Why?

There are major hotspots up and down the UK which typically see higher salaries than elsewhere in the country. In many cases it can be extremely valuable to see the difference in salary when we exclude one of these locations.

Exclude high-cost locations like London to get a more accurate, representative view of typical pay — not just what’s happening in salary hotspots. National benchmarking just got smarter 🎓

How?

At this time have selected the 10 most populated cities across the UK. These cities have been defined using geographic data from the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) so that we can accurately exclude them from a search.

This can be used in tandem with our existing location search for significantly improved location-based benchmarking.

The cities included are:

London

Birmingham

Bristol

Cardiff

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Leeds

Liverpool

Manchester

Sheffield

You can click on any of these tabs^^ to see the exact outline of each city to know exactly which areas you will be excluding

Have a location that you'd like to exclude? Suggest it, along with an example of your use case, on our roadmap here 💡

What does it look like?

The 'exclude a location' option can be found just below the current location input at the top of the HR DataHub portal. It is available via a collapsible section and so you may need to click on the left-hand 'Exclusion filters' as shown here:

Easily exclude up to 10 major cities right from the search UI — no need for awkward workarounds or post-export filtering. One click, instant control.

If you would like to search UK-wide and then exclude one or more city's then leave the main location-entry blank and select the cities you would like to exclude. Your search should look like this:

And if you would like to search for a large area of the UK but exclude the city itself then your search should look like this:

As always, remember to save your searches so you only have to benchmark each role in detail once 🧠

Excluding a location from a search📍