Which Civil Service jobs pay £40k+ but are graded “Other”?

Civil Service grades, from the most junior: Administrative Assistant (AA), Administrative Officer (AO), Executive Officer (EO), Higher Executive Officer (HEO), Senior Executive Officer (SEO), Grade 7, Grade 6, and the Senior Civil Service (SCS). Each department sets its own pay for each grade, but the names tell you roughly how senior a job is.

Other is not a grade. It is a label for jobs that don't sit on the ladder. The job is real and advertised on Civil Service Jobs like any other, but the employer uses its own bands. Probation officers in HM Prison & Probation Service are paid on probation bands. Regulators such as Ofwat and bodies such as The Money and Pensions Service have pay structures of their own. Doctors in the Ministry of Defence and consultants in the UK Health Security Agency are paid on medical scales.

Some of these employers are not government departments but public bodies that recruit through Civil Service Jobs. Whether a job makes you a civil servant depends on the employer. The advert usually says, often near the pay, pension or nationality sections.

Because the grade won't tell you how senior an Other job is, read the job title, the pay and the responsibilities instead. The employer's own band name, such as Band 5, is often in the title or the advert.

A job is on this list when its pay range reaches £40,000 or more anywhere in the range. So a job whose range starts a little below £40,000 and ends above it is included. Check where you would start. Many adverts say new starters join at the bottom of the range, and the top may take years to reach.

Some pay lines include allowances, such as London weighting or a specialist allowance, and some ranges cover more than one location. The pay section of the advert explains it. If you are unsure where you would land, ask the contact named in the advert before you apply. That is a normal question.

Look past the salary too. The advert lists the pension, leave and other benefits, and these differ between employers, especially between departments and the public bodies that sit outside them.

Jobs are grouped by employer, such as HM Prison & Probation Service, Ofwat or the UK Health Security Agency. Each employer shows up to 5 jobs; tap the line underneath to see the rest.

Each card shows the reference number (Ref), the pay, the job title, the employer with its grade label, and the closing date. Tap the card to open the full advert on Civil Service Jobs. The cards are not all in date order, so check the closing date on each one, and check the time on the advert too, because some close at midday.

Many Other jobs ask for a specific qualification or registration, such as a probation qualification, a medical registration or a professional accreditation. Read the essential criteria before anything else. If you don't meet one, the application usually can't get through, however strong the rest is.

If you search Civil Service Jobs yourself, leave the grade filter empty and use the salary filter instead. That way Other jobs stay in your results alongside the graded ones.

You apply on Civil Service Jobs the same way as for any other job: open the advert, press Apply, and fill in each section. A few specialist employers send you on to their own recruitment site; if so, the advert says where.

The advert says how you will be assessed. Many use Success Profiles: a CV, a personal statement, behaviour examples or technical questions. Some specialist jobs ask for evidence against a list of criteria. Write to what the advert asks, in the order it asks, and keep each part within its word limit.

The sift is the first round, where the panel scores applications to decide who to interview. For specialist jobs, the panel often checks the essential criteria and qualifications first, so make your evidence for each one easy to find.

Tonight, scan the employers in the list for ones in your field. Open two or three adverts and check the essential criteria, the starting pay and the closing date and time.

This week, apply to the ones you qualify for, closing soonest first. When you search for more, filter by salary rather than grade, so Other jobs keep showing up.

Plum doesn't apply for you. It matches you to live jobs by pay and type of work, not just grade, shows what each advert tests, and lets you save a search so new £40k+ jobs reach you.