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SERVICE OVERVIEW

This comprehensive sector specific management report is designed to provide HR and relevant stakeholders with independent, relevant and expert market practice to inform internal pay budget discussions.

What is the Pay Market Trends Report?

A bespoke 2025-26 pay market trends report for your specific sector that collates all relevant market intelligence from the following key sources:

Government (ONS) statistics

Inflation and average earnings trends, historic and predicted

Paydata's pay settlement database

Historic and predicted pay budget trends both within the sector and across the whole of the UK

Paydata’s comprehensive pay database

Containing over half a million individual jobholders (in over 250 participating organisations).

The report’s contents is as follows:

  • Historic pay awards & freezes – by year, across all sectors as well as a chosen industry sector
  • UK inflation – historic and predicted
  • Historic average earnings
  • Out-of-cycle pay increases
  • 2025 pay awards & freezes - across all sectors as well as your chosen industry sector
  • Predicted 2026 pay awards & freezes - across all sectors and your chosen industry sector

The report is available for the following sectors*:

  • General Market
  • Manufacturing
  • Engineering and Construction
  • Facilities Management / M&E
  • Electricity
  • Renewables
  • Residential Care
  • Private Healthcare
  • Housing Associations
  • Water
  • House building
  • Associations and Institutes

Pay Market Trends Report Options:

  • The report costs £875 + VAT for ‘all sectors’ plus one chosen sector
    • Additional sectors can be added in for £105 + VAT per sector
  • For an additional £600-800 + VAT (depending on the level of personalisation required), we collect your own historic pay awards to make a market comparison, writing an independent recommendation for your forthcoming pay award for senior management to consider.

Typically available within 3 to 5 working days from your request.

Would you like to know more about our Pay Market Trends Report? Get in touch.

*Where we hold sufficient, we may be able to support other sectors not currently listed above - please enquire for more information.

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