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October 2026 · Bristol

The highest-paid jobs in Bristol

What Bristol was advertising in October 2026, and what it paid.

We listed 58 senior roles in Bristol from 8 employers in October 2026. 26 of them stated a salary (44.8%). These are the 3 highest-paid of them.

How these 3 were chosen

The highest-paid permanent roles in the city that stated a salary clearing £100,000, on the day this was captured, with at most one role per employer. Not “the most interesting”, which is not a claim anyone could check. A role advertised at an hourly or daily rate is ranked on a full-time-year equivalent so it can be compared with a salary; the advertised figure is always the one shown, never the conversion. Roles with no stated pay cannot appear here at all, which is a limitation of the list rather than of the roles.

This page records October 2026. 2 of these 3 roles have since come off the board — filled, expired or withdrawn — and are marked below. For what is open now, see the live board.

  1. #1 · Cygnet Health Care

    £175,000 a year

    Consultant Neuropsychiatrist

    Bristol BS10 7DP

    No longer listed. We are not linking to it, because the advert has gone.

  2. #2 · Practice Plus Group

    £140,000 a year

    Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon -Upper Limb

    Bristol BS16 7FH

  3. #3 · Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

    £113,565 to £150,569 a year

    Consultant Urologist - General and Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

    Bristol BS10 5NB

    No longer listed. We are not linking to it, because the advert has gone.

What changed since September 2026

The two lists were captured 17 days apart, so this is a comparison of two snapshots rather than of two whole months. Over that gap:

  • · 1 of these 3 roles was not in the September 2026 list.
  • · 1 of the 5 roles in that list is still advertised.
  • · We listed 56 senior roles in Bristol then, against 58 now.

A role leaving the list has not necessarily been filled — it may have expired or been withdrawn, and we cannot tell which. And a role being new to the list does not mean it is newly advertised: it may have been on the board in September 2026 and simply outranked by something that has since closed. What the turnover does show is that a ranking like this describes a week or two, not a season, which is why these pages are dated and kept rather than updated.

What the list does not show

Only 26 of 58 roles stated a salary, so this ranks a minority and says nothing about the rest. The pattern is the one we find everywhere: public-sector and clinical employers publish pay and most private ones do not, so a list ordered by advertised salary tends to fill up with healthcare wherever it is drawn.

All current roles · Roles that publish their pay · Where the £100,000 jobs are