The numbers
The Isle of Man job market, by the advert
Everything below counts live adverts, not vacancies and not hires — one employer running the same role twice is two of them. Recounted every five minutes from the board itself.
What the adverts pay
128 of 575 state a figure
Median advertised salary
£37,500
Middle half: £28,000 – £52,300
Of the 447 adverts that quote nothing, 5 have no estimate we're confident enough to publish either.
Annualised before averaging, so an hourly contract and a salary compare: hourly rates are converted at 37.5 hours a week. The median is of what employers printed — estimates are counted separately and never enter this figure.
Where the advertised salaries land
128 adverts
- Under £25k18 · 14%
- £25k – £35k43 · 34%
- £35k – £50k25 · 20%
- £50k – £75k31 · 24%
- £75k and up11 · 9%
Stated figures only — a guess has no business shaping the shape of the market. The median estimate across the silent adverts is £37,000, which is the pay of the roles that don't advertise a number, not of the ones that do.
Pay by sector
Medians, 4+ adverts per figure
| Sector | Advertised | Estimated |
|---|---|---|
| Legal 27 | — | £62,500 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(25) |
| Finance 151 | £55,300(12) | £40,000 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(138) |
| Healthcare 50 | £51,800(30) | £28,500 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(20) |
| Tech 26 | — | £48,800 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(26) |
| Government 24 | £41,600(24) | — |
| Education 18 | £41,200(15) | — |
| Insurance 45 | — | £39,000 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(43) |
| Other 47 | £32,400(7) | £33,300 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(40) |
| Engineering & Science 11 | £32,000(4) | £39,000 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(7) |
| Admin & Office 93 | £30,000(7) | £33,000 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(85) |
| Transport & Logistics 5 | — | £28,000 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(4) |
| Hospitality 49 | £25,600(11) | £28,800 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(38) |
| Retail 27 | £0(15) | £27,500 — Estimated by AI — this advert didn't state a salary(11) |
Two columns, never merged: advertised is what employers printed, estimated is the model's read of the market rate for the adverts that printed nothing, shown only above 35% confidence. The number after each sector is how many adverts it has live; the number in brackets is how many went into that median. Sectors with too few of either are left out entirely.
Which sectors are hiring
575 adverts
- Finance151 · 26%
- Admin & Office93 · 16%
- Healthcare50 · 9%
- Hospitality49 · 9%
- Other47 · 8%
- Insurance45 · 8%
- Legal27 · 5%
- Retail27 · 5%
- Tech26 · 5%
- Government24 · 4%
- Education18 · 3%
- Engineering & Science11 · 2%
- Transport & Logistics5 · 0.9%
- Construction1 · 0.2%
- Services & Facilities1 · 0.2%
Sector comes from the source's own classification of the advert, mapped onto ours. Follow a row to the board, filtered.
Where the work is
575 adverts
- Isle of Man (island-wide)492 · 86%
- Douglas51 · 9%
- Ramsey10 · 2%
- Ballasalla10 · 2%
- Port St Mary5 · 0.9%
- Peel3 · 0.5%
- Port Erin3 · 0.5%
- Onchan1 · 0.2%
Most employers advertise island-wide rather than by town — on an island 33 miles long, the office being in Douglas is rarely the point.
Who places the adverts
Employer or agency
- Posted by the employer281 · 49%
- Placed by an agency294 · 51%
An agency is the advertiser, not the employer — which is why they have a directory of their own. The undisclosed roles below aren't a gap in our data: the advert itself says “our client, a leading trust company” and never names them.
Contract type
523 of 575 adverts say
Bars cover only the adverts that state a contract type; the rest are left out rather than counted as full-time.
Seniority
195 of 575 adverts say
- Entry level10 · 5%
- Junior2 · 1%
- Senior85 · 44%
- Lead12 · 6%
- Manager63 · 32%
- Director20 · 10%
- Executive3 · 2%
In ladder order, not size order. Most adverts state no level at all — a job title is not a grade, and the extractor won't invent one.
Top 10 skills asked for
Mentions across live adverts
- Compliance27
- ACCA21
- Excel21
- customer service20
- ACA19
- Microsoft Office18
- Regulatory compliance18
- Trust administration18
- Risk management17
- Financial Services15
Read out of the advert text by a language model and mapped onto a fixed skill list, so this is what adverts ask for — not a survey of the island's workforce.
Top 10 benefits offered
Mentions across live adverts
- Professional Development112
- Flexible Working68
- Pension Scheme66
- Wellbeing Support56
- Free Parking50
- Cycle to Work45
- Enhanced Annual Leave31
- Gym Membership26
- Relocation Support18
- Hybrid Working12
Only benefits the advert actually lists. A pension everyone offers but nobody prints doesn't appear here.
Busiest employers
Live adverts
Direct adverts and agency adverts that name them. An employer hiring through an agency that keeps the client confidential can't be counted here.
Busiest agencies
Live adverts
Counted by adverts placed, whether or not the client is named.
How this is counted
Every figure is a live advert on this board, recounted at most five minutes ago. Adverts that have closed, expired or are awaiting moderation are excluded, so the totals move as the board does.
There are no trends here yet on purpose. Adverts rarely publish a posting date, so ours is the day we first saw the advert — a line chart of that would plot our own crawl history and label it the job market.
Salaries are annualised before they are compared, and split into what an employer stated and what a model estimated. The two are never averaged together, and the estimate is marked wherever it appears.
Sector, contract type and seniority come from the advert itself. Where an advert says nothing, it is left out of that chart rather than counted as the most common answer.