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Early years teaching assistant salary in the UK (2026)

What does a Early years teaching assistant earn?

What employers advertise across the UK.

£28,600 per year, median

the midpoint of 330 advertised salaries from 145 employers, collected 26 Aug 2026 – 20 Oct 2026

about £2,400 a month

Low
£25,100
Median
£28,600
Average
£29,300
High
£33,900
Median Average
Low £25,100 High £33,900
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 £26,900 and £30,000. “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

  • 330 advertised salaries, from 145 different employers.
  • Collected between 26 Aug 2026 and 20 Oct 2026.
  • Stated in the advert as a yearly figure (169), an hourly rate (159), a monthly figure (2). 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.

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Early Years Teaching Assistant Outcomes First Group · Upminster · from 22k £/yrFull-time Early Years Educator Alton Community Playschool · London · Part-time Early Years Practitioner Get Staffed Online Recruitment · Newcastle upon Tyne · from 13 £/hrFull-time Lecturer in Early Years (Variable Hours) Wiltshire College & University Centre · Swindon · from 21 £/hrFull-time Early Years Educator Alton Community Playschool · Slough · Part-time Early Years Practitioner Get Staffed Online Recruitment · Countess Wear · from 13 £/hrFull-time Early Years TA CV-Library · Islington · Full-time Early Years Teaching Assistant Veritas Education Recruitment · Leyland · 14–16 £/hrFull-time Nursery Teaching Assistant Tradewind Recruitment Careers · Salford · Full-time Early Years Educator (Bank) Chichester College Group · Crawley · Full-time Nursery Teaching Assistant Ribbons and Reeves Limited · Shrewsbury · Full-time Early Years Assessor Oakmoor Recruitment · St Albans · Apprenticeship Early Years Teaching Assistant/ Early Years Practitioner Ecruit · London · Full-time Early Years Teaching Assistant Academics · Orpington · Full-time Early Years Practitioner - Staffordshire Hays · Stafford · Part-time Early Years Educator Chichester College Group · Crawley · Full-time Nursery Teaching Assistant Ribbons and Reeves Limited · Tilbury · Full-time Nursery Teaching Assistant Ribbons and Reeves Limited · Purley · Level 3 Early Years Teaching Assistant Academics · Borstal · Full-time Reception Teaching Assistant/ EYFS TA - Epping, Essex Academics · Epping · Full-time