The Datum Report

Occupation 6232 · Caring, leisure and other service occupations

Caretakers

Half of full-time caretakers in the UK earn more than £28,950 a year, and half earn less.

Caretakers supervise and undertake the care and maintenance of church, school, office and other buildings, their facilities, fixtures and contents.

How people enter it

No academic qualifications are required. Previous relevant experience may be needed, and training is provided in some areas. Background checks will be required for those whose job brings them into contact with children or vulnerable adults.

What the work involves

• locks and unlocks doors and entrances at appropriate times
• supervises and/or undertakes the cleaning and maintenance of premises
• controls heating, lighting and security systems
• undertakes minor repairs and notifies owner of need for major repairs
• checks fire and safety equipment for adequate functioning

Also called

Caretaker · Concierge · Janitor · Porter (educational establishments) · School premises manager · Site manager (educational establishments)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for caretakers, 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. 11 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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