Celebrating Success 2026: Construction Student of the Year - Ronnie Cooper
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Step into your future in bricklaying
If you enjoy practical work and want to play a key role in creating the homes, schools, workplaces and infrastructure around us, bricklaying offers a rewarding route into the construction industry. Courses are available at different levels, allowing you to start at the point that is right for you and develop your skills over time.
Learn by doing
You will develop hands-on skills in brickwork, blockwork, cavity wall construction, setting out and construction techniques while learning industry standards, safe working practices and professional site skills.
Our facilities and your support
You will train in specialist bricklaying workshops designed to reflect real construction environments, using industry-standard equipment and materials. Experienced tutors will support you as you develop your practical skills and confidence.
Where this could take you
Bricklaying skills are in demand across the UK construction sector. You could progress into apprenticeships, employment or further study, leading to careers in housebuilding, commercial construction, restoration and specialist masonry.
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Plumbers and Heating and Ventilating Installers and Repairers
£21,096
Entry Level Salary
£34,567.57
Average Salary
£53,293.06
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Repairs burst pipes and mechanical and combustion faults and replaces faulty taps, washers, valves, etc.
- Attaches fittings and joins piping by welding, soldering, cementing, fusing, screwing or other methods.
- Tests completed installation for leaks and makes any necessary adjustments.
- Installs fittings such as storage tanks, cookers, baths, toilets, taps and valves, refrigerators, boilers, heat pumps, radiators and fires.
- Measures and cuts required lengths of copper, lead, steel, iron, aluminium or plastic using hand or machine tools.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine layout of system.
Call and Contact Centre Occupations
£21,438
Entry Level Salary
£24,293
Average Salary
£37,424.90
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Arranges for field staff to visit the caller if further assistance is required.
- Maintains details of calls received, the action taken as a result of a call and updates customer database as required.
- Advises on services available and sells additional products or services.
- Informs existing and potential customers on any immediate action to be taken, and refers the matter to a more senior member of staff if necessary.
- Interviews caller to establish the nature of any complaint or the requirements of the client.
- Answers incoming telephone calls from existing or prospective customers.
Telephonists
£20,034
Entry Level Salary
£26,702.75
Average Salary
£41,137.28
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Alerts emergency services in cases of fire, crime or accident.
- Provides directory information, dialling codes and details of charges.
- Gives advice on dialling and other special features available.
- Reports any faults on telephone operating system.
- Operates switchboard to connect outgoing calls or to relay incoming or internal calls.
- Receives callers and directs them to appropriate person or department.
Communication Operators
£24,588
Entry Level Salary
£34,051.43
Average Salary
£52,458.39
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Receives and handles incoming calls for emergency services, transmitting to the appropriate services.
- Performs routine tests and maintenance on equipment and reports faults.
- Keeps record of messages sent and received.
- Uses a teleprinter or telex keyboard to transmit messages to other teleprinters or telexes.
- Tunes transmitter to required channel or wavelength and relays or receives message to/ from person or vehicle.
- Receives messages, weather reports and other material to transmit.
Market Research Interviewers
£21,654
Entry Level Salary
£24,114
Average Salary
£37,149.14
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Collates and reviews information collected and compiles reports to pass back to the organisation/individual commissioning the market research.
- Collects questionnaires, diaries, and other research materials left with interviewees and conducts follow-up interviews.
- Records progress of interviews by noting answers, completing questionnaires, making audio or visual recordings or inputting responses into a computer.
- Approaches members of the public, individuals, households and organisations to arrange and conduct face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, focus groups, panel interviews etc..
Customer Service Occupations
£22,050
Entry Level Salary
£24,082
Average Salary
£36,657.10
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Informs customers of special promotions and new product launches.
- Addresses customer complaints and problems.
- Follows up clients to ensure their satisfaction with a product or service and to gain renewal of customer service agreements.
- Makes reservations, books tickets, organises insurance policies on behalf of customers.
- Discusses pricing processes with clients, agrees payment arrangements and handles customer accounts.
- Receives enquiries from potential and existing clients, discusses requirements, and recommends products or services.
Customer Service Supervisors
£22,284
Entry Level Salary
£33,187.82
Average Salary
£51,581.33
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Discusses customer responses with managers with a view to improving the product or service provided and to resolve operational problems.
- Establishes and monitors work schedules to meet the organisation's requirements.
- Develops and plans training for their teams.
- Liaises with clients and handles more complicated or sensitive complaints and queries.
- Directly supervises and coordinates the activities of a help and advisory services to provide support for customers and users.
Hairdressing and Beauty Salon Managers and Proprietors
£13,896
Entry Level Salary
£30,216.66
Average Salary
£53,766.86
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Ensures financial accounts for the business are maintained.
- Demonstrates, advises on and sells hair and/or beauty products.
- Checks and maintains any equipment, and ensures that all safety requirements are met.
- Undertakes and/or directs hair treatments and/or beauty therapy.
- Ensures clients’ records are maintained.
- Provides clients with information and advice on styles and treatments, and resolves any complaints or problems.
- Controls the allocation, training and remuneration of staff.
- Determines staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term needs.
Beauticians and Related Occupations
£21,906
Entry Level Salary
£11,036.81
Average Salary
£22,030.13
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Applies make-up to hide blemishes or enhance facial features and advises clients on skin care and make-up techniques.
- Maintains client records, sells and advises on cosmetic products and services, and ensures appropriate health and safety issues are addressed..
- Advises clients on diet and exercise to assist in weight loss and slimming.
- Recognises problems and refers clients to medical practitioners if appropriate.
- Performs specialist treatments for conditions such as acne, applies skin rejuvenation therapies.
- Cleans, shapes and polishes finger and toe nails, applies nail extensions.
- Uses waxing, threading, sugaring and other epilation techniques to remove any unwanted body hair.
- Massages scalp, face and other parts of the body and carries out spray tanning.
- Discusses clients requirements, analyses and advises client on appropriate skin care, and applies treatments to the face or body.
Higher Education Teaching Professionals
£36,198
Entry Level Salary
£45,885.62
Average Salary
£79,270.47
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Undertakes research, writes articles and books and attends conferences and other meetings.
- Directs the work of postgraduate students.
- Participates in decision making processes regarding curricula, budgetary, departmental and other matters.
- Provides pastoral care or guidance to students.
- Advises students on academic matters and encourages independent research.
- Prepares, administers and marks examinations, essays and other assignments.
- Prepares, delivers and directs lectures, seminars and tutorials.
