life coach
Life coaches help clients set clear objectives for their personal development and help them achieve their goals and personal vision. They provide counselling and guidance and establish progress reports in order to keep track of their clients' achievements.
life coach life coaches help clients set clear objectives for their personal development and help them achieve their goals and personal vision. They provide counselling and guidance and establish progress reports in order to keep track of their clients' achievements. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.46 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include create solutions to problems, help clients make decisions during counselling sessions, communicate with customers, maintain relationship with customers, give advice on personal matters.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £30,087 a year for Welfare and housing associate professionals n.e.c. (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £26,107 to £34,682 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 3229). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Technicians and associate professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only life coach, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 3. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Education and Training
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Computers and Electronics
- Psychology
- Mathematics
- Foreign Language
What you'd actually do
- Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Prepare students for further development by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by administrative policy.
- Monitor students' performance to make suggestions for improvement and to ensure that they satisfy course standards, training requirements, and objectives.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does life coach do?
Life coaches help clients set clear objectives for their personal development and help them achieve their goals and personal vision. They provide counselling and guidance and establish progress reports in order to keep track of their clients' achievements.
What skills does life coach need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include create solutions to problems, help clients make decisions during counselling sessions, communicate with customers, maintain relationship with customers, give advice on personal matters, use consulting techniques. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace life coach?
Our AI-durability model gives life coach a score of 0.46 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.