Hiring for Technology in the UK
The UK technology market has transitioned into a client-led cycle characterised by high candidate competition and more selective hiring processes following the post-pandemic correction.
While permanent recruitment has remained flat, businesses are increasingly adopting flexible contract models to drive essential infrastructure and security projects amidst economic caution.
The end of Q1 2026 is anticipated to be a turning point where essential updates to data and security infrastructure will reignite hiring momentum. Consequently, the focus is shifting toward specialised talent who can deliver measurable progress in a stabilising economic environment.
In-Demand Technology Roles in the UK
- Software Developers
- Cybersecurity Specialists
- DevOps / DevSecOps Engineers
- Cloud Computing specialists
- Data Analysts
- AI and Machine Learning Engineers
In-Demand Technology Skills in the UK
- Cloud infrastructure
- Python
- Cybersecurity strategy and implementation
- Data science and machine learning
- DevOps methodologies
Up, Down, or Flat? Technology Salary Trends in the UK
Technology salaries in the UK generally remain flat following a market correction, though niche pockets like software development and cloud computing continue to see growth due to a persistent "war for talent."
Contract day rates have stayed stable despite higher demand for a flexible workforce. Specialised roles in AI and data are expected to see renewed salary pressure as the market recovers.
Moving into 2026, the overall salary landscape is predicted to remain steady with targeted increases for experts driving essential technological modernisation.
Technology Salaries in the UK
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| Job Title | Sector | Sub Sector | Location | 0 - 3 years | 3 - 5 years | 5+ years |
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £95,000 - £120,000 | £120,000 - £170,000 | £170,000 - £345,000 | |
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £95,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £160,000 | £160,000 - £270,000 | |
Head of Data Engineering Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £95,000 - £125,000 | £125,000 - £160,000 | £160,000 - £320,000 | |
Head of Data Science Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £105,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £160,000 | £160,000 - £215,000 | |
IT Director Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £85,000 - £100,000 | £100,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £170,000 | |
IT Manager Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £55,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £90,000 | |
Development Lead / Manager Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £80,000 - £105,000 | £105,000 - £150,000 | £150,000 - £215,000 | |
Infrastructure Manager Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £75,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £95,000 | |
QA / Test Manager Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £80,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £95,000 | |
Enteprise Architect Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £85,000 - £95,000 | £95,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £180,000 | |
Technical Architect Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £85,000 - £95,000 | £95,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £170,000 | |
Solutions Architect Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £85,000 - £95,000 | £95,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £170,000 | |
Information Architect Annual rate |
Senior IT & Project Management | London | £85,000 - £95,000 | £95,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £170,000 | |
Android Developer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £55,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | |
iOS Developer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £55,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | |
Front End Developer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £45,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £90,000 | £95,000 - £105,000 | |
Full Stack Developer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £60,000 - £75,000 | £80,000 - £100,000 | £100,000 - £140,000 | |
JavaScript Developer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £50,000 - £75,000 | £80,000 - £95,000 | £105,000 - £140,000 | |
PHP Developer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £35,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £130,000 | |
UI or GUI Developer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £35,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £130,000 | |
UX Designer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £50,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £80,000 | |
UX Manager Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £105,000 | |
Web Developer Annual rate |
Web & Mobile | London | £35,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £120,000 | |
Automation Tester Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £70,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £85,000 | |
C#, .Net Developer Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £50,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £95,000 | £95,000 - £140,000 | |
C++ Developer Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £45,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £100,000 | £95,000 - £140,000 | |
Java Developer Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £45,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £100,000 | £95,000 - £140,000 | |
Python Developer Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £50,000 - £80,000 | £85,000 - £105,000 | £105,000 - £140,000 | |
QA / Test Automation Engineer Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £55,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £90,000 | |
QA / Test Engineer Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £45,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £80,000 | |
Quant Developer Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £70,000 - £100,000 | £105,000 - £150,000 | £150,000 - £195,000 | |
SAS Developer Annual rate |
Software Testing & Development | London | £50,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £85,000 | |
Application Support .NET Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £45,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £90,000 | |
Application Support Team Lead Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £75,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £125,000 | |
Cloud Architect Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £85,000 - £95,000 | £95,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £180,000 | |
Cloud Engineer Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £50,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £135,000 | |
Desktop Support Engineer Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £30,000 - £45,000 | £40,000 - £45,000 | £50,000 - £65,000 | |
DevOps Engineer Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £50,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £105,000 | |
Infrastructure Architect (Infrastructure) Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £75,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £95,000 | |
Network Administrator Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £45,000 - £50,000 | £50,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £70,000 | |
Network Engineer Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £50,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | |
Service Desk Analyst Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £30,000 - £35,000 | £35,000 - £45,000 | £45,000 - £50,000 | |
Service Manager Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £60,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | |
Systems Engineer Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £55,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £95,000 | |
Unix / Linux Administrator Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £55,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | |
Windows Systems Administrator Annual rate |
Infrastructure & Support | London | £55,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | |
SAP Solutions Architect Annual rate |
ERP & CRM | London | £90,000 - £100,000 | £100,000 - £125,000 | £125,000 - £155,000 | |
SAP HANA Consultant Annual rate |
ERP & CRM | London | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £75,000 | £80,000 - £85,000 | |
SAP FICO Consultant Annual rate |
ERP & CRM | London | £55,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | |
ABAP Developer Annual rate |
ERP & CRM | London | £50,000 - £55,000 | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £75,000 | |
Dynamics AX Consultant Annual rate |
ERP & CRM | London | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £95,000 | |
Oracle Developer Annual rate |
ERP & CRM | London | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £95,000 | |
Salesforce Developer Annual rate |
ERP & CRM | London | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £95,000 | |
Data Warehouse Developer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £50,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £105,000 | |
Database Administrator Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £50,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £105,000 | |
Power BI Developer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £50,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £100,000 | |
SQL Developer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £45,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £85,000 | |
AI / ML Specialist Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £110,000 | |
Big Data Architect Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £80,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £105,000 | £105,000 - £140,000 | |
Business Intelligence Developer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £50,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £95,000 | |
Business Intelligence Manager Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £80,000 - £90,000 | £90,000 - £100,000 | £100,000 - £120,000 | |
Business Objects Developer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £55,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £95,000 | |
Data Analyst Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £50,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £90,000 | |
Data Architect Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £75,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £100,000 | £100,000 - £140,000 | |
Data Developer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £45,000 - £55,000 | £55,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £95,000 | |
Data Engineer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £50,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £100,000 | £90,000 - £125,000 | |
Data Scientist Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £65,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £100,000 | £100,000 - £140,000 | |
Data Visualisation Developer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £50,000 - £65,000 | £65,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £105,000 | |
RPA Developer Annual rate |
Data & Business Intelligence | London | £45,000 - £60,000 | £60,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £100,000 | |
Cyber Security Architect Annual rate |
IT Security | London | £85,000 - £95,000 | £95,000 - £130,000 | £130,000 - £170,000 | |
Cyber Security Engineer Annual rate |
IT Security | London | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £95,000 | |
Network Security Engineer Annual rate |
IT Security | London | £60,000 - £70,000 | £70,000 - £80,000 | £80,000 - £90,000 | |
IAM Engineer Annual rate |
IT Security | London | £65,000 - £75,000 | £75,000 - £85,000 | £85,000 - £95,000 |
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