6 High paying jobs and careers UK + how to start them and reach the top - Earn £92K +

in this video i'm going to show you six

of the highest paying career paths in

the uk right now

and i'm also going to show you how you

can get started in each one and work

your way to the top

if you're just entering the world of

work or perhaps you're looking to start

a new career

then it pays to know which career paths

are the most lucrative

and it also helps to know how you can

get started in them and how you can

progress your way to the top and reach

the top pay levels

we recently did a study over at standout

cv where we used data from the office of

national statistics

to find out what the highest paying

careers in the uk are right now

and then we did some further research to

find out what the most common routes

were for people to enter those careers

and work their way to the top end of the

00:44

pay scales so in this video i'm going to

00:45

look at six of these high paying careers

00:47

and tell you the following things what

00:49

the career is

00:50

so what the job involves what you'll be

00:52

doing and what kind of skills are needed

00:53

how much money you can earn so what are

00:55

the highest average pays

00:57

for the top-end jobs within these

00:59

careers the typical career path for each

01:01

job

01:01

so how do people get started in the job

01:03

what kind of progression and promotions

01:05

do they take to work their way up to the

01:06

top

01:07

and most importantly how to get started

01:08

in these careers so what sort of

01:10

entry-level jobs do you need to look at

01:12

applying for to get started

01:13

what kind of qualifications do you need

01:15

and i'm going to try

01:16

where possible to look at the most

01:18

low-cost and

01:19

easiest ways to get into these careers

01:21

and also as you go through the video if

01:23

you want to check out any of the

01:24

resources i mentioned so some of the job

01:26

sites or training providers

01:27

they're all in the description below

01:29

first career on this list is financial

01:31

manager

01:32

so financial managers are broadly

01:34

speaking in charge of looking after a

01:36

business money

01:37

so they will be doing things like

01:38

reporting on financial health

01:40

ensuring the company stayed profitable

01:42

and looking after all of their tax and

01:44

accounting requirements

01:45

finance jobs are generally speaking well

01:47

suited to people with a good head for

01:49

figures

01:50

and people with an organized and

01:51

methodical approach to work the average

01:53

financial manager

01:54

in the uk earns around 67 000 pounds a

01:56

year but it's not uncommon to see

01:58

finance managers earn well in excess of

01:59

a hundred thousand pounds a year there

02:01

are lots of different roles within

02:02

finance so there are lots of different

02:03

approaches you can take to get started

02:05

but we found most commonly that people

02:07

would start in some kind of entry-level

02:08

finance role

02:10

like a finance assistant or an accounts

02:12

assistant and

02:13

they would start on around about 19 000

02:15

pounds a year and these roles would

02:17

involve

02:17

supporting more senior finance staff

02:19

with things like administration and

02:21

general office work then within around

02:23

five years you would generally move into

02:25

a mid-level finance role like an

02:26

accountant

02:27

where you'd be on around 30 to 35 000

02:29

pounds a year and you would be

02:30

responsible for things like producing

02:32

financial reports and advising

02:33

businesses on tax issues and then around

02:35

13 years in the industry you could

02:37

expect to hit a management position

02:39

like financial controller and that's

02:41

where you'd start to see the higher

02:42

salaries of around 67 000 pounds a year

02:44

but then you could progress further into

02:46

a role like a finance director where

02:48

you'd be looking after a large

02:49

businesses finances

02:50

where the salaries can be even higher

02:52

one of the good things about choosing

02:53

finance as a career is that you don't

02:55

necessarily need a lot of qualifications

02:56

to get started

02:58

because every company takes a different

02:59

approach to recruitment obviously

03:01

finance qualifications will help you to

03:02

get foot in the door in some places

03:04

but a lot of companies will take you on

03:06

with no experience and only basic

03:08

qualifications such as gcses

03:10

good grades in maths are favored by

03:12

employers of course because you will be

03:13

working with numbers a lot there are

03:14

also lots of apprenticeships available

03:16

within the finance sector and these are

03:18

schemes where employers take you on with

03:19

no experience

03:20

train you on the job and get you

03:22

qualified that's a really good way to

03:24

learn the industry and get paid at the

03:25

same time i'll actually put a link to

03:27

the association of accounting

03:29

technicians below in the description

03:31

they are a training provider and on

03:34

their website they have a big list of

03:35

apprenticeships are available right now

03:37

that you can apply to directly

03:39

where you can start working start

03:41

earning and start working towards

03:42

recognized qualifications if you have a

03:44

degree then you'll find that a lot of

03:45

the big accountancy firms like kpmg and

03:48

deloitte actually offer really good

03:49

graduate programs

03:50

or they'll take you on with no

03:51

experience and train you to become an

03:53

accountant over the course of two or

03:55

three years or so

03:56

i will of course put some links to some

03:57

of those in the description as well if

03:59

you're somebody who would prefer to

04:01

study first and gain some industry

04:02

qualifications before getting your first

04:04

job

04:04

then you can check out some of the big

04:06

accountancy qualification providers like

04:08

sema or acca i'll put links to those two

04:11

in the description

04:12

but personally i would always recommend

04:13

going down the apprentice route because

04:15

that way

04:15

the employer will pay for your

04:16

qualifications and you don't have to pay

04:18

for them out of your own pocket now

04:19

before i move on to career number two in

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careers advice content create number two

