Celebrating Success 2026: Pre‑16 Student of the Year – Olivia McLauchlan
Pathway to College
The course was good and a great atmosphere to get back into an educational environment.
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Step into your future in childcare and education
If you want to support children’s development and make a lasting impact, this subject area offers a clear and supportive pathway. We offer programmes from Level 1 through to higher level study, so you can start at the point that is right for you and continue to build your confidence and skills.
Learn by doing
You will begin developing hands on childcare skills from day one through role play, interactive learning and placements. You will study child development, safeguarding and professional practice while applying your learning in real settings.
Our facilities and your support
You will learn in practical nursery style environments with role play equipment, observation and planning tools, first aid resources and digital platforms. This is supported by strong employer links supporting high quality placement opportunities.
Where this could take you?
The early years sector employs around 360,000 people in the UK across nurseries and childcare settings, with continued demand for skilled professionals. You will be prepared to progress into further study or begin your career in childcare and education.
Student Success Stories
Celebrating Success 2026: UEA Student of the Year – Jack Browning
I feel very proud of myself for being able to get to the same pathway, and for the staff who have supported me over the eight years since starting college. I would recommend South Essex Colleges Group to new students with diverse disabilities who wish to study. The staff are welcoming and will help them achieve their goals while helping them develop new skills in courses that interest them. I hope these students can study HE courses in their future.
Celebrating Success 2026: Health and Social Care Student of the Year – Ella Hayes
Health and Social Care
I feel really proud and grateful to have won the award. It means a lot to have my hard work recognised, especially after putting so much effort into my studies and assignments this year. I would recommend South Essex Colleges Group as the tutors are so supportive and friendly, and always willing to help. There are lots of opportunities to learn and gain new skills, no matter what course you want to take.
Celebrating Success 2026: Early Years Student of the Year – Hope Kay
Education and Early Years T Level
Thurrock felt different from school, and I was excited for that. The best thing about my course is the tutors as I love learning. I love that it’s a T Level and I got to go on placement, so it’s not just college, it’s real experience. It’s been amazing because it’s landed me a job in a nursery in Corringham. The college picked the placement, and I wouldn’t have had that experience or job without them. I would definitely recommend the college and have recommended it to my friends.
Celebrating Success 2026: Health & Social Care Student of the Year and SECG Overall Student of the Year – Thomas Cauchi
I am very inspired by winning the award, and am grateful for the college for the achievement. I chose to study T levels, as its academic and work placement based, as when I get to uni a large proportion is communication is a massive barrier, Booksmart is important but so is communication. I am a hands on learner, so having both the academic and work experience was ideal for me.
Celebrating Success 2026: Early Years Student of the Year – Chloe O’Keefe
I am really excited to win the award. The course is absolutely amazing, and the sense of community is wonderful. I now work at a nursery, and the course has 100% prepared me with all the skills I need for working in the sector.
Jade Jackson-Byrne
BA (Hons) Counselling
I felt supported as a single person, as a single mother and as a mature student to take on this challenge, being local was important too.
Jess Fleming
Level 3 Diploma in Childcare and Education, Early Years Care and Education BA (Hons)
Everything changed when I spoke to SECG for careers advice. I was invited to meet with the Early Years programme lead, and after that conversation, I felt inspired to take a leap and start my degree. It felt like the opportunity had found me rather than the other way around.
Steph Ruler
Early Years Care and Education BA (Hons)
Everything changed when Steph arrived at university and spoke openly about her challenges. With the support of her tutor, she was able to access the help she needed, marking a turning point in her journey.
Sammy Tyler
Early Years Care and Education BA (Hons)
Sammy’s role clearly demonstrates how the core principles developed during her degree, such as structured support, observation and resilience, can be applied in leadership and strategic roles.
Leah Horton
Early Years Care and Education BA (Hons)
I chose to study at South Essex Colleges Group because it allowed me to commute from home, which made a big difference to my confidence and wellbeing. The course also aligned with the career I had originally planned to pursue, and the positive feedback I saw about it reassured me that I was making the right choice.
Jennifer Muttock
Early Years Care and Education BA (Hons)
Jennifer credits her time at University Centre South Essex with helping her recognise her potential. Her lecturers saw leadership qualities in her early on and supported her development. That foundation of confidence and self-belief has enabled her to progress into a role where she now supports others to grow.
Celebrating Success 2026: Early Years Student of the Year – Chloe O’Keefe
I am really excited to win the award. The course is absolutely amazing, and the sense of community is wonderful. I now work at a nursery, and the course has 100% prepared me with all the skills I need for working in the sector.
Celebrating Success 2026: Early Years Student of the Year – Hope Kay
Education and Early Years T Level
Thurrock felt different from school, and I was excited for that. The best thing about my course is the tutors as I love learning. I love that it’s a T Level and I got to go on placement, so it’s not just college, it’s real experience. It’s been amazing because it’s landed me a job in a nursery in Corringham. The college picked the placement, and I wouldn’t have had that experience or job without them. I would definitely recommend the college and have recommended it to my friends.
Our Courses
Level 2 Technical Occupational Entry for the Early Years Practitioner (Diploma)
Level 1 Certificate in Health and Care
T Level Education & Early Years
Level 1 Certificate in Caring For Children
BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs and Disability Studies - Part Time
BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs and Disability Studies - Full Time
Higher National Diploma in Healthcare Professions Support (HTQ)
BA (Hons) Early Years Care and Education
iLearn Supporting Special Education Needs (Children & Adults)
iStudy Understanding Autism Level 2 Certificate (Online)
iStudy Specific Learning Difficulties Level 2 Certificate (Online)
iLearn Working with Children and Young People
Access to Higher Education Diploma (Social Work) (Online)
Access to Higher Education Diploma (Nursing) (Online)
Access to Higher Education Diploma (Midwifery) (Online)
Access To Higher Education Diploma (Nursing & Midwifery)
Helping shape your career pathway
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Chemical Scientists
£21,726
Entry Level Salary
£53,656.10
Average Salary
£93,733.48
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Develops procedures for quality control of manufactured products.
- Tests techniques and processes for reliability under a variety of conditions.
- Analyses results and experimental data.
- Operates specialised scientific equipment and conducts experiments to identify chemical composition, energy and chemical changes in natural substances and processed materials.
- Develops experimental procedures, instruments and recording and testing systems.
Biological Scientists
£20,412
Entry Level Salary
£43,176.71
Average Salary
£75,426.72
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Monitors the distribution, presence and behaviour of plants, animals and aquatic life, and performs other scientific tasks related to conservation not performed by Job holders in MINOR GROUP 215: Conservation and Environment Professionals.
- Advises farmers, medical staff and others, on the nature of field crops, livestock and produce and on the treatment and prevention of disease.
- Observes the structure of communities of organisms in the laboratory and in their natural environment.
- Researches the effects of internal and external environmental factors on the life processes and other functions of living organisms.
- Studies the physical form, structure, composition and function of living organisms.
Biochemists and Biomedical Scientists
£28,098
Entry Level Salary
£37,705.89
Average Salary
£65,869.57
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Researches, develops and quality checks new products in the pharmaceuticals, food production and agricultural Industries.
- Performs tests to help clinicians diagnose and treat various conditions, evaluates existing treatments and researches new ways to treat diseases.
- Researches the effects of internal and external environmental factors on the life processes and other functions of living organisms.
- Performs tests to study physiological and pathological characteristics within cells and other organisms.
