The Datum Report

Occupation 2469 · Professional occupations

Welfare professionals n.e.c.

Half of full-time welfare professionals n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £40,594 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of welfare-related professional occupations not elsewhere classified in minor group 246: Welfare professionals.

How people enter it

Entry is via a variety of relevant academic and/or professional qualifications. Background checks including a DBS check are likely to be required.

What the work involves

• provides activities to assist young people develop and fulfil their potential as individuals and within the community
• advises and supports families experiencing stress or crisis
• acts as an advocate for and represents individuals and families at tribunals and similar hearings
• oversees, supervises and provides counselling for the process of adoption
• mentors and counsels those with mental health problems
• provides rehabilitation services to individuals
• manages volunteers and part-time workers, and liaises with other relevant professionals
• keeps records and controls budgets

Also called

Child protection adviser · Children’s guardian · Family court adviser · Rehabilitation officer · Restorative justice manager · Social services officer

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for welfare 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. 3 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

Clergy · Probation officers · Social workers · Youth work professionals