Further Education Teaching Professionals
£26,550
Entry Level Salary
£35,048.55
Average Salary
£53,395.07
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Liaises with other professional and commercial organisations to review course content.
- Assists with the administration of teaching and the arranging of timetables.
- Arranges instructional visits and periods of employment experience for students.
- Prepares, administers and marks examinations, essays and other assignments.
- Prepares, delivers and directs lectures, seminars and tutorials.
Secondary Education Teaching Professionals
£37,728
Entry Level Salary
£44,406
Average Salary
£60,834.19
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties.
- Discusses progress with student, parents and/or other education professionals.
- Supervises teaching assistants and trainees.
- Undertakes pastoral duties.
- Supervises any practical work and maintains classroom discipline.
- Maintains records of students’ progress and development.
- Prepares students for external examinations and administers and invigilates these examinations.
- Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises and examinations to record and evaluate students’ progress.
- Prepares and delivers courses and lessons in accordance with curriculum requirements and teaches one or more subjects.
Primary Education Teaching Professionals
£34,380
Entry Level Salary
£41,654
Average Salary
£57,384.62
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties.
- Discusses progress with student, parents and/or other education professionals.
- Supervises teaching assistants and trainees.
- Undertakes pastoral duties.
- Teaches simple songs and rhymes, reads stories and organises various activities to promote language, social and physical development.
- Maintains records of students’ progress and development.
- Prepares students for external examinations and administers and invigilates these examinations.
- Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises and examinations to record and evaluate students’ progress.
- Prepares and delivers courses and lessons in accordance with curriculum requirements and teaches a range of subjects.
Nursery Education Teaching Professionals
£29,250
Entry Level Salary
£32,110.07
Average Salary
£47,371.01
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties.
- Observes and assesses students and discusses their progress with parents and/or other education professionals.
- Supervises teaching assistants and trainees.
- Undertakes pastoral duties.
- Supervises and cares for children, provides a secure learning environment and ensures their health and safety is maintained during all activities.
- Teaches simple songs and rhymes, reads stories and organises various activities to promote language, social and physical development.
- Prepares and delivers lessons in accordance with early years foundation stages curriculum and encourages and stimulates children's learning.
Special and Additional Needs Education Teaching Professionals
£20,610
Entry Level Salary
£41,242.92
Average Salary
£60,844.43
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Discusses student’s progress with parents and other teaching professionals.
- Updates and maintains students’ records to monitor development and progress.
- Liaises with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists.
- Supervises students in classroom and maintains discipline.
- Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises to record and evaluate students’ progress.
- Encourages the student to develop self-help skills to circumvent the limitations imposed by their disability.
- Develops and adapts conventional teaching methods to meet the individual student’s needs.
- Gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student’s disability.
- Assesses student’s abilities, identifies student’s needs and devises curriculum and rota of teaching duties accordingly.
- Creates a safe, stimulating and supportive learning environment for students.
Teaching Professionals
£17,298
Entry Level Salary
£20,357.94
Average Salary
£48,428.82
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Provides private academic, vocational and other instruction to individuals or groups.
- Manages/owns and teaches in private drama, music and dancing schools, training centres and similar establishments.
- Designs and implements methods of assessing the performance of students, co-ordinates and undertakes the evaluation of assessments and awards grades of merit based upon performance.
Education Managers
£30,204
Entry Level Salary
£44,615
Average Salary
£81,085.13
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Designs and implements methods of assessing the performance of students, co-ordinates and undertakes the evaluation of assessments and awards grades of merit based upon performance.
- Assists with recruitment, public relations and marketing activities.
- Organises examinations, invigilation and any security procedures required.
- Drafts and interprets regulations, deals with queries and complaints procedures and coordinates and maintains quality assurance procedures.
- Acts as secretary to statutory and other bodies/committees associated with the educational establishment.
- Controls administrative aspects of student admission, registration and graduation.
- Leads or contributes to decision making processes regarding curricula, budgetary, disciplinary and other matters.
- Provides administrative support to the academic team.
- Considers staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term needs.
Education Advisers and School Inspectors
£27,144
Entry Level Salary
£42,005.07
Average Salary
£76,341.74
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Prepares reports on schools concerning teaching standards, educational standards being achieved, the spiritual, moral and social development of pupils, resource management etc.
- Observes teaching, assesses learning level and discusses any apparent faults with teachers, heads of department and head teachers.
- Arranges for the provision of school medical and meals services.
- Verifies that school buildings are adequately maintained.
- Appoints and controls teaching staff.
- Plans and advises on the provision of special schools for children with physical or learning disabilities.
- Advises on all aspects of education and ensures that all statutory educational requirements are being met.
Photographers, Audio-visual and Broadcasting Equipment Operators
£21,384
Entry Level Salary
£29,032.74
Average Salary
£51,818.78
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Maintains, repairs, programs and operates unmanned aircraft to provide aerial photographs and video.
- Operates sound mixing and dubbing equipment to obtain desired mix, level and balance of sound.
- Manages health and safety issues.
- Operates equipment to record, edit and play back films and television programmes.
- Checks operation and positioning of projectors, vision and sound recording equipment, and mixing and dubbing equipment.
- Controls transmission, broadcasting and satellite systems for television and radio programmes, identifies and solves related technical problems.
- Takes, records and manipulates digital images and digital video footage.
- Photographs subject or follows action by moving camera.
- Operates scanning equipment to transfer image to computer and manipulates image to achieve the desired effect.
- Inserts lenses and adjusts aperture and speed settings as necessary.
- Arranges subject, lighting, camera equipment and any microphones.
- Selects subject and conceives composition of picture or discusses composition with colleagues.
Actors, Entertainers and Presenters
£16,488
Entry Level Salary
£32,306.99
Average Salary
£57,662.80
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plays pre-recorded music at nightclubs, discotheques, and private functions.
- Conducts interviews and prepares reports for news broadcasts, current affairs programmes and documentaries.
- Introduces and presents radio and television programmes, reads news bulletins and makes announcements.
- Trains animals to perform entertaining routines and may perform with them.
- Performs singing, comedy, acrobatic, illusion and conjuring routines.
- Assumes character created by a playwright or author and communicates this to an audience.
- Studies script; play or book and prepares and rehearses interpretation.
Dancers and Choreographers
£21,492
Entry Level Salary
£32,307
Average Salary
£57,662.80
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Demonstrates and directs dance moves, monitors and analyses technique and performance, and determines how improvements can be made.
- Participates in dance performance.