- Identifies and studies the chemical substances, including microbial infections, involved in physiological processes and the progress of disease.
- Studies the chemical form, structure, composition and function of living organisms.
Physical Scientists
£23,904
Entry Level Salary
£52,408.51
Average Salary
£91,554.03
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Applies mathematical models and techniques to assist in the solution of scientific problems in industry and commerce and seeks out new applications of mathematical analysis.
- Observes, records and collates data on atmospheric conditions from weather stations, satellites, and observation vessels to plot and forecast weather conditions.
- Uses surveys, seismology and other methods to determine the earth’s mantle, crust, rock structure and type, and to analyse and predict the occurrence of seismological activity.
- Conducts experiments and tests and uses mathematical models and theories to investigate the structure and properties of matter, transformations and propagations of energy, the behaviour of particles and their interaction with various forms of energy.
Environment Professionals
£20,628
Entry Level Salary
£34,694.17
Average Salary
£60,608.30
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Provides professional guidance to clients, government agencies, regulators and other relevant bodies, having regard for sustainable approaches and solutions.
- Implements, reviews and advises on regulatory and legislative standards, guidelines and policies.
- Assists organisations to conduct their activities in an environmentally appropriate manner.
- Communicates scientific and technical information to relevant audiences in an appropriate form, via reports, workshops, educational events, public hearings.
- Carries out or assists in environmental audits and environmental impact assessments.
- Carries out environment-related desk-based research and fieldwork to collect, analyse and interpret data to determine their validity, quality and significance.
- Implements remediation works.
- Advises on and provides solutions for mitigating the effects of such contamination.
- Identifies contamination of land, air or water and assesses any adverse impact on the environment.
Laboratory Technicians
£20,196
Entry Level Salary
£26,317
Average Salary
£41,749.85
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Keeps up to date with new technical developments.
- Disposes of chemical and biological waste safely.
- Maintains and rotates stock and supplies.
- Records and collates data obtained from experimental work and documents all work carried out.
- Operates and services specialised scientific equipment, undertakes prescribed measurements and analyses and ensures that sterile conditions necessary for some equipment are maintained.
- Prepares organic and inorganic material for examination and stains and fixes slides for microscope work.
- Sets up and assists with the construction and the development of scientific apparatus for experimental, demonstration or other purposes.
Science, Engineering and Production Technicians
£20,952
Entry Level Salary
£31,829.35
Average Salary
£50,951.21
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Sets up school laboratories for demonstrations and experiments, operates and maintains equipment and supports the teaching of students.
- Otherwise assists technologists as directed.
- Performs calculations and records and interprets data.
- Undertakes tests and takes measurements and readings.
- Sets up apparatus for experimental, demonstration or other purposes.
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.
Arts Officers, Producers and Directors
£21,978
Entry Level Salary
£37,865.01
Average Salary
£67,582.97
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Selects, contracts, markets and arranges for the presentation and/or distribution of performance, visual and heritage arts.
- Manages health and safety issues.
- Ensures necessary equipment, props, performers and technical staff are on set when required.
- Prepares rehearsal and production schedule for main events, design of sets and costumes, technical rehearsals and dress rehearsals.
- Breaks script into scenes and formulates a shooting schedule that will be most economical in terms of time, location and sets.
- Directs actors, designers, camera team, sound crew and other production and technical staff to achieve desired effects.
- Chooses writers, scripts, technical staff and performers, and assumes overall responsibility for completion of project on time and within budget.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leisure and Sports Managers and Proprietors
£19,386
Entry Level Salary
£25,662
Average Salary
£45,662.40
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Ensures custody of all cash receipts and organises regular stock checks.
- Recruits, supervises and trains staff.
- Determines financial, staffing, material and other short and long-term needs.
- Advises on the facilities available and promotes publicity in relation to shows, games, races, new theme parks, etc.
- Keeps abreast of new trends and developments in recreational activities and arranges exhibitions, theatrical productions, concerts, demonstrations, etc.
- Ensures that facilities are kept clean and in good condition and that appropriate health and safety requirements are adhered to.
- Organises timetable of activities/schedule of programmes.
Sports Players
£16,002
Entry Level Salary
£12,482.11
Average Salary
£37,533.55
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Discusses performance problems with coaches, physiotherapists, dieticians and doctors.
- Maintains clothing and other specialised sporting equipment.
- Builds stamina, physical strength and agility through running, fitness exercises and weight training.
- Attends training sessions to develop skills and practice individual or team moves and tactics.
- Participates in exhibitions, pre-qualifying events, tournaments and competitions.
Sports Coaches, Instructors and Officials
£18,792
Entry Level Salary
£11,353.94
Average Salary
£36,248.99
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Manages the playing areas and competitors, starts race, competition or match and controls its progress according to established rules.
- Inspects and maintains specialised clothing and equipment.
- Understands health and safety aspects of various activities and ensures any statutory requirements are met.
- Provides information and develops facilities to encourage greater participation in sport, and to enhance the standards of participants.
- Deals with administrative aspects such as arranging matches, contests or appearances for athlete or team, and organising required transport and accommodation.
- Monitors and analyses technique and performance, and determines how future improvements can be made.
- Controls team selection and discipline and recruits ancillary staff such as coaches or physiotherapists.
- Coaches teams or individuals by demonstrating techniques and directing training and exercise sessions.
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.
Physiotherapists
£26,496
Entry Level Salary
£35,368.07
Average Salary
£53,706.65
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Monitors patient’s progress and liaises with others concerned with the treatment and rehabilitation of patient, and refers patients requiring other specific medical attention.
- Supervises physiotherapy assistants.
- Offers advice and education on how to avoid injury and promote patient’s future health and well-being.
- Explains treatment to and instructs patient in posture and other exercises and adapts treatment as necessary.
- Plans and undertakes therapy to improve circulation, restore joint mobility, strengthen muscles and reduce pain.
- Writes up patients’ case notes and reports, maintains their records and manages caseload.
- Examines medical reports and assesses patient to determine the condition of muscles, nerves or joints in need of treatment.
Restaurant and Catering Establishment Managers and Proprietors
£22,212
Entry Level Salary
£21,181.33
Average Salary
£51,220.29
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Determines staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term requirements.
- Checks that supplies are properly used and accounted for to prevent wastage and loss and to keep within budget limit.
- Plans and arranges food preparation in collaboration with other staff and organises the provision of waiting or counter staff.
- Verifies that quality of food, beverages and waiting service is as required, that kitchen and dining areas are kept clean and appropriate hygiene standards are maintained in compliance with statutory requirements.
- Purchases or directs the purchasing of supplies and arranges for preparation of accounts.
- Discusses customer’s requirements for special occasions.
- Decides on range and quality of meals and beverages to be provided.
- Plans catering services and directs staff.
Bakers and Flour Confectioners
£22,752
Entry Level Salary
£28,416.80
Average Salary
£43,307.50
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Makes cake decorations, spreads icing, fillings and toppings on products.
- Bakes bread, pastry and cakes.
- Fills and glazes pastry, mixes ingredients for cakes.
- Rolls and cuts pastry, stretches, kneads and moulds dough to form bread, rolls and buns.
- Mixes ingredients using hand or machine to obtain the required consistency.
- Weighs ingredients according to recipe.
Chefs
£21,096
Entry Level Salary
£27,235.99
Average Salary
£41,675.77
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Ensures relevant hygiene and health and safety standards are maintained within the kitchen.
