As of 13 August 2026, AI can compare UK salaries for your career change.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. List the target roles you are considering, your current role, years of experience, industry, qualifications, preferred UK locations and whether you would accept remote work.
   2. Open current UK job adverts for each target role and copy the salary, location, seniority, benefits, commission terms and advert date into a document, keeping each source link beside its figures.
   3. Gather published salary pages or reports that define their data, and remove figures that do not state the role, location, seniority or pay basis clearly.
   4. Paste your background and the collected evidence into the prompt, asking the model to separate base salary from total compensation and to mark anything it cannot verify.
   5. Compare every figure in the model's table with the original advert or source, then revise the comparison when roles, locations, experience levels or pay definitions do not match.
   6. Use the verified comparison to set questions for employers and a salary range to investigate further, rather than treating the model's conclusion as a prediction of your personal offer.

   Prompt

   Compare the UK salaries for my possible career change using only the evidence I provide or sources you can identify clearly. Do not invent figures, employers, job titles, qualifications or demand levels. If you cannot verify a figure, mark it as unverified.
   
   My current role and experience: [CURRENT ROLE, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, INDUSTRY, LOCATION]
   Possible target roles: [TARGET ROLE 1, TARGET ROLE 2, TARGET ROLE 3]
   Target locations or willingness to work remotely: [LOCATIONS]
   Relevant qualifications and transferable skills: [QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS]
   Salary sources, job adverts or links: [PASTE SOURCES]
   
   Create a table for each target role showing the source, date if stated, location, salary range, whether the figure is base salary or includes commission or benefits, seniority, and any stated qualifications. Separate figures that are directly comparable from figures that are not. Explain missing data instead of filling gaps. Then give a cautious comparison of likely entry-level, mid-level and experienced pay only where the evidence supports it. Identify which parts depend on my location, sector, experience, security clearance, commission, shift work or other conditions. End with questions I should ask employers and a short list of the evidence I still need before making a decision. Do not tell me which career to choose.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.