04:36

on this list is it director i t

04:39

directors are essentially people who

04:41

manage

04:41

all of the company's technology so

04:43

nowadays that's really important because

04:44

most companies have

04:46

computers websites telephones

04:48

applications and more

04:50

so an it director's role is to make sure

04:52

all of that stuff is working efficiently

04:54

for the business

04:54

so of course this is a great career path

04:56

for anybody who is interested in

04:58

technology

04:58

and people who love solving complex

05:00

problems on average an it director in

05:03

the uk earns around 73

05:04

000 pounds a year but there is potential

05:06

to progress even further than that

05:08

technology is of course a huge field

05:10

and there are many different ways to

05:11

become an i.t director but we found the

05:13

most

05:13

common way that people were doing it was

05:15

by starting off as an entry level iit

05:17

support engineer

05:18

so as an i.t sport engineer you would be

05:20

working on the front line of the

05:21

technology in the business

05:23

so you might be dealing with calls from

05:25

the staff in the business saying that

05:26

their internet's dropped out or the

05:28

computer's not working

05:29

and you'd be working directly with them

05:31

to find out what's wrong with the

05:32

technology and to fix those problems

05:34

you'd also be involved with things like

05:36

setting up the physical network setting

05:38

the computers up

05:39

and setting new staff up with their user

05:42

accounts and passwords and emails and

05:43

things like that

05:44

generally speaking these roles start on

05:46

around about twenty thousand pounds a

05:47

year and from there you can work your

05:49

way up the ranks

05:50

to an it team leader and eventually an

05:52

it manager

05:53

where you'd be looking after a whole

05:54

department and managing a number of iot

05:57

support engineers or id support analysts

05:59

and there you'd be earning around about

06:01

the 40 000 pounds a year mark then at

06:02

around 12 to 15 years of experience you

06:04

could potentially move into

06:06

an i.t director role where you would be

06:08

responsible for overseeing all of the it

06:10

operations for a large business

06:11

on an average of around 70 000 pounds a

06:13

year it is another sector where you

06:15

don't necessarily need lots of

06:17

qualifications to get started

06:19

of course having an i.t related gcse or

06:21

a level will be really helpful but there

06:23

are lots of employers who provide ite

06:25

support apprenticeships where again you

06:27

can start with no experience

06:29

they will train you they'll provide the

06:30

training you need to get the right

06:31

qualifications to do the job efficiently

06:33

and you can actually earn money while

06:35

you train whilst doing the research for

06:36

this study we actually found a website

06:38

called

06:38

not going to uni who have a big list of

06:40

it apprenticeships

06:42

with companies who are looking to take

06:43

on iit support engineers and other

06:45

junior rt roles that require no

06:47

experience and you can apply for them

06:48

directly there

06:49

so i'll put a link for that in the

06:50

description below and generally speaking

06:52

when you're applying to it jobs

06:54

the employers will like to see that you

06:56

have some interest in it so if you have

06:58

no experience or no qualifications then

07:01

it will really help if you can put

07:03

something around your it-related

07:04

interests into the cv

07:06

so maybe you like to fix your friends

07:08

computers or maybe you've created a

07:10

website and an app in the past

07:12

if you can write about that kind of

07:13

stuff in your cv then obviously you're

07:15

going to become much more attractive for

07:16

iot roles

07:18

in the eyes of employers when you're

07:19

sending your cv out career number three

07:20

on this list is marketing director

07:22

marketing directors are essentially the

07:24

most senior person within a

07:26

marketing department of a business and

07:27

they're responsible for delivering all

07:29

of the marketing that goes on within

07:31

that business

07:32

so marketing is essentially anything to

07:34

do with making

07:35

the company's customers aware of their

07:37

products and services

07:39

so it could be anything from television

07:41

advertising to

07:42

social media marketing email marketing

07:44

campaigns

07:45

radio and everything in between so it

07:47

involves coming up with creative

07:48

campaigns advertising campaigns

07:50

marketing campaigns to

07:51

reach potential customers and actually

07:53

executing all of the work to get those

07:55

campaigns out there

07:56

and bring in as many potential customers

07:58

to the business as possible so marketing

08:00

generally tends to appeal to quite

08:01

creative people because you need to be

08:03