- Supervises, organises and instructs kitchen staff and manages the whole kitchen or an area of the kitchen.
- Plans menus, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs or oversees their preparation and monitors the quality of finished dishes.
- Requisitions or purchases and examines foodstuffs from suppliers to ensure quality.
Cooks
£22,140
Entry Level Salary
£20,553
Average Salary
£31,322.98
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans and co-ordinates kitchen work such as fetching, clearing and cleaning of equipment and utensils.
- Cooks and sells a range of meals, such as fish and chips, over the counter.
- Plans meals, prepares, seasons and cooks foodstuffs.
- Requisitions or purchases foodstuffs and checks quality.
Catering and Bar Managers
£22,968
Entry Level Salary
£26,044.99
Average Salary
£39,692.85
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks that supplies are properly used and accounted for to prevent wastage and loss and to keep within budget limit.
- Verifies that quality of food, beverages and waiting service are as required and that kitchen and dining areas are kept clean in compliance with statutory requirements.
- Purchases or directs the purchasing of supplies and arranges for preparation of accounts.
- Decides on range and quality of meals and beverages to be provided or discusses customer’s requirements for special occasions.
- Plans catering or bar services and supervises staff.
Managers in Transport and Distribution
£24,696
Entry Level Salary
£45,904.99
Average Salary
£77,708.84
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Arranges for maintenance of airport runways and buildings, liaises with fuel and catering crews to ensure adequate supplies and resolves any complaints and problems raised by airport users.
- Supervises day-to-day activities in a railway station.
- Ensures that harbour channels and berths are maintained and liaises with ship owners, crew, customs officials, dock and harbour staff to arrange entry, berthing and servicing of ships.
- Ensures that regulations regarding hours of work, the licensing of crews and transport equipment, the operational safety and efficiency of equipment, the insurance of vehicles and other statutory regulations are complied with.
- Co-ordinates the transportation of passengers, the movement, handling and storage of freight in transit, and reviews space utilisation, staffing and distribution expenditure to determine future distribution policies.
- Plans the optimum utilisation of staff and operating equipment, and co-ordinates maintenance activities to ensure least possible disruption to services.
Managers in Storage and Warehousing
£22,140
Entry Level Salary
£33,772
Average Salary
£56,701.76
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Decides on storage conditions for particular items, allocates warehouse space and arranges for regular stock inspections to detect deterioration or damage.
- Prepares reports on expenditure and advises on materials and parts standardisation, future stores and stock control policies.
- Advises purchasing department on type, quality and quantity of goods required and dates by which they must be available.
- Reviews, develops and implements stock control, handling and distribution policies to maximise use of space, money, labour and other resources.
- Liaises with production, maintenance, sales and other departments to determine the materials and other items required for current and future production schedules and sales commitments.
Transport and Distribution Clerks and Assistants
£19,476
Entry Level Salary
£24,367
Average Salary
£35,996.14
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Maintains records regarding the movement and location of freight, containers and staff.
- Obtains customs clearance and processes import and export documentation necessary for the movement of goods between countries.
- Monitors tachograph readings and maintains records of hours worked and distance travelled by drivers.
- Formulates delivery loads, vehicle schedules and routes to be followed by delivery staff.
- Processes customer orders and forwards requisition documentation to storage and distribution personnel.
Electrical and Electronics Technicians
£20,016
Entry Level Salary
£31,693.28
Average Salary
£52,817.59
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Interprets and reviews technical drawings.
- Visits and advises clients on the use and servicing of electrical and electronic systems and equipment.
- Diagnoses and detects faults and implements procedures to maintain efficient operation of systems and equipment.
- Plans installation methods, checks completed installation for safety and controls or undertakes the initial running of the new electrical or electronic equipment or system.
- Sets up equipment, undertakes tests, takes readings, performs calculations and records and interprets data.
- Plans and prepares work and test schedules based on specifications and drawings.
Vehicle Technicians, Mechanics and Electricians
£22,842
Entry Level Salary
£34,414
Average Salary
£49,310.10
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Repairs and services air conditioning, heating and engine-cooling systems.
- Installs additional electrical amenities such as radio/CD players, aerials.
- Checks condition of electrical/electronic systems and carries out servicing tasks.
- Diagnoses faults in electrical/electronic circuitry, removes faulty components and fits replacements.
- Carries out routine maintenance checks on oil and air filters, brakes and other vehicle parts/systems.
- Reassembles, tests, adjusts and tunes the appropriate parts, systems or entire engine.
- Removes, dismantles, repairs and replaces defective parts and prepares new parts using appropriate tools.
- Visually checks, test drives or uses test equipment to diagnose engine and mechanical faults.
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.
Book-keepers, Payroll Managers and Wages Clerks
£21,654
Entry Level Salary
£28,244.99
Average Salary
£46,830.31
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Calculates costs and overheads and prepares analyses for management.
- Compiles schedules and distributes or arranges distribution of wages and salaries.
- Processes holiday, sick and maternity pay and travel and subsistence expenses.
- Calculates and records hours worked, wages due, deductions and voluntary contributions.
- Supervises payroll team and develops payroll systems and procedures.
- Prepares provisional balances and reconciles these with appropriate accounts.
- Records and checks accuracy of daily financial transactions.
Records Clerks and Assistants
£20,430
Entry Level Salary
£25,964
Average Salary
£37,249.73
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Performs specialised clerical tasks in connection with conveyancing, litigation and the maintenance of medical records.
- Copies or duplicates documents or other records.
- Classifies, files, archives and locates documents and other records.
- Examines and sorts incoming material.
Human Resources Administrative Occupations
£20,916
Entry Level Salary
£25,365.70
Average Salary
£37,471.48
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Implements and maintains HR records systems.
- Provides administrative support for training courses, work placements etc.
- Provides practical support for recruitment and selection procedures such as checking application forms, arranging interviews of candidates and ensuring the interview panel receive all relevant documentation.
- Arranges advertisements for jobs in the relevant media.
- Supports senior HR staff in the development and implementation of HR and industrial relations policies.
Office Managers
£20,952
Entry Level Salary
£31,102
Average Salary
£52,254.91
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans, organises and co-ordinates the activities and resources of other offices not elsewhere classified including box offices, other ticket offices and accommodation bureaux.
- Ensures that procedures for considering, issuing, amending and endorsing insurance policies are adhered to.
- Advises on the handling of all correspondence and enquiries relating to accounts, sales, statistical and vacancy records.
- Plans work schedules, assigns tasks and delegates responsibilities.
Office Supervisors
£20,574
Entry Level Salary
£30,216.91
Average Salary
£47,393.37
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Reports as required to managerial staff on work-related matters.
- Determines or recommends staffing and other needs to meet the organisation’s requirements.
- Liaises with managers and other senior staff to resolve operational problems.
- Establishes and monitors work schedules to meet the organisation’s requirements.
- Directly supervises and coordinates the activities of office staff.
Sales Administrators
£21,744
Entry Level Salary
£27,492.24
Average Salary
£43,871.83
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Carries out general sales and marketing administrative duties.
- Handles customer complaints or forwards them to relevant member of sales team.
- Prepares sales invoices and maintains records and accounts of sales activity.
- Fields telephone enquiries from prospective customers on behalf of the sales team.
- Help customers to place orders online through social media platforms.
- Provides information to customers on products and prices.
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.
