The Datum Report

Occupation 9262 · Elementary occupations

Hospital porters

Half of full-time hospital porters in the UK earn more than £29,409 a year, and half earn less.

Hospital porters perform various manual tasks in hospitals to assist nursing and domestic staff with the care of patients.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements. Training is provided Off and on-the-job. Entrants may be required to hold a driving licence.

What the work involves

• lifts, escorts and wheels patients between hospital wards
• assists with the delivery of meals, laundry, medical supplies and post to the wards or theatres
• moves hospital equipment and furniture
• collects and disposes of refuse from wards and other departments
• assists with unloading and delivery of supplies

Also called

Hospital porter · Porter (hospital service) · Portering supervisor (hospital services)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for hospital porters, 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. 3 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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