The jobs where you get paid by the hour and can earn up to £50k a year – but you don’t need a degree

THE way to a palmy vocation doesn't person to impact assemblage - immoderate jobs wage up to £50,000 a twelvemonth and don't necessitate a degree.

Applications for full-time undergraduate places done UCAS person deed grounds levels successful caller years, including 758,000 successful 2024.

But the higher acquisition way isn't for everyone, and you tin prevention yourself clip and money by heading into the jobs marketplace earlier.

The mean UK pupil indebtedness is £45,600 for those who started a people successful 2022/23, according to the Student Loans Company (SLC).

But the Department for Education (DfE) says the median postgraduate wage is £40,000 a year, meaning it could beryllium a portion earlier you've paid disconnected everything you owe.

However, it mightiness not beryllium indispensable to saddle yourself with debt.

From carpenters to gas engineers, manual testers and welding inspectors, you tin gain a container (as the Gen Z-ers say) successful roles that don't necessitate you to spell to uni.

New information from jobs committee Adzuna shared exclusively with The Sun has revealed 15 hourly-paid roles paying up to £50,000 a twelvemonth - based connected a 40-hour moving week - and don't necessitate a degree.

Of course, these aren't the lone jobs that tin spot you gain the large bucks without a assemblage education.

The Sun spoke to Kirsty Holden, who revealed she earns implicit £50,000 a year aft mounting up her ain virtual assistance business, each without a degree.

The 37-year-old, from Hull, changed her vocation aft becoming a mum.

She said: "To my delight, wrong the precise archetypal month, my net exceeded what I utilized to marque successful my part-time firm job, each portion providing the flexibility and equilibrium my household needed."

James Neave, caput of information science astatine Adzuna, said: "Hard enactment does wage disconnected erstwhile it comes to hourly jobs.

"The much you enactment in, the much you earn.

"From IT and operation to retail, galore hourly positions tin connection up to £50,000 annually, and employers usually worth accomplishment sets implicit ceremonial degrees.

"If you’re looking for a blend of flexibility and lucrative paycheck, hourly jobs mightiness beryllium what you’re after, arsenic they typically connection amended work-life balance, and astir of them reward other effort with overtime pay."

Top of Adzuna's database for jobs are Javascript front-end developers, manual testers, and nett developers.

All 3 of these roles wage connected mean £50,000 a year, if you're fortunate capable to onshore one.

Stone polishers, who enactment connected chromatic utilized connected room worktops for example, tin gain £49,920, portion shuttering joiners could instrumentality location £49,675 and motion connection interpreters £49,643.

Test analysts, carpenters and marriage counsellors, meanwhile, tin container £49,618, £49,532 and £49,519, respectively.

Bottom of Adzuna's database are idiosyncratic interface designers, tube fitters and strategical buyers, who enactment helping businesses with readying and purchasing of items.

But onshore 1 of these roles, and you could inactive gain up to £49,214 without heading to uni.

Bear successful mind, Adzuna's information is based connected salaries advertised for those occupation roles successful December which tin spell up oregon down.

How to onshore your imagination job

It's 1 happening knowing the best-paying jobs for which you don't request a grade - it's different knowing however to apply.

Do your probe truthful you cognize precisely what a occupation entails and the pathway to getting an interview.

Some roles, portion not requiring you to person gone to uni, whitethorn inactive request you to person immoderate signifier of grooming oregon apprenticeship, similar a carpentry oregon cook role.

Others volition commencement disconnected arsenic apprenticeships, wherever you'll gradually physique up your wage until you're afloat qualified.

Once you've landed an interview, marque definite you brushwood up connected your CV and probe however to hole for an interview.

We besides spoke to recruitment adept Natasha Kearslake, manager of HR consultancy Organic P&O Solutions.

She shared the six CV tips that earnestly boost your chances of getting a telephone back. These were:

• Keyword tags for AI systems
• Keeping the plan cleanable and simple
• Tailoring the summary to the job
• Mentioning the company's ngo statement
• Saying what you person really done successful each job
• Adding a volunteering section, if you've done any

Sarah Coles, idiosyncratic concern adept astatine Hargreaves Lansdown, said that connected average, graduates extremity up amended disconnected than those going into the jobs marketplace consecutive from schoolhouse - but it's not the way for everyone.

"For immoderate schoolhouse leavers, the satellite of enactment is the astir sensible destination overall.

"It means that those who are preparing to instrumentality connected pupil loans whitethorn good find it pays disconnected successful the extremity – but it doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed little wage if you instrumentality a antithetic path."

There are different roles not connected Adzuna's database that you don't request a grade for which could spot you gain adjacent much than £50,000.

We antecedently spoke to a train operator who earns £54,000 a year.

And a 27-year-old revealed how he earns implicit £50,000 successful recruitment, aft dropping retired of assemblage astatine 17.

Plus, a Sheffield-based pistillate decided to pursue money rather than studying and now has a wage that tops £60,000 a twelvemonth moving arsenic a lettings agent.

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