- Attends rehearsals to develop and practice dance routines for performance.
- Builds and maintains stamina, physical strength, agility and general health through fitness exercises and healthy eating.
Musicians
£22,860
Entry Level Salary
£32,306.99
Average Salary
£57,662.80
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Auditions and selects performers and rehearses and conducts them in the performance of the composition.
- Scores music for different combinations of voices and instruments to produce desired effect.
- Plays instrument as a soloist or as a member of a group or orchestra.
- Tunes instrument and studies and rehearses score.
- Conceives and writes original music.
Teaching Assistants
£22,194
Entry Level Salary
£20,256
Average Salary
£28,266.69
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Helps with outings and other out-of-classroom activities.
- Makes simple teaching aids and constructs thematic displays of educational material or children’s work.
- Assists children with washing or dressing for outdoor and similar activities.
- Listens to children read, reads to them or tells stories.
- Looks after lesson materials such as paper, pencils and crayons.
- Assists teacher with preparation or clearing up of classroom.
Educational Support Assistants
£22,086
Entry Level Salary
£19,673.66
Average Salary
£29,579.93
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Provides feedback to teachers and completes and maintains records.
- Attends to child’s physical needs.
- Helps and encourages child to communicate.
- Implements care programmes, as appropriate.
- Identifies signs of distress and offers reassurance.
- Helps child understand instruction through a variety of means and encourages self-confidence and independence.
- Supports schoolwork under teacher’s supervision.
Marketing, Sales, and Advertising Directors
£45,504
Entry Level Salary
£64,521.80
Average Salary
£128,862.24
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Produces and/or assesses reports and recommendations concerning marketing, advertising and sales strategies.
- Stays abreast of changes in market trends and advertising rates.
- Controls the recruitment and training of staff.
- Examines and analyses sales figures, advises on and monitors marketing campaigns and promotional activities.
- Conceives advertising campaigns to impart the desired product image in an effective and economical way.
- Defines target group for advertising campaigns and implements strategy through appropriate media planning work.
- Discusses employer’s or clients’ requirements, plans and monitors surveys and analyses of customers’ reactions to products.
- Liaises with client to discuss product/service to be marketed and develops the most appropriate strategy to deliver the objectives.
Public Relations and Communications Directors
£36,216
Entry Level Salary
£51,631.78
Average Salary
£118,856.59
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Directs the arranging of conferences, exhibitions, seminars, etc. to promote the image of a product, service or organisation.
- Stays abreast of changes in media, readership or viewing figures.
- Reviews and revises campaign strategy and takes appropriate corrective measures if necessary.
- Liaises with client to discuss their needs and develops the most appropriate strategy to deliver the objectives directs public relations campaigns and communicates messages through a variety of media.
- Directs and oversees the work of the communications department of an organisation or work on behalf of clients at a public relations firm.
- Develops and reviews the public relations policy and direction of an organisation.
Human Resource Managers and Directors
£21,384
Entry Level Salary
£39,052.90
Average Salary
£74,186.40
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Stays abreast of relevant legislation, considers its impact on the organisation’s HR strategy and recommends appropriate action.
- Considers alternative work procedures to improve productivity.
- Examines and reports on company and departmental structures, chains of command, information flows, etc. and evaluates efficiency of existing operations.
- Develops and administers salary, health and safety and promotion policies.
- Undertakes industrial relations negotiations with employees’ representatives or trades unions.
- Provides or arranges for provision of training courses.
- Oversees the monitoring of employee performance and career development needs.
- Oversees the preparation of job descriptions, drafts advertisements and interviews candidates.
- Determines staffing needs.
Managers and Directors in Retail and Wholesale
£21,330
Entry Level Salary
£30,259
Average Salary
£61,418.89
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Examines quality of merchandise and ensures that effective use is made of advertising and display facilities.
- Authorises payment for supplies received and decides on vending price, discount rates and credit terms.
- Oversees the maintenance of financial and other records and controls security arrangements for the premises.
- Ensures customer complaints and queries regarding sales and service are appropriately handled.
- Ensures that adequate reserves of merchandise are held and that stock keeping is carried out efficiently.
- Liaises with other staff to provide information about merchandise, special promotions etc. to customers.
- Appoints staff, assigns tasks and monitors and reviews staff performance.
Management Consultants and Business Analysts
£22,842
Entry Level Salary
£49,267
Average Salary
£86,511.78
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Runs workshops, and addresses seminars, conferences and the media to present results of research activity or to express professional views.
- Advises governments, commercial enterprises, organisations and other clients in light of research findings.
- Determines the appropriate method of data collection and research methodology, analyses and interprets information gained and formulates and implements recommendations and solutions.
- Identifies problems concerned with business strategy, policy, organisation, procedures, methods and markets.
- Assesses the functions, objectives and requirements of the organisation seeking advice.
Business and Related Research Professionals
£24,048
Entry Level Salary
£33,678
Average Salary
£58,681.50
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Discusses possible changes that need to be made in terms of design, price, packaging, marketing and promotion etc. in light of market research with appropriate departments.
- Manages and directs research, collates and interprets findings and presents results to clients.
- Liaises with client to understand their market research needs, establishes an appropriate quantitative and qualitative market research methodology and prepares proposals outlining programmes of work and details of costs.
- Deals with copyright issues and negotiates fees.
- Liaises with client on the appropriate image/s to be used.
- Researches images for clients in a wide range of media using specialist picture libraries and archives, museums, galleries etc., or commissions new images.
- Presents findings in the required format, via written reports or presentations.
- Provides support to criminal intelligence or to military or other security operations by gathering and verifying intelligence data and sources.
- Provides administrative support for programme development such as booking facilities.
- Briefs presenters, scriptwriters or journalists as required via verbal or written reports.
- Research sources for accurate factual material, finds suitable contributors to programmes or print features and deals with any copyright issues.
- Liaises with production team to generate and develop ideas for film, television and radio programmes.
Business, Research and Administrative Professionals
£20,952
Entry Level Salary
£42,892.37
Average Salary
£75,098.17
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Negotiates and monitors contracted out services provided by the private sector to local government studies and acts upon any legislation that may affect the local authority.
- Registers and maintains records of all births, deaths and marriages in local authority area, issues appropriate certificates and reports any suspicious causes of death to the coroner..
- Co-ordinates and directs the activities of Revenue and Customs offices, Job Centres, Benefits Agency offices and other local offices of national government.
- Advises national and local government on the interpretation and implementation of policy decisions, acts and regulations, and provides technical assistance in the formulation of policy.
