What the pay uplift means for you

The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), which negotiates pay levels nationally on behalf of around 140 universities, offered a final pay offer to Trade Unions of a 1.4% uplift for the 2025/26 year. UCEA has advised employers to implement the 2025-26 pay uplift which will be applied in its entirety with effect from 1 August 2025.

View the updated pay rates on the HR webpages

Colleagues outside of the national framework

As in previous years, we have taken the decision to apply this increase to our professorial bands as well, even though these pay rates are not part of the framework agreement.

View the updated professorial pay rates on the HR web pages.

If you are in a professional senior management grade (Grade 9 and above), your pay cycle is different. You will not receive an increase from 1 August 2025. However, we will take consideration of these changes to the framework when setting the performance related increases that will be effective from 1 October 2025.