7 highest paying jobs in the uk without a degree 2019/2020 earn over 100k dollars

if you're currently looking for a high-paying job but you don't have a university degree then you should find this video really helpful because what I'm going to do is run through seven of the highest paying jobs in the UK right now that don't require you to have a university degree to apply for them and I'm also going to show you some common routes that you can take to actually apply for and land these jobs so a lot of people think that in the UK that you need to have a degree in order to get a good job and some good money but that's really not true there are lots of jobs out there that don't require to have a degree where you can be challenged you can enjoy the work and you can earn some really good money so what I want to do in this video today is run through seven of those jobs and tell you a little bit about what each job entails tell you the starting salaries tell you what sort of salary you can expect to be only as you progress within the role and tell you what some of the higher salaries you can earn within those roles are but most importantly what I want to do is show you how you can actually get these jobs so show you some common routes that people take it whether it's applying for a job right now we're doing some self-study before hands so you could actually go away from this moment right now and start progressing your way in to actually landing one of these jobs and the first job on the list is air traffic controller now air traffic controllers are those people that you might have seen on films who sue within the big air traffic control towers at airports and their job is to essentially ensure that all of the flights going in and out of the airport are doing so safely and efficiently they do this by mapping out the landing paths for the pilots and communicating from oh the radio to ensure that all of the takeoffs and landings are running smoothly and safely so it's a very important job and there's a lot of responsibility with it on average an air traffic controller will earn around 40,000 pounds a year but an experienced senior air traffic controller can earn around a hundred thousand pounds a year or more so the starting salary for an air traffic controller is around seventeen thousand pounds a year plus expenses but this is while you're doing your college training which lasts for about a year to 18 months once you've done that you'll then progress to on-the-job training where you're actually learning from somebody in in a live environment and during that period you'll earn around 23,000 pounds a year and once you've completed your operational training you'll then be given your license and this is when you'll start earning around 40,000 pounds you're slightly more and then after around 3 years you can expect to see that rise to around 50 thousand pounds a year now in order to qualify for the application process all you need is to be 18 years or older and have five GCSEs a to see level the best way to apply for this job is via the NAD s website which is the national air traffic services website if you go to their website you can apply online and from there you will be required to do a number of tests which will test your cognitive skills and your decision making but once you've passed the online test will then be invited to me one day Assessment Center where you'll go through further tests and you'll do more group exercises if you pass that stage you'll then be invited to join as a trainee air traffic controller what I think is really good about this application process is it's totally based on your skills and abilities and not on your past experience so you don't need to have a CV that's practice with experience and lots of other stuff you've done in the past they're just looking at what you can do now and their application process is more about tests and seeing how you perform in those than worrying about what you've done in the past and they've also on their website the NA TS have got a series of mini games that you can play to actually train and test those skills to prepare yourself for the for the actual application process one thing that's worth bearing in mind with this job though is that as an air traffic controller you will be expected to work anywhere in the UK so once you've qualified the NACS will then station you of one of the air traffic control centers in any Airport around the country so you will need to be fairly flexible on where you can live if you want to take up this career so the second job on this list is recruitment consultant and this is one I know a little bit about because I used to work in recruitment many years ago so recruitment consultants work for recruitment agencies and what agencies are there to do is to help other companies to find staff so they find staff for companies they place them within that company and they charge the company of fee and as a recruitment consultant you will earn commission from those fees so it's a sales job and you know the more placements you make within companies the more money you're not a recruitment consultants job is basically a sales job and what it involves is going to the clients and bringing in vacancies so approaching potential clients and saying do you need staff and then once you bring those vacancies in and you then go out to the job market you advertise you speak to candidates you scream candidates interview them and then you manage the process all the way through to their interview and then the job off the stage so when you place a candidate with an employer a fee will be generated by your company and when that fee is paid by the client company you as a recruitment consultant will get a commission of that fee so a good recruitment consultant can expect to earn around thirty to forty thousand pounds a year by a really good recruitment consultant in the right