Method
How the salary checker works
Every figure on the salary checker is the middle half of what employers stated in their own live job adverts for that job title, in that area, within the last 60 days. Salaries a job board predicted from the title are discarded, the number of real ones is always published, and under 8 of them no band is published at all. Nothing is modelled, smoothed or carried over from a previous year.
· last verified 10 September 2026 · source: Adzuna · regenerated from live adverts
Step by step
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Search | Live UK adverts matching the job title, and the location if one is given, posted in the last 60 days. |
| Discard predictions | Adverts where the salary is flagged as predicted rather than stated are dropped. A predicted salary is a model's estimate from the title and the postcode; it is not an offer any employer made. |
| Take the midpoint | Each remaining advert contributes the midpoint of its stated range. |
| Band | The 25th and 75th percentiles and the median of those midpoints, each rounded to the nearest £1,000. The outer quarters are cut off at both ends, so one £150,000 outlier cannot move the answer. |
| Floor | Fewer than 8 stated salaries and no band is published — the page says how many it found instead. |
The source, and why it is not a link
The advert data comes from Adzuna, which aggregates live vacancies from across the UK market. Their terms ask that Adzuna is acknowledged as the source wherever the data appears, and it is — on this page, on the checker, and beside every table that uses it.
It is an acknowledgement in words rather than a hyperlink, and that is deliberate: we do not send our readers to a job board from our own pages, because the whole point of what we sell is that you do not have to go to each of them yourself. Naming a source is honesty; linking a competitor is advertising for them.
What it does not tell you
- It is advertised pay, not paid pay. What lands in a contract after negotiation is not published anywhere we can read.
- Job titles are not standardised. Two employers can advertise very different jobs under one title, and a broad title returns a broad band. A narrower title gives a narrower answer.
- Silence is common. Across the thirteen roles on the checker, 741 of 1300 adverts stated a salary — 57%. Where the rest sit is not knowable from the outside, so we do not guess.
- It is not a benchmark of your own pay. It says what the market is advertising, not what you should pay, and it knows nothing about the rest of your package.
Cite this
TalentFinder UK, “Salary checker”, 10 September 2026. https://www.talentfinderuk.co.uk/tools/salary-checker. Advertised-pay figures derived from live UK job adverts sourced from Adzuna; stated salaries only, 8-advert reporting floor.