UK dividends rose 1.3% in Q4 2025 to £14.3bn according to the Dividend Monitor report from global financial services company Computershare. Regular dividends, which exclude one-off special payments, rose to £13.9bn in Q4, up 2.1% on a constant-currency basis. However, when you zoom out for the full year, headline payouts were down 0.9% to £87.5bn. Regular dividends of £85.9bn are anticipated to rise 2% on a constant-currency basis, with UK equities yielding 3.3%. Computershare CEO Issuer Services Mark Cleland said: “Dividend payouts have still not regained pre-pandemic highs, and the slow dividend growth we’ve seen since 2020 largely continued last year.