Educational support assistants: salary in the UK
About £19,863 a year after tax (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2026/27)
median salary a year, full-time, +4.6% on last year
£1,892 a month About £1,655 a month after tax 54 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 £16,600 in 2021 to £22,699 in 2026 (+37%); 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 | £12,833 | £14,489 | £16,600 | £19,890 | x |
| 2022 | £12,716 | £14,683 | £17,141 | £20,076 | x |
| 2023 | £14,865 | £16,248 | £19,341 | £22,797 | x |
| 2024 | £15,871 | £17,629 | £20,749 | £24,110 | x |
| 2025 | £16,152 | £18,457 | £21,699 | £26,015 | x |
| 2026 | £17,969 | £19,839 | £22,699 | £26,807 | 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 £22,699 a year and half earn more. That is 45% less than the median for all full-time employees in the UK (£40,911).
The middle half earn between £19,839 and £26,807; one in ten earns less than £17,969.
Ranked by median, it is number 360 of the 362 occupations with a published figure.
At the median salary, take-home pay after Income Tax and National Insurance is about £1,655 a month in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and £1,659 in Scotland.
The median for men is £26,064 and for women £22,190, a gap of 15% in men's favour. This compares full-time salaries only and doesn't account for seniority or hours.
Percentiles
| Percentile | Annual | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th (P10) | £17,969 | £1,497 |
| 20th | £19,235 | £1,603 |
| 25th (P25) | £19,839 | £1,653 |
| 30th | £20,505 | £1,709 |
| 40th | £21,476 | £1,790 |
| Median (50th) | £22,699 | £1,892 |
| 60th | £23,876 | £1,990 |
| 70th | £26,014 | £2,168 |
| 75th (P75) | £26,807 | £2,234 |
| 80th | £28,001 | £2,333 |
| 90th (P90) | x | x |
Men and women
| Median | Mean | Jobs (thousands) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | £26,064 | £26,347 | 7 |
| Women | £22,190 | £23,649 | 47 |
Take-home pay at the median
| Where you live | Per year | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| England, Wales, NI | £19,863 | £1,655 |
| Scotland | £19,903 | £1,659 |
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 £23,000
Job titles in this occupation
ONS codes these 55 job titles to SOC 6113 Educational support assistants. Pay figures are for the whole occupation, not for each title.
- 1:1 teaching assistant
- Additional needs classroom assistant
- Additional needs support assistant
- Additional needs teaching assistant
- Ancillary worker
- Behaviour support assistant
- Behaviour support worker
- Classroom assistant
- Communication support worker
- Education assistant
- Education care officer
- Education support assistant
- Education support worker
- Educational support assistant
- Educational support worker
- Inclusion support worker
- Individual support assistant
- Integration assistant
- Learning assistant
- Learning coach
- Learning support assistant
- Learning support coordinator
- Learning support officer
- Learning support worker
- LSA
- Non-teaching assistant
- Note taker
- One to one teaching assistant
- Pupil support assistant
- School welfare assistant
- Schools special needs assistant
- Schools special support assistant
- SEN assistant
- Sen teaching assistant
- SEND teaching assistant
- Special educational needs teaching assistant
- Special needs assistant
- Special needs auxiliary
- Special needs helper
- Special needs teaching assistant
- Special school assistant
- Special schools assistant
- Student support assistant
- Student support worker
- Support assistant
- Support for learning assistant
- Support worker
- TA
- Teacher assistant
- Teacher's assistant
- Teaching and learning assistant
- Teaching assistant
- Teaching support assistant
- Welfare assistant
- Welfare worker
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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.