quite creative to come up with these

08:04

campaigns and these ideas

08:06

but you also have to be very organized

08:07

and good with people to manage their

08:09

campaigns manage the teams manage

08:11

budgets and also quite analytical

08:13

to report the figures back to management

08:15

the average marketing director in the uk

08:16

earns around 81 000 pounds a year

08:18

typically a marketing career will start

08:21

with a

08:21

junior entry-level marketing role such

08:23

as a marketing assistant

08:25

where you'd be helping out a marketing

08:26

team with some basic marketing work so

08:29

you might be helping to research things

08:31

for campaigns do some basic copywriting

08:33

or creating some content for social

08:35

media

08:35

and these jobs will generally pay around

08:37

19 to 22 000 pounds a year you normally

08:40

work in an assistant role for about one

08:41

or two years before becoming a marketing

08:43

executive

08:44

where you'd start to take more personal

08:45

responsibility over campaigns

08:47

and you might also start to specialize

08:49

in a particular area so you might start

08:51

to specialize in social media marketing

08:53

or email marketing or television

08:55

advertising and then around the 10-year

08:57

mark in the career you could expect to

08:58

move into a marketing manager role

09:00

and here you'd be managing a team of

09:02

marketing executives

09:03

and you might be responsible for a

09:05

particular service or product within a

09:07

business

09:08

a marketing manager roles tend to pay an

09:09

average of around 40 to 50 000 pounds a

09:11

year and then in another five years

09:13

you'd usually expect to move into a

09:15

marketing director role

09:16

and that's where you'd be looking after

09:18

the marketing efforts for a whole

09:19

business who'd be managing very large

09:21

teams very large budgets

09:23

and those roles pay an average of around

09:25

80 000 pounds a year marketing is yet

09:27

another profession where there

09:28

isn't one particular strict career path

09:30

there are lots of different ways that

09:31

you can get started and work your way

09:33

through

09:33

the top you don't necessarily need

09:35

qualifications to get an entry-level job

09:36

in marketing but of course it does help

09:38

a degree in marketing be very beneficial

09:40

but it's not 100 essential if you don't

09:42

want to commit to university in fact if

09:44

you want to get some

09:45

free marketing qualifications that are

09:46

recognized in the industry and will help

09:48

you to learn the fundamentals of

09:50

marketing then there's a couple of

09:51

places i would recommend checking out

09:52

google actually have their own training

09:54

resources they call google's digital

09:56

garage

09:56

and they've got lots and lots of digital

09:58

marketing courses on there which you can

09:59

take in a few hours

10:00

hubspot are also a big well-known

10:02

marketing company and they also have

10:04

lots of free online courses you can take

10:05

on content marketing

10:07

social media marketing web development

10:08

and more i will of course put links to

10:10

both of those in the description so if

10:12

you're looking to get into marketing but

10:13

you don't have a marketing degree or any

10:15

other kind of marketing qualifications

10:16

or experience

10:17

and i'd recommend taking some of these

10:19

courses or any other recognized

10:21

qualifications you can find

10:23

doing them getting trained up getting

10:24

some of those qualifications onto the cv

10:27

and then just get on to read or cv

10:28

library or somewhere start searching for

10:30

junior marketing jobs or assistant

10:32

marketing jobs see what you can find

10:34

start applying

10:35

and just look to try and get that first

10:36

job to get your foot in the door and

10:38

then from there once you get that first

10:39

job that's when you can really start to

10:40

build your experience start to learn on

10:42

the job

10:43

and start to progress in the industry

10:44

career number four on the list is

10:46

senior police officer so senior police

10:48

officers are

10:49

the management of the police the people

10:51

who manage the people and the direction

10:53

of the police force so they might be

10:54

responsible for

10:55

a particular geographical area like

10:57

london or manchester

10:58

or they might be in charge of a

11:00

particular type of crime such as

11:02

financial crime or gang-related crime

11:04

the work involves managing people

11:06

administration

11:07

and overseeing the operations of police

11:09

work to ensure that criminals get

11:11

convicted

11:11

so senior police job is obviously very

11:13

important they carry a lot of

11:14

responsibility

11:15

but they're also very interesting jobs

11:17

very rewarding and you're making a big

11:19

impact on society when you're doing a

11:20

job like that

11:21

