Government Equalities Office / Department for Business and Trade
Gender Pay Gap Reports
Gender pay gap figures for every UK employer with 250 or more staff, filed each year since 2017 — pay and bonus gaps, quartile splits, and each employer's company number. In effect, a maintained register of the country's large employers, updated annually.
At a glance
- Publisher
- Government Equalities Office / Department for Business and Trade
- Updates
- Updated annually
- Cost
- Free — open data
- Last checked
- 2026-07-21
Professional & B2B servicesFinancial servicesBusiness & companies
What your business can use it for
- Sales prospectingReach the UK's large employers — every organisation over 250 staff, with industry and location — a ready-made target list for anyone selling to bigger businesses.
- Territory planningCount the large employers in each area and sector, so you size and carve up sales patches on where the big organisations actually are.
- Market analysisTrack pay and workforce make-up across an industry or region over eight years of consistent reporting — useful context for HR, recruitment and advisory firms.
Works with data you already have
- Company numbersCompany numbersZero-pad to 8 digits before joining to Companies House; not populated for some public-sector bodies
- Employer postcodesPostcodesEach employer carries a postcode you can join to any postcode-keyed dataset
- Industry codes (SIC)Industry codes (SIC)A multi-value field — split the cell before joining to the SIC hierarchy
How to get it
- Download the data — Gender Pay Gap ServiceBulk downloadNo account needed. One CSV per reporting year from 2017 onward; each row is an employer with its pay-gap metrics, postcode, company number and industry codes.
What's involved in using it
- There is one file per reporting year since 2017, so building any trend means gathering and stacking around ten separate files and matching each employer across them.
- Each employer's industry (SIC) codes are packed several into a single cell, so they have to be split before you can filter by sector, and the company number needed to link to Companies House and other business data is sometimes missing — especially for public-sector bodies — and needs reformatting to match.
The technical detail, for whoever sets it up (3)
- Employers with 250 or more staff only. This is a large-employer subset, not all companies — a business being absent does not mean it is small.
- The pay figures are a snapshot from early April; the report itself can be filed up to a year later, so treat the snapshot date and the submission date as different things.
- Some eligible employers report late or not at all, so a single year is not a complete census of large employers.
Ask us about Gender Pay Gap Reports
Ask a factual question about Gender Pay Gap Reports — what it covers, how often it changes, whether it matches the records you keep — and we will answer, free. Or tell us what you are trying to work out, and we will tell you what it would take to get this data working next to the numbers you already have.