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Higher education lecturer salary in the UK (2026)

What does a Higher education lecturer earn?

What employers advertise across the UK.

£55,000 per year, median

the midpoint of 87 advertised salaries from 32 employers, collected 26 Aug 2026 – 21 Oct 2026

about £4,600 a month

Low
£51,000
Median
£55,000
Average
£57,600
High
£71,200
Median Average
Low £51,000 High £71,200
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 £51,000 and £58,000. “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

  • 87 advertised salaries, from 32 different employers.
  • Collected between 26 Aug 2026 and 21 Oct 2026.
  • Stated in the advert as a yearly figure (84), an hourly rate (3). 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 Higher education lecturer jobs

Clinical University Lecturer in Adult Outreach Dentistry University of Glasgow · Glasgow · New Professor of Pharmacological Science University of Leicester · Leicester · New Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour University College London · London · Clinical Professor/Associate Professor Child & Adolescent Psychiatry National Health Service · Worcester · Ken and Mary Minton Clinical Associate Professor in Kidney Vasculitis Imperial College London · London · Lecturer/ Associate Professor University College London · London · Full-time Associate Professor - Applied AI in Marketing Liverpool John Moores University · Liverpool · Full-time Professor of Finance University of Surrey · Guildford · Professor and Vice Dean University of Aberdeen · Huntly · Professor and Vice Dean University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen · Lecturer or Associate Professor in Computational Humanities and Social Science University College London · London · Clinical Professor/Associate Professor UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER · Worcester · 114–151k £/yrFull-time Clinical Associate Professor in Haematopoiesis Imperial College London · London · Associate Professor in Digital Marketing and Analytics University of Surrey · Guildford · Full-time Professor (Sheikh Nasser al-Muhammad al-Sabah Chair) in International Relations, Regional Politics and Security Durham University · Durham · Teaching Fellow in Biomedical Sciences ABERTAY UNIVERSITY · Dundee · Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Oxford · Oxford · from 58k £/yrFull-time Associate / Full Professor in Applied Mathematics / Statistics University of Nottingham · Nottingham · Full-time Lecturer/Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence for Biomolecular Design & Molecular Interactions University College London · London ·