Chartered and Certified Accountants
£26,766
Entry Level Salary
£35,866.75
Average Salary
£68,893.70
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Conducts investigations and advises management on financial aspects of productivity, stock holding, sales, new products, etc.
- Prepares periodic accounts, budgetary reviews and financial forecasts.
- Liaises with management and other professionals to compile budgets and other costs.
- Evaluates financial information for management purposes.
- Conducts financial investigations concerning insolvency, fraud, possible mergers, etc..
- Prepares tax returns, advises on tax problems and contests disputed claim before tax official.
- Audits accounts and book-keeping records.
- Prepares financial documents and reports for management, shareholders, statutory or other bodies.
- Plans and oversees implementation of accountancy system and policies.
Financial and Accounting Technicians
£20,124
Entry Level Salary
£45,917.01
Average Salary
£94,444.99
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Monitors accounting systems to determine accounts are being maintained effectively and provides information on accounting practices to auditors.
- Ensures invoices and payments are correct and sent out on time.
- Liaises with clients to ensure that payments are made on time and credit limits are not exceeded.
- Produces, collates and reports financial information for managers.
- Maintains profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flow forecasts and other accounting records.
Finance Officers
£20,718
Entry Level Salary
£25,783
Average Salary
£41,395.81
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Coordinates the activities and resources of finance departments.
- Plans work schedules and assigns tasks to financial clerks.
- Prepares or arranges the preparation of financial reports for managers.
- Oversees the recording and checking of daily financial transactions, the preparation of provisional balances and reconciliation of accounts.
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.
Public Services Associate Professionals
£25,614
Entry Level Salary
£35,330
Average Salary
£71,205.33
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Writes, edits and arranges for the distribution of press releases and other public relations material, addresses target groups through meetings, presentations, the media and other events to enhance the public image of the organisation, and monitors and evaluates its effectiveness.
- Discusses business strategy, products, services and target client base with management to identify public relations requirements.
- Advises the public or companies on general tax problems and arranges for the issue, receipt and examination of tax forms, assessment of PAYE codes and the computation of tax arrears and rebates.
- Undertakes supervisory duties specific to the operation of Revenue and Customs offices, Job Centres, Benefits Agency offices and other local offices of national government.
- Authorises the payment of social security benefits, assesses the financial circumstances of claimants and investigates any state insurance contribution problems.
- Organises resources for the acceptance and recording of vacancy details, the selection of suitable applicants and other Job Centre activities.
- Supervises a variety of administrative functions in government departments such as recruitment and training, the negotiation and arrangement of contracts, building and capital management, monitoring and authorising department expenditure etc..
- Assists senior government officers with policy work, external liaison or general administrative work.
- Manages the activities of government office staff, assigns tasks and responsibilities and makes changes in procedures to deal with variations in workload.
National Government Administrative Occupations
£23,382
Entry Level Salary
£27,724
Average Salary
£41,248.76
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Performs miscellaneous clerical tasks such as proof reading printed material, drafting letters, taking minutes etc.
- Responds to telephone enquiries and other forms of correspondence.
- Classifies, sorts and files publications, correspondence etc. in offices and libraries.
- Maintains and updates correspondence, documents, data and other records for storage in files or on computer.
- Undertakes administrative duties specific to the operation of HM Revenue and Customs offices, Job Centres, Benefits Agency offices and other local offices of national government.
- Assists senior government officers with policy work, external liaison or general administrative work.
Local Government Administrative Occupations
£21,114
Entry Level Salary
£21,415.66
Average Salary
£32,918.65
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Performs other clerical duties not elsewhere classified including preparing financial information for management, proof reading printed material and drafting letters in reply to correspondence or telephone enquiries.
- Arranges, classifies and indexes publications, correspondence and other material in libraries and offices.
- Updates and maintains data, correspondence and other records for storage or despatch.
- Receives and pays out cash and cheques and performs closely related clerical duties.
- Prepares and checks invoices and verifies accuracy of records.
- Computes cost of product/services and maintains and balances records of financial transactions.
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.
Mechanical Engineers
£26,568
Entry Level Salary
£45,756.27
Average Salary
£71,031.56
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Organises and establishes control systems to monitor operational efficiency and performance of materials and systems.
- Ensures that equipment, operation and maintenance comply with design specifications and safety standards.
- Designs and develops mechanical equipment, such as steam, internal combustion and other non-electrical motors for railway locomotives, road vehicles and other machinery.
- Determines materials, equipment, piping, capacities, layout of plant or system and specification for manufacture.
- Undertakes research and advises on energy use, materials handling, thermodynamic processes, fluid mechanics, vehicles and environmental controls.
Electrical Engineers
£32,778
Entry Level Salary
£61,374.60
Average Salary
£95,277.29
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Organises and establishes control systems to monitor the performance and safety of electrical assemblies and systems.
- Ensures that manufacture, operation and maintenance comply with design specifications and contractual arrangements.
- Determines and specifies manufacturing methods of electrical systems.
- Supervises, controls and monitors the operation of electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems.
- Conceives and develops engineering designs from product ideas in electrical engineering.
Electronics Engineers
£27,846
Entry Level Salary
£47,003.42
Average Salary
£72,967.61
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Tests, diagnoses faults and undertakes repair of electronic equipment.
- Organises and establishes control systems to monitor performance and evaluate designs.
- Determines and specifies appropriate production and/or installation methods and quality and safety standards.
- Conceives and develops engineering designs from product ideas in electronics engineering.
- Undertakes research and advises on all aspects of telecoms equipment, radar, telemetry and remote-control systems, data processing equipment, microwaves and other electronic equipment.
Production and Process Engineers
£26,604
Entry Level Salary
£44,220
Average Salary
£68,646.66
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Designs, controls and constructs process plants to manufacture products.
- Undertakes research and develops processes to achieve physical and/or chemical change for oil, pharmaceutical, synthetic, plastic, food and other products.
- Liaises with materials buying, storing and controlling departments to ensure a steady flow of supplies.
- Advises management on and ensures effective implementation of new production methods, techniques and equipment.
- Investigates and eliminates potential hazards and bottlenecks in production.
- Devises and implements production control methods to monitor operational efficiency.
- Recommends optimum equipment and layout and prepares drawings and specifications.
- Studies existing and alternative production methods, regarding work flow, plant layout, types of machinery and cost.
Aerospace Engineers
£35,298
Entry Level Salary
£60,636.24
Average Salary
£94,131.07
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Inspects completed aircraft maintenance work to certify that it meets standards and the aircraft is ready for operation.
- Ensures that equipment, operation and maintenance comply with design specifications and safety standards.
- Analyses test data; undertakes research and advises on all aspects of aircraft, spacecraft and their systems.
- Organises and plans projects, arranges work schedules, carries out inspection work and plans maintenance control.
- Conceives and develops engineering designs from product ideas in aerospace engineering.
Engineering Project Managers and Project Engineers
£29,160
Entry Level Salary
£49,972.21
Average Salary
£77,576.33
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Ensures that equipment, operation and maintenance comply with design specifications and safety standards.
- 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.
- Plans work schedules for engineering projects based on prior discussion with client and contractors.
- Assembles information for invoicing at the end of projects.
- Briefs project team, contractors and suppliers.
- Draws up budgets and timescales for new engineering projects based on clients’ requirements.
Engineering Professionals
£30,960
Entry Level Salary
£45,705
Average Salary
£70,951.96
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Provides technical consultancy services.
- Examines and advises on patent applications.
