The Datum Report

Occupation 3223 · Associate professional occupations

Housing officers

Half of full-time housing officers in the UK earn more than £34,688 a year, and half earn less.

Housing officers assess and address housing needs of particular localities and individuals and oversee the day-to-day management of rented properties belonging to local authorities or housing associations.

How people enter it

Entry is possible with a variety of academic qualifications and/or relevant work experience. Vocational qualifications in Housing are available at levels 2, 3,4 and 5. Professional qualifications are available and may be required for some posts.

What the work involves

• oversees the day-to-day running of rented properties including arranging for the signing of leases, rent collection and maintenance work
• interviews prospective tenants and allocates properties to waiting list applicants
• carries out regular inspections of properties to assess and ensure they are in a good state of repair
• ensures that special needs accommodation is suited to the needs of particular groups such as the elderly and disabled, and that statutory requirements for providing accommodation are met
• refers tenants to appropriate sources of benefits and welfare
• deals with payment of rents and arrears, arranges for legal action where necessary
• supports tenants’ groups
• works closely with other agencies such as social services departments and welfare rights groups

Also called

Accommodation officer · Housing adviser · Housing officer · Housing support officer

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for housing officers, 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. 10 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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