Night shift pay rate UK: Shift Premium Rates
The Shift Premium Rates carries 2 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 10 to 47 percent, read 24 October 2026.
3 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 24 October 2026.
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| NHS Employers - unsocial hours payments (Agenda for Change section 2 table) | 47% | 2026-10-12 |
| GOV.UK - LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71 | 12.71GBP | 2026-10-24 |
| Home Office circular 011/2026 - Annex U, Police Regulations 2003 allowances | 10% | 2026-10-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (3)
- NHS Employers - unsocial hours payments (Agenda for Change section 2 table), read 2026-10-12:
Pay band All time on Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight) 1 Time plus 47% Time plus 94%
- GOV.UK - LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71, read 2026-10-24:
The National Living Wage, the minimum wage rate for all workers aged 21 and over, will rise by 4.1 per cent to £12.71.
- Home Office circular 011/2026 - Annex U, Police Regulations 2003 allowances, read 2026-10-12:
The unsocial hours allowance shall be paid at an hourly rate of 10% of the member’s hourly rate of pay, calculated by multiplying by 6/125200 the member’s annual rate of pay.
Read in full, publishes no figure
7 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- NHS Staff Council - NHS terms and conditions handbook, Section 2 (England), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- NHS Employers - unsocial hours factsheet, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - minimum wage rates for 2026, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- GOV.UK - working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Police Regulations 2003 reg 34 - allowances, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Local Government Association - the Grey Book (NJC fire and rescue conditions of service), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Warwickshire Police Federation - pay and allowances, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
3 of the 10 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 46 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per published premium per sector per band - the NHS Agenda for Change Section 2 percentages, the police unsocial hours allowance determination, the fire service Grey Book duty-system payments - each quoted from the agreement that sets it, beside the National Minimum Wage floor and the hours of a shift that legally count for it; the derivation is the pattern-to-pay join nobody publishes: for each pattern in the library, the share of its hours that fall in each premium window, and therefore the effective hourly rate the pattern produces in each sector - which is the answer to 'what will this rota actually cost me' and 'what will I actually earn on it'.
46 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (12)
- NHS Employers - unsocial hours payments (Agenda for Change section 2 table)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- NHS Staff Council - NHS terms and conditions handbook, Section 2 (England)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- NHS Employers - unsocial hours factsheet(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - minimum wage rates for 2026(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Home Office circular 011/2026 - Annex U, Police Regulations 2003 allowances(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Police Regulations 2003 reg 34 - allowances(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Local Government Association - the Grey Book (NJC fire and rescue conditions of service)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Warwickshire Police Federation - pay and allowances(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- nhsemployers.org(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Shift Premium Rates carries 2 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 10 to 47 percent, read 24 October 2026.
3 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 24 October 2026.
Cite as: "shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk Shift Premium Rates", updated 2026-10-24, https://shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk/datasets/shift-premium-rates/.
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Questions this data answers
What does an unsocial shift actually pay - the night, weekend and bank-holiday premium by sector - and what is the legal floor under it?
The Shift Premium Rates carries 2 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 10 to 47 percent, read 24 October 2026.
Where do the figures in the Shift Premium Rates come from?
Every figure is quoted from its source's own page and dated (last read 24 Oct 2026). 10 named sources were read and 3 publish a figure; the 7 that publish none are recorded as not published, never estimated.