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🇬🇧 UKSOC 4131· Administrative Occupations

Records clerks and assistants

Records clerks and assistants maintain and update electronic and/or hard copy documents, correspondence and other records, and organise their storage.

Admissions officerClerical officer (hospital service)Examinations officer (education)Filing clerkRecords clerkWard clerk
£26,312
median salary
£19,885 – £30,302
159,300
currently employed
122,013
projected 2035
Declining
4 tasks scored2 AI Automates2 AI Assists

Task Bundle Breakdown

How AI interacts with this occupation's task bundle

50%
50%
50%
AI automates
50%
AI assists
0%
Human-led

Task-by-Task Breakdown

Every task scored individually — sorted highest to lowest AI exposure

89

copies or duplicates documents or other records

AI Automates

AI-powered OCR and document processing tools like Adobe Acrobat AI or ABBYY FineReader can duplicate, digitise, and reproduce documents at scale with high accuracy.

78

classifies, files, archives and locates documents and other records

AI Automates

Document management systems with AI (e.g., M-Files, OpenText) can automatically classify, tag, archive, and retrieve records using machine learning with minimal human input.

67

examines and sorts incoming material

AI Assists

AI tools like Microsoft Copilot can scan, read, and categorise incoming documents automatically, but human judgment is still needed for ambiguous or sensitive materials.

56

performs specialised clerical tasks in connection with conveyancing, litigation and the maintenance of medical records

AI Assists

AI legal and medical document tools (e.g., Harvey AI for conveyancing, Nuance DAX for medical records) can assist with drafting and organising specialised records, but regulatory compliance and contextual judgment require human oversight.

ROI Calculator

Records clerks and assistants

22.5hrs
saved per week
1,080hrs
per year ≈ 28.8 weeks
£15,787
salary-equivalent capacity freed per year

This is not a pay rise — it's 1,080 hours of productive capacity that AI could return to you, valued at your current rate.

£26,312
value at risk — 100% of role exposed to AI

The portion of your current salary tied to tasks AI can automate or augment. Not a prediction of job loss — a signal of where your role is changing fastest.

How is this calculated?▾

Task weights — each task is weighted by its O*NET frequency rating. Where frequency data is absent, equal weighting is applied.

AI time reduction — tasks scored as "AI Automates" assume 80% time saving; "AI Assists" assumes 40%; "Human-Led" assumes 5%.

Salary equivalent — annual hours saved × (salary ÷ 1,800 working hours/year).

Value at risk — salary × share of role time in AI-automate or AI-assist tasks.

Figures are indicative estimates for planning purposes, not guarantees of productivity gain or job loss risk.