UK Local Area Statistics
Find average salaries, unemployment rates, and economic data for every local authority across England, Wales, and Scotland — direct from ONS figures.
£33,344
UK Median Annual Salary
3.5%
UK Average Claimant Rate
361
Local Authorities Covered
Highest Paying Areas in the UK
Local authorities with the highest median annual salaries, based on the latest ASHE figures.
Lowest Unemployment Areas
Areas with the lowest claimant rates, showing where employment opportunities are strongest.
| Area | Claimant Rate | Claimants |
|---|---|---|
| City of London | 1.1% | 145 |
| Shetland Islands | 1.4% | 195 |
| Isles of Scilly | 1.5% | 20 |
| East Renfrewshire | 1.7% | 980 |
| Harborough | 1.7% | 1,085 |
| Orkney Islands | 1.7% | 220 |
| Ribble Valley | 1.7% | 675 |
| Hart | 1.8% | 1,110 |
| Rutland | 1.8% | 425 |
| Westmorland and Furness | 1.8% | 2,470 |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 1.9% | 2,480 |
| Derbyshire Dales | 1.9% | 770 |
Browse All Areas
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Aberdeen City
£32,399/yr
Aberdeenshire
£33,799/yr
Adur
£30,217/yr
Amber Valley
£30,823/yr
Angus
£30,681/yr
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Ards and North Down
Argyll and Bute
£30,436/yr
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
Arun
£29,809/yr
Ashfield
£27,797/yr
Ashford
£32,991/yr
Babergh
£30,118/yr
Barking and Dagenham
£32,911/yr
Barnet
£39,239/yr
Barnsley
£31,359/yr
Basildon
£34,133/yr
Basingstoke and Deane
£39,279/yr
Bassetlaw
£28,314/yr
Bath and North East Somerset
£32,481/yr
Bedford
£35,987/yr
Belfast
Bexley
£36,883/yr
Birmingham
£30,180/yr
Blaby
£31,950/yr
Blackburn with Darwen
£27,502/yr
Blackpool
£27,979/yr
Blaenau Gwent
£30,734/yr
Bolsover
£29,674/yr
Bolton
£29,409/yr
Boston
£27,729/yr
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
£31,848/yr
Bracknell Forest
£36,067/yr
Bradford
£28,424/yr
Braintree
£34,546/yr
Breckland
£28,930/yr
Brent
£34,871/yr
Brentwood
£39,864/yr
Bridgend
£31,475/yr
Brighton and Hove
£33,506/yr
Bristol, City of
£34,051/yr
Broadland
£30,920/yr
Bromley
£43,981/yr
Bromsgrove
£36,409/yr
Broxbourne
£37,283/yr
Broxtowe
£30,966/yr
Buckinghamshire
£35,937/yr
Burnley
£29,680/yr
Bury
£31,687/yr
Caerphilly
£30,854/yr
Calderdale
£31,708/yr
Cambridge
£38,711/yr
Camden
£44,088/yr
Cannock Chase
£30,178/yr
Canterbury
£30,188/yr
Cardiff
£32,756/yr
Carmarthenshire
£30,774/yr
Castle Point
£35,975/yr
Causeway Coast and Glens
Central Bedfordshire
£36,622/yr
Ceredigion
£29,326/yr
Charnwood
£33,550/yr
Chelmsford
£35,791/yr
Cheltenham
£36,014/yr
Cherwell
£36,568/yr
Cheshire East
£33,221/yr
Cheshire West and Chester
£32,391/yr
Chesterfield
£30,621/yr
Chichester
£28,585/yr
Chorley
£33,337/yr
City of Edinburgh
£37,380/yr
City of London
Clackmannanshire
£31,992/yr
Colchester
£31,589/yr
Conwy
£28,113/yr
Cornwall
£28,210/yr
Cotswold
£32,927/yr
County Durham
£29,718/yr
Coventry
£33,063/yr
Crawley
£34,225/yr
Croydon
£38,080/yr
Cumberland
£33,840/yr
Dacorum
£36,473/yr
Darlington
£30,100/yr
Dartford
£36,210/yr
Denbighshire
£26,812/yr
Derby
£30,467/yr
Derbyshire Dales
£33,700/yr
Derry City and Strabane
Doncaster
£31,119/yr
Dorset
£31,444/yr
Dover
£33,704/yr