- Prepares sketches, drawings and specifications showing materials to be used, construction and finishing methods and other details.
- Devises and implements control systems to monitor operational efficiency and performance of system and materials.
- Designs new systems and equipment with regard to cost, market requirements and feasibility of manufacture.
- Establishes principles and techniques to improve the quality, durability and performance of materials such as textiles, glass, rubber, plastics, ceramics, metals and alloys.
- Researches into problem areas to advance basic knowledge, evaluate new theories and techniques and to solve specific problems.
Quality Control and Planning Engineers
£24,120
Entry Level Salary
£36,813
Average Salary
£63,507.18
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Oversees effective implementation of adopted processes, schedules and procedures.
- Prepares plan of sequence of operations and completion dates for each phase of production or processing.
- Analyses plans, drawings, specifications and safety, quality, accuracy, reliability and contractual requirements.
- Prepares work flow charts for individual departments and compiles detailed instructions on processes, work methods and quality and safety standards for workers.
- Ensures accuracy of machines, jigs, fixtures, gauges and other manufacturing and testing equipment.
- Devises inspection, testing and evaluation methods for bought-in materials, components, semi-finished and finished products.
Engineering Technicians
£22,104
Entry Level Salary
£42,234
Average Salary
£70,383.94
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Carries out stock takes.
- Completes documentation such as project records, safety reports.
- Provides health and safety inductions and adheres to health and safety procedures.
- Visits and advises clients on the use and servicing of mechanical and chemical engineering products and services.
- Inspects completed aircraft maintenance work to certify that it meets standards and the aircraft is ready for operation;.
- Diagnoses and detects faults and implements procedures to maintain efficient operation of systems and equipment.
- Prepares estimates of materials, equipment and labour required for engineering projects.
- Sets up equipment, undertakes tests, takes readings, performs calculations and records and interprets data.
- Plans and prepares work and test schedules based on specifications and drawings.
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.
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.
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.
Air Travel Assistants
£14,760
Entry Level Salary
£20,878
Average Salary
£38,877.56
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Directs and instructs passengers in the event of an emergency, ensures safety procedures are followed.
- Makes announcements on behalf of the pilot, demonstrates the use of emergency equipment and checks that safety belts are fastened.
- Sells duty-free goods during the flight.
- Ensures that sufficient stocks of meals and beverages are on board the aircraft prior to take off and serves passengers during the flight.
- Welcomes passengers on board the aircraft, guides them to their seats and assists with any hand luggage.
- Checks emergency equipment, distributes reading material, blankets and other items, and ensures that the aircraft is ready for the receipt of passengers.
- Receives passengers at airport terminal, examines tickets and other documentation, checks in luggage and distributes boarding passes.
Travel Agents
£13,590
Entry Level Salary
£21,108.07
Average Salary
£39,306
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Advises on issues of currency, passports, visa requirements, insurance, car hire, vaccinations and other health precautions.
- Informs client of any changes in travel arrangements.
- Handles cash, debit and credit card payment.
- Consults travel time-tables, books travel tickets and accommodation.
- Establishes availability with tour operators and makes bookings.
- Discusses client requirements and shows brochures containing suitable packages.
Travel Agency Managers and Proprietors
£26,100
Entry Level Salary
£32,734.68
Average Salary
£58,247.37
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs.
- Advises on currency and passport/visa regulations and any necessary health precautions needed.
- Makes and confirms travel and accommodation bookings, arranges group holidays, tours and individual itineraries.
- Discusses client’s requirements and advises on road, rail, air and sea travel and accommodation.
- Co-ordinates the activities of clerical, secretarial and other staff.
- Plans work schedules and assigns tasks and responsibilities.
Leisure and Travel Service Occupations
£20,862
Entry Level Salary
£20,451.49
Average Salary
£38,083.36
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Serves food and beverages to passengers.
- Makes announcements to passengers and deals with enquiries.
- Receives passengers on ship, examines tickets and other documentation, directs them to their cabin and assists with any luggage.
- Completes way-bill at scheduled points on route and balances cash taken with tickets issued.
- Signals to driver when to stop and start bus, collects fares from passengers and issues tickets and changes destination indicators as necessary.
- Responds to enquiries and complaints, books excursions and other entertainment and provides other assistance and advice to holidaymakers.
- Makes local arrangements at stopover points for food and accommodation.
- Receives passengers, checks tickets and guides them to their seats, makes announcements regarding travel arrangements and places of interest, and deals with passengers’ queries.
- Observes regulations concerning the carrying capacity of vehicles and controls the boarding of passengers accordingly.
Rail Travel Assistants
£35,334
Entry Level Salary
£47,622
Average Salary
£88,678.39
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Inspects and issues tickets on trains, deals with passenger enquiries, and takes charge of goods being transported on train.
- Checks control panel operation before start of journey, operates train door controls and signals to driver to start or stop train.
- Attends to the safety, welfare and comfort of passengers on trains and manages train crew.
- Assists passengers with special needs to board and leave trains.
- Loads and unloads mail, goods and luggage, operates lifts and hoists and drives small trucks.
- Helps with passenger enquiries and makes announcements over a public address system at stations.
- Examines and collects tickets at the ticket barrier of a railway station.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hotel and Accommodation Managers and Proprietors
£23,418
Entry Level Salary
£31,314.48
Average Salary
£55,720.31
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Arranges for payment of bills, keeps accounts and ensures adherence to licensing and other statutory regulations.
- Approves and arranges shipboard entertainment and shore trips and liaises with ship’s agent to ensure that ship is adequately provisioned.
- Ensures physical comfort of residents or passengers and makes special arrangements for children, the elderly and the infirm if required.
- Determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs.
- Analyses demand and decides on type, standard and cost of services to be offered.
Paramedics
£29,034
Entry Level Salary
£42,870.04
Average Salary
£63,554.68
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Briefs other medical staff when handing over the patient, and completes patient report forms describing the patient’s condition and any treatment provided.
- Transports and accompanies patients who either require or potentially require skilled treatment whilst travelling.
- Resuscitates and/or stabilises patient using relevant techniques, equipment and drugs.
- Assesses the nature of injuries, provides first aid treatment and ascertains appropriate method of conveying patient.
- Drives ambulance or accompanies driver to respond to calls for assistance at accidents, emergencies and other incidents.
Nursing Auxiliaries and Assistants
£20,484
Entry Level Salary
£23,574.99
Average Salary
£33,952.91
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Changes bed linen, makes beds and tidies wards.
- Assists patients in washing, dressing, toiletry activities and general mobility.
- Distributes and serves food, assists patients in feeding and prepares snacks and hot drinks.
- Prepares patient for examination and treatment.
- Performs basic clinical tasks such as taking patients’ temperature and pulse, weighing and measuring, performing urine tests and extracting blood samples.
Ambulance Staff (Excluding Paramedics)
£18,036
Entry Level Salary
£30,782.29
Average Salary
£46,218.96
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks and maintains vehicles to ensure they are roadworthy.
- Replenishes medical supplies in ambulance as necessary.
- Cleans and disinfects ambulance after use and carries out routine care of ambulance equipment.
- Ascertains nature of injuries and provides first aid treatment.
- Drives ambulance or accompanies driver to transport patients to hospitals or other treatment centres and homes.
- Helps patients into and out of ambulance.
Registered Mental Health Nurses
£25,632
Entry Level Salary
£40,980.87
Average Salary
£59,886.98
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Provides information to patients and their families about a patient's condition, how to manage it and possible treatments.
