Frequently asked questions

Zigbert is a UK pay and benefits benchmarking platform — the Reward Intelligence product from TwentySix Consulting. It gives employers a clear market rate for every role, drawn from over 1.5 million UK salary records and checked by a reward specialist before it reaches you.

Zigbert is made by TwentySix Consulting, a UK reward consultancy with 20 years of experience. That advisory heritage is why every dashboard is reviewed by a reward specialist rather than served straight from an algorithm — the expertise sits behind the product, not just alongside it.

Zigbert draws on a database of over 1.5 million UK salary records, built from live job adverts and supplemented with official sources including the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). Because it reads pay from adverts as they're posted, it reflects what employers are offering now, not figures volunteered months ago.

Every Zigbert dashboard is reviewed by a reward specialist before it reaches you, and each figure carries a confidence indicator so you can see how strong the underlying data is. Rather than return a raw average, Zigbert screens out misleading outliers and applies expert judgement — the step that stops you acting on a mad result.

Unlike free crowd-sourced tools, Zigbert's data is reviewed by a reward specialist, compared on a genuine like-for-like basis, and screened for misleading outliers. Free tools rely largely on self-reported figures with little quality control, which is why their numbers can be so wide or skewed.

A traditional salary survey collects figures once a year from employers who choose to take part; Zigbert reads pay from live job adverts, so its data moves with the market in near real time. That makes it both more current and far broader than a survey that depends on voluntary participation.

The underlying salary data is updated continuously as new job adverts are published, and your dashboard refreshes monthly. This means your benchmarks track the market as it moves, rather than being fixed to a single annual snapshot.

Yes — Zigbert benchmarks benefits alongside base pay, giving you a view of total reward rather than salary alone. It's Pay & Benefits Intelligence: two roles on the same salary can offer very different overall packages.

Zigbert builds a comparator group from three things: the role's function, the industry, and the job level. This makes sure you're compared against genuinely similar roles, not anything that happens to share a job title.

You provide the role title, its function and level, the industry, the location, and your organisation's size. Those details let Zigbert assemble a like-for-like comparator group and return a market rate specific to your situation.

Zigbert launches in September 2026 as a monthly subscription covering pay and benefits benchmarking, ongoing data updates, and support. Join the waitlist to be notified the moment it goes live.

Yes — advertised pay is what employers are genuinely offering to compete for talent, which makes it a strong, current signal of the live market. Zigbert strengthens it further with outlier screening and a reward specialist's review of every dashboard, so you're never relying on raw advert data alone.