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Journalist salary in the UK (2026)

What does a Journalist earn?

What employers advertise across the UK.

£35,000 per year, median

the midpoint of 40 advertised salaries from 21 employers, collected 26 Aug 2026 – 7 Oct 2026

about £2,900 a month

Low
£29,500
Median
£35,000
Average
£38,000
High
£48,700
Median Average
Low £29,500 High £48,700
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 £30,500 and £47,000. “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

  • 40 advertised salaries, from 21 different employers.
  • Collected between 26 Aug 2026 and 7 Oct 2026.
  • Stated in the advert as a yearly figure (39), a monthly figure (1). 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 Journalist jobs

Private Credit Reporter Octus Intelligence · London · New Senior Reporter Haymarket Media Group · London · New Senior Data Journalist Global Web Index · London · Full-time Reporter, Live Markets Dow Jones & Co. · London · Wealth Reporter Crain Communications · Lincoln · Wealth Reporter Crain Communications · Walcot · Full-time Social Journalist - UNILAD LADbible · Manchester · Full-time Assistant Reporter, Highland, Moray & Eilean Siar Scottish Childrens Reporters Administrations · Inverness · Data Journalist Guardian Media Group · London · Leveraged Finance Reporter ION Group · London · Internship CLO Reporter ION Group · London · Full-time Central Europe Reporter, MandateWire Europe The Financial Times · London · UK General Assignment Reporter RELX Group · Cadbury · Full-time Senior Correspondent RELX Group · Cadbury · Full-time Energy Market Reporter LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group · London · Senior Correspondent RELX Group · London · Reporter, MandateWire Europe The Financial Times · London · Senior Correspondent LexisNexis Legal & Professional® · Worcester · Full-time Private Credit Reporter - Debtwire ION Group · London · AI & Marketing Technology Reporter Crain Communications · Lincoln ·