- Works with other mental health professionals.
- Administers drugs and gives other forms of treatment.
- Monitors patient’s progress, encourages patients to participate in different therapies.
- Participates in the preparation for physical and psychological treatment of patients with mental health conditions.
- Provides day to day support for and, in some cases, physical care for patients with a variety of mental health conditions.
Health and Safety Managers and Officers
£23,598
Entry Level Salary
£42,270.21
Average Salary
£83,262.76
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Gives talks and distributes information on accident prevention and keeps up to date with the relevant legislation.
- Counsels individuals on any personal or domestic problems affecting their work.
- Maintains contact with those off work due to illness.
- Compiles statistics on accidents and injuries, analyses their causes and makes recommendations to management accordingly.
- Instructs workers in the proper use of protective clothing and safety devices and conducts routine tests on that equipment.
- Helps to develop effective health and safety policies and procedures and carries out risk assessments.
- Inspects workplace areas to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation.
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.
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.
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.
Social Workers
£30,834
Entry Level Salary
£42,179
Average Salary
£54,182.45
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Participates in training and supervision.
- Gives evidence in court.
- Keeps case records, prepares reports and participates in team meetings.
- Organises support and develops care plans to address service users’ needs.
- Arranges for further counselling or assistance in the form of financial or material help.
- Undertakes and writes up assessments to specified standards.
- Interviews individuals and groups to assess and review the nature and extent of difficulties.
- Liaises with other health and social care professionals and agencies to identify those in need and at risk within the local community.
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 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.
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.
Houseparents and Residential Wardens
£25,740
Entry Level Salary
£25,882.09
Average Salary
£38,861.41
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Keeps records and writes reports.
- Maintains contact and discusses problems/progress with other staff and social workers.
- Establishes and maintains contact with members of the neighbouring community and/or the residents’ family and friends.
- May provide one-to-one counselling or group therapy.
- Manage the household (domestic duties).
- Ensures that students attend school regularly.
- Ensures that all material needs of residents are provided and endeavours to resolve any problems that they may have.
- Plans and participates in games and leisure activities to encourage emotional, social, physical and intellectual development.
- Creates friendly, secure atmosphere and tries to gain the trust and confidence of those in the home or under supervision.
Registered Community Nurses
£30,366
Entry Level Salary
£31,654
Average Salary
£46,257.25
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plays an educational role for patients and families, helping to develop rehabilitation routines and advising on how to care for their condition in everyday life, disease prevention and nutrition.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors in conducting examinations and other medical procedures.
- Administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Provides basic care and monitors patients' general health such as blood pressure or body temperature.
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services within a community care setting.
Registered Specialist Nurses
£35,460
Entry Level Salary
£48,666
Average Salary
£71,117.57
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Delivers lectures, and other forms of formal training relating to nursing practice.
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans.
- Advises on nursing care, disease prevention, nutrition, etc. and liaises with hospital board/management on issues concerning nursing policy.
- Plans duty rotas and organises and directs the work and training of ward and theatre nursing staff.
- Gives consultations with patients and their families to explain a patient's condition and possible treatments.
- Consults with and provides guidance to other nurses and healthcare professionals within their specialism.
- Provides specialist care in their area of expertise, assesses patients, determines treatments and conducts a variety of medical procedures.
Registered Nurse Practitioners
£24,894
Entry Level Salary
£41,201
Average Salary
£58,269.87
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans.
- Plans duty rotas and organises and directs the work and training of ward and theatre nursing staff.
- Monitors patient’s progress, administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Interviews and diagnoses patients, orders tests and interprets results and determines appropriate treatments.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors and works with other healthcare professionals to deal with emergencies and pre-planned treatment of patients.
Registered Children's Nurses
£25,074
Entry Level Salary
£34,986.49
Average Salary
£51,127.15
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans.
- Advises on nursing care, disease prevention, and nutrition.
- Works with parents to explain procedures and health conditions and to help them care for children when they return home.
- Administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Monitors children's progress, including the interpretation of the behaviour of young children too young to communicate.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors and works with other healthcare professionals to deal with emergencies and pre-planned treatment of patients.
Other Registered Nursing Professionals
£26,874
Entry Level Salary
£36,385
Average Salary
£54,245.55
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Teach nursing professionals clinical skills, patient care methods, and best collaboration practices.
- Informs and advises patients and their relatives on their health problems and how to care for themselves.
- Cares for the physical and emotional wellbeing of patients in their care.
- Monitors patient’s progress, administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors and works with other healthcare professionals to deal with emergencies and pre-planned treatment of patients.
Dental Nurses
£22,194
Entry Level Salary
£22,225
Average Salary
£33,370.36
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Maintains records, processes and mounts x-ray films and undertakes reception duties.
- Removes water and saliva from patient’s mouth during treatment.
- Assists with minor treatment, such as preparing materials for fillings.
- Hands required equipment and medication to dentist during examination.
- Prepares and sterilises instruments and follows guidelines to maintain sterile conditions within the surgery.
- Prepares patient for examination.
Midwifery Nurses
£28,206
Entry Level Salary
£44,775.83
Average Salary
£65,432.71
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Delivers lectures and other forms of training in midwifery practice.
- Plans and manages midwifery care services.
- Supervises more junior staff and directs the work of the midwifery unit.
- Advises on baby care, exercise, diet and family planning issues.
- Monitors recovery of mother in postnatal period and supervises the nursing of premature and other babies requiring special attention.
- Delivers babies in normal births and assists doctors with difficult deliveries.
- Monitors condition and progress of patient and baby throughout pregnancy.
Generalist Medical Practitioners
£37,944
Entry Level Salary
£65,789.13
Average Salary
£105,144.46
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Supervises the implementation of care and treatment plans by other healthcare providers.
- Prepares and delivers lectures, undertakes research, and conducts and participates in clinical trials.
- Refers patient to specialist where necessary and liaises with specialist.
- Supervises patient’s progress and advises on diet, exercise and other preventative action.
- Administers medical tests and inoculations against communicable diseases.
- Diagnoses condition and prescribes and/or administers appropriate treatment.
- Examines patient, arranges for any necessary x-rays or other tests and interprets results.
Specialist Medical Practitioners
£67,878
Entry Level Salary
£69,923.18
Average Salary
£133,843.90
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Takes overall responsibility for, supervises and directs the implementation of care and treatment plans by other healthcare providers.
- Prepares and delivers lectures, undertakes research, and conducts and participates in clinical trials.
- Performs specialist medical tasks such as surgery, anaesthetisation and diagnostic or interventional radiology.
- Provides specialist advice to generalist medical practitioners or other specialists.
- Supervises patient’s progress and advises on diet, exercise and other preventative action.
- Administers medical tests and inoculations against communicable diseases.
- Diagnoses condition and prescribes and/or administers appropriate treatment/surgery.
- Examines patient, arranges for any necessary x-rays or other tests and interprets results.
Medical and Dental Technicians
£23,130
Entry Level Salary
£32,774
Average Salary
£48,630.91
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Takes samples for clinical examination.
- Performs related medical tasks including treating hair and scalp disorders and conducting tests on glaucoma patients.
- Measures patients for, and fits them with, surgical appliances, hearing aids and artificial limbs.
- Makes dentures, crowns, bridges, orthodontic and other dental appliances according to individual patient requirements.
- Undertakes scaling and polishing of teeth, applies medicaments, carries out post-operative hygiene work and advises on preventative dentistry.
