The 2025 Salary Guide for Human Resources provides essential information on salary trends and compensation packages within the HR sector. This guide is designed to assist employers and HR professionals in understanding market demand, benefits, and salary benchmarks for various roles. Stay competitive and informed with our up-to-date data, ensuring you attract and retain top talent in the ever-evolving human resources landscape.

HR Hiring Trends to Look For in 2025

Data Skills and HR Tech Ability Employee

Increasingly organisations are looking for HR professionals who can use data to make evidence based decisions for improving strategies and drive organisational performance. Specific HRIS systems experience is being sought to ensure new hires can get up to speed as quickly as possible and bring fresh reports and ideas to their new organisation. AI is increasingly being discussed with experience in automation and AI for HR operations being most sought after, particularly in industries like finance, healthcare and manufacturing. There is a significant increase of 80% in HR professionals participating in AI-related HR qualifications compared to the same period last year.

Sustainability and CSR

With the entry of Gen Z and exit of Boomers there has been a shift in demand from candidates towards companies who are transparent and focus on CSR and sustainability goals across their global remit. As part of recruitment and retention, HR will need to communicate their organisations’s environmental and social values and integrate these into organisational culture and training programs. In addition to this there has been a significant increase in demand for HR candidates with experience crafting, implementing and reporting on policies that ensure organisations comply with environmental and social regulations.

Employee Experience

Diversity and irregular working arrangements has pushed HR professionals to be increasingly creative and holistic in designing new engagement experiences that drive higher adoption of hybrid work policies, learning and development initiatives, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategies. While some tech firms have scaled back budgets in certain areas of employee wellbeing, the broader market continues to see a growing demand for expertise in these areas, highlighting their importance across a range of HR roles and functions.