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Butcher salary in the UK (2026)

What does a Butcher earn?

What employers advertise across the UK.

£30,200 per year, median

the midpoint of 65 advertised salaries from 34 employers, collected 26 Aug 2026 – 20 Oct 2026

about £2,500 a month

Low
£24,800
Median
£30,200
Average
£31,600
High
£40,000
Median Average
Low £24,800 High £40,000
The bar leaves out the highest and lowest tenth of advertised salaries; the darker section is the middle half.

Half of the adverts fall between £26,200 and £33,900. “Low” and “high” are the bottom and top tenth of what is advertised, not the single cheapest and dearest advert — one unusual posting should not decide either end.

How this figure was worked out

  • 65 advertised salaries, from 34 different employers.
  • Collected between 26 Aug 2026 and 20 Oct 2026.
  • Stated in the advert as an hourly rate (36), a yearly figure (29). Hourly and monthly figures are converted to a year at 1,950 hours, so they can be compared with the ones stated annually.
  • Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Adverts offering part-time only are left out, because a part-time figure is not comparable with a full-time one.

These are advertised salaries, read from the text of employers’ own job adverts. They are not verified with the employer, they are not what anyone is necessarily paid, and they are not a pay survey.

Open Butcher jobs

Butcher/Meat Trimmer Brightwork Ltd · Sanquhar · from 15 £/hrFull-time Butcher (Night Shift) Select · Ilford · 40–45k £/yrFull-time Head Butcher Zachary Daniels Recruitment · Denstone · Butcher / Abattoir worker Teamwork Partnership Ltd · Trench · Full-time Butcher Staffline Operations · Bristol · from 14 £/hrFull-time Butcher Staffline Operations · London · 14–20 £/hr Skilled Butcher WALTER SMITH FINE FOODS LTD · Kingston upon Hull · Butcher Costco · Gloucester · from 14 £/hr Butcher Recruit 2 You · Derby · Full-time Head Butcher Zachary Daniels · London · Skilled Butcher Staffline Operations · Spalding · 28–35k £/yrFull-time Head Butcher Zachary Daniels · Uttoxeter · Full-time Butcher Birtwistles Food Group · London · Skilled Butcher WALTER SMITH FINE FOODS LTD · Carshalton · Butcher Birtwistles Food Group · Manchester · Butcher Quest Employment · Bedford · from 13 £/hr Butcher Holdsworth Foods · Buxton · Full-time Skilled Butcher WALTER SMITH FINE FOODS LTD · Huntingdon · Butcher Birtwistles Food Group · Irlam · Full-time Trainee Butcher TLNT1_NI Cranswick · Ballymena · from 18 £/hr