Non-commissioned officers and other ranks: salary in the UK
ONS didn't publish salary figures for Non-commissioned officers and other ranks in 2026: too few full-time employees were in the survey sample for a reliable estimate. This is common for jobs where many people are self-employed, because the survey only covers employees.
The wider group Protective Service Occupations (SOC 331) has a median of £50,566 a year.
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 57 job titles to SOC 3311 Non-commissioned officers and other ranks. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- AB
- Able rate
- Aircraft technician
- Aircraftman
- Aircraftwoman
- Aircrewman
- Airman
- Bomb disposal engineer
- Bombardier
- Combat engineer
- Corporal
- Flight-sergeant
- Fusilier
- GI
- Guardsman
- Gunner
- Infantry soldier
- Infantryman
- Lance corporal
- Lance-bombardier
- Lance-corporal
- Lance-sergeant
- Leading hand
- Loadmaster
- Marine
- Master aircrew
- Master at arms
- Medical assistant
- Non-commissioned officer
- Paratrooper
- Petty officer
- Private
- Quarter master
- Quartermaster
- Quartermaster-corporal
- Quartermaster-sergeant
- Rating
- Rifleman
- Royal air force airman
- Royal air force airwoman
- Royal marines commando
- Royal navy rating
- SAC
- Sailor
- Sapper
- Seaman
- Sergeant
- Sergeant-major
- Soldier
- Staff sergeant
- Survival equipment fitter
- Technician
- Warrant officer
- Weapons engineer
- Weapons systems engineer
- Weapons technician
- Wren
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Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2026 provisional, Table 14.7a (full-time employees, gross annual pay, UK, tax year ending 5 April 2026). Provisional figures may be revised.