Complementary health associate professionals: pay and what the work involves

Occupation 3214 · Associate professional occupations

Complementary health associate professionals

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

Measure	Hours	Basis	Period	Value	Source
3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	None	2026-03	23,400.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	None	2026-03	24,500.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	None	2026-03	26,000.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	None	2026-03	1,100.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	None	2026-03	1,400.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	None	2026-03	27,100.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	None	2026-03	1,100.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)

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.

Region	Measure	Hours	Value	Period
East	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	1,800.00	2026-03
East Midlands	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	2,400.00	2026-03
London	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	4,200.00	2026-03
North East	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	600.00	2026-03
North West	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	2,100.00	2026-03
Northern Ireland	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	1,100.00	2026-03
Scotland	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	1,400.00	2026-03
South East	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	4,600.00	2026-03
South West	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	4,200.00	2026-03
Wales	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	1,100.00	2026-03
West Midlands	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	500.00	2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber	3214 : Complementary health associate professionals	None	3,000.00	2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for complementary health associate professionals vary by region?

ONS publishes regional pay for this occupation where the survey sample supports it — 12 of 12 cells on this page. The rest are withheld by ONS, and are shown as withheld with the reason, rather than left out.

Where do these pay figures come from?

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, published by the Office for National Statistics. Figures are shown exactly as ONS publishes them — we do not adjust, model or fill them in, and every number on this page carries the series and period it came from.

Classified alongside this

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