The Datum Report

Occupation 2439 · Professional occupations

Business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c.

Half of full-time business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £58,341 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group advise on the formulation and implementation of policy in the public and private sectors, develop and implement substantial business, statistical and administrative systems, and perform a variety of functions not elsewhere classified in minor group 243: Business, research and administrative professionals.

How people enter it

Entrants typically possess a degree or an equivalent qualification. Entry is also possible by internal promotion for those with appropriate experience. Training is often provided on-the-job in the form of short courses for specialist areas.

What the work involves

• coordinates the organisation’s services and resources, liaising with other senior staff
• analyses internal processes and systems, recommends and implements procedural and policy changes
• recruits and manages staff, assigns and delegates tasks and duties, makes changes in procedures to deal with variations in workload
• develops plans, sets objectives and monitors and evaluates performance
• prepares and reviews operational and financial reports
• controls and administers budgets
• advises national and local government on the interpretation and implementation of policy decisions, acts and regulations, and provides technical assistance in the formulation of policy
• co-ordinates and directs the activities of Revenue and Customs offices, Job Centres, Benefits Agency offices and other local offices of national government
• registers and maintains records of all births, deaths and marriages in local authority area, issues appropriate certificates and reports any suspicious causes of death to the coroner.
• negotiates and monitors contracted out services provided by the private sector to local government studies and acts upon any legislation that may affect the local authority

Also called

Civil servant (grade 6, 7) · Governance officer · Information compliance officer · Parliamentary assistant · Policy adviser (government) · Private secretary (government) · Registrar (government) · Service manager (government)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c., 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. 7 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

Classified alongside this

Actuaries, economists and statisticians · Business and related research professionals · Management consultants and business analysts · Marketing and commercial managers · Professional/chartered company secretaries