The Datum Report

Occupation 6312 · Caring, leisure and other service occupations

Parking and civil enforcement occupations

Half of full-time parking and civil enforcement occupations in the UK earn more than £29,559 a year, and half earn less.

Parking and civil enforcement occupations patrol assigned areas to detect and prevent infringements of local parking regulations and control the parking of vehicles in public and private car parks.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements. Candidates should be at least 18 years of age (in some areas 20-25+) and may be required to pass a medical examination. Training is typically provided on-the-job.

What the work involves

• patrols assigned area to detect vehicles parked in no-parking zones and vehicles parked in excess of permitted time in restricted parking zones
• warns offenders or issues tickets
• advises motorists on local parking facilities and directs them as required
• notes any cases of obstruction, evasion of tax or other infringement and reports them to the police
• gives evidence in court as required
• regulates entry/exit of vehicles to and from car parks and may park cars
• issues and examines tickets in car parks, collects charges and gives change

Also called

Car park attendant · Civil enforcement officer · Community warden · Parking attendant · Traffic warden

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for parking and civil enforcement 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

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