- Operates equipment to diagnose and record or treat hearing, heart, brain, lung and kidney ailments.
Care Workers and Home Carers
£21,618
Entry Level Salary
£21,256
Average Salary
£34,157.78
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Liaises with professional staff in carrying out care plans etc..
- Monitors service users’ conditions by taking temperature, pulse, respiration and weight, and contributes to record keeping.
- Undertakes light cleaning and domestic duties including meal preparation as required.
- Helps with daily activities such as letter writing, paying bills, collecting benefits.
- Provides interest and activities to stimulate and engage the service user.
- Assists with service users’ overall comfort and wellbeing.
- Serves meals to service users at table or in bed, and assists with feeding if required.
- Assists and enables service users to dress, undress, wash, use the toilet and bathe.
Senior Care Workers
£22,086
Entry Level Salary
£28,456
Average Salary
£39,070.56
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Liaises with professional staff in carrying out care plans etc.
- Monitors service users’ conditions by taking temperature, pulse, respiration and weight, and contributes to record keeping.
- Undertakes light cleaning and domestic duties including meal preparation as required.
- Helps with daily activities such as letter writing, paying bills, collecting benefits.
- Provides interest and activities to stimulate and engage the service user.
- Assists with service users’ overall comfort and wellbeing.
- Serves meals to service users at table or in bed, assists with feeding if required.
- Assists and enables service users to dress, undress, wash, use the toilet and bathe.
- Responds to emergencies and provides guidance and support to care workers.
- Takes responsibility for the shift and for the service while on duty.
- Routinely oversees and monitors care workers and home carers.
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.
Childminders
£20,178
Entry Level Salary
£20,377.80
Average Salary
£30,806.39
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Complies with regulations set by OFSTED and their inspection requirements.
- Maintains appropriate records of children’s development.
- Takes older children to and from school.
- Takes children to participate in play groups or on appropriate outings.
- Provides, supervises and participates in children’s indoor and outdoor play activities to promote their development.
- Plans, prepares and serves children’s meals and supervises children during meals.
- Changes babies’ nappies and clothes as necessary and makes up bottles for feeds.
Playworkers
£17,496
Entry Level Salary
£6,791.44
Average Salary
£15,791.90
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Liaises with parents, carers and colleagues and keeps appropriate records.
- Puts away equipment and cleans premises after use.
- Organises and supervises children’s activities in accordance with Health and Safety regulations, deals accordingly with injuries and emergencies.
- Organises and supervises children on excursions.
- Encourages children’s independence, self-confidence and social interaction.
- Provides play areas and prepares materials for a wide range of children’s activities.
- Supervises children’s games and encourages the development of physical, social and language skills.
School Midday and Crossing Patrol Occupations
£21,276
Entry Level Salary
£4,048.82
Average Salary
£11,564.92
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Directs children to cross the road when safe.
- Signals approaching traffic to stop by using hand signals and school crossing signs.
- Waits for a safe gap in traffic and walks to the centre of road.
- Meets children wanting to cross the road and directs them to wait at the kerb.
- Assists young children with feeding, dressing, washing and toiletry activities.
- Cares for sick children and administers first aid if necessary.
- Supervises the playground activities of children during meal and break times.
Financial Managers and Directors
£22,590
Entry Level Salary
£46,839.96
Average Salary
£129,331.09
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Ensures compliance with accounting, recording and information storage, retrieval procedures and the statutory regulatory framework.
- Plans, organises, directs and co-ordinates the activities of financial institutions .
- Assesses and advises on factors affecting business performance.
- Determines staffing levels appropriate for accounting activities.
- Plans external and internal audit programmes, arranges for the collection and analysis of accounting, budgetary and related information, and manages the company’s financial systems.
- Participates in the formulation of strategic and long-term business plans, assesses the implications for the organisation financial mechanisms and oversees their implementation.
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.
Directors in Logistics, Warehousing and Transport
£49,626
Entry Level Salary
£97,062.52
Average Salary
£233,669.47
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Decides on storage conditions for particular items, allocates warehouse space and arranges for regular stock inspections to detect deterioration or damage.
- Prepares reports on expenditure and advises on materials and parts standardisation, future stores and stock control policies.
- Advises purchasing department on type, quality and quantity of goods required and dates by which they must be available.
- Reviews, develops and implements stock control, handling and distribution policies to maximise use of space, money, labour and other resources.
- Liaises with production, maintenance, sales and other departments to determine the materials and other items required for current and future production schedules and sales commitments.
- Ensures that regulations regarding hours of work, the licensing of crews and transport equipment, the operational safety and efficiency of equipment, the insurance of vehicles and other statutory regulations are complied with.
- Arranges for maintenance of airport runways and buildings, liaises with fuel and catering crews to ensure adequate supplies and resolves any complaints and problems raised by airport users..
- Oversees and directs the movement, handling and storage of freight in transit and the operations of transport hubs such as airports, railways stations and harbours.
- Plans the optimum utilisation of staff and operating equipment, and co-ordinates maintenance activities to ensure least possible disruption to services examines traffic reports, load patterns, traffic receipts and other data and revises transport services or freight rates accordingly.
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.
Shopkeepers and Owners - Retail and Wholesale
£23,328
Entry Level Salary
£33,965.50
Average Salary
£51,659.82
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 and credit terms.
- Maintains financial and other shop records and controls security arrangements for the premises.
- Ensures that adequate reserves of merchandise are held and orders new stock as required.
- Provides information about merchandise to staff and customers and ensures customer complaints are appropriately dealt with.
- Oversees staff training, rotas and the allocation of work.
- Determines staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term requirements.
- Defines the market position for the business, decides what to sell, forecasts demand and develops the brand image of the business.
Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Installers and Repairers
£22,680
Entry Level Salary
£39,787.51
Average Salary
£63,159.43
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Carries our maintenance checks and repairs.
- Inspects and tests the installation.
- Plans work schedule and installs the system.
- Produces detailed estimate of costs of the work.
- Plans layout of the system (pipework, ducts and control panels).
- Examines the proposed site to establish if installation plans are practical.
Vehicle Body Builders and Repairers
£25,128
Entry Level Salary
£33,016.90
Average Salary
£48,817.17
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Positions, secures and repairs external fittings including windows, doors, door handles, catches and roof attachments.
- Installs and repairs interior fittings including seats, seatbelts and fascia in cars, sinks and special features in caravans and mobile shops.
- Hammers out dents in bodywork, fills in small depressions or corroded areas in solder, plastic or other filler compound and replaces body panels using hand and power tools.
- Repairs damage to chassis and engine mountings using hydraulic rams, jacks and jigs.
- Selects, cuts, shapes and assembles materials to form parts of vehicle underframe, framework and body.
- Diagnoses job requirements or ascertains work specifications from drawings or instructions.
Quality Assurance Technicians
£22,590
Entry Level Salary
£28,573.03
Average Salary
£47,617.63
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Maintains equipment and systems used.
- Establishes product specifications.
- Liaises with production engineers and staff to maintain the quality of output and to develop quality management systems..
- Assists quality control engineers in undertaking production audits.
- Supervises the work of routine inspection staff and notes any defects reported.
- Analyses and interprets the results of tests undertaken and writes up reports upon completion.
- Sets up scientific, electronic, or other technical equipment to perform functional and inspection tests.
