JIC Household Pay Index: what UK nanny and household staff jobs advertise, Q3 2026
In the Jobs in Childcare Household Pay Index (October 2026), the median advertised salary for UK nanny jobs is £57,500 a year (44 ads), and £60,000 for London nanny jobs (34 ads). Across all UK household and childcare roles, the median is also £57,500 (110 ads). Figures are medians of salaries advertised in job ads on jobsinchildcare.com up to 28 September 2026, in GBP as stored on the board. They are asking rates, not confirmed pay.
Last updated: 16 October 2026. Data to: 28 September 2026.
Jobs in Childcare is a job board for premium childcare and household staff. Agencies and employers pay to post their roles. Candidates apply free. We are not a recruitment agency, and we do not set or negotiate pay.
The JIC Household Pay Index shows what those ads offer. It is built from 460 ads on our board, most posted between July and September 2026. We publish medians and the number of ads behind each figure. We hold back any figure that rests on too few ads.
These are advertised asking rates. They are not confirmed salaries paid.
Key figures
- £57,500 is the median for UK nanny ads with a yearly salary (44 ads).
- £60,000 is the median for London nanny ads with a yearly salary (34 ads).
- £20.50 an hour is the median for UK nanny ads paid by the hour (53 ads). That is 61.3% above the National Living Wage of £12.71.
- £57,500 is the median across every ad on the board with a yearly salary, all roles (125 ads). Fifteen of those are roles outside the UK. Leave them out and the figure is the same: £57,500 from 110 ads.
- 27.2% of yearly-salary ads (34 of 125) top out at £75,000 or more.
- 37.4% of ads (172 of 460) show no salary at all.
The UK nanny median and the all-ads median are both £57,500. That is a coincidence of this quarter's data, not a typo. Nanny ads are the largest single group in the sample, so the two figures sit close together.
Table: advertised pay, Q3 2026
| Measure | Ads (n) | Median advertised pay |
|---|---|---|
| UK nanny, yearly salary (includes London) | 44 | £57,500 a year |
| London nanny, yearly salary | 34 | £60,000 a year |
| UK nanny, hourly rate | 53 | £20.50 an hour |
| All ads with a yearly salary, all roles | 125 | £57,500 a year |
| All ads with a yearly salary, UK roles only | 110 | £57,500 a year |
| Other measures | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Yearly-salary ads that top out at £75,000 or more | 34 of 125 | 27.2% |
| Ads that show no salary | 172 of 460 | 37.4% |
Notes: n is the number of ads, not the number of jobs or people. "London" means a UK ad whose location mentions London. Hourly and yearly nanny ads are never combined. "Top out at £75,000 or more" means the top of the advertised range is £75,000 or above, measured across all 125 yearly ads. The National Living Wage (age 21 and over, from 1 April 2026) is from GOV.UK.
How we calculate this
- Source. All 460 ads in the Jobs in Childcare board export of 28 September 2026.
- Pay used. The midpoint of each ad's advertised range. If an ad gives one figure, we use that figure.
- Yearly and hourly kept apart. We do not turn hourly rates into yearly salaries, because the ads do not tell us the hours worked.
- Medians, not averages. A few very high ads cannot pull the figure up.
- Clear errors removed. A small number of ads with an hourly or monthly figure typed into the yearly field are left out.
- Publication rule. We publish a figure only if it rests on at least 10 ads after removing any one advertiser, and its median moves by less than 5% if any single advertiser is removed. Figures that fail are not shown.
- Aggregate only. No ad, family or advertiser is identified.
Please read with care.
- These are asking rates in ads, not salaries paid. Final offers can differ.
- This edition covers about three months of ads, so there is no trend yet.
- The index reflects the ads on our board, not the whole market.
- 37.4% of ads show no salary. Ads that show pay may differ from those that do not.
- Ads do not say whether pay is gross or net, and do not record hours, live-in status or benefits.
- Some roles are not shown this quarter because they do not yet meet our publication rule. We will add them as the sample grows.
What Jobs in Childcare says
"Candidates and families ask us the same thing every week: what does this job actually pay? Now we can answer with what the ads on our board say. The median London nanny ad is £60,000 a year. Hourly nanny ads sit well above the National Living Wage. And more than a third of ads still show no salary at all. That needs to change. Put the pay in the ad."
— Jobs in Childcare
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FAQ
Is Jobs in Childcare a recruitment agency? No. We are a job board. Agencies and employers pay to post childcare and household staff roles, and candidates apply free. We do not place staff or set pay.
Are these the salaries people are paid? No. They are the pay levels advertised in job ads. Final offers can be higher or lower.
Is the pay gross or net? Ads do not tell us. Some households quote gross pay and some quote net. Treat the figures as advertised pay, not as a gross salary.
Why use the median? The median is the middle ad when all ads are lined up by pay. It is not pulled up by a handful of very high salaries.
Why are some roles missing? We only publish a figure that rests on enough ads and does not depend on a single advertiser. Roles that do not meet that rule yet are not shown.
Why don't you convert hourly rates to a yearly salary? The ads do not record hours worked. Any conversion would be a guess.
How often is the index updated? Every quarter. Each edition states the date its data runs to. Earlier editions stay on the page so changes can be compared.
Can I use these figures? Yes. Please credit Jobs in Childcare, link to this page, and quote the number of ads (n) with any figure.
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Method note
Data. The index uses every ad in the Jobs in Childcare board export taken on 28 September 2026: 460 ads, most of them posted between July and September 2026. Each ad contributes once, whatever its status on the day of export.
Fields. For each ad we use the job category, the location text, the advertised pay figure or range, and the pay period (yearly or hourly). We do not use the advertiser's name in any published figure.
Which ads count. An ad is included in a pay figure only if it shows a pay figure or range in the period being measured. Ads with no salary are counted in the "no salary" share and nowhere else. Ads where an hourly or monthly figure has clearly been typed into the yearly field are left out of the yearly figures.
How pay is read. Where an ad gives a range, we take the midpoint. Where it gives one figure, we use that figure. Yearly and hourly ads are kept in separate groups and never converted into each other, because ads do not record hours worked.
Overseas roles. The board shows all pay in pounds, including roles based overseas. Overseas roles can be much higher paid and are often tax-free, so they are not comparable with UK salaries. The UK nanny and London nanny figures use UK-based ads only. The all-roles figure includes 15 ads for roles outside the UK (three in the US, three in Spain, and one each in the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Qatar, Switzerland, Italy, the Isle of Man, Monaco and Egypt). The job board stores their pay as an approximate pound equivalent; we did not convert anything ourselves. Leaving those 15 ads out, the all-roles median is unchanged at £57,500 from 110 ads. The £75,000-or-more share and the no-salary share are board-wide and include overseas ads.
Groups. "UK nanny" means an ad in the nanny category with a UK location. "London nanny" means a UK nanny ad whose location text mentions London. London ads are included in the UK figure.
Medians. Every published pay figure is a median: the middle ad when the group is sorted by pay. We do not publish averages, because a handful of very high ads would pull them up.
Publication rule. A figure is published only if, after removing any single advertiser's ads, the group still has at least 10 ads, and the median moves by less than 5% whichever single advertiser is removed. Any figure that fails either test is withheld. This stops one advertiser's pay levels passing as a market figure.
What the index cannot tell you. Whether pay is gross or net. Hours worked. Whether a role is live-in or live-out. Benefits, accommodation, travel or bonuses. Whether the advertised figure was the figure finally agreed.
Updates. The index is refreshed each quarter from a fresh export. Each edition states its export date, and earlier editions stay on the page.