{"id":"uk-minimum-wage","title":"UK National Minimum & Living Wage Rates (April 2026)","description":"The statutory National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates in the UK from 1 April 2026, by worker-type band, with the previous year’s rate for context. Published by GOV.UK, alongside the ONS median full-time hourly earnings figure the rates can be compared against.","url":"https://gerajobs.com/data/uk-minimum-wage","csvUrl":"https://gerajobs.com/data/uk-minimum-wage/sample.csv","coverage":"United Kingdom — four statutory rate bands","spatialCoverage":"United Kingdom","temporalCoverage":"2026","rowCount":4,"rowUnit":"rate bands","provenance":{"source":"GOV.UK — National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates","sourceUrl":"https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates","publisher":"HM Government","licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0","licenceUrl":"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","attribution":"Source: GOV.UK — National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.","asOf":"April 2026","modified":null},"methodology":"Rates are the statutory hourly minimums copied verbatim from GOV.UK for the April 2026 uprating, with the April 2025 rate retained for context. The ONS median full-time gross hourly earnings figure (ASHE 2025) is included as a published comparison denominator. No rate is estimated.","keyFigures":[{"label":"National Living Wage","value":"£12.71","note":"21 and over, from April 2026"},{"label":"Apprentice rate","value":"£8.00"},{"label":"ONS median FT hourly","value":"£19.67","note":"ASHE 2025"},{"label":"Rate bands","value":"4"}],"columns":[{"name":"band","description":"Statutory worker-type band"},{"name":"ageBand","description":"Age / eligibility band as GOV.UK labels it"},{"name":"rate2026","description":"Rate from April 2026, GBP/hour"},{"name":"rate2025","description":"Previous rate (April 2025), GBP/hour"}],"sampleRows":[{"band":"National Living Wage (21 and over)","ageBand":"21 and over","rate2026":12.71,"rate2025":12.21},{"band":"National Minimum Wage (18 to 20)","ageBand":"18 to 20","rate2026":10.85,"rate2025":10},{"band":"National Minimum Wage (under 18)","ageBand":"Under 18","rate2026":8,"rate2025":7.55},{"band":"Apprentice rate","ageBand":"Apprentices","rate2026":8,"rate2025":7.55}],"notice":"sampleRows is a verbatim sample, not the full snapshot. Open data re-published by GeraJobs; cite the original publisher above."}