sort of high-paying industries can earn well in excess of a hundred thousand pounds a year but it's worth pointing out that it is a sales job and you're not guaranteed this money it's only if you're making constant placements and you're generating money for your employer so generally speaking crewmen consultants or junior recruitment consultants trainee will start on a basic salary of around fifteen to sixteen thousand pounds a year but then you are eligible to earn Commission on top of that from the moment you start working so the more sales you're making all the more placements you're making the more commission you'll generate and with Commission you know in the early days a junior recruitment consultant can easily look to be making sort of twenty thirty forty thousand pounds a year but there are absolutely no cap on the earnings so you know if you if you get into recruitment and you take three really well and you make lots of placements then you know the the sky really is the limit plus a lot of companies to offer bonuses paid holidays cars things like that as well generally speaking there are no formal qualifications for a recruitment consultant they tend to hire more on personality traits than they do on qualifications so what they look for is someone that's going to be good in a sales role so someone that's confident persistent good with people so we need to remember is when you're making your applications for these jobs that you're just trying to get that across in your CV and also you know be chasing people up when you're applying try me on the phone with people so you can get your personality across and so if you wanted to go away today and look for a junior recruitment job what I would recommend is looking for either a trainee recruitment consultant position or looking for a resource a position so what resources is basically an assistant to a recruiter they help the recruitment consultant to find candidates they don't deal with the clients they're literally just putting the adverts out speaking to the cab at a screening of the candidates and then passing them on to the recruiter so it's a nice sort of easier step in and it gets you the experience you need and within easily within a year feel good here you could find yourself progressing into a recruitment consultant role so in summary it's a really good job if you are driven and motivated and you're good with people you can you can certainly own loss of money but it's worth pointing is a very tough sales job it's not easy you know there are targets to hit and you know that the money isn't guaranteed and if you're not hitting those targets you're not going to be making those big figures I've been talking about now the third job on this list is a mortgage advisor so if you don't know what mortgage advisor does essentially when people need to buy a home in the UK they will generally speaking need to borrow money from the bank they'll need a loan which is called a mortgage which is a loan they secured on the house or flat that you're buying so what a mortgage advisor does is they help house buyers to pick the right mortgage products for their needs because mortgages are very complex financial products and there are lots of deals out there so they help people to pick the right one so as a mortgage advisor you will even work directly for a bank and advise only on that banks products or you might work for an independent mortgage brokerage who advise on a wide range of products from across the market and when a mortgage is arranged a fee will generally be generated and mortgage advisors make a commission on those fees so it is technically a sales job on average a good mortgage advisor can expect to earn around four to five thousand pounds a year but then again a good mortgage advisor who is arranging lots of mortgages can earn in excess of eighty thousand pounds a year but you do have to be arranging those mortgages and making those sales in order to earn the Commission to earn that kind of money these average starting salary for a mortgage advisor will be around 20 to 25 K but some within the first year as you progress and start to bring on more clients and sell more mortgage deals you can easily start to move that to these sort of thirty to forty thousand pounds a year range the main qualification you need to become a mortgage advisor in the UK is AC map or a certificate of mortgage advice and practice it costs a few hundred pounds to do this course and you can self-study at home but you have to take an exam at the end and only if you pass the exam are you then qualified to actually give mortgage advice in the UK so there are a couple of routes that you can take to become a mortgage advisor in the UK the first is that you self study on your own so you buy the CMAP study material you take about six to do the studies you passed the exam once you pass the exam you then apply for junior mortgage advisor positions or trainee positions with banks or lenders the second where you can take though is that you can actually take a more junior job with a bank for example such as a customer advisor someone who deals with savings and loans and things like that and then you can progress your way into a mortgage role so you can you know start so that your boss know that you're looking to move into mortgages and in many cases a lot of employers but actually fund those studies for you so once you've qualified who will then be able to move into a mortgage role internally with the employer and generally speaking to get one of these junior banking type jobs you'll only need sort of basic GCSEs to get your foot in the door there so it's a really good job if you're interested in finance and you like dealing with people but it's important to remember it is a sales job so again it does come with pressure and targets and you're not guaranteed to make those Commission's unless you're making those