Here are the 25 best jobs in Britain, as chosen by people who do them
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Your support makes all the difference.Anonymous employee review website Glassdoor has ranked the 25 best jobs in Britain.
Glassdoor lets former and current staff rate both their employers and the roles they hold at the company. You can also leave information about things like pay and benefits.
Glassdoor has used the feedback on its site to give various jobs a "Glassdoor Job Score" that takes into account earning potential, career opportunity ratings, and the number of current job openings. Glassdoor then crunches the numbers and gives each job a score out of five.
The aim is to rank roles that offer good pay and good career opportunities and are available right now in Britain — not just in an ideal world.
For a job to be considered, it has to have at least 30 salary reports and at least 30 career opportunities ratings shared by UK-based employees over the past year.
Check out the top 25 below.
25. Personal Assistant
The job: Pretty much what is says on the tin — you're an assistant to an executive or business person. That could involve anything from organising a diary and fetching coffee to sorting out dry cleaning. It might not sound glamorous but, crucially, you get access to a top level executive who can give you valuable insight into how the business works.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.4.
Number of Job Openings: 962.
Average Base Salary: £28,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.7.
24. Trader
The job: Buying and selling stocks, bonds, and commodities. The draw for this job has always been the money but plenty of people also get a thrill out of the adrenaline rush that comes from making split second decisions.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.4.
Number of Job Openings: 182.
Average Base Salary: £50,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.4.
23. Service Manager
The job: Service manager is one of many jobs on the list that can mean different things in different industries, but in general it means dealing with clients to make sure the service your company offers is uniform and satisfactory.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.5.
Number of Job Openings: 968.
Average Base Salary: £43,315.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.1.
22. Design Engineer
The job: Traditionally a highly technical role that involves engineers drawing up plans for machinery, these days design engineers work on everything from apps to games.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.5.
Number of Job Openings: 4,789.
Average Base Salary: £33,813.
Career Opportunities Rating: 2.9.
21. Talent Acquisition Specialist
The job: Basically a fancy word for a recruiter. A talent acquisition specialist fills high-profile and hard to fill roles, working either internally, or on a consulting basis.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.5.
Number of Job Openings: 229.
Average Base Salary: £40,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 4.2.
20. Consultant
The job: Another broad church, a consultant is basically anyone who provides outside advice to a business or staff. Typical examples include management consultants and strategy consultants.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.5.
Number of Job Openings: 403.
Average Base Salary: £41,700.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.5.
19. Business Development Executive
The job: A business development executive's role is pretty simple — grow the business. How exactly you do this varies hugely depending on what industry you're in.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.5.
Number of Job Openings: 2116.
Average Base Salary: £25,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.5.
18. Accountant
The job: Every business needs one. The accountant looks over the accounts to make sure all the money is accounted for and has gone to the right people and places. They help you avoid trouble with the tax man.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.6.
Number of Job Openings: 2784.
Average Base Salary: £32,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.1.
17. Brand Manager
The job: A brand manager's job is to ensure that the brand they look after is protected and seen the right way by the public. They do this by carrying out market research, monitoring social media, and liaising with advertising executives, among other things.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.7.
Number of Job Openings: 624.
Average Base Salary: £45,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.5.
16. Sales Manager
manager, your job is to make sure your team of sales people are hitting targets and getting the product out the door.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.8.
Number of Job Openings: 11,382.
Average Base Salary: £37,500.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.0.
15. Solutions Architect
The job: A solutions architect is the person in the office who turns dreams into reality. In more grounded terms, a solutions architect is a high-level IT guy who works out how to get stuff done. If you want to make a change to a product, they're the person who works out the technical requirements of how exactly to achieve it.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.8.
Number of Job Openings: 1,119.
Average Base Salary: £63,500.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.1.
14. Recruitment Consultant
The job: A recruitment consultant helps employers find permanent or temporary staff. Most recruiters will specialise in a field or a level of vacancy they typically fill.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.9.
Number of Job Openings: 7,471.
Average Base Salary: £22,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.8.
13. Recruiting Manager
The job: Very similar to a recruitment consultant, a recruiting manager handles the signing on of new staff. The key difference, however, is that recruiting managers typically work in-house, liaising with recruitment consultants at outside agencies to explain exactly what they're after.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.9.
Number of Job Openings: 566.
Average Base Salary: £43,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 4.3.
12. Account Manager
The job: Account managers in sales, advertising, and PR handle the business of a particular client, liaising with the company or person to find out exactly what they want from them and then feeding that back to other parts of the account managers' business.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.9.
Number of Job Openings: 5,200.
Average Base Salary: £35,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2.
11. Market Analyst
The job: Market analysts crunch numbers all day to try and figure out what exactly is going on out there. Your job is to pull together reports for clients on everything from the media to stock markets, analyzing reams of data to try and draw conclusions.
Glassdoor Job Score: 3.9.
Number of Job Openings: 2,366.
Average Base Salary: £30,225.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.7.
10. Software Engineer
The job: Software engineers write the code that is increasingly powering the world. Whether it's for a social network like Facebook or something as seemingly boring as a control system for a power station, there is seemingly infinite demand for people who can write code these days.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.0.
Number of Job Openings: 23,020.
Average Base Salary: £40,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.1.
9. Product Manager
The job: For any business that produces a product, product managers are essential. Their job is to take overall charge of the product, liaising with sales, branding, marketing, and advertising to make sure everything is going to plan.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.0.
Number of Job Openings: 2,077.
Average Base Salary: £54,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2.
8. Project Manager
existence, you may well find yourself in the roll of project manager. This job involved bringing the product — or whatever the project is — to fruition, over seeing all the stages from drawing board to reality.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.1.
Number of Job Openings: 7,187.
Average Base Salary: £45,675.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.1.
7. Commercial Manager
The job: Commercial managers are the level of middle management who make sure the everyday business keeps ticking over. This can involve everything from liaising with clients and more senior management to looking over the books and walking the shop floor.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.1.
Number of Job Openings: 1,317.
Average Base Salary: £57,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3.
6. Business Analyst
The job: A little like an in-house market analyst, a business analyst's job is to take a big-picture look at the company and see what's working well and what's not so good. After that their job is to make recommendations as to how to improve things.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.2.
Number of Job Openings: 4,382.
Average Base Salary: £41,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.4.
5. Marketing Manager
The job: A marketing manager's job involves presenting advertising and marketing strategies internally, monitoring these campaigns, coming up with marketing plans, and briefing outside advertising agencies on what the company wants.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.2.
Number of Job Openings: 2,234.
Average Base Salary: £45,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.4.
4. HR Manager
The job: The HR manager is often either the most hated or most loved person in the office. Their job is to ensure records for all staff are up to date, make sure people get paid on time, and generally keep staff happy.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.3.
Number of Job Openings: 1,268.
Average Base Salary: £50,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.8.
3. Operations Manager
The job: The operations manager handles any logistical issues within the business, making sure that A gets to B at the right time.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.3.
Number of Job Openings: 1,797.
Average Base Salary: £45,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.7.
2. Finance Manager
The job: The finance manager is the man who controls the money, allocating cash for certain projects or deciding where to cut costs. If you want to get something off the ground or save your staff from the chop, they're the person you have to go to.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.3.
Number of Job Openings: 2,762.
Average Base Salary: £55,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3.
1. Business Development Manager
The job: Like the role of business development executive mentioned earlier, a business development manager is in charge of expanding whatever company they work for. As a manager, they will have a team working underneath them.
Glassdoor Job Score: 4.3.
Number of Job Openings: 5,143.
Average Base Salary: £40,000.
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.5.
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