- Controls and administers budgets.
- Prepares and reviews operational and financial reports.
- Develops plans, sets objectives and monitors and evaluates performance.
- Recruits and manages staff, assigns and delegates tasks and duties, makes changes in procedures to deal with variations in workload.
- Analyses internal processes and systems, recommends and implements procedural and policy changes.
- Coordinates the organisation’s services and resources, liaising with other senior staff.
Business and Financial Project Management Professionals
£26,154
Entry Level Salary
£49,772.25
Average Salary
£83,459.73
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Reports regularly on progress to the client or to senior managers.
- Ensures that each stage of the project is progressing on time, on budget and to the right quality standards.
- Negotiates with contractors and suppliers for materials and services.
- Selects and leads a project team.
- Draws up a detailed plan for how to achieve each stage of the project.
- Agrees timescales, costs and resources needed.
- Finds out what the client or company wants to achieve.
Public Relations Professionals
£22,122
Entry Level Salary
£34,923
Average Salary
£63,390.52
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Develops and implements tools to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of public relations exercises.
- Addresses individuals, clients and other target groups through meetings, presentations, the media and other events to enhance the public image of an organisation.
- Writes, edits and arranges for the effective distribution of press releases, newsletters, social media and other public relations material.
- Discusses issues of business strategy, products, services and target client base with senior colleagues to identify public relations requirements.
Advertising Accounts Managers and Creative Directors
£27,270
Entry Level Salary
£39,866.65
Average Salary
£73,066.63
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Arranges conferences, exhibitions, seminars, etc. to promote the image of a product, service or organisation.
- Stays abreast of changes in media, readership or viewing figures and advertising rates.
- Reviews and revises campaign in light of sales figures, surveys, etc..
- Conceives advertising campaign to impart the desired product image in an effective and economical way, including planning which media to use, such as print, television, radio or online advertising.
- Liaises with client to discuss product/service to be marketed, defines target group and assesses the suitability of various media.
Other Administrative Occupations
£20,916
Entry Level Salary
£23,613
Average Salary
£38,345.25
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks figures, prepares invoices and records details of financial transactions made.
- Receives and distributes incoming and outgoing correspondence.
- Types reports, memos, notes, minutes and other documents.
- Stores information by filling in forms, writing notes and filing records.
Other Skilled Trades
£21,402
Entry Level Salary
£30,070.91
Average Salary
£48,309.67
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Makes and repairs jewellery and decorative precious metal ware, sets, cuts and polishes gemstones and makes master patterns for articles of jewellery.
- Makes musical instruments, makes and assembles parts for musical instruments, and tunes to improve pitch, tone and volume.
- Makes patterns for moulds, fits metal castings, pours plaster, fills plaster mould with resin and smooths surface.
- Makes, maintains and adapts surgical and orthopaedic appliances.
- Makes children’s toys, dolls, models, candles, artificial flowers and other fancy goods.
- Charges fireworks, cartridges and other munitions with explosive material.
- Interweaves canes of willow, withy, bamboo, rattan or similar material to make baskets and other pieces of wickerwork.
- Makes wigs, beards and other artificial hairpieces from human hair or synthetic materials.
- Constructs and covers wire frames for lampshades.
- Uses hand or machine tools to engrave letters, patterns and other designs on jewellery and stoneware.
Other Vocational and Industrial Trainers
£20,718
Entry Level Salary
£27,682.99
Average Salary
£42,895.48
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Devises general and specialised training courses in response to particular needs.
- Advises on training programmes and discusses progress or problems with staff and trainees.
- Plans curriculum and rota of staff duties and updates or amends them in light of developments.
- Arranges work experience and instructional visits for trainees.
- Supervises trainee development, assists trainees with difficulties and prepares regular progress reports on each trainee for management.
- Assesses training requirements and prepares lectures, demonstrations and study aids.
Fitness and Wellbeing Instructors
£22,698
Entry Level Salary
£19,440.99
Average Salary
£58,458.83
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Understands the health and safety aspects of different forms of exercise and ensures that any statutory requirements are met.
- Plans and monitors personal fitness schedules.
- Ensures that clients do not injure themselves through over exertion or using incorrect training techniques.
- Demonstrates and leads fitness activities and supervises exercise classes.
- Devises programmes of training appropriate to the needs of clients with varying levels of strength, fitness and ability.
- Assesses the fitness levels of clients.
Officers in Armed Forces
£0
Entry Level Salary
£0
Average Salary
£0
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans, directs and administers aid to civilian authorities as requested or when faced with civil disorder, natural disaster or other emergency.
- Supervises the operation of military units and monitors the activities of junior officers, NCOs and other ranks.
- Plans, directs and co-ordinates military training and manoeuvres.
- Advises and provides information on military aspects of defence policy.
Senior Police Officers
£41,724
Entry Level Salary
£62,656.49
Average Salary
£150,839.99
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Directs and co-ordinates the operation of record keeping systems and the preparation of reports.
- Establishes contacts and sources of information concerning crimes planned or committed.
- Directs and monitors the work of subordinate officers.
- Plans, directs and co-ordinates general policing for an area or functional unit.
- Liaises with senior officers to determine staff, financial and other short- and long-term needs.
Senior Officers in Fire, Ambulance, Prison and Related Services
£32,058
Entry Level Salary
£53,752.23
Average Salary
£129,403.77
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Revenue and customs, excise and immigration officers advise on the interpretation of regulations concerning taxes, duties and immigration requirements and enforce these regulations through monitoring of premises, examining goods entering the country to ensure correct duty is paid and establishing that passengers have the necessary authorisation for crossing national borders.
- Prison officers interview prisoners on arrival and discharge/departure, receive reports on disciplinary problems and decide on appropriate action, make periodic checks on internal and external security, and provide care and support to prisoners in custody.
- Ambulance officers plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the activities of ambulance personnel and control room assistants, for the provision of ambulance services for emergency and non-emergency cases.
- Fire officers plan, direct and co-ordinate an operational plan for one or more fire stations, attend fires and other emergencies to minimise danger to property and people, arrange for the salvaging of goods, immediate temporary repairs and security measures for fire damaged premises as necessary.
- Advises on the recruitment, training and monitoring of staff.
- Prepares reports for insurance companies, the Home Office, Scottish Home and Health Department, and other bodies as necessary.
- Liaises with other senior officials and/or government departments to determine staffing, financial and other short- and long-term needs.
