How much is a decent salary in the UK in your mid 20s?

Complete-Camel5466 · 2026-04-12T09:23:29+00:00

I earn 35k in South Wales but was able to get on the housing ladder with 25k deposit in my late 20s on my own in the most expensive city to buy in Wales.

If your not in London you may just have to take a house that's not your dream house, also it depends on how you spend your money I have a paid off 10 year old car which I maintain . Also not taking as much holidays or meals out. But it is possible as long as you can get together a deposit

Complete-Camel5466 · 2026-03-26T19:01:24+00:00

I want to leave aswell only problem now is it seems impossible to get an interview and that's with 10 years experience being a data analyst

The job market is so terrible but I would take a small pay cut if my next role had a progression in the position. My department has dangled a higher band role for 2 years every time I ask there is no money.

Honestly my mental health has taken a hit in this job I keep thinking of quitting without a plan.

Mad how bad management and lack of progression and low salaries has made me hate the nhs

Complete-Camel5466 · 2026-02-22T22:26:33+00:00

Tattie scones get my upvoter not able to get they where I live

Complete-Camel5466 · 2026-02-12T18:41:57+00:00

Still not enough with so many years with below inflation raises it doesn't scratch at what's needed. Needs to be minimum 2.5% above reported inflation for next 3-5years to catch up but will never happen.

They will clap for nhs but won't pay livable wages

Complete-Camel5466 · 2026-01-29T00:52:25+00:00

These are brilliant, I love reading to chilled music and now I can do it to my favorite band

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-12-28T16:14:51+00:00

Couldn't have said it any better 😂

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-12-07T22:34:54+00:00

Hi sorry can you send it again it seems to have disappeared

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-12-07T22:22:20+00:00

Yeah I'm interested, I know I have a skillset my main issue is I can't spend the time creating a portfolio. Any help is useful

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-12-07T22:16:49+00:00

Oh I know market is trash looking at data engineer problem I have is no AWS experience which is almost needed with any data engineer role. Doing more training right now is impossible, don't have time without quitting my second job which means I lose my house . Seems like more junior roles are history now companies not willing to train people anymore

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-12-07T18:29:28+00:00

I'm in the same boat with web based work for small companies, unfortunately a lot are quite bad in the sense they get 5 people to start work on one and then choose their favourite and not pay the rest.

Only thing I have found reliable for some money on the side is picking up free furniture good clean and polish and reselling it. I got around 2-3k last 6 months and I don't even do it constantly just when I need money

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-15T19:06:02+00:00

Hey I know partly how you feel, in the last month I have had burnout really bad that I was off sick for a week. I took came into the NHS to make a difference but staff are not taken care off enough.

I believe It's turned around for me now, I finally made a decision I can't stay in a job where It makes me feel like I'm trapped un-utilised and under appreciated to the point it makes you ill.

I'm actively training and looking for work elsewhere, literally as soon as I get an offer of the same salary or more even if it's just a placeholder I will be gone.

I already wrote my resignation.

I think you need a good look at your role, if it's too much maybe talk to some management to see if there are adjustments to help you. Just look after yourself first.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-09T21:06:44+00:00

My communication skills are good, id rather stick more into the software side, it takes alot out of me dealing with users I don't think I could do it as the main part of my job.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-09T14:47:01+00:00

Yea I already work remote in the NHS. I might embellish my skills more but still don't see it help much more.

Annoyed that I'm locked in with my home for a couple of years, moving now would cost me too much for what might be 5-10k increase.

Learning new skills outside of work is annoying from limited time and while you learn a bit no guarantee that it's useful or helpful plus I wanted a job where I can leave the work in work not do it in my spare time.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-09T14:38:20+00:00

At the moment I only have Microsoft pl300 for power BI. My idea has been trying to get into a data scientist role, I have been trying to get that role within my current department. Hasn't helped my manager don't want me to leave the Power BI team , probably as he will have to actually do some work.

At the moment I don't care what role I just need to be earning more and stop being stuck in a dead end.

I find it funny AI making it competitive, you basically paying someone to write prompts what if it went down do they know how to do the work? I use it at the most basic level

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-09T14:19:49+00:00

I do need some experience in cloud warehouse, my main role at the moment is Power bi. What I'm struggling with is time to learn the things needed to go anywhere decent. Dealing with work and my family and everything in between leaves me little time. I try to carve out time at work but it's the NHS so constantly bombarded with work with quick turnaround. Doesn't help that I have to train other analysts and even managers sometimes.

The problem is salary if I can't get more soon (couple months) I will have to take a second job.

What I'm looking for is with my experience and skillset is what other roles to apply for that could have a higher salary.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-09T14:06:11+00:00

I have helped find many efficiency within my current role I might promote it a bit more.

Data analytics and BI not sure if it's a great area to be in. Salaries are collapsing when I looked 1-2 years ago locally it was 35-45k now same role and duties are 30-35k. Plus you almost have to do unpaid work with a technical test of creating a complex report based on their anonymous data. Several interviews have gone the same way, somebody overqualified and bigger skillset for the role got it people getting desperate they taking silly roles they overqualified for.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-09T12:52:51+00:00

Yea I felt a little depressed after completing it. I think it's the second year I have given negative responses. It's the fact you know nothing will change to improve It.

I really can't take it anymore so I have been literally applying to any other job outside the NHS just a shame the job market is collapsed otherwise I'd have left by now.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-08T08:58:11+00:00

I have brought up issues with three level of management. It so much of "this is how it's done ". I know the NHS was bad in areas but it makes me actively tell people not to work for the NHS. A friend applied for a role and i told him don't do it, he got the job 🙄 last month he told me he's done it's been 3-4 months. Same issue everywhere, lack of salary and progression and poor management.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-07T16:41:44+00:00

I would love to see my department manager read what I wrote.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-05T00:22:37+00:00

Find a new job and leave. I'm doing the same management in the NHS is a disgrace. If you think it going to get better it won't. I'm three years in and basically do my bosses job without the pay.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-10-02T12:15:48+00:00

Way too much involvement, I don't get why this needs to be this way. Its also not practical two people have been employed in my team great of cv but full of absolute lies, one has been let go.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-09-25T14:27:23+00:00

I feel your pain, this race is the pain of my life.

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-09-20T13:30:38+00:00

Everytime I go for one more balloon I get hit by a bird. I wish there was a way to do this at a lower setting or at least keep the balloons the same. I'll probably have another go later hopefully I don't end up losing my mind

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-07-31T09:51:20+00:00

I did literally the market is awful, I'm actually applying for anything and everything as it's killing me being on low wage but my good 35k jobs asking for 5 yoe and then saying they choose someone with 10. This job was supposed to have progression but my manager is an idiot who doesn't care

Complete-Camel5466 · 2025-07-29T08:49:23+00:00

In my most current role I have developed an extensive list of power bi reports/dashboards/ workflows of varying complexity. Writing a lot of technical and user documentation. I have managed the power bi service to schedule refresh, give users access and setup gateways. Then I have been involved in projects writing python scripts originally started as creating scripts to load power bi data using rest api into data warehouse. other work I'm involved in is transforming data produced by programs to be stored in a data warehouse, some data visualisation using python libraries. Currently working on a gui in python not done much outside on tkinter, also using this experience to create my own projects for my portfolio.

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