or hourly contract roles that would otherwise skew the figures. We also require a minimum of 10 salary-bearing listings before showing any data, so results are always based on a meaningful sample.

Why this is different from salary surveys

Most salary tools — including Glassdoor, Totaljobs, and the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings — rely on self-reported figures. People tend to round up, misremember, or report their total package rather than their base salary. The result is data that can lag reality by a year or more and skews upward.

Advertised salaries are different. They represent what an employer is prepared to pay right now to hire someone. They're published, specific, and current. That makes them a more accurate reflection of the live job market — especially useful if you're actively job hunting or heading into a salary negotiation.

How often is the data updated?

Salary data is cached for one hour. Each time a salary page is loaded after the cache expires, it fetches a fresh set of listings from Reed. This means the numbers you see reflect the job market as it stands today, not six months ago.

Who built this?

UK Salary Tracker is a solo project. It was built to fill a gap — a simple, fast way to check what a role actually pays based on what's being advertised, without wading through survey-based estimates or signing up for anything.

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