Probation Officers
£27,108
Entry Level Salary
£43,155.26
Average Salary
£58,485.67
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Keeps accurate and comprehensive records.
- Works with prisoners in giving advice on problems such as drug and alcohol abuse, addressing training needs, finding work and getting accommodation.
- Draws up probation plans with offenders and helps them follow it, advises them on any work and helps them with any family or social problems.
- Enforces court orders and serves the public by providing a wide range of supervision programmes for those in receipt of a community sentence.
- Produces pre-sentence reports to the court about an individual’s crime, their personal circumstances, the suitability of sentencing, the likelihood of re-offending and the future risk to the public.
NCOs and Other Ranks
£0
Entry Level Salary
£0
Average Salary
£0
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Leads and trains new recruits and lower ranks, looks after their discipline and welfare.
- Patrols areas of possible military activity.
- Undertakes specialist activities such as operating communications equipment, driving military vehicles.
- Trains and exercises using various military equipment and tactics.
- Stands watch and guards military establishments and other buildings.
- Engages in peacekeeping operations and enforces ceasefire agreements.
- Takes part in military operations in situations of conflict and provides aid if required in emergency situations such as civil disorder, natural disasters and major accidents.
- Monitors, operates, services and repairs military equipment.
- Receives and responds to commands from senior officers.
Police Officers (Sergeant and Below)
£28,458
Entry Level Salary
£48,045
Average Salary
£68,031.45
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Gives evidence in court cases.
- Works on station reception desk and or in communications room.
- Prepares briefs or reports for senior officers.
- Attends accidents.
- Interviews suspects, takes statements from witnesses and stops, searches and/or arrests suspects.
- Investigates complaints, crimes, accidents, any suspicious activities or other incidents.
- Directs and controls traffic or crowds at demonstrations and large public events.
- Receives instructions from senior officers and patrols an assigned area on foot, horseback, motorcycle, motor car or boat to check security and enforce regulations.
Fire Service Officers (Watch Manager and Below)
£29,106
Entry Level Salary
£44,351
Average Salary
£64,631.53
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Supervises a watch.
- Advises on fire safety measures in new buildings.
- Attends and deals with bomb alerts and accidents involving spillage of hazardous substances.
- Removes goods from fire damaged premises, clears excess water, makes safe any structural hazards and takes any other necessary steps to reduce damage to property.
- Rescues people or animals trapped by fire or other emergency situations such as flooding and administers first aid.
- Operates hose pipes, ladders, chemical, foam, gas or powder fire extinguishing appliances.
- Travels to fire or other emergency by vehicle and locates water mains if necessary.
- Arranges fire drills and tests alarm systems and equipment.
- Inspects premises to identify potential fire hazards and to check that firefighting equipment is available and in working order and that statutory fire safety regulations are met.
Prison Service Officers (Below Principal Officer)
£18,468
Entry Level Salary
£33,444.13
Average Salary
£48,737.24
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Reports on prisoners’ conduct as necessary.
- Trains and supervises prison staff.
- Provides care and support to prisoners in custody including prevention of self-harm.
- Runs prisoner rehabilitation and support programmes.
- Escorts prisoners transferred from one institution to another.
- Investigates disturbances or any other unusual occurrences.
- Guards entrances and perimeter walls.
- Watches for any infringements of regulations and searches prisoners and cells for weapons, drugs and other contraband items.
- Escorts prisoners to and from cells and supervises them during meals, recreation and visiting periods.
Police Community Support Officers
£22,302
Entry Level Salary
£28,653
Average Salary
£46,717.11
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- May direct traffic and arrange for vehicles to be removed.
- May detain someone pending the arrival of a police officer.
- Provides crime prevention advice and helps to support victims of crime.
- Carries out house-to-house enquiries.
- Assists police officers at crime scenes and major events.
- Patrols a geographic area to monitor and deter criminal and anti-social activity and disorderly conduct.
IT Project Managers
£25,704
Entry Level Salary
£42,521.06
Average Salary
£74,521.89
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Reports on project to senior management and/or client.
- Coordinates and oversees implementation of the project.
- Monitors progress including project budget, timescale and quality.
- Manages third party contributions to the project.
- Coordinates and supervises the activities of the project team.
- Plans the stages of the project, reviews actions and amends plans as necessary.
- Works with client or senior management to establish and clarify the aims, objectives and requirements of the IT project.
IT Managers
£29,538
Entry Level Salary
£54,628.99
Average Salary
£94,206.53
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Reports on IT activities to senior management.
- Plans and monitors work and maintenance schedules to ensure agreed service levels are achieved.
- Supervises the technical team and coordinates training.
- Takes responsibility for managing the development of an aspect of IT provision such as user support, network operations, service delivery or quality control.
- Liaises with users, senior staff and internal/external clients to clarify IT requirements and development needs.
- Plans, coordinates and manages the organisation’s IT provision or a specialist area of IT activity.
IT Business Analysts, Architects and Systems Designers
£26,334
Entry Level Salary
£49,429
Average Salary
£82,893.70
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Works closely with clients to implement new systems.
- Researches, analyses, evaluates and monitors network infrastructure and performance.
- Examines existing business models and flows of data and designs functional specifications and test plans for new systems in order to meet clients’ needs.
- Provides advice and assistance in the procurement, provision, delivery, installation, maintenance and use of IT systems and their environments.
- Communicates the impact of emerging technologies to clients and advises upon the potential introduction of such technology.
- Undertakes feasibility studies for major IT developments incorporating costs and benefits, and presents proposals to clients.
- Liaises with internal/external clients to analyse business procedure, clarify clients’ requirements and to define the scope of existing software, hardware and network provision.
Programmers and Software Development Professionals
£27,990
Entry Level Salary
£54,279
Average Salary
£98,574.74
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Develops website and website interfaces and establishes methods to ensure appropriate website security and recovery.
- Writes operational documentation and provides subsequent support and training for users.
- Plans and maintains database structures.
- Implements and evaluates the software.
- Writes code for specialist programming for computer games, (for example, artificial intelligence, 3D engine development).
- Tests and corrects software programs.
- Develops user interfaces.
- Writes and codes individual programs according to specifications.
- Undertakes feasibility study to design software solutions.
- Examines existing software and determines requirements for new/modified systems in the light of business needs.
Information Technology Professionals
£26,424
Entry Level Salary
£45,159
Average Salary
£79,145.11
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Manages and develops the content and operation of websites, monitors traffic, and ensures the functionality of websites and web servers.
- Organises training for users and prepares documentation on IT systems.
