Reed’s 2025 business support and administration salary guide is the optimal UK business salary checker. By using our guide to inform the average salary UK business support and administration employees should receive, and understand what jobs are worth across all regions of the UK, you can ensure you’re offering competitive pay that attracts and retains talent.
Our guide assesses average business salary and benefits within support roles, using data from 21 million jobs posted on Reed.co.uk since 2016, to highlight key salary trends and insights. This enables you to benchmark salaries for your business support and administration teams or find out what you should be earning in your role.
Traditional business support roles – such as receptionist, customer service advisor, and general administrator – have slowed in some regions, with demand for these roles remaining high only in specific sectors like sales, marketing, insurance, and public services. This shift is largely influenced by the move toward hybrid work arrangements and advances in AI.
Business Support and Administration Expert, Reed
Who is this guide designed for?
Our 2025 business support and administration salary guide has been carefully crafted for:
Jobseekers on the lookout for business support roles.
Professionals looking to benchmark their earnings.
Employers seeking to enhance their salary and benefits offerings.
Whether you’re looking to pay your new executive assistant the right salary or want to ensure you’re earning a competitive salary in your project co-ordinator role, our 2025 business support and administration salary guide is here to help.
You’ll gain invaluable insight that will allow you to compare your business support salary across all regions of the UK – from those specific to London to pay across the North West and South East.
Employers: looking for salary benchmarking insights across business support roles?
Compare a range of salaries and benefits with our business support and administration salary guide, which is on hand to help you keep your remuneration packages competitive and accurate with the current job market.
With salary pressures on both workers and organisations, competitive salaries and enhanced benefits packages remain a differentiator when it comes to employee rewards. Therefore, it’s vital that, as an employer, you are transparent and open when it comes to attracting and keeping hold of talent.
Whether you are looking to benchmark salaries in customer service or receptionist salaries – our guide offers you the information you need to make informed decisions.
Jobseekers: curious about what you should be earning across business support?
Want to know the average purchasing assistant salary, HR administrator salary, or marketing executive salary in your region to see what you should, and could, be earning?
Use our guide to better understand your worth and put in place a plan for your next, or first, career step.
Employers and professionals who adapt to the growing integration of technology, and prioritise skills development, will thrive as the market evolves to meet new challenges and opportunities.
Regional Director, Reed
What jobs does Reed’s 2025 business support and administration salary guide cover?
Our business support and administration salary and benefits guide will provide you with direction on salaries and benefits for some of the most prominent roles in business support, including:
Administrators
Customer service advisors
Executive assistants
HR administrators
Legal secretaries
Marketing executives
Purchasing assistants
Sales administrators
If looking to hire your next purchasing assistant or want to know more about operations manager salaries, you can use Reed’s guide for reassurance.
Why download Reed’s business support and administration salary guide 2025?
This guide is based on an extensive volume of data from over 21 million jobs posted on Reed.co.uk since 2016, confirming its status as the most trusted guide available. The analysis of a dataset of this magnitude offers unparalleled views of the business support market – meaning you receive figures that are accurate and reliable.
Our 2025 business support salary guide is beneficial for both jobseekers and employers, offering:
Detailed salary insights for 2025.
Market trend analysis.
Insights into the benefits employees are valuing most.
Comprehensive data across a range of business support roles.
Reed’s regional directors offer their insight into the local job landscape, discussing business support and administration recruitment as experts. They each offer their own unique perspectives, which enhances the guide's relevance.
How can the Reed salary guides help with my benefits and rewards benchmarking?
To further inform our annual suite of salary guides, we surveyed 5,000 UK workers at the end of 2024. You can read the full highlights in ‘the great UK salary and benefits reveal’ section of the guide.
Key findings from our research include:
One-in-four professionals (26%) feel unhappy with their current salary.
More than half (60%) of those who aren’t satisfied with their salary shared that it is because it hasn’t risen with the cost of living, nearly a third (31%) say it’s not enough for them to live the lifestyle they want, and 36% feel they’re unable to save enough money to meet their financial goals.
Nearly half (43%) of respondents are working more hours than they are contracted to.
Alarmingly, when asked why, 40% of those employees said they have too much work to do in the hours they are paid to work.
Salary increases remain the most significant action to make workers feel more valued, with 59% of respondents ranking it at the top.
Company benefits offered marry up almost exactly with the benefits employees make use of, with onsite parking, hybrid working, Christmas shutdown and free refreshments ranking as the top received and used benefits.
More than a quarter (26%) of workers say they don't feel valued by their employer.
To help you make an informed choice on all things UK salary and benefits, download our UK business support & administration salary guide now.