but it's also worth noting on the

11:23

negative side that there's always some

11:24

level of risk if you're working in the

11:25

police

11:26

the average senior police officer in the

11:28

uk earns around 57 000 pounds a year

11:30

which is more than double the country's

11:32

average salary usually anybody entering

11:34

the british police force will need to

11:35

start as a police constable

11:37

and constables are the police that you

11:39

see out about policing the streets who

11:41

are actually

11:42

physically responding to and dealing

11:44

with crimes police constables in the uk

11:46

start on an average of twenty two

11:47

thousand five hundred pounds a year

11:48

and the first promotion into a

11:50

managerial role will usually come around

11:52

seven years

11:52

where they will be promoted to sergeant

11:54

level and this is where they'll start to

11:55

get more involved with the

11:56

administration side of police work

11:58

managing other police officers

12:00

and this carries a pay rise of up to 43

12:02

000 pounds a year

12:03

which is obviously quite a decent jump

12:05

from the original starting salary then

12:07

at around the 12 year mark you could

12:08

expect to be promoted to

12:10

inspector level which is an even more

12:11

senior management level

12:13

where you'd be predominantly office

12:14

based and you would be leading a big

12:16

team

12:17

planning operations and leading strategy

12:19

and from there the next usual promotion

12:21

would be chief inspector level

12:22

which is an even bigger step into senior

12:24

management and

12:26

that's where you'd hit the average high

12:27

pay for a senior police officer at

12:29

around 57 000 pounds a year

12:31

and this will normally take around 15

12:33

years to achieve the police have a very

12:35

strict career path and to join the

12:36

police in the uk you need to apply to

12:38

one of the forces directly

12:40

so you need to apply to somewhere like

12:41

the metropolitan police or the british

12:43

transport police

12:44

there's actually a website called

12:46

joiningpolice.co.uk

12:47

which tells you which forces are

12:49

recruiting right now and how to apply

12:51

so i'll put a link to that page below

12:53

every force has slightly different

12:55

requirements but generally speaking to

12:56

join any of the police forces

12:58

you'll need to have the following things

12:59

you need to be 18 years of age

13:01

or you can apply at 17 but you need to

13:03

be turning 18 by the time you'll

13:05

actually be joining the police

13:06

you have to be a british citizen or you

13:08

have to be a foreign national with long

13:09

enough leave to be able to stay in the

13:11

country indefinitely you have to be fit

13:12

and healthy with good eyesight you

13:14

cannot have a criminal record of any

13:16

kind

13:17

although some forces will accept very

13:19

very minor criminal offences on your

13:21

record

13:21

some forces will also require some basic

13:23

gcses if you don't have a degree you can

13:25

join the police apprenticeship scheme

13:28

where you will receive three years of

13:29

training on the job to become a police

13:30

constable

13:31

if you do have a degree some forces are

13:33

actually offering something called

13:34

detective entry

13:36

where you can actually join the police

13:37

as a detective and skip out some of

13:38

those earlier stages but there's still

13:40

a two-year preparation period that you

13:42

need to pass if you take that route and

13:44

whichever route you take the police

13:45

application process

13:46

is hard it's not the kind of job where

13:48

you'll do a couple of interviews and

13:49

then start the next week

13:51

most police forces will require you to

13:53

attend assessment centers

13:54

to undergo written tests judgment tests

13:57

fitness tests

13:58

and a very strict vetting process and to

14:00

give you some more information on what's

14:01

required

14:02

in the police application process i'll

14:04

put a link below

14:05

to the joining the police dot co eco

14:07

website which has a lot more detailed

14:09

information on that and the fifth career

14:11

on this list is

14:12

gp or general practitioner so general

14:14

practitioners are the

14:16

doctors that you would go and see your

14:17

local doctor surgery so they work

14:19

directly with people in their local

14:20

community

14:21

doing things like diagnosing symptoms

14:23

prescribing medicines and

14:25

referring patients to specialists more

14:27

complex health issues

14:29

so it's a really good match for people

14:30

who are interested in the sciences like

14:32

biology and chemistry

14:33

and it's really good for people who

14:34

enjoy working with and helping people

14:37

and it's also probably more suited to

14:39

academic type people because there's a

14:40

lot of subject matter to learn and

14:42

retain

14:43

to make sure you're providing the