- Meets with clients to determine their requirements and designs, tests and installs new systems to meet client's needs.
- Provides support to organisations in the operation of their IT software, hardware and networks.
Web Design Professionals
£19,962
Entry Level Salary
£37,591.54
Average Salary
£65,669.81
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Designs web interfaces for relational database systems.
- Designs web pages and applications including graphics, animation and functionality to maximise visual effectiveness and facilitate appropriate access.
- Presents design options to the client.
- Liaises with internal/external client in order to define the requirements for the website or applications.
IT Operations Technicians
£22,518
Entry Level Salary
£32,460
Average Salary
£51,979.76
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Acts as a liaison between users, outside suppliers, and other technical teams.
- Performs server backup and recovery operations and restarts systems following outages.
- Identifies problems, agrees remedial action and undertakes emergency maintenance if required.
- Analyses systems and makes recommendations to improve performance.
- Schedules and performs system maintenance tasks, such as loading user applications, programs and data.
- Configures and sets up new server systems.
- Administers, monitors and supports internal/external networks, servers, email and security systems.
IT User Support Technicians
£19,368
Entry Level Salary
£27,666.75
Average Salary
£44,917.96
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Reports on commonly occurring queries to detect underlying problems.
- Maintains a log of work in progress, calls received, actions taken and problems detected.
- Researches possible solutions in user guides, technical manuals and other documents.
- Refers more complex or intractable problems to appropriate IT professionals.
- Facilitates user access to systems.
- Installs and upgrades hardware, cables, operating systems and/or appropriate software.
- Advises users on how to resolve hardware and software problems.
- Provides technical support to IT users.
Computer System and Equipment Installers and Servicers
£22,608
Entry Level Salary
£29,652.88
Average Salary
£44,733.59
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Maintains documentation to track and log work in progress and completed.
- Advises on and installs operating soft/firm ware and may carry out upgrades.
- Repairs or replaces defective components.
- Diagnoses hardware related faults.
- Installs, tests and maintains computer-related hardware (processors, memory chips, circuit boards, displays, sensors, data storage devices, printers, etc.) according to given specifications.
Production Managers and Directors in Construction
£26,892
Entry Level Salary
£57,012.45
Average Salary
£116,885.21
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Receives reports upon work in progress to ensure that materials and construction methods meet with specifications and statutory requirements and that there are no deviations from agreed plans.
- Plans, directs and co-ordinates the construction and maintenance of civil and structural engineering works, including demolition, pipelines and pilings.
- Receives invitations to tender, arranges for estimates and liaises with client, architects, Chartered architectual technologists and engineers for the preparation of contracts.
- Liaises with other managers to plan overall production activity and construction activities, sets quality standards and estimates timescales and costs.
Construction Project Managers and Related Professionals
£32,472
Entry Level Salary
£55,195
Average Salary
£91,442.98
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Writes reports for funding bids and planning authorities and acts as expert witness.
- Examines accident ‘blackspots’ to improve road safety.
- Assesses schemes to manage traffic such as congestion charging and parking controls.
- Forecasts the impact on traffic and transport of new developments (e.g. shopping centre).
- Records, monitors and reports progress.
- Identifies defects in work and proposes corrections.
- Regularly inspects and monitors progress and quality of work, ensures legal requirements are met.
- Hires and may supervise site staff, establishes temporary site offices, takes delivery of materials.
- Plans work schedules for construction projects based on prior discussion with architects, Chartered architectural technologists, surveyors etc..
- Assembles information for invoicing at the end of projects.
- Briefs project team, contractors and suppliers.
- Draws up budgets and timescales for new construction projects based on clients’ requirements.
Building and Civil Engineering Technicians
£19,512
Entry Level Salary
£33,407.46
Average Salary
£55,674.31
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Estimates timescales for project delivery.
- Estimates project costs.
- Creates and designs plans (using computer aided software).
- Inspects construction materials and supervises work of contractors to ensure compliance with specifications and arranges remedial work as necessary.
- Sets out construction site, supervises excavations and marks out position of building work to be undertaken.
- Performs calculations and collects, records and interprets data.
- Sets up apparatus and equipment and undertakes field and laboratory tests of soil and work materials.
Inspectors of Standards and Regulations
£21,456
Entry Level Salary
£31,108.61
Average Salary
£63,986.14
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Prepares reports and recommendations on all inspections made and recommends legal action where necessary.
- Undertakes other inspections including chemicals, drugs, flight operations, etc..
- Visits premises where animals are kept, advises on animal care and investigates complaints.
- Checks fishing licences and prevents illegal fishing.
- Samples and tests river water, checks and advises on premises discharging effluent to prevent pollution.
- Verifies the weight of commercial vehicles, checks driver’s licence and hours worked.
- Investigates industrial accidents or any complaints made by the public.
- Draws attention to any irregularities or infringements of regulations and advises on ways of rectifying them.
- Visits sites during construction and inspects completed installations of electricity, gas or water supply.
- Inspects factories and other work sites to ensure adequate cleanliness, temperature, lighting and ventilation, checks for fire hazards and inspects storage and handling arrangements of dangerous materials.
- Inspects measuring and similar equipment in factories and visits street traders, shops, garages and other premises to check scales, weights and measuring equipment.
- Inspects building structures, facilities and sites to determine suitability for habitation, compliance with regulations and for insurance purposes.
- Examines building plans to ensure compliance with local, statutory and other requirements.
Electricians and Electrical Fitters
£21,492
Entry Level Salary
£39,398.99
Average Salary
£52,896.75
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Examines electrical plant or machinery, domestic appliances and other electrical assembly for faults using test equipment and replaces worn parts and faulty wiring.
- Installs electrical plant, machinery and other electrical fixtures and appliances such as fuse boxes, generators, light sockets etc..
- Assembles parts and sub-assemblies using hand tools and by brazing, riveting or welding.
- Cuts, bends and installs electrical conduit.
- Selects, cuts and lays wires and connects to sockets, plugs or terminals by crimping, soldering, brazing or bolting.
- Examines drawings, specifications and wiring diagrams to determine the method and sequence of operations.
Steel Erectors
£20,898
Entry Level Salary
£35,117.73
Average Salary
£52,931.09
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks alignment of metal parts using spirit level and plumb-rule.
- Arranges for or undertakes bolting and welding of metal parts.
- Directs hoisting and positioning of girders and other metal parts and checks alignment.
- Erects ladders, scaffolding or working cage.
- Examines drawings and specifications to assess job requirements.
