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Plumbing
avg £42.9k · 8,097 listings
Electrical
avg £48.9k · 47,217 listings
Carpentry
avg £45.2k · 3,557 listings
Drylining
avg £53.4k · 243 listings
Scaffolding
avg £44.2k · 1,303 listings
Bricklaying
avg £41.3k · 1,892 listings
Groundworks
avg £55.2k · 2,528 listings
Tiling
avg £40.6k · 1,559 listings
Labouring
avg £46.5k · 10,424 listings
Site Management
avg £55.3k · 19,146 listings
Plant Operating
avg £47.3k · 2,832 listings
Where pays best
All 11 trades vs the UK average — the brighter, the better paid.
London
+11%
vs the UK average, across all 11 trades
from 14,661 job listings
Top money
Pay index from 98,798 UK job listings via Adzuna · Contains ONS & OS data © Crown copyright 2025
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ONS figures are the official 2025 median for full-time employees on payroll (ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings). Self-employed and CIS earnings aren't counted there — which is why advertised pay runs higher. Agreed rates are the national minimums negotiated between unions and employers (JIB, JIB-PMES, CIJC) — plenty of firms pay above them, and the JIB-PMES 2026 figures are the published 2025 rates plus the agreed 3.4% rise. Honest numbers, all of them.