The Datum Report

Occupation 3214 · Associate professional occupations

Complementary health associate professionals

Half of full-time complementary health associate professionals in the UK earn more than £27,888 a year, and half earn less.

Complementary health associate professionals use non-mainstream treatments in support of conventional medical treatments.

How people enter it

Entry requirements vary in different fields. Some employers require a degree level qualification. Professional qualifications are available, and membership of professional bodies is mandatory in some areas.

What the work involves

• advises and prescribes in areas of complementary and alternative medicine
• prescribes and prepares homeopathic remedies
• manipulates and massages patient to discover the cause of pain, relieve discomfort, restore function and mobility and to correct irregularities in body structure
• uses colour therapy to help with people’s mental and physical problems
• administers aromatic herbs and oils and massages body to relieve pain and restore health
• massages reflex points in the hands and feet to relieve pain and promote healing in other parts of the body
• uses hypnotherapy to relieve or treat health conditions and to change habits

Also called

Colour therapist · Holistic therapist · Homeopath · Hypnotherapist · Massage therapist · Reflexologist

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for complementary health associate professionals, 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. 0 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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