Dudley
£30,822/yr
Dumfries and Galloway
£29,649/yr
Dundee City
£30,523/yr
Ealing
£35,665/yr
East Ayrshire
£33,117/yr
East Cambridgeshire
£34,311/yr
East Devon
£32,154/yr
East Dunbartonshire
£38,000/yr
East Hampshire
£39,682/yr
East Hertfordshire
£44,154/yr
East Lindsey
£26,705/yr
East Lothian
£33,737/yr
East Renfrewshire
£39,965/yr
East Riding of Yorkshire
£31,881/yr
East Staffordshire
£31,517/yr
East Suffolk
£30,261/yr
Eastbourne
£31,199/yr
Eastleigh
£34,474/yr
Elmbridge
£42,607/yr
Enfield
£34,962/yr
Epping Forest
£38,171/yr
Epsom and Ewell
£43,006/yr
Erewash
£31,673/yr
Exeter
£29,531/yr
Falkirk
£32,330/yr
Fareham
£38,851/yr
Fenland
£30,125/yr
Fermanagh and Omagh
Fife
£32,445/yr
Flintshire
£32,675/yr
Folkestone and Hythe
£33,355/yr
Forest of Dean
£36,589/yr
Fylde
£36,020/yr
Gateshead
£29,494/yr
Gedling
£30,051/yr
Glasgow City
£32,121/yr
Gloucester
£30,455/yr
Gosport
£34,256/yr
Gravesham
£35,065/yr
Great Yarmouth
£28,808/yr
Greenwich
£39,984/yr
Guildford
£39,985/yr
Gwynedd
£25,179/yr
Hackney
£40,237/yr
Halton
£29,819/yr
Hammersmith and Fulham
£42,811/yr
Harborough
£34,321/yr
Haringey
£37,563/yr
Harlow
£30,654/yr
Harrow
£36,000/yr
Hart
£39,341/yr
Hartlepool
£28,830/yr
Hastings
£29,323/yr
Havant
£30,819/yr
Havering
£40,726/yr
Herefordshire, County of
£29,361/yr
Hertsmere
£36,159/yr
High Peak
£32,258/yr
Highland
£31,416/yr
Hillingdon
£36,429/yr
Hinckley and Bosworth
£31,591/yr
Horsham
£36,448/yr
Hounslow
£35,301/yr
Huntingdonshire
£33,375/yr
Hyndburn
£29,647/yr
Inverclyde
£29,020/yr
Ipswich
£30,928/yr
Isle of Anglesey
£29,944/yr
Isle of Wight
£26,740/yr
Isles of Scilly
Islington
£47,411/yr
Kensington and Chelsea
£46,690/yr
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
£30,581/yr
Kingston upon Hull, City of
£27,309/yr
Kingston upon Thames
£41,833/yr
Kirklees
£30,238/yr
Knowsley
£32,542/yr
Lambeth
£43,666/yr
Lancaster
£29,651/yr
Leeds
£31,679/yr
Leicester
£27,858/yr
Lewes
£33,088/yr
Lewisham
£39,505/yr
Lichfield
£33,763/yr
Lincoln
£29,824/yr
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Liverpool
£30,947/yr
Luton
£28,741/yr
Maidstone
£34,151/yr
Maldon
£32,599/yr
Malvern Hills
£28,167/yr
Manchester
£30,067/yr
Mansfield
£28,170/yr
Medway
£33,857/yr
Melton
£26,633/yr
Merthyr Tydfil
£31,504/yr
Merton
£43,507/yr
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Devon
£31,908/yr
Mid Suffolk
£31,507/yr
Mid Sussex
£37,705/yr
Mid Ulster
Middlesbrough
£30,253/yr
Midlothian
£31,856/yr
Milton Keynes
£36,061/yr
Mole Valley
£35,341/yr
Monmouthshire
£35,020/yr
Moray
£26,943/yr
Na h-Eileanan Siar
£28,746/yr
Neath Port Talbot
£30,709/yr
New Forest
£31,344/yr
Newark and Sherwood
£29,806/yr
Newcastle upon Tyne
£30,144/yr
Newcastle-under-Lyme
£31,205/yr
Newham
£36,080/yr
Newport
£31,495/yr
Newry, Mourne and Down
North Ayrshire
£34,689/yr
North Devon
£28,386/yr
North East Derbyshire
£30,931/yr
North East Lincolnshire
£28,898/yr
North Hertfordshire
£42,703/yr
North Kesteven
£30,585/yr
North Lanarkshire
£34,105/yr
North Lincolnshire
£30,012/yr
North Norfolk
£28,421/yr
North Northamptonshire
£32,882/yr
North Somerset
£32,996/yr
North Tyneside
£31,106/yr
North Warwickshire
£35,067/yr
North West Leicestershire
£32,252/yr
North Yorkshire