Stonemasons and Related Trades
£23,328
Entry Level Salary
£34,265.59
Average Salary
£51,646.70
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Levels, aligns and embeds stone in mortar, concrete or steel frame with stone to make and repair structures.
- Uses hand and power tools to shape, trim, carve, cut letters in and polish stone.
- Marks and cuts stone using hammers, mallet and hand or pneumatic chisels.
- Examines drawings, photographs and specifications to determine job requirements.
Bricklayers
£19,314
Entry Level Salary
£32,793.51
Average Salary
£49,427.92
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Uses hand and power tools to shape and trim bricks.
- Places, levels and aligns bricks in mortar bed and walls.
- Mixes and spreads mortar on foundations and bricks.
- Measures construction site and lays out the first lines of bricks to mark position of walls.
- Examines drawings, photographs and specifications to determine job requirements.
Roofers, Roof Tilers and Slaters
£19,188
Entry Level Salary
£32,998.53
Average Salary
£49,736.93
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Seals edges of roof with mortar and ensures that joints are watertight.
- Lays, aligns and secures successive overlapping layers of roofing material.
- Lays and secures underfelt and covers with hot bitumen or other adhesive compound.
- Cuts wooden battens, felt and underfelt to required size.
- Measures roof or exterior wall and calculates required amounts of underfelt, tiles, slates or thatching material.
Carpenters and Joiners
£21,330
Entry Level Salary
£34,950
Average Salary
£52,678.27
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Maintains and repairs woodwork and fittings.
- Checks accuracy of work with square, rule and spirit level.
- Aligns and fixes prepared wood pieces by screwing, nailing, gluing and dowelling to form frames, shop fronts, counter units, decking, theatrical sets, furniture, small wooden craft, scale models and wooden templates.
- Selects and measures appropriate wood and cuts, shapes and drills to specification using saws, planes, chisels and other power or hand tools.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.
Glaziers, Window Fabricators and Fitters
£21,528
Entry Level Salary
£28,899.28
Average Salary
£43,558.35
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Sets up and operates machinery to manufacture windows and window frames.
- Fixes mirror panels to interior and exterior walls and repairs and replaces broken glass.
- Applies mastic, putty or adhesive between glass and frame and trims off excess with knife.
- Smooths edges of glass and positions and secures in frame or grooved lead strips.
- Scores plain, coloured, safety and ornamental glass with hand cutter and breaks off glass by hand or with pliers.
- Examines drawings or specifications to determine job requirements.
Construction and Building Trades
£22,536
Entry Level Salary
£37,952
Average Salary
£57,203.03
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks and puts on diving suit and equipment and descends underwater to carry out construction, maintenance and repair tasks on sites such as oil rigs, harbours, bridges etc.
- Erects and repairs fencing.
- Maintains and repairs steeples, industrial chimneys and other high structures, and installs and replaces lightning conductors.
- Installs plumbing fixtures, woodwork structures and fittings, and sets glass in frames.
- Pours and levels concrete, prepares surfaces for painting and plastering, and mixes and applies plaster and paint.
- Lays bricks, tiles and building blocks to construct, repair and decorate buildings.
- Selects, measures and cuts steel bars, rods and wire to required lengths, positions and fixes reinforcements into position and tensions as required using hydraulic jacks.
Plasterers
£22,590
Entry Level Salary
£33,856
Average Salary
£51,594.34
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks surface level using line, spirit level and straight edge.
- Covers and seals joints between boards and finishes surface.
- Measures, cuts, installs and secures plaster board and/or ornamental plasterwork to walls and ceilings.
- Pours liquid plaster into mould to cast ornamental plaster work.
- Applies and smooths one or more coats of plaster and produces a finished surface, using hand tools or mechanical spray.
- Mixes, or directs the mixing of, plaster to desired consistency.
- Selects appropriate plasterboard or dry lining panels, cuts them to required size and fixes them to ceilings and walls.
Floorers and Wall Tilers
£17,964
Entry Level Salary
£34,099.33
Average Salary
£51,965.16
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Mixes cement screed or other adhesive, cuts and positions floor and wall tiles and checks alignment of tiling with spirit level.
- Finishes covering by rolling, smoothing, grouting or polishing.
- Examines premises to plan suitable layout and cuts, lays and secures underlay, carpet and linoleum.
- Cleans floor surface, fixes wooden laying guides and mixes, pours and levels granite and terrazzo mixtures, bitumen, synthetic resin or other composition mixtures to form flooring.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.
Painters and Decorators
£23,526
Entry Level Salary
£32,519.99
Average Salary
£49,558.36
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Stains, waxes and French polishes wood surfaces by hand.
- Mixes adhesive or removes self-adhesive backing and positions covering material on wall, matching up patterns where appropriate and removing wrinkles and air bubbles by hand or brush.
- Applies primer, undercoat and finishing coat(s) using brush, roller, or spray equipment.
- Prepares surfaces by cleaning, sanding and filling cracks and holes with appropriate filler.
- Erects working platform or scaffolding up to five metres in height.
Construction and Building Trades Supervisors
£23,382
Entry Level Salary
£34,453
Average Salary
£52,504.13
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Reports as required to managerial staff on work-related matters.
- Determines or recommends staffing and other needs to meet productivity requirements.
- Liaises with managers and contractors to resolve operational problems.
- Establishes and monitors work schedules to meet productivity requirements.
- Directly supervises and coordinates the activities of construction and building workers and/or subcontractors.
Scaffolders, Stagers and Riggers
£17,604
Entry Level Salary
£42,178
Average Salary
£64,471.37
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Forms rope slings, ladders, netting and other rigging and measures, cuts and repairs wire or fibre rope.
- Erects jib, derrick and similar hoisting equipment and installs ropes, pulleys and other lifting tackle.
- Lays and secures wooden planking to form working platforms and fixes guard rails, ladders, cradles and awnings as required.
- Examines scaffold tubing and couplings for defects and selects, fits and bolts scaffold tubes until scaffolding reaches required height.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.
Road Construction Operatives
£22,230
Entry Level Salary
£38,705.77
Average Salary
£59,163.89
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Removes damaged paving slabs and kerb stones, lays bedding of sand, concrete or mortar on prepared foundation, lays new slabs or stones and fills joints with mortar.
- Spreads aggregate over road surfaces using shovel, lays markings on road surface and repairs crash barriers.
- Spreads bitumen, tar or asphalt and compacts surface using roller.
- Heats bitumen in bucket, applies it to newly laid asphalt and beats or draws tamper head on asphalt to close joints.
