Gender pay gap 2025
Gender pay gap reporting legislation requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations every year showing how large the pay gap is between men and women in the workforce. We have also published our gender pay gap data as at 31 March 2025 on the government website.
We had 5,811 employees in scope for the gender pay gap exercise.
At 31 March 2025, 69% of our workforce are women (4,009) and 31% men (1,802).
The mean gender pay gap is the difference between the mean hourly rate of pay for men (£20.00) and women (£19.17).
For 2025, this was 4.1%. This has increased by 0.5% from 2024 (3.6%).
The median gender pay gap is the difference between the median hourly rate of pay for men (£18.28) and women (£17.77).
For 2025, this was 1.8%. This has decreased by 0.1% from 2024 (1.9%).
We have no bonus payments for 2025 that fall in the gender pay gap category.
Additional information
|
Quartile |
% males 2023 |
% females 2023 |
|---|---|---|
|
Lower quartile |
26% |
74% |
|
Lower middle quartile |
27% |
73% |
|
Upper middle quartile |
40% |
60% |
|
Upper quartile |
31% |
69% |
- the percentage of women in the upper quartile has remained the same from 2024. The percentage of women in the upper quartile is equal to the percentage of women in the council
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there has been a 2% increase of women in the upper middle quartile from 2024
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there has been a 1% increase of women in the lower middle quartile from 2024
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there has been a 1% decrease of women in the lower quartile from 2024