Standing view · pay · Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire
improving, held with strong confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2026-07.
Median pay in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire has risen over the past year, from £2,713 in July 2025 to £2,810 in July 2026. The path was uneven at first: pay slipped to £2,701 in August 2025 and to £2,704 in October, recovering to £2,709 in September and £2,739 by December. Since then it has risen without interruption, reaching £2,776 in April 2026 and £2,779 in June. It is the consistency of the later months, rather than the size of any single increase, that makes this more than month-to-month variation.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Median pay | 2025-07 | improving |
| Median pay | 2025-08 | deteriorating |
| Median pay | 2025-09 | improving |
| Median pay | 2025-10 | deteriorating |
| Median pay | 2025-12 | improving |
| Median pay | 2026-04 | improving |
| Median pay | 2026-07 | improving |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Median pay | 2026-06 | rising |