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Highest Paying Jobs of 2023 in the UK

This page ranks the highest paying permanent roles advertised in the UK during 2023. Rankings use the full calendar year and a median salary measure, so one anomalous salary snapshot does not dominate the results.

Rank #1

Consultant Psychiatrist

Healthcare

£150,000.00

50 jobs counted

Typical salary vs 2022: 0.0%

Jobs vs 2022: -82.0%

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Rank #2

Architectural Engineer

Construction

£120,000.00

131 jobs counted

Typical salary vs 2022: +85.7%

Jobs vs 2022: +138.2%

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Rank #3

Psychiatrist

Healthcare

£120,000.00

95 jobs counted

Typical salary vs 2022: -12.4%

Jobs vs 2022: -76.1%

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Top paid roles of 2023

Use this list to spot which roles combined strong advertised pay with meaningful hiring volume across the year.

RoleSectorTypical salaryJobs
Consultant PsychiatristHealthcare£150,000.0050
Architectural EngineerConstruction£120,000.00131
PsychiatristHealthcare£120,000.0095
Head Of EngineeringEngineering£116,650.0055
Associate DentistHealthcare£115,000.00195
Head of DataIT£112,500.0038
Tax DirectorAccounting£106,250.0042
Buying ManagerProcurement£105,000.00159
Chief Financial OfficerAccounting£105,000.0027
Cloud ArchitectIT£93,750.00259
Enterprise ArchitectIT£91,250.00330
Python DeveloperIT£90,000.00600
Data ArchitectIT£88,750.00529
Legal DirectorLegal£88,750.0051
PythonIT£87,500.002,331
Azure ArchitectIT£87,500.00109
Application ArchitectIT£87,500.0053
DentistryHealthcare£87,000.0025
Security ArchitectIT£85,000.00281
Fund ManagerBanking£85,000.00137
Senior Product ManagerIT£85,000.0085
Aws ArchitectConstruction£85,000.0076
Construction DirectorConstruction£85,000.0060
Cloud ConsultantIT£83,750.0079
Big DataIT£83,750.0059
Solutions ArchitectIT£82,500.001,883
Technical ArchitectIT£82,500.00393
Senior Java DeveloperIT£82,500.00318
Independent Financial AdvisorFinance£81,250.00133
Development EngineerEngineering£80,000.00962
Engineering & Development EngineerEngineering£80,000.00962
Project DirectorConstruction£80,000.00147
Senior Legal CounselLegal£80,000.0088
Head of ComplianceFinance£80,000.0027
Investment ConsultantBanking£80,000.0024
Business ArchitectIT£79,625.0090
Java DeveloperIT£78,750.001,712
MEP ManagerConstruction£78,750.0026
Site Reliability EngineerEngineering£77,500.00246
Head of DevelopmentIT£77,500.0067
Regional Recruitment ManagerRecruitment£77,500.0035
Head of CommercialConstruction£77,400.0046
Software Development ManagerIT£76,250.00107
DevOps EngineerIT£75,000.002,250
DockerIT£75,000.00332
Backend DeveloperIT£75,000.00105
Group Financial ControllerAccounting£75,000.0098
Cyber Security ManagerIT£75,000.0083
Autism SpecialistEducation£75,000.0048
Data Solution ArchitectIT£75,000.0043