# 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.

Shift Pattern Generator · https://shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk/datasets/shift-premium-rates/ · computed 2026-10-24

**Range of the published figures:** 10 to 47 % (range 10 to 47 %; 2 published figures; 3 of 10 sources read publish one).

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 source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| [NHS Employers - unsocial hours payments (Agenda for Change section 2 table)](https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/unsocial-hours-payments) | 47 % | 2026-10-12 |
| [GOV.UK - LPC recommendations take the National Living Wage to £12.71](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lpc-recommendations-take-the-national-living-wage-to-1271) | 12.71 GBP | 2026-10-24 |
| [Home Office circular 011/2026 - Annex U, Police Regulations 2003 allowances](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/circular-0112026-annexes-f-u-and-da-police-regulations-2003/annex-u-amendment-allowances-accessible) | 10 % | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (3)

- [NHS Employers - unsocial hours payments (Agenda for Change section 2 table)](https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/unsocial-hours-payments), 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](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lpc-recommendations-take-the-national-living-wage-to-1271), 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](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/circular-0112026-annexes-f-u-and-da-police-regulations-2003/annex-u-amendment-allowances-accessible), 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

- [NHS Staff Council - NHS terms and conditions handbook, Section 2 (England)](https://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/part-2-pay/section-2-maintaining-round-the-clock-services-england), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [NHS Employers - unsocial hours factsheet](https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/unsocial-hours-factsheet), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK - minimum wage rates for 2026](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/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](https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage/working-hours-for-which-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](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/527/regulation/34/made), 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)](https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/workforce-and-hr-support/fire-and-rescue-workforce-support/fire-and-rescue-services-24), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Warwickshire Police Federation - pay and allowances](https://polfed.org/warks/advice/pay-allowances/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'.

## Sources

- [NHS Employers - unsocial hours payments (Agenda for Change section 2 table)](https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/unsocial-hours-payments) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NHS Staff Council - NHS terms and conditions handbook, Section 2 (England)](https://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/part-2-pay/section-2-maintaining-round-the-clock-services-england) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NHS Employers - unsocial hours factsheet](https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/unsocial-hours-factsheet) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK - National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates](https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK - minimum wage rates for 2026](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/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](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lpc-recommendations-take-the-national-living-wage-to-1271) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK - working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid](https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage/working-hours-for-which-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](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/circular-0112026-annexes-f-u-and-da-police-regulations-2003/annex-u-amendment-allowances-accessible) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Police Regulations 2003 reg 34 - allowances](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/527/regulation/34/made) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Local Government Association - the Grey Book (NJC fire and rescue conditions of service)](https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/workforce-and-hr-support/fire-and-rescue-workforce-support/fire-and-rescue-services-24) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Warwickshire Police Federation - pay and allowances](https://polfed.org/warks/advice/pay-allowances/allowances/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [nhsemployers.org](https://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook) (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.

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