Trainer
UK

The median Trainer salary in the UK is £66,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 586 891
Rank change year-on-year +300 +305 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a Trainer 523 320 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 0.33% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 0.34% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 181 234 77
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,200 £38,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +74.21% -7.32% -18.00%
75th Percentile £66,253 £45,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £66,295 £48,058 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,215 £36,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +83.93% -4.00% -11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Trainer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Trainer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Trainer.

Salary trend for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Trainer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Trainer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +397 462 £66,219 +89.20% 602
England +274 453 £66,206 +74.23% 800
UK excluding London +276 435 £66,215 +83.93% 743
East of England +133 136 £66,225 +89.21% 6
North of England +134 131 £63,652 +67.51% 234
Midlands +86 80 £30,000 -25.00% 288
Yorkshire +116 62 £48,826 +28.49% 123
North West +30 50 £63,876 +59.69% 85
London +102 47 £50,000 +8.63% 62
South East +108 46 £46,349 +32.42% 218
West Midlands +56 43 £30,000 -25.00% 116
East Midlands +70 37 £35,000 -7.89% 172
Scotland +139 24 £48,750 +21.88% 3
North East +65 19 - - 27
South West +103 12 £40,000 +5.07% 4
Wales +33 6 - -

Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Trainer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Trainer in the job title.

1 457 (87.38%) Degree
2 454 (86.81%) Artificial Intelligence
3 449 (85.85%) Chatbot
3 449 (85.85%) Conversational UI
4 440 (84.13%) PayPal
5 300 (57.36%) Master's Degree
6 295 (56.41%) PhD
7 143 (27.34%) Mathematics
8 131 (25.05%) Python
9 130 (24.86%) Chemistry
10 125 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
11 117 (22.37%) C#
12 115 (21.99%) SQL
13 113 (21.61%) JavaScript
14 101 (19.31%) C++
14 101 (19.31%) HTML
14 101 (19.31%) Code Quality
15 96 (18.36%) Computer Science
16 86 (16.44%) Statistics
17 74 (14.15%) Physics
18 31 (5.93%) Software Engineering
19 29 (5.54%) Microsoft
20 21 (4.02%) e-Learning
21 20 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
22 18 (3.44%) Data Science
23 17 (3.25%) Social Skills
24 16 (3.06%) Machine Learning
25 13 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
25 13 (2.49%) Windows
25 13 (2.49%) Legal

Trainer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 449 (85.85%) Chatbot
2 20 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 13 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (1.91%) AWS
3 9 (1.72%) Dialogflow
4 5 (0.96%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.76%) Azure
5 4 (0.76%) GCP
6 3 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (0.57%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.38%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.19%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.19%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) WebEx
2 2 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.15%) Metadata
2 4 (0.76%) Power BI
3 2 (0.38%) Power Query
4 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server
General
1 125 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (3.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (2.49%) Legal
4 11 (2.10%) Law
5 9 (1.72%) Agriculture
5 9 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (1.53%) Aerospace
6 8 (1.53%) Marketing
7 6 (1.15%) Finance
7 6 (1.15%) Fire and Rescue
7 6 (1.15%) Local Government
7 6 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (0.96%) Dutch Language
8 5 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.76%) Billing
10 3 (0.57%) Multimedia
10 3 (0.57%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.38%) German Language
11 2 (0.38%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (19.31%) HTML
2 9 (1.72%) Hugging Face
2 9 (1.72%) SpaCy
3 6 (1.15%) NLTK
3 6 (1.15%) REST
4 4 (0.76%) .NET
4 4 (0.76%) PyTorch
4 4 (0.76%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.57%) NumPy
5 3 (0.57%) Pandas
5 3 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.02%) e-Learning
2 10 (1.91%) Molecular Biology
3 7 (1.34%) iPhone
4 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (0.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.57%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.38%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.19%) EPoS
8 1 (0.19%) Life Science
8 1 (0.19%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.49%) Windows
2 7 (1.34%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.15%) Android
4 2 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (86.81%) Artificial Intelligence
2 449 (85.85%) Conversational UI
3 143 (27.34%) Mathematics
4 130 (24.86%) Chemistry
5 101 (19.31%) Code Quality
6 96 (18.36%) Computer Science
7 86 (16.44%) Statistics
8 74 (14.15%) Physics
9 31 (5.93%) Software Engineering
10 18 (3.44%) Data Science
11 16 (3.06%) Machine Learning
12 12 (2.29%) Biostatistics
13 10 (1.91%) Biochemistry
13 10 (1.91%) Biology
13 10 (1.91%) Biotechnology
13 10 (1.91%) Coaching
13 10 (1.91%) Data Interpretation
13 10 (1.91%) Experimental Design
14 9 (1.72%) Collaborative Culture
14 9 (1.72%) Conversational AI
Programming Languages
1 131 (25.05%) Python
2 117 (22.37%) C#
3 115 (21.99%) SQL
4 113 (21.61%) JavaScript
5 101 (19.31%) C++
6 5 (0.96%) Java
7 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 457 (87.38%) Degree
2 300 (57.36%) Master's Degree
3 295 (56.41%) PhD
4 9 (1.72%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.34%) MOS
6 6 (1.15%) HNC
6 6 (1.15%) HND
7 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.38%) MCT
9 2 (0.38%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.19%) CCNA
10 1 (0.19%) CCNP
10 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.19%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 440 (84.13%) PayPal
2 29 (5.54%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.91%) Google
4 9 (1.72%) iManage
5 6 (1.15%) Cisco
6 5 (0.96%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.19%) Aderant
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe
7 1 (0.19%) F5
7 1 (0.19%) Facebook
7 1 (0.19%) Intapp
7 1 (0.19%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.19%) YouTube