The Datum Report

Occupation 6231 · Caring, leisure and other service occupations

Housekeepers and related occupations

Half of full-time housekeepers and related occupations in the UK earn more than £25,335 a year, and half earn less.

Housekeepers and related workers perform domestic cleaning and other housekeeping tasks within private households, hotels, schools, hostels and other non-private households.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements, although entrants typically possess GCSEs/S grades or an equivalent qualification. NVQs/SVQs and other vocational qualifications in hospitality and catering at levels 2 and 3 are available.

What the work involves

• controls the purchase and storing of food, cleaning materials, linen and other household supplies
• maintains household records
• performs a variety of domestic tasks including food preparation and service, cleaning and laundry
• assists employer in washing, dressing, packing and other personal activities

Also called

Chalet host · House keeper · Lifestyle manager · Valet

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for housekeepers and related occupations, 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. 9 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

Caretakers