mortgage deals so number four on the list is project manager so project managers manage a wide range of projects across all industries and professions so it could be a big construction project building a big block of flats it could be an IT upgrade for a business it could be a people transformation program where a company's restructuring its people so there's there's a wide range of areas you've gained - and generally speaking what they do is state they plan the projects they budget and they schedule them and they make sure that everybody on the project team is delivering the work that they're supposed to be and it's all delivered on time and on budget on average in the UK a project manager will earn around four to two thousand pounds a year but a really good experience project manager working in the right industries can earn in excess of seventy five thousand pounds a year even possibly a hundred thousand pounds a year or more depending on the experience level and the type of industry they're working in you don't need any formal qualifications to become a project manager there are some recognized bodies out there that offer project management training such as prince2 now these are formally recognized and preferred but they are not 100% necessary so you don't need to go out there and do them and they're quite expensive as well so what I would recommend if you look in to break into project management is to take a junior project role and work your way up into a project management position so for example you could apply for project support roles or project admin roles where you will be working alongside project managers supporting them in various functions and once you've got a role like that you can then that's obviously progress and move their way into a project management role internally within that employer nobody speaking this could take you sort of one to five years depending on how quickly you progress and what opportunities are available within the employer that you're working for over time you can also do project management apprenticeships of some bigger companies out there so while it is offered some links in the description to some companies who are currently offering those at the moment number five on the list is estate agent so as you may well know estate agents help people to sell their homes so if somebody is looking to sell their their house or their flat and it's a agent what they'll do is they'll they'll take complete control of the process so they will market the property they'll take the photos put them all the websites they'll manage all the viewings and once once they actually manage to sell the house to somebody they then charge the homeowner of fee and in a similar way to recruitment those those fees generally tend to be quite high and estate agents working in those roles will take a commission from those fees and that's how they earn their money on average a good estate agent can earn around sixty thousand pounds a year by really good a state agent who's selling lots of houses can easily earn in excess of a hundred thousand pounds a year but again it is a sales job you're not guaranteed to make those fees it's only if you're making the sales we'll be making those big commissions entry-level estate agent jobs such as trainee estate agent roles will generally tend to pay around the twelve to sixteen thousand pounds a year mark but again this is basic salary and you can start earning commissions straight away so you know if you do well you could easily sort of learn to start earning twenty to thirty thousand pounds a year within the first year now there are no formal qualifications to become an estate agent in the UK but you will generally need a driving license and possibly your own car to get around and do viewings and show people the properties that you're trying to sell but generally speaking estate agents in a similar way to recruitment consultants they look for people who are going to be good in sales positions so people who are good with people confident persistent all those kinds of traits so you just have to remember when you're applying for the jobs to try and get those qualities across to people when you're making application when you're interviewing when you're speaking to people so if you want to start applying for a stay agent jobs today what I would recommend is preparing your CV and start looking for jobs like trainee estate agent junior estate agent trainee lessons agent trainees sales agents all those kind of jobs are gonna get your entry-level jobs within estate agents to sort of get your foot in the door and start the career so it's a really good job if you're interested in property you like dealing with people and you like to be rewarded for the results you get as opposed to the time you work but again it's worth mentioning that is a tough sales job you're not guaranteed to make tons of money you need to be making those sales and generating those fees to earn the Commission to earn the higher salaries job number six is electrician and now electricians are responsible for installing and maintaining all of the electric systems we see around us in our homes and offices so because of that reason they always have and probably always will be in very high demand now on average a salaried electrician in the UK will earn around 40,000 pounds a year but there are lots opportunities to earn more within that industry because you have lost opportunities for going self-employed contracting and often there is lots of overtime work available in construction which is often paid at very high rates so it's not uncommon to see electricians who earn seventy five thousand pounds a year or more there was even a article in The Daily Mail recently that said some additions in certain areas are earning over a hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year depending on which will you take on becoming