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2025 Annual Market Insights Guide

The ONE Group’s 2025/26 Market Insights Guide, including Salaries, Benefits & Trends, is a comprehensive guide to recruitment across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire and beyond.

It provides unique insights into today’s employment market for roles across: Accountancy & Finance, Business Services, Engineering & Manufacturing, Executive, Human Resources, Marketing & Creative, Sales, Scientific and Technology.

The recruitment landscape has changed so much. Whilst it has, without doubt, been challenging, it has also been an incredible time for learning, developing and adapting to new ways of working, engaging, hiring and retaining talent.

The information in this guide is taken from a market survey conducted through some of the 150,000 candidates registered on our database. We have also included our own insights and observations through working in this incredible, vibrant sector.

Each guide includes salary ranges for more than 250 different roles in the Permanent, Temporary and Contract recruitment markets. You can use this guide to help you develop accurate budgets, establish salary benchmarks and ensure you are offering the most competitive remuneration packages.

Our guides also include commentary from our recruitment experts who highlight key trends you need to know about on a local, national and sub-sector level.

The salaries listed for each position in this 2025 Salary Guide are starting pay only; bonuses and other forms of remuneration have not been taken into account.

To download your copy of our 2025 Annual Market Insights Guide which includes: Salary, Benefits and Trends, please complete the form.