Business associate professionals n.e.c.: salary in the UK
About £31,604 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +10.7% on last year
£3,251 a month About £2,634 a month after tax 83 thousand full-time jobs
Gross pay before tax, including bonuses, commission and overtime. Not included: benefits in kind such as a company car. About the data
Pay range
The dark part is the middle half of full-time employees (25% to 75%); the light bar runs from 10% to 90%. ONS doesn't publish the highest or lowest salary, and x means a figure wasn't published.
Pay by year
The median went from £26,661 in 2021 to £39,007 in 2026 (+46%); for all full-time employees in the UK it changed by +31% over the same years.
Figures by year
| P10 | P25 | Median | P75 | P90 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £19,386 | £21,291 | £26,661 | £35,667 | x |
| 2022 | £20,043 | £22,743 | £27,907 | £39,864 | x |
| 2023 | £21,310 | £23,997 | £29,372 | £38,059 | x |
| 2024 | £22,498 | £25,546 | £31,712 | £39,868 | x |
| 2025 | £25,183 | £28,159 | £35,235 | £46,415 | x |
| 2026 | £26,417 | £31,000 | £39,007 | £53,224 | x |
ONS figures for each year, not adjusted for inflation. Years before 2021 used a different occupation classification, so they can't be compared. Earlier years are ONS's revised figures; the latest is provisional.
Half of full-time employees in this occupation earn less than £39,007 a year and half earn more. That is 5% less than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
The middle half earn between £31,000 and £53,224; one in ten earns less than £26,417.
Ranked by median, it is number 163 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
The mean (£47,936) is well above the median: a minority in this job earn much more than most.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £2,634 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £2,629 in Scotland.
The median for men is £45,332 and for women £35,859, a gap of 21% in men's favour. This compares full-time salaries only and doesn't account for seniority or hours.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | £26,417 | £2,201 |
| 20th | £29,543 | £2,462 |
| 25th (P25) | £31,000 | £2,583 |
| 30th | £32,644 | £2,720 |
| 40th | £35,633 | £2,969 |
| Median (50th) | £39,007 | £3,251 |
| 60th | £42,797 | £3,566 |
| 70th | £48,169 | £4,014 |
| 75th (P75) | £53,224 | £4,435 |
| 80th | £59,708 | £4,976 |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £45,332 | £56,526 | 34 |
| Women | £35,859 | £41,989 | 49 |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £31,604 | £2,634 |
| Scotland | £31,549 | £2,629 |
After Income Tax and National Insurance for 2026 to 2027, with the standard tax code and no pension or student loan. Work out your own take-home pay · Take-home pay on £39,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 135 job titles to SOC 3549 Business associate professionals n.e.c.. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Appraiser
- Assessor
- Assistant gis officer
- Attaché
- Aviation consultant
- Ballot adviser
- Bloodstock agent
- Bloodstock consultant
- Business coordinator
- Business counsellor
- Business development officer
- Business efficiency expert
- Business planner
- Business support officer
- Business system analyst
- Business systems analyst
- Cellar adviser
- Clinical coder
- Clinical coding officer
- Clinical governance officer
- Clinical studies officer
- Clinical trial administrator
- Clinical trial assistant
- Clinical trial officer
- Clinical trials administrator
- Clinical trials assistant
- Clinical trials officer
- Commercial agent
- Commission agent
- Committee administrator
- Compliance assistant
- Continuous improvement coordinator
- Continuous improvement officer
- Contract adviser
- Contract coordinator
- Contract officer
- Contracts consultant
- Contracts coordinator
- Contracts officer
- Corporate services manager
- Customer success manager
- Data quality coordinator
- Data quality officer
- Defence consultant
- Election agent
- Geographical information systems assistant
- Geospatial analyst
- Gis analyst
- Gis assistant
- Gis data officer
- GIS technician
- Graphologist
- Investment officer
- Job evaluation officer
- Job evaluator
- Knowledge management officer
- Knowledge officer
- Leisure consultant
- Liaison officer
- Licensing associate
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- Licensing coordinator
- Logistics consultant
- Lottery officer
- Management information officer
- Marine adviser
- Marine consultant
- Medical coder
- Method study engineer
- Methods assistant
- Methods engineer
- Methods officer
- Network forecaster
- O&m consultant
- O&m investigator
- O&m officer
- O&m specialist
- Office systems analyst
- Oil company executive
- Operational research consultant
- Operational research officer
- Organisation and method investigator
- Organisation and methods consultant
- Organisation and methods officer
- Organisation and methods specialist
- Organisation officer
- Party agent
- Patents officer
- Performance management officer
- Performance officer
- Performance review officer
- Price fixer
- Printing consultant
- Productivity services officer
- Rate fixer
- Rate setter
- Registration executive
- Reinsurance technician
- Research coordinator
- Risk officer
- Risk support officer
- Site controller
- Standard practice inspector
- Standards engineer
- Standards room inspector
- Strategic planner
- Strategic planning officer
- Strategist
- Sub-contracts controller
- Supply chain consultant
- Technical officer
- Technical production officer
- Time and study engineer
- Time management officer
- Time study engineer
- Time study expert
- Trade relations coordinator
- Trademark agent
- Traffic adviser
- Translation coordinator
- Transport adviser
- Transport consultant
- Transportation consultant
- Value engineer
- Work measurement assistant
- Work measurement engineer
- Work measurement officer
- Work study assessor
- Work study engineer
- Work study investigator
- Work study man
- Work study officer
- Works study consultant
- Works study practitioner
- Workshops officer
- Yield management executive
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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.