UK Regional Pay and Benefits Survey

Regional and UK-wide Pay Data

The Alan Jones UK Regional Pay & Benefits Survey provides participants with benchmarking information on the jobs that are found in most companies. The key feature of the survey is the local/regional feedback which, along with the analysis for the whole of the UK, will ensure that you keep up-to-date with what is happening in your area as well as comparing with other areas and the UK all in one survey.

Click to download the survey documents:
Input Questionnaire
Job Descriptions

Alan Jones Pay and Benefits Survey Survey features:

  • Stable sample
  • Wide range of benchmark jobs
  • Continuous running
  • Online and individually tailored analysis results
  • Benefits data
  • Additional services and support from Alan Jones & Associates

The UK Regional Pay & Benefits Survey has been providing up-to-date information on pay and benefits for over 30 years. The survey range has been expanded recently to cover job roles including senior management and Director level positions.

The jobs are in a number of functions:

  • IT
  • Finance
  • Payroll
  • HR
  • Legal
  • Marketing
  • PR
  • Sales
  • Customer Service
  • Graduate Recruitment
  • Procurement
  • Secretarial
  • Administration
  • Facilities/Health & Safety
  • In-house Technical Support
  • Field Technical Support
  • Maintenance/Craft
  • Production/Manufacturing
  • Assembly/Packaging
  • Stores/Warehouse
  • Quality
  • Project Management
  • Laboratory Technicians
  • Engineering
  • Shipping/Export
  • R & D
  • Directorate

The survey shows summary data on basic pay, bonus, on-target bonus and company cars/cash allowances for all job matches. The data is then broken down into regional subsets to enable companies to be sure they are comparing like with like. The analysis in the online results service can be filtered by:

  • Company turnover
  • Company location

The UK Regional Pay & Benefits Survey is run continuously and is for participants only. Any company with job matches is eligible to join. The survey is paid for by participant subscription which covers:

  • Customised annual Excel/PDF copy of the survey results supplied directly to suit the participant's own review schedule
  • Online survey results updated monthly
  • Benefits review results available online
  • Twice-yearly pay review survey free to survey participants: statistical analysis of past and anticipated pay movements, geographical analysis
  • Access to Alan Jones HR Policy Surveys free of charge

Further details on this survey (participating companies, job descriptions, questionnaires, price, etc.) are available on application to Alan Jones & Associates.

Benefits Information Survey features:

The benefits questionnaire is online and is available to any organisation taking part in the salary survey. The benefits section of the UK Regional Salary & Benefits Survey covers:

  • Contractual hours
  • Holiday entitlement including: holiday with service; buying and selling holiday; additional leave; sabbaticals
  • Sick pay including sick pay at start of employment and then as accrued with service
  • Permanent/prolonged health insurance
  • Life assurance
  • Pension schemes: defined benefit, defined contribution, stakeholder; annual allowance
  • Medical insurance, dental insurance, optical insurance
  • Share schemes
  • Maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental/parental bereavement pay/leave policies
  • Flexible benefits
  • Long service awards; other payments & awards
  • Total reward statements; employee self-service
  • Recruitment/introduction bonuses
  • Professional subscriptions
  • Flexible working (incl. home/hybrid working)
  • Overtime
  • Absence & turnover
  • Commencement of benefits
  • EAP
  • Health & wellbeing

Participants must also submit their benefits information to access this section of the Regional survey.

Further details on the Regional pay and benefits survey are available on application to Alan Jones & Associates.