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Signals is a new monthly look at what the cycling job market is actually doing, built from the roles Jobs in Cycling tracks on employers' own websites. No surveys, no guesswork, just the listings. This first one covers everything since the board started: 92 UK roles from 35 employers, posted between late December 2025 and today.
The headline is about pay.
Of those 92 roles, 37 published a salary or hourly rate. That's 40%. The other 55 said nothing, or said "competitive", which is the same thing.
That average hides a very clean split.
Cycling's charities and governing bodies (Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, formerly Sustrans, Cycling UK, British Cycling, London Cycling Campaign and the Bikeability Trust) listed 23 roles between them. 22 had a salary on them. Walk Wheel Cycle Trust published pay on all 12 of its roles, from an estate worker at £26,760 to its chief executive at £160,000. The full breakdown is in our cycling charity salaries guide.
Everywhere else, it's 15 out of 69. About one in five.
The seven commercial employers with four or more roles on the board (Balfe's Bikes, Muc-Off, Apidura, Condor Cycles, Hunt, Rapha and Alpkit) listed 44 roles between them. Two had a salary: an Alpkit analyst at £26,227.50 a year and an Apidura repair specialist at £15–£20 an hour.
The smaller operators were far more open. Across the 25 roles from employers hiring once or twice, 13 published pay: independent shops, hire centres, uplift companies, component makers. Cycle Exchange put £25,000–£35,000 on an experienced technician role. Just Pedal put £32,000–£40,000 on a hire manager and head mechanic. Nobody made them.
Which is why the board looks the way it does right now: of the 35 roles live today, only five show a salary. The current mix is heavy on the bigger names. Brand-side marketing is a good example: see cycling marketing salaries.
The published hourly rates cluster tightly:
Salaried mechanic roles landed between roughly £25,000 and £40,000 depending on seniority. That's a small sample, which is exactly the problem. Plenty of shops hiring mechanics this year didn't publish a figure at all. More in our bike mechanic salary guide and hourly pay in cycling jobs.
A missing salary costs the applicant, not the employer. It means applying blind, finding out at the third interview, and pay gaps nobody can see. It also quietly filters out people who can't afford to gamble on a move, which is most of the people this industry says it wants to attract.
Charities manage to publish pay on almost every role, and so do plenty of small shops. The bigger brands could too.
So here's the deal. Every month, Signals will count who publishes pay and who doesn't. If you're hiring, put the number in. We'll show it on every listing, and we'll notice.
Signals uses every UK role Jobs in Cycling has tracked from employers' own careers pages, whether it's live now or has closed. Duplicates are counted once. Roles found only on other job boards aren't included. Nor are unpaid, volunteer and trustee posts. "Published a salary" means a figure appeared in the employer's listing: "competitive", "DOE" and "TBC" don't count. Roles from December to April were added by hand. Since mid-August they've been collected daily. It's a snapshot of the part of the market we can see, not the whole industry, and the sample grows every month.