£30,683/yr
Northumberland
£30,456/yr
Norwich
£30,421/yr
Nottingham
£26,512/yr
Nuneaton and Bedworth
£32,402/yr
Oadby and Wigston
£28,368/yr
Oldham
£29,124/yr
Orkney Islands
£31,737/yr
Oxford
£36,517/yr
Pembrokeshire
£27,243/yr
Pendle
£26,742/yr
Perth and Kinross
£31,851/yr
Peterborough
£29,828/yr
Plymouth
£28,992/yr
Portsmouth
£30,962/yr
Powys
£30,275/yr
Preston
£30,038/yr
Reading
£35,454/yr
Redbridge
£37,190/yr
Redcar and Cleveland
£28,630/yr
Redditch
£29,113/yr
Reigate and Banstead
£40,014/yr
Renfrewshire
£32,832/yr
Rhondda Cynon Taf
£29,802/yr
Ribble Valley
£34,077/yr
Richmond upon Thames
£46,594/yr
Rochdale
£29,535/yr
Rochford
£38,107/yr
Rossendale
£30,487/yr
Rother
£30,790/yr
Rotherham
£29,664/yr
Rugby
£41,814/yr
Runnymede
£42,203/yr
Rushcliffe
£36,705/yr
Rushmoor
£33,734/yr
Rutland
£39,559/yr
Salford
£30,495/yr
Sandwell
£27,652/yr
Scottish Borders
£28,796/yr
Sefton
£29,335/yr
Sevenoaks
£34,969/yr
Sheffield
£31,816/yr
Shetland Islands
£35,716/yr
Shropshire
£29,603/yr
Slough
£35,521/yr
Solihull
£36,672/yr
Somerset
£29,908/yr
South Ayrshire
£33,986/yr
South Cambridgeshire
£42,690/yr
South Derbyshire
£35,452/yr
South Gloucestershire
£35,002/yr
South Hams
£29,721/yr
South Holland
£30,196/yr
South Kesteven
£29,071/yr
South Lanarkshire
£34,293/yr
South Norfolk
£32,934/yr
South Oxfordshire
£43,026/yr
South Ribble
£32,740/yr
South Staffordshire
£31,766/yr
South Tyneside
£28,784/yr
Southampton
£32,907/yr
Southend-on-Sea
£33,594/yr
Southwark
£43,006/yr
Spelthorne
£37,918/yr
St Albans
£45,543/yr
St. Helens
£31,443/yr
Stafford
£33,872/yr
Staffordshire Moorlands
£31,065/yr
Stevenage
£35,747/yr
Stirling
£33,832/yr
Stockport
£33,565/yr
Stockton-on-Tees
£29,877/yr
Stoke-on-Trent
£29,041/yr
Stratford-on-Avon
£34,847/yr
Stroud
£33,495/yr
Sunderland
£27,989/yr
Surrey Heath
£37,793/yr
Sutton
£38,359/yr
Swale
£33,647/yr
Swansea
£32,091/yr
Swindon
£33,135/yr
Tameside
£29,877/yr
Tamworth
£33,167/yr
Tandridge
£33,316/yr
Teignbridge
£28,911/yr
Telford and Wrekin
£31,459/yr
Tendring
£29,545/yr
Test Valley
£35,314/yr
Tewkesbury
£31,603/yr
Thanet
£28,323/yr
Three Rivers
£39,615/yr
Thurrock
£36,407/yr
Tonbridge and Malling
£35,106/yr
Torbay
£28,963/yr
Torfaen
£33,201/yr
Torridge
£28,752/yr
Tower Hamlets
£45,183/yr
Trafford
£35,593/yr
Tunbridge Wells
£35,319/yr
Uttlesford
£41,006/yr
Vale of Glamorgan
£31,410/yr
Vale of White Horse
£38,859/yr
Wakefield
£29,954/yr
Walsall
£29,112/yr
Waltham Forest
£37,971/yr
Wandsworth
£49,310/yr
Warrington
£34,144/yr
Warwick
£39,797/yr
Watford
£37,172/yr
Waverley
£42,326/yr
Wealden
£33,376/yr
Welwyn Hatfield
£37,805/yr
West Berkshire
£38,513/yr
West Devon
£26,556/yr
West Dunbartonshire
£31,962/yr
West Lancashire
£31,884/yr
West Lindsey
£30,741/yr
West Lothian
£33,302/yr
West Northamptonshire
£33,059/yr
West Oxfordshire
£35,388/yr
West Suffolk
£33,437/yr
Westminster
£45,172/yr
Westmorland and Furness
£33,988/yr
Wigan
£31,615/yr
Wiltshire
£31,873/yr
Winchester
£38,352/yr
Windsor and Maidenhead
£37,653/yr
Wirral
£32,959/yr
Woking
£38,172/yr
Wokingham
£43,538/yr
Wolverhampton
£31,308/yr
Worcester
£32,997/yr
Worthing
£32,823/yr
Wrexham
£29,752/yr
Wychavon
£29,661/yr
Wyre
£29,814/yr
Wyre Forest
£29,408/yr
York
£32,961/yr