Planning, Process and Production Technicians
£23,256
Entry Level Salary
£34,830
Average Salary
£58,045
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans the cost impact and staff resources for projects.
- Reviews and analyses production data.
- Ensures effective completion and implementation of detailed instructions on processes, work methods and quality and safety standards for workers.
- Ensures accuracy of manufacturing and testing equipment.
- Plans and coordinates maintenance activities involved in manufacturing and processing procedures.
- Ensures implementation of inspection, testing and evaluation methods for bought-in materials, components, semi-finished and finished products.
- Supports implementation of plans of sequence of operations and completion dates for each phase of production or processing.
- Supports professional engineers in reviewing safety, quality, accuracy, reliability and contractual requirements.
- Liaises with materials buying, storing and controlling departments to ensure a steady flow of supplies.
- Works with engineers on production control methods to monitor operational efficiency and helps to eliminate potential hazards and bottlenecks in production.
- Works from, and helps implement, professional engineers’ drawings and specifications for equipment and layout, and helps implement modifications required for existing plant machinery/layout.
- Supports planning and production engineers in assessing existing and alternative production methods.
Property, Housing and Estate Managers
£22,356
Entry Level Salary
£47,671.57
Average Salary
£71,061.94
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Examines and assesses housing applications, advises on rent levels, investigates complaints and liaises with tenants’ association and social workers to resolve any family problems.
- Acts as arbiter in disputes between landlord and tenant and ensures that both fulfil their legal obligations.
- Maintains or arranges for the maintenance of estate accounts and records and produces financial forecasts.
- Negotiates land or property purchases and sales or leases and tenancy agreements and arranges legal formalities with solicitors, building societies and other parties.
- Conducts or arranges for structural surveys of properties and undertakes any necessary valuations of property or agricultural land, and deals with grant and subsidy applications.
- Discusses client’s requirements and may advise client on the purchase of property and land for investment and other purposes.
- Advises on energy efficiency.
- Oversees the support services of a business, such as catering, IT, utilities and physical environment.
- Makes sure that the amenities meet health and safety standards and legal requirements.
- Manages general upkeep, maintenance and security of the estate’s amenities.
- Determines staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term requirements.
Quantity Surveyors
£29,394
Entry Level Salary
£43,587.99
Average Salary
£72,700.99
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Measures and values completed contract for authorisation of payment.
- Measures and values work in progress and examines any deviations from original contract.
- Examines tenders received, advises client on the most acceptable and assists with preparation of a contract document.
- Prepares bills of quantities for use by contractors when tendering for work.
- Examines plans and specifications and prepares details of the material and labour required for the project.
- Liaises with client on project costs, formulates detailed cost plan and advises contractors and engineers to ensure that they remain within cost limit.
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.
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.
Care Escorts
£25,344
Entry Level Salary
£14,224.57
Average Salary
£22,596.71
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Supervises and accompanies children who are taking part in a theatrical, television or film production.
- Communicates with colleagues and maintains accurate records.
- Supervises contact between parents and separated children.
- Organises toilet and meal stops, as appropriate.
- Supports and secures chair bound clients.
- Transports clients safely and securely between approved destinations.
Environmental Health Professionals
£25,182
Entry Level Salary
£35,709.91
Average Salary
£61,604.21
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Initiates legal proceedings and gives evidence in court.
- Gives talks at public enquiries and meetings, ensures compliance through education, advice and enforcement.
- Ensures animal welfare for compliance with legislation, issues licences for premises such as pet shops, zoos and abattoirs.
- Monitors radiation activity, levels of noise, air, land and water pollution and takes appropriate action when safety levels are exceeded.
- Investigates outbreaks of food poisoning, infectious diseases or pests.
- Follows up complaints of unsafe workplaces, investigating accidents.
- Inspects businesses for compliance with legislation on health and safety, food hygiene and food standards and takes appropriate action in the event of non-compliance.
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.
Authors, Writers and Translators
£22,590
Entry Level Salary
£35,211.61
Average Salary
£62,847.06
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Provides communication support for the hard of hearing or the visually impaired.
- Converts documents or spoken statements from original or source language into another language.
- Writes instruction manuals and user guides, technical reports, catalogues and indexes, prepares sales literature and writes technical articles for trade journals.
- Negotiates contracts with freelance agents and with buyer on behalf of writer.
- Selects material for publication, checks style, grammar and accuracy of content, arranges for any necessary revisions and checks proof copies before printing.
- Generates and develops creative ideas for literary material.
- Determines subject matter and researches as necessary by interviewing, attending public events, seeking out records, observing etc..
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..
Careers Advisers and Vocational Guidance Specialists
£23,058
Entry Level Salary
£27,044.79
Average Salary
£43,245.98
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Monitors progress and welfare of young people in employment and advises them on any difficulties.
- Organises careers forums and exhibitions and establishes and maintains contact with local employers, colleges and training providers.
- Liaises with employers to determine employment opportunities and advises schools, colleges or individuals accordingly.
- Visits educational and other establishments to give talks and distribute information regarding careers.
- Advises on appropriate courses of study or avenues into employment.
- Uses an interview, questionnaire and/or psychological or other test to determine the aptitude, preferences and temperament of the client.
Information Technology Trainers
£26,892
Entry Level Salary
£32,964.14
Average Salary
£52,711.31
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- 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.
- Develops training programme and prepares IT equipment, lectures, demonstrations and study aids.
- Assesses IT training requirements of an organisation or individual and identifies the skills needed for certain roles or tasks.
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.
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.
Civil Engineers
£24,552
Entry Level Salary
£39,721.99
Average Salary
£61,664.01
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Organises and establishes control systems to monitor operational efficiency and performance of materials and systems.
- Organises and plans projects, arranges work schedules, carries out inspection work and plans maintenance control.
- Designs structures such as roads, dams, bridges, railways, hydraulic systems, sewerage systems, industrial and other buildings and plans the layout of tunnels, wells and construction shafts.
- Designs foundations and earthworks.
- Determines and specifies construction methods, materials, quality and safety standards and ensures that equipment operation and maintenance comply with design specifications.
- Undertakes research and advises on soil mechanics, concrete technology, hydraulics, water and waste water treatment processes and other civil engineering matters.
Conservation Professionals
£21,870
Entry Level Salary
£34,691.01
Average Salary
£60,602.79
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Carries out research into aspects of the natural world.
- Prepares applications for funding to other organisations, and assessing applications for funding from other organisations.
- Promotes conservation issues via educational talks, displays, workshops and literature and liaison with the media.
- Maintains and develops knowledge in relevant policy areas within a national and European legislative context.
- Liaises with other groups in the selection and maintenance of the Protected Site System including Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), Ramsar sites, and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and National Nature Reserves (NNRs).
- Provides advice and information to government at national and local levels, clients, landowners, planners and developers to facilitate the protection of the natural environment.
- Implements, evaluates and monitors schemes for the management and protection of natural habitats.
- Carries out environmental impact assessments and field surveys.
- Promotes and implements local and national biodiversity action plans, particularly with regard to threatened species and habitats.
Research and Development (R&D) Managers
£32,148
Entry Level Salary
£60,883
Average Salary
£105,321.84
Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Monitors the standards of scientific and technical research undertaken by the research team.
- Plans work schedules, assigns tasks and delegates responsibilities to the research and development team.
- Develops research methodology, implements and reports upon research investigations undertaken.
- Liaises with production departments to investigate and resolve manufacturing problems.
- Establishes product design and performance objectives in consultation with other business functions.