- Cuts away broken road surface with pick or pneumatic drill.
- Sets up traffic management systems around work site such as cones, lights and barriers.
- Inspects road surfaces for hazards or signs of deterioration, clears mud, weeds and debris from road and spreads grit or salt as required.
Rail Construction and Maintenance Operatives
£24,714
Entry Level Salary
£45,195.14
Average Salary
£69,083.25
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Fastens together sections of rail by bolting fishplates to rails.
- Positions lengths of rail, sets of points and crossovers and secures rail with bolts, wooden wedges or clips.
- Spreads ballast and lays sleepers or metal plates at specified intervals.
- Lubricates points, examines fences, drains, culverts and embankments and carries out any necessary maintenance.
- Checks tightness of bolts and wedges, replaces damaged rail chairs and repacks ballast under sleepers if necessary.
- Patrols length of track and visually inspects rails, bolts, fishplates and chairs for distortion or fracture.
Construction Operatives
£20,916
Entry Level Salary
£30,470.76
Average Salary
£46,576.23
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Installs electrical lighting in streets, homes and business/manufacturing settings.
- Tests joints with electronic test equipment or by filling piping with water, smoke or compressed air.
- Joints pipe by sealing with rubber, cement, lead, etc., connects piping to manholes and attaches pipe junctions as required.
- Selects appropriate asbestos, clay, concrete, plastic or metal pipe sections and lowers them into prepared trenches using hoisting equipment.
- Cuts, shapes and fits wood, lays bricks and tiles, cleans exterior surfaces of buildings and resurfaces eroded stone or brickwork, and performs other tasks in the construction, alteration, repair and demolition of buildings.
- Fills machine with insulating mixture, positions hose, drills access hole and fills cavities or coats surfaces to prevent loss or absorption of heat and provide fire protections.
Graphic and Multimedia Designers
£17,244
Entry Level Salary
£25,945.99
Average Salary
£45,325.85
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Produces or oversees creation of the final product.
- Liaises with other parts of the production team to ensure graphic design fits with other elements, processes and timescales.
- Prepares specification and instructions for realisation of the project.
- Prepares sketches, scale drawings, models, colour schemes and other mock-ups to show clients and discusses any required alterations.
- Undertakes research into project, considers previous related projects and compares costs of using different processes.
- Liaises with client to clarify aims of project brief, discusses media, software and technology to be used, establishes timetable for project and defines budgetary constraints.
Artists
£18,342
Entry Level Salary
£36,668.85
Average Salary
£65,448
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Produces works on commission basis for clients.
- Markets and sells finished work directly to customers.
- Liaises with writers and publishers to produce book illustrations.
- Uses artistic skills to restore damaged artworks.
- Approaches managers of galleries and exhibitions in order to get finished work displayed.
- Builds up composition into finished work by carving, sculpting, etching, painting, engraving, drawing, etc..
- Prepares sketches, scale drawings or colour schemes.
- Selects appropriate materials, medium and method.
- Conceives and develops ideas and ways of working for artistic composition.
Interior Designers
£20,142
Entry Level Salary
£31,579.67
Average Salary
£56,364.64
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Ensures building and safety regulations are adhered to.
- Hires staff and oversees project progress.
- Sources fixtures, furniture and other necessary materials.
- Establishes estimated costs, specifies materials and provides detailed drawing of the agreed design.
- Advises on colours and the materials to be used,.
- Prepares designs to meet the client's needs and draws up sketches for consideration by the client.
- Liaises with client to determine the purpose, cost, and scope of the project, which may include the entire building or one room such as the kitchen or bathroom.
Clothing, Fashion and Accessories Designers
£22,410
Entry Level Salary
£33,177.53
Average Salary
£59,216.57
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Observes and manages intellectual property issues.
- Oversees production of sample and/or finished product or produces one-off products for fashion shows.
- Specifies materials, production method and finish for aesthetic or functional effect.
- Submits design to management, sales department or client for approval, communicates design rationale and makes any necessary alterations.
- Prepares sketches, designs, patterns or prototypes for textiles, clothing, footwear, jewellery, fashion accessories.
- Undertakes research to determine market trends, production requirements, availability of resources and formulates design concepts.
- Liaises with client to determine the purpose, cost, technical specification and potential uses/users of clothing or related fashion accessory.
Psychotherapists and Cognitive Behaviour Therapists
£27,864
Entry Level Salary
£35,660.03
Average Salary
£54,150
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Helps people come up with new ways to cope with their problems and to change their ways of thinking.
- Analyses events, behaviour, and habits to understand their mode of thinking and feelings.
- Talks with patients about their emotions, relationships and personal history.
- Assesses and provides treatment for people suffering with mental illness, stress, and emotional and relationship problems.
Clinical Psychologists
£40,914
Entry Level Salary
£42,864.80
Average Salary
£65,090.48
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Writes reports on their work and conducts applied research.
- Maintains required contacts with family members, education or other health professionals, as appropriate, and recommends possible solutions to problems presented.
- Helps patients to manage their own psychological conditions.
- Provides treatment or guidance using a variety of therapy and counselling techniques.
- Determines appropriate treatment and may refer patients to other mental health professionals.
- Administers tests to assess patients' needs through interviews, psychometric tests and observation of their behaviour.
Other Psychologists
£16,686
Entry Level Salary
£26,497
Average Salary
£66,329.06
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Applies psychological treatment methods to help athletes achieve optimum mental health and enhance sporting performance.
- Applies professional knowledge and techniques within the workplace, addressing issues such as job design, work groups, motivation etc.
- Maintains required contacts with family members, education or other health professionals, as appropriate, and recommends possible solutions to problems presented.
- Studies psychological factors in the treatment and prevention of mental illness or emotional and personality disorders.
- Analyses the effect of hereditary, social and physical factors on thought and behaviour.
- Observes and experiments on humans and animals to measure mental and physical characteristics.
- Develops treatment and guidance methods and gives treatment or guidance using a variety of therapy and counselling techniques.
- Develops and administers tests to measure intelligence, abilities, aptitudes, etc. and assesses results.
Counsellors
£21,132
Entry Level Salary
£25,763
Average Salary
£37,026.53
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Keeps accurate and confidential records.
- Refers to other appropriate sources of help.
- Presents different perspectives to the problem areas identified.
- Encourages clients to discuss their feelings in relation to their problems, aiming to ensure that an understanding of the issues is achieved.
- Meets clients face-to-face, working either one-to-one or with couples or families, or by telephone or internet.