Gender pay gap report 2025-2026
All companies with 250 or more employees are now required to publish their gender pay gap under legislation that came into force in April 2017. This report contains Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited's statutory disclosure of the gender pay gap.
Since April 2017, employers have been required to publish the gap in pay between men and women on both a median basis (pay per hour based on the person in the middle of the distribution of pay) and a mean basis (average hourly salary).
In addition, employers are required to disclose the distribution of gender by pay quartile, in other words splitting the workforce into four groups based on pay and showing the proportion of men and women in each group.
Employers are also required to disclose the percentage of staff receiving bonuses by gender and the gender gap in bonus payments.
Overview
Main gender pay gap figures
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women earned 91p for every £1 that men earned (comparing median hourly pay)
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women made up 23.9% of employees in the highest paid quarter and 42.7% of employees in the lowest paid quarter
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25.4% of women received bonus pay, compared with 27.2% of men
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women's bonus pay was 14.0% lower than men's (comparing median bonus pay)
Hourly pay
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women earned 96p for every £1 that men earned (comparing median hourly pay)
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women made up 11.5% of employees in the highest paid quarter, and 22.4% of employees in the lowest paid quarter
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51.1% of women received bonus pay, compared with 42.6% of men
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women’s bonus pay was 42.0% higher than men’s (comparing median bonus pay)
Pay quarters
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23.9% of employees in the upper pay quarter were women
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40.0% of employees in the upper middle pay quarter were women
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42.7% of employees in the lower middle pay quarter were women
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42.7% of employees in the lower pay quarter were women
Bonus pay
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women's median bonus pay was 14.0% lower than men's. This means they earned 86p for every £1 that men earned when comparing median bonus pay.
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women's mean (average) bonus pay was 18.309% lower than men's.
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25.4% of women and 27.2% of men received bonus pay.