Museum & curatorial salaries in the United Kingdom
What museum jobs in the United Kingdom have advertised as pay — 6 postings that stated a figure, listed exactly as published. Not a benchmark: with counts this small, “what they paid on these occasions” is the only honest framing. 9 roles are open right now.
What do museum jobs in the United Kingdom pay?
Median advertised salary: ≈ €42,422 / year (annualised, 6 figures, from ≈ €13,544 to ≈ €70,970)
Annualised euro figures are deliberately approximate — monthly grades ×12, hourly ×2080, coarse rates for other currencies. The stated figure is always the authoritative one. Methodology
- Assistant Academic Support Librarian Education and Students
University of the Arts London · UK · Education & Public Programmes
£34,436 / year · seen 28 August 2026
- Administrator (AKO Storytelling Institute) Institutes
University of the Arts London · UK · Other
£34,436 / year · seen 17 August 2026
- Curator / Senior Curator of Drawings
The Courtauld · London, UK · Curatorial
£52,947 – £60,658 / year · seen 15 August 2026
- Production Manager (Maternity Cover)
The Barbican · UK · Production
£44,110 / year · seen 15 August 2026
- Future Observatory Content Officer
Design Museum · London, UK · Education & Public Programmes
£11,576 / year · seen 15 August 2026
- Technician (Lighting Bias)
The Barbican · UK · Production
£38,080 / year · seen 15 August 2026
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Archive last added to 28 August 2026. Free to use and cite under CC BY 4.0 — “CuratorSearch Curatorial Pay Archive, curatorsearch.com/salaries” with the date, or by DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22544232. Download the whole archive.