The Datum Report

Occupation 3555 · Associate professional occupations

Estate agents and auctioneers

Half of full-time estate agents and auctioneers in the UK earn more than £30,648 a year, and half earn less.

Estate agents and auctioneers arrange for the valuation, sale, purchase, rental and leasing of property on behalf of clients, as well as the auction of livestock and antiques.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements although entrants to professional training via the National Federation of Property Professionals (NFOPP) will normally possess GCSEs/S grades, an NVQ/SVQ and/or relevant experience. Off and on-the-job training is possible, and apprenticeships are available in some areas.

What the work involves

• discusses client’s requirements and may advise client on the purchase of property and land for investment and other purposes
• conducts or arranges for structural surveys of properties and undertakes any necessary valuations of property or agricultural land
• advises vendors and purchasers on market prices of property, accompanies clients to view property
• markets the property on behalf of the vendor, prepares written information and press advertisements
• negotiates land or property purchases, sales, leases or tenancy agreements and arranges legal formalities with solicitors, building societies and other parties
• makes inventories of property for sale, advises vendor of suitable reserve price, issues catalogues, conducts auction, notes bids and records sale

Also called

Auctioneer · Auctioneer and valuer · Estate agent · Letting agent · Property consultant · Sales negotiator

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for estate agents and auctioneers, full-time employees, 2024 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

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 8 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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