UK Event Managers Earn a Median of £35,700 in 2026, Events-Jobs.co.uk Salary Guide Finds

Events-Jobs.co.uk, the UK's only events job board, has published a 2026 salary guide. Event managers earn a median £35,700; top freelancers reach £509/day.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, June 25, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Event professionals across the UK can now benchmark their pay against current market data, following the launch of Events-Jobs.co.uk, the only job board built exclusively for the UK events industry. The site has gone live alongside a free Event Industry Salary Guide, setting out what coordinators, managers and producers earn in 2026 across sectors, regions and working patterns.

According to the guide, event managers in the UK earn between £28,000 and £41,000 a year, with a median of around £35,700 (Indeed, May 2026). Event coordinators sit lower at £25,000–£30,000, typically with bonuses of up to £3,000, while event producers earn an average of £36,808.

The widest spread is in freelance work. The guide reports an average freelance day rate of £509 for experienced event managers — equivalent to £117,070 a year at full utilisation, though it cautions that few freelancers are booked solidly all year, with income often dropping to half that in practice.

Location matters too: the top-paying city for event managers is Clifton at £43,955, while event producers in London average £37,503 against £26,891 in Manchester — a reminder that London weighting doesn't apply evenly across every events role.

The launch addresses a long-standing gap. Events roles — spanning production, operations, technical/AV, creative, sales and logistics — have traditionally been scattered across general job boards that don't distinguish between the disciplines or understand the industry's project-based and freelance realities.
"The events industry has never had a job board of its own.

Events roles get buried on generic sites that don't know the difference between a production manager and a technical manager," said Sophie of Events-Jobs.co.uk. "We built the site to fix that. Publishing the salary data is part of the same thinking — people working in events deserve clear, honest benchmarks so they can value their own work properly, whether they're going in-house or freelance."

The Event Industry Salary Guide is free to read at events-jobs.co.uk, alongside other candidate resources including CV guidance and interview preparation.

About Events-Jobs.co.uk

Events-Jobs.co.uk is the UK's only job board built exclusively for the events industry, connecting candidates and employers across event production, operations, sales, marketing, technical/AV, creative, digital, client services and logistics. It serves the full range of employers — from corporate in-house teams to event agencies, venues, technical suppliers and conference organisers — alongside free candidate resources. Visit events-jobs.co.uk.

Sophie
Events Jobs
hi@events-jobs.co.uk

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