About Us and Editorial Standards
UK Jobs Alert is a careers and pay publication for the UK labour market. We cover salaries, interviews, recruitment and the practical mechanics of finding and changing work in Britain, alongside a job board of live vacancies.
We are not a recruitment agency and we do not place candidates. Our job is to explain how UK pay and hiring actually work, so that you can walk into an interview or a salary conversation knowing what the numbers are.
Who writes our guides
Our guides are researched, written and maintained by the UK Jobs Alert editorial team. We publish under an editorial byline rather than individual names, in the same way most UK careers publications do, because our guides are built and updated collaboratively and the accountability sits with the publication.
If you want to raise something about a specific article, contact us and it will reach the people responsible for it.
Where our figures come from
Pay and tax content is only useful if the numbers are right and current. We build salary guidance on named primary sources, and we name them in the text of the article rather than leaving you to guess. Those sources include:
- Office for National Statistics earnings and labour market statistics
- NHS Agenda for Change pay circulars and national pay scales
- NJC pay scales for local government roles
- HMRC and Department for Work and Pensions guidance for tax, National Insurance and benefits
- Statutory frameworks and government publications relevant to a given profession
- Published pay data from professional bodies, trade unions and sector organisations
- Advertised salary data from major UK job boards, clearly labelled as advertised rather than actual pay
Where a figure is a range or an estimate rather than a published statutory rate, we say so. Where a rate changes with the tax year, we state the year it applies to.
How we keep guides current
UK pay rules change on a fixed calendar. The National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage change each April, income tax and National Insurance thresholds change with the tax year, and NHS and local government pay awards land on their own cycles. Salary and tax guides are reviewed against the current rates rather than left to drift.
Where our job listings come from
The vacancies on this site are not written by us and we are not the employer. They are republished from the Teaching Vacancies service operated by the Department for Education, which publishes them as open data under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Each listing on this site links back to the employer so that you apply with them directly.
We do not receive applications, we do not pass your details to employers, and we are not paid by any employer to feature a vacancy. Because listings are republished, a role can be filled or withdrawn before our copy is updated. The closing date and the salary shown are the ones the employer advertised at the time we collected the listing. If the two ever disagree, the employer’s own page is the one that counts.
Our data reports
Alongside our guides we publish analysis built from that same public vacancy data: what employers actually advertised, by role, by region and by subject, over a stated period.
These reports follow three rules. We state the exact date range and the number of vacancies behind every figure. We report advertised pay as advertised pay, never as what someone was finally paid, because the two are different and only the first is published anywhere. And we say what each dataset does not cover, rather than letting a reader assume it covers more than it does. Where a figure rests on too few adverts to be reliable, we say that instead of printing it.
The method is published with each report. If it changes, we will say so, because a figure you cannot compare with last month’s is not worth much.
Corrections
If you find a figure that is out of date or wrong, tell us through our contact page and we will check it and correct it. Getting a pay figure wrong on a page someone is using to prepare for a salary negotiation is a real cost to that person, so we would rather hear about it.
Independence
We do not accept payment in exchange for editorial coverage, and no employer or advertiser gets to influence what our guides say about pay or hiring practices. Where a page contains an affiliate or commercial link, that does not change the editorial content around it.
What we do not do
We publish general information, not personalised advice. Nothing on this site is financial, tax, legal, immigration or medical advice, and we are not regulated to provide any of it. Your circumstances change the answer. For decisions with real consequences, speak to a qualified professional, and for benefits, visas or tax specifically, check the position on GOV.UK.
Contact
Questions, corrections and press enquiries can be sent through our contact page. To browse live vacancies, visit our job listings.