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Welder salary in the UK (2026)

What does a Welder earn?

What employers advertise across the UK.

£37,300 per year, median

the midpoint of 3,208 advertised salaries from 890 employers, collected 26 Aug 2026 – 20 Oct 2026

about £3,100 a month

Low
£28,800
Median
£37,300
Average
£39,300
High
£50,400
Median Average
Low £28,800 High £50,400
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 £32,700 and £43,700. “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

  • 3,208 advertised salaries, from 890 different employers.
  • Collected between 26 Aug 2026 and 20 Oct 2026.
  • Stated in the advert as a yearly figure (1,768), an hourly rate (1,438), 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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Mig Welder IDEAL EMPLOYMENT LIMITED · Stourbridge · from 14 £/hrFull-time MIG Welder (4 Day Week) Ernest Gordon Recruitment · Walsall · Full-time Mobile Plant Fitter Barhale · Walsall · Full-time Maintenance Technician ao.com · Crewe · from 28k £/yrFull-time Maintenance Technician ETS Consulting · Rotherham · from 48k £/yrApprenticeship Maintenance Technician Bennett and Game Recruitment LTD · Harrow on the Hill · 35–45k £/yrFull-time Mobile Maintenance Technician Alex Young Recruitment Ltd · Barnet · Full-time Workshop Fitter / Mechanical Maintenance Technician Get Staffed Online Recruitment · Alwalton · 28–34k £/yrFull-time Mig Welder Pure Staff Industrial · Hewelsfield Common · Full-time Aluminium MIG Welder Morson Edge · Newton Aycliffe · from 21 £/hrFull-time Production Welder NMC Recruitment Ltd · Stourbridge · Full-time MIG Welder Recruitment Helpline Ltd · Daventry · from 18 £/hrFull-time Mig Welder 1st Step Solutions Ltd · Highbridge · Full-time Welder Orion Electrotech Manufacturing · London · 40–46k £/yrApprenticeship Multiskilled Maintenance Technician E3 Recruitment · Warrington · from 56k £/yrApprenticeship Assembly Fitter Orion Electrotech Sales · London · from 35k £/yrApprenticeship Maintenance Technician Probe UK · Wishaw · from 44k £/yrApprenticeship Electrical Fitter (Control Panels) Ernest Gordon Recruitment · Middlewich · Full-time TIG Skilled Welder InsideRight · Ferndown · Full-time Plant Fitter Neos Recruitment Limited · Kingswinford · 20–22 £/hrFull-time