an electrician and the starting salary will differ so you need to get an NVQ in electro technical services in order to be able to carry out the job but there are two different ways you can actually go about doing this so you can apply for an apprenticeship with one of the big lecture hall funds and generally speaking they will starts trainee or parenthesis electricians on around fourteen thousand pounds a year but they will pay for all of their training put them through college and make sure they get all the qualifications needed plus they can give them on-the-job training of actually working alongside electricians and other tradesmen to qualify for an apprenticeship you'll generally need three GCSEs at agency level and some companies may have age restrictions on who can do Prentice ship so for example some people capya 18 some 16 for some offer friendships to much older people as well you can also self study in your own time so if you're currently in a role now and you couldn't afford to take the drop down to an apprenticeship what you could do is you could study the mvq on your own and then you could apply for a junior electricians role which is called an electricians and mate and what that is is that we'll see you sort of shadowing and assisting an electrician and either of these rooms you take could see you earning potentially within sort of 30 to 40 K within a year or so so it's a really good job if you prefer to work your hands and preferably more of an active job but it's worth noticing with physical jobs obviously as you get older you know your abilities to do these jobs can sometimes be hampered you know Jimmy speaking as you go older your body starts to slow down a bit but you can of course you know from an electrician role sort of work your way into management positions or engineer positions projects lead type positions as you progress a bit get a bit older so the seventh job on the list is business-to-business sales people now what business-to-business sales means is that you're in a sales position within a company and you're selling a product or service to another business so business-to-business sales and generally speaking business to business services and products sell for quite a lot of money so it could be a piece of software that sells for thousands of pounds it could be a fleet of cars generally speaking you're talking about very high sales values and as a salesperson you will get a commission from those sales when you make them so similar to recruitment consult with an estate agents it's not one of those jobs where if you do well when you make the sales you'll generally tend to earn very good commissions so the basic salary for a junior b2b sales person could be anything around the sort of fifteen to twenty K mark but as with all sale roles if you're making cells that can they can start to go up pretty rapidly you know an average b2b sales person who is making consistent sales could quite easily make sort of forty to fifty thousand pounds a year once they've got a bit of experience at a really good b2b sales person who's got lots of clients making lots of sales of high-value products can easily over one hundred thousand pounds a year and again it's totally uncapped because the more sales you make the more Commission you will make so as a sales job it will involve a lot of contact with clients meetings net working you know trying to generate leads and generate opportunities in order to make as many sales of a service or product as you possibly can for the employer so there are no formal qualifications to become a salesperson in any field really so again it's just about trying to get those sales like qualities across when you apply for the jobs the confidence the persistence dealing with people being able to work under pressure all those kind of things so if you're looking to get into b2b sales I would suggest is simply searching for junior b2b sales roles so it could be a b2b sales executive or a junior b2b sales person another way to potentially get into a b2b sales role could be to get a non sales role within a b2b company so perhaps like an admin role or an assistant type role within a b2b firm you're going to be working closely with the salespeople and then once you're in the wrong you've got some experience of the of the products or the the service they offer then look to start moving into a sales role and progressing that way again it's a really good job if you like dealing with people and you're prepared to put the hard work in and you're gonna be able to make those sales but again it's worth noting it is a sales job and you know you're not guaranteed to make commissions it's only if you're making the sales are you gonna make those higher salaries so that's my list of the seven highest paying jobs in the UK that don't require a degree I hope you found it helpful if you have please give the video a like it really helps the channel when it helps us to reach more people who are looking for advice on this subject and of course to get the best results from your job search and make sure that when you're prime for these jobs you're giving yourself the best chance of actually getting responses and getting interviews you need to have a well-written CV and we have lots of advice on how to do this on the channel I'll link to some other videos that will be helpful and also understand our CV website where we have lots of examples TVs writing guides and other resources so feel free to check those out now I'm sure there are many more jobs out there that the paid good salaries and don't need a degree that I haven't mentioned here so if you do know of any higher paying jobs that don't require a degree feel free to drop in the comments below so we can share more of these opportunities with anybody who's seeing so thanks very much for watching this article I really appreciate it and best of luck with your job search