CompanyBeacon report · snapshot 23 August 2026

UK inflation and wages

CPI annual inflation and regular weekly pay, kept on their official monthly periods.

Snapshot: harvested 23 August 2026; 67 official source files succeeded and 0 failed. Page generated 15 September 2026. National indicators provide context; they do not predict an individual company's performance.
2026-07

CPI annual inflation

2.9%

+0.3 from the previous observation.

2026-06

Regular weekly pay

£703

+4.0 from the previous observation.

How to use these signals

Headline CPI is a consumer-price measure, not a company's input-cost index. Regular weekly pay is a whole-economy level, not a forecast for a particular payroll. Together they can prompt questions about pricing power, wage pressure and household demand.

Look for sustained movement rather than treating one month as decisive, and verify whether the company's costs and customers are actually exposed to the national measures shown.

CPI annual inflation history

Source: Office for National Statistics. Open Government Licence v3.0

PeriodValuePublished series
2026-072.9%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2026-062.6%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2026-052.8%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2026-042.8%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2026-033.3%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2026-023.0%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2026-013.0%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2025-123.4%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2025-113.2%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2025-103.6%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2025-093.8%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100
2025-083.8%CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100

Regular weekly pay history

Source: Office for National Statistics. Open Government Licence v3.0

PeriodValuePublished series
2026-06£703AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2026-05£699AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2026-04£697AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2026-03£693AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2026-02£692AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2026-01£691AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2025-12£691AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2025-11£688AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2025-10£687AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2025-09£685AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2025-08£682AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears
2025-07£680AWE: Whole Economy Level (£): Seasonally Adjusted Regular Pay Excluding Arrears

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