Pre-press technicians: salary in the UK
Pay by year
The median went from £26,203 in 2021 to £26,172 in 2024 (-0%); for all full-time employees in the UK it changed by +20% over the same years.
Figures by year
| P10 | P25 | Median | P75 | P90 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | x | x | £26,203 | x | x |
| 2022 | x | x | x | x | x |
| 2023 | x | x | £26,464 | x | x |
| 2024 | x | x | £26,172 | x | x |
| 2025 | x | x | x | x | x |
| 2026 | x | x | x | x | 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.
ONS didn't publish salary figures for Pre-press technicians 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 Printing Trades (SOC 542) has a median of £30,747 a year.
ONS did publish a mean of £31,287, which is less reliable than a median would be.
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 120 job titles to SOC 5421 Pre-press technicians. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- Assembler
- Bank-note engraver
- Block maker
- Box hand
- Bronzing metaller
- Carbon printer
- Caster
- Chemical engraver
- Clicker
- Colour etcher
- Compositor
- Copper engraver
- Copper etcher
- Copper plate engraver
- Deep etcher
- Die engraver
- Display make-up operator
- Displayman
- Electrotyper
- Engraver
- Etcher
- Fine etcher
- Gravure planner
- Half tone etcher
- Hand engraver
- Heraldic engraver
- Ibm composer operator
- Imposition hand
- Impressioner
- Intertype operator
- Keyboard operator
- Lay-out man
- Line engraver
- Line etcher
- Linotype machinist
- Linotype operator
- Litho planner
- Lithograph transferer
- Lithographic assistant
- Lithographic draughtsman
- Lithographic planner
- Lithographic plate maker
- Lithographic preparer
- Ludlow operator
- Machine engraver
- Make-up hand
- Maker-up
- Map engraver
- Measurer
- Metal printer
- Monotype caster
- Monotype caster attendant
- Monotype caster operator
- Monotype casting machinist
- Monotype operator
- Mould assembler
- Moulder
- Music engraver
- Originator
- Originator printer
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- Page planner
- Pantograph engraver
- Pantographer
- Paper preparer
- Paste-up artist
- Photo engraver
- Photo lithographer
- Photographic engraver
- Photogravure engraver
- Photogravure etcher
- Photogravure worker
- Plan reproducer
- Planer
- Planner
- Plate hand
- Plate layer
- Plate maker
- Plate repairer
- Plate-backing machinist
- Poster hand
- Potter's engraver
- Pre-press manager
- Pre-press operator
- Pre-press technician
- Preparer
- Print maker
- Print originator
- Printer's draughtsman
- Printer's layer
- Printer-compositor
- Printer-down
- Printer-to-metal
- Process block engraver
- Process block etcher
- Process engraver
- Proof puller
- Punch engraver
- Raiser
- Reader-compositor
- Relief engraver
- Roller engraver
- Roller etcher
- Rough etcher
- Seal engraver
- Stamp mark engraver
- Stereographer
- Stereotyper
- Stereotyper's assistant
- Stone hand
- Stripper
- Transfer engraver
- Turner
- Type setter
- Typesetting supervisor
- Typographer
- Typographical designer
- Typographical operator
- Vari typist
- Wax moulder
- Yardage hand
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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.