The Datum Report

Occupation 1257 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Hire services managers and proprietors

Half of full-time hire services managers and proprietors in the UK earn more than £31,626 a year, and half earn less.

Managers and proprietors in hire services plan, organise and direct the activities of businesses which hire goods and services, such as tools, heavy machinery and vehicles.

How people enter it

There are no pre-set qualification requirements however, relevant experience is usually essential and qualifications in engineering or other relevant services may be an advantage.

What the work involves

• plans the optimum utilisation of staff and operating equipment, and co-ordinates maintenance activities to ensure least possible disruption to services.
• ensures that necessary spare parts, materials and equipment are available or obtainable at short notice
• liaises with clients, generates new business and negotiates contracts with suppliers and clients
• determines staffing, financial, material and other short- and long-term requirements
• ensures compliance with safety and other statutory regulations
• provides information about machinery, tools and other goods for hire to staff and customers
• ensures the business accounts are maintained

Also called

Hire manager · Plant hire manager · Rental service manager · Tool hire manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for hire services managers and proprietors, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 1 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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