14:45

correct diagnosis to patients

14:46

an average doctor in the uk will earn

14:48

around 62 000 pounds a year

14:50

but those with more experience can earn

14:51

even more doctors have a very structured

14:53

career path and every gp will have to

14:55

start with the nhs as a junior doctor on

14:57

around 28 thousand pounds a year

14:59

in this role they'll be rotated around

15:00

the hospital and they will receive

15:02

their two years of foundation training

15:04

to become a qualified doctor then your

15:06

salary would increase to around the 40

15:08

to 50k mark as a qualified doctor

15:10

but you then have to do a further three

15:11

years of on-the-job training

15:13

to qualify as a general practitioner at

15:15

that point your salary will increase to

15:16

around the 60k mark

15:18

but with experience that can be

15:19

increased further to 70

15:21

80 and beyond to become a junior doctor

15:23

you need to do a five-year medicine

15:25

degree

15:26

so this is obviously a very big

15:27

commitment both time-wise and

15:29

financially

15:30

if you already have a science degree you

15:32

can do a shorter conversion course

15:33

but either way there is a lot of study

15:35

involved in becoming a doctor

15:37

so you really need to do research and

15:38

make sure it's the career for you before

15:40

you start doing that and i've actually

15:42

got a video on the channel which i'll

15:43

put a link up to somewhere

15:45

with some guidance on picking a career

15:47

path that's right for you and the final

15:48

career

15:49

on this list is pilot and here we're

15:52

talking about commercial pilots so we're

15:54

talking about the kind of pilots

15:56

who would be flying the planes that you

15:57

take to go on holiday so obviously it's

15:59

a very very important responsible job

16:01

because you're ensuring the

16:02

safe travel of hundreds of passengers at

16:04

a time but also a very exciting job and

16:06

one that'll potentially allow you to

16:08

travel the world

16:08

at the time of doing this study the

16:10

average salary of a pilot is 92 000

16:13

pounds according to the office of

16:15

national statistics

16:16

making it the highest paid job in the uk

16:18

at the moment after completing pilot

16:20

training which i will discuss in a bit

16:22

more detail later

16:23

pilots will need to join an airline as a

16:25

first officer which is the most

16:27

junior pilot that you'll see on a

16:28

commercial flight and that pays an

16:30

average salary of 45 000 pounds a year

16:32

from there you would have to complete 1

16:34

500 hours of flying time

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to gain promotion to captain which will

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see the salary rise to 60 000 pounds a

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year

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and normally takes around eight years to

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achieve and then with a further eight

16:44

years experience on top of that you

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could expect to hit the higher salary of

16:47

92 000 pounds a year becoming a pilot is

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very difficult

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because you have to attend a private

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flying school

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and gain what's called a frozen license

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before you can get a job as a first

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officer with an airline and

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the schools that provide these training

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charge an average of 95 000 pounds

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for those courses and they take an

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average of one to three years to

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complete

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and the government don't offer student

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loans like they do for university

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degrees

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so this will have to be completely

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self-funded which means that you'll have

to take out a big loan or pay in stages

and both of which are obviously huge

commitments so if you're thinking about

becoming a pilot you have to do lots of

research to ensure it's the right career

for you before you get started

and then you have to undertake that

private training i'll put some links to

some of the well-known flying schools in

the description below so that brings me

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