Business and project management
HR manager jobs
Owning the people side: hiring, employee relations, pay and policy, and advising the managers who apply it.
£57,529 median full-time pay, UK, ONS 2025
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What hr manager jobs pay
Median full-time pay for human resource managers and directors was £57,529 across the UK in 2025. Full-time work of every kind had a median of £39,039, so this occupation sits about 1.5 times that. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it describes the occupation nationally rather than any advert on this page.
That figure is the reason this role is on the board. Every role here has a published ONS median full-time salary at or above £50,000, and it is checked against the ONS table each time the site is built rather than asserted in the copy. A role that stopped clearing it would stop the build.
Pay varies more by region than most people expect. ONS publishes it for groups of related occupations rather than single job titles, so the table beside this covers finance, marketing, human resources, purchasing and IT directors, and functional directors generally, not hr manager jobs alone.
Median full-time pay by region, 2025
| Region | Median full-time pay |
|---|---|
| London | £100,000 |
| South East | £75,583 |
| East of England | £69,109 |
| South West | £64,004 |
| West Midlands | £63,647 |
| East Midlands | £60,708 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £63,655 |
| North West | £69,738 |
| North East | £57,675 |
| Wales | £52,760 |
| Scotland | £63,374 |
Why there are no area pages for this role
The census is the only source that publishes occupation down to local authority level, and it publishes it in groups of related jobs rather than one job at a time. HR manager jobs sit in group 113, alongside sales and marketing director jobs, procurement manager jobs, finance manager jobs, it director jobs.
So there is one number for all of them in any given area. Building a page per role per area would mean the same figure appearing under several different headings, in 175 places each, which is the doorway pattern this site is built to avoid. One role carries the local pages for the group and the rest say so plainly.
For local figures on this group, see finance manager jobs. The pay figures above are specific to hr manager jobs and are not shared with the rest of the group.
HR manager: the full picture
Generalist, business partner, specialist
A generalist covers everything for a whole organisation and is the most common shape outside large employers. A business partner is aligned to one part of a bigger business and works with its leadership on people strategy. Specialists own reward, talent, employee relations or learning in depth.
Business partnering is the route most people aim at and it is genuinely different work: less process, more influence, and a requirement to understand the commercial side well enough to be taken seriously.
Employment law, and how much you need
Enough to know when you are near a line and need advice, which is a lower bar than people fear and a higher one than a policy document provides. Dismissal, redundancy, discrimination, grievance and TUPE are the areas where getting it wrong is expensive.
CIPD qualification is common and not universal. Employers care about whether you have run real cases: an unfair dismissal claim survived, a restructure delivered properly, a grievance handled so the team still functions afterwards.
Before you apply
- HR generalist experience; CIPD is common and not always required
- Right to work in the UK
HR manager jobs: common questions
Does hr manager work pay more than £50,000 a year?
On the national figures, yes, and that is why the role is on this board at all. Median full-time pay for human resource managers and directors was £57,529 across the UK in 2025, against £39,039 for full-time work of every kind. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it says nothing about what any individual advert pays.
What qualifications do I need to work as a HR manager?
HR generalist experience; CIPD is common and not always required. Right to work in the UK.
Where does AboveMedian have local figures for hr manager jobs?
Nowhere, and the reason is worth stating. The census publishes occupation in groups of related jobs, and hr manager jobs share a group with sales and marketing director jobs, procurement manager jobs, finance manager jobs, it director jobs. Local pages for each of them would show the same figure under different headings, so only one role carries them. For local figures on this group, see finance manager jobs. Adverts themselves are UK wide.
Do you decide who gets sent to an employer?
No. You read the adverts, you choose one, and you apply to that employer yourself. Nothing on this site forwards a person to a job they did not apply to, and no employer is given a list of people.
What does it cost to use?
Nothing, ever. It is always free for job seekers, and employers pay to advertise. There is no premium account, no paid profile and no fee of any kind on the job seeker side.