Sales Salaries in Birmingham

About Birmingham

Birmingham is the second-most populous city in the United Kingdom, after London, and easily the biggest city in the Midlands. With an estimated population of 1,137,100 as of 2017, Birmingham is a real hub of emerging business where a large range of companies have moved out of the capital to cut costs.

Birmingham’s Sales Sector

The city of Birmingham is an important manufacturing and engineering centre, employing over 100,000 people in the industry and contributing billions of pounds to the national economy. Advanced technologies and artificial intelligence companies are also seeing strong growth in the city, which are all after the best sales talent to drive their businesses forward.

How Much do Birmingham Sales Professionals Earn?

Salary Breakdown by Data Source

Using census data from the Office of National Statistics, alongside major salary sources Hays, Glassdoor and Payscale, we have broken down the median reported salary of each job title by source:

About the data sources:

Office of National Statistics (ONS): Breaking down job titles by SOC job title codes, we have reviewed national salary data from 2011 using ASHE reports, which uses 1% of earners on PAYE tax, in absolute terms around 300,000 UK earners.

Hays – a global specialist recruitment group, who produce a large amount of salary data based upon the vacancies they advertise. For our study, we reviewed all salaries in the job title definitions, reported between 01/02/2019 and 28/02/2019.

Payscale – an international salary reporter, Payscale provide the largest real-time salary survey in the world with more than 150,000 new survey records added every month. For our study, we used reported job title salaries as of 28/02/2018.

Glassdoor – over 855,000 company salaries are reported on by employees across the world through Glassdoor, an independent company information site. For our study, we used reported job title salaries as of 28/02/2018.

About the data analysis:

The information is provided choosing Median Data. The median is the value below which 50% of jobs fall. It is ONS’s preferred measure of average earnings as it is less affected by a relatively small number of very high earners and the skewed distribution of earnings.

It therefore, gives a better indication of typical pay than the mean.

Our main median average salary metric aggregates all sources providing a non-biased view of true salaries by job title and region.

Other regional salary analysis:

View our job title salary analysis for other key locations in the UK including:

• National (UK)
• Bristol
• Milton Keynes
• Leeds
• London