01Salary benchmarks

What does your role pay in your city?

Live data from Adzuna, calibrated against Hustle Report member submissions. Select a role and city for percentile bands, a side income estimate and a salary-gap report.

02Browse by role

Software Engineer

Software engineering salaries have broadly stabilised after the 2022-23 correction, but the gap between mid-market and top-quartile pay has widened. Engineers who can ship across the full stack - part…

Senior Software Engineer

Senior software engineers sit in the most liquid segment of the technical hiring market. Permanent roles compete with contract opportunities at day rates of £500-£800, and remote-first employers have…

Staff Engineer

Staff and principal engineering roles compress the visible salary band but widen the equity band. Cash bands cluster between the 50th and 75th percentile shown here; meaningful uplift comes from RSU +…

Frontend Engineer

Frontend engineering pay has bifurcated by accessibility and design-system fluency. Engineers who can own a multi-product design system, ship accessible interfaces and write fast SSR Next.js code sit…

Backend Engineer

Backend engineering pay tracks closely with database + distributed-systems depth. Engineers comfortable with Postgres at scale, queue-based architectures and one of Go / Rust / Kotlin earn 20-35% abov…

Full-stack Engineer

Full-stack engineering remains the most-hired engineering archetype globally. Premium pay flows to engineers who can own a feature end-to-end (data model → API → frontend → analytics) without handoffs…

DevOps Engineer

DevOps and platform engineers are the second-highest paid engineering specialism after AI/ML. The clearest premium is for engineers who can run a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform with observability a…

ML Engineer

ML engineers split into two markets in 2026: traditional MLOps (training pipelines, feature stores, model serving) and LLM-adjacent (RAG, agents, eval). The LLM segment commands a 25-50% premium over…

Data Analyst

Data analyst pay varies more by sector than by city. Financial services and tech pay significantly above the headline median; retail, public sector and charities sit well below. Analysts who own the f…

Senior Data Analyst

Senior data analyst pay closely tracks how much business judgement the analyst is trusted with. Pure execution seniors sit at the median; analysts who own a measurement strategy, run experimentation p…

Data Scientist

The data science market in 2026 is bifurcated: traditional ML roles have grown modestly, while LLM-adjacent and generative-AI roles command a 20-40% premium. The headline percentiles understate the AI…

Data Engineer

Data engineering pay has held up better than any other data specialism through the 2024-25 correction. Companies still need contractors to stabilise modern-data-stack setups; senior dbt + warehouse co…

Product Manager

Product management pay has continued to diverge based on company stage and sector. PMs at Series B+ fintech and AI companies earn significantly above the median; slower-growth orgs sit below. The frac…

Senior Product Manager

Senior PM compensation is dominated by company stage. The same person can earn 60% more at a high-growth Series C than at a stable enterprise. Fractional senior PM work routinely pays £700-£1,000/day…

Product Designer

Product design pay has seen modest growth as junior supply has outpaced demand. Premium pay in 2026 flows to designers who can run structured discovery, write clear specs and contribute to GTM copy. C…

Marketing Manager

Marketing manager pay diverges most sharply by channel specialism. Performance marketers and growth marketers earn 15-25% above the median; content and brand managers sit at or below. The freelance ma…

Sales Manager

Sales manager base pay clusters tighter than engineering equivalents, but OTE doubles or triples it for SaaS roles with quota responsibility. The clearest 2026 premium is for managers comfortable with…

Customer Success Manager

CSM pay is dominated by segment: enterprise and mid-market CSMs earn meaningfully more than SMB. OTE adds a further 15-30% via retention or expansion accelerators. Side income is rare - most freelance…

Financial Analyst

Finance pay tracks credentialing first (CFA, ACA, CPA), then sector. Buy-side and IB analysts sit firmly above the headline percentiles; corporate finance analysts cluster around them. Side income for…

Credit Risk Analyst

Credit risk analysts earn close to the median FS analyst rate at the junior end and rise sharply with model-validation, IFRS9 / CECL and Basel experience. Specialists who can own a scorecard build end…

03Side income context

Your salary gap is closable in 6-12 months.

Most members find their market salary gap is £6,000-£20,000 per year. A 4-hour-per-week side contract at the role's implied hourly equivalent closes it within a year - and the contract income is additive, not a salary swap. The Monday report finds and ranks the briefs for you every week.

Typical gap found

£12,000/yr

Weekly contract hours needed

4 hrs/wk

Months to close gap

6-12 mo

04Glossary