The technology job market: United Kingdom

Where opportunities appear

Locations follow the advert text. Market sample, physical location and remote eligibility can differ.

• London154
• London Area116
• United Kingdom70
• Manchester55
• Birmingham31
• Belfast24
• Greater London22
• Newcastle Upon Tyne22
• Glasgow21
• Cambridge20
• Edinburgh17
• Leeds16
• Manchester Area16
• Gloucester15
• Milton Keynes14
• Liverpool14
• Bristol13
• Sheffield12
• Oxford12
• Reading11

Work policy

• Hybrid593 54.7%
• On-site253 23.3%
• Remote127 11.7%
• Not specified111 10.2%

Conflicting work-policy evidence accounts for 62 of the unspecified postings.

Where remote work is allowed

Remote within the country · 0 (0.0%)

These postings name a single eligible country. The breakdown below shows the places stated in the adverts.

Shares are among remote and hybrid postings. A posting can name several places. Hybrid roles can also require office attendance.

• Eligibility unstated719 99.9%
• Other stated geographic limits1 0.1%

A skill means more in context

Selected technologies, with supporting text. A mention is not automatically a requirement. Programming, data work and supporting scripts are counted separately; one advert can mention several skills.

• Azure449 · 41.4%

  Required

  107

  Preferred

  23

  Alternative

  126

  Incidental mention

  18

  Unclassified mention

  175

  Building software

  50

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  11

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering201 Data & AI17 Cloud & infrastructure186 Cybersecurity4 IT support29 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects11 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• AWS314 · 29.0%

  Required

  50

  Preferred

  31

  Alternative

  104

  Incidental mention

  14

  Unclassified mention

  115

  Building software

  31

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  5

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering172 Data & AI11 Cloud & infrastructure112 Cybersecurity2 IT support13 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C#282 · 26.0%

  Required

  105

  Preferred

  12

  Alternative

  71

  Incidental mention

  4

  Unclassified mention

  90

  Building software

  203

  Supporting scripts

  3

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering250 Data & AI5 Cloud & infrastructure19 Cybersecurity1 IT support4 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• .NET245 · 22.6%

  Required

  90

  Preferred

  9

  Alternative

  42

  Incidental mention

  4

  Unclassified mention

  100

  Building software

  168

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering225 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure11 Cybersecurity3 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Python244 · 22.5%

  Required

  37

  Preferred

  20

  Alternative

  137

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  48

  Building software

  98

  Supporting scripts

  79

  Data / ML

  14

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering114 Data & AI20 Cloud & infrastructure92 Cybersecurity5 IT support8 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SQL233 · 21.5%

  Required

  82

  Preferred

  7

  Alternative

  42

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  99

  Building software

  61

  Supporting scripts

  5

  Data / ML

  17

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering136 Data & AI21 Cloud & infrastructure30 Cybersecurity0 IT support34 Business applications8 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Kubernetes223 · 20.6%

  Required

  41

  Preferred

  19

  Alternative

  41

  Incidental mention

  15

  Unclassified mention

  107

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering104 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure109 Cybersecurity1 IT support6 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Terraform213 · 19.6%

  Required

  23

  Preferred

  21

  Alternative

  78

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  88

  Building software

  7

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  1

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering53 Data & AI4 Cloud & infrastructure148 Cybersecurity4 IT support4 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Java160 · 14.8%

  Required

  23

  Preferred

  15

  Alternative

  86

  Incidental mention

  5

  Unclassified mention

  31

  Building software

  111

  Supporting scripts

  4

  Data / ML

  3

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering126 Data & AI5 Cloud & infrastructure18 Cybersecurity4 IT support7 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Docker156 · 14.4%

  Required

  24

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  27

  Incidental mention

  13

  Unclassified mention

  89

  Building software

  5

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering92 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure58 Cybersecurity1 IT support3 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PowerShell131 · 12.1%

  Required

  25

  Preferred

  11

  Alternative

  49

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  46

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  109

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure106 Cybersecurity5 IT support15 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• TypeScript131 · 12.1%

  Required

  12

  Preferred

  9

  Alternative

  54

  Incidental mention

  12

  Unclassified mention

  44

  Building software

  80

  Supporting scripts

  6

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering116 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure13 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• React124 · 11.4%

  Required

  9

  Preferred

  7

  Alternative

  46

  Incidental mention

  10

  Unclassified mention

  52

  Building software

  74

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering121 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Linux116 · 10.7%

  Required

  33

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  17

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  59

  Building software

  3

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering18 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure75 Cybersecurity1 IT support21 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• GCP102 · 9.4%

  Required

  6

  Preferred

  12

  Alternative

  53

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  28

  Building software

  11

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  2

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering45 Data & AI5 Cloud & infrastructure46 Cybersecurity1 IT support4 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• JavaScript91 · 8.4%

  Required

  16

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  40

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  30

  Building software

  58

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering77 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure6 Cybersecurity1 IT support6 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Go72 · 6.6%

  Required

  4

  Preferred

  14

  Alternative

  47

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  5

  Building software

  42

  Supporting scripts

  11

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering36 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure33 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Bash71 · 6.5%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  44

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  18

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  66

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering5 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure59 Cybersecurity3 IT support3 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Angular63 · 5.8%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  6

  Alternative

  26

  Incidental mention

  6

  Unclassified mention

  20

  Building software

  33

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering61 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Claude Code44 · 4.1%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  2

  Alternative

  28

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  14

  Building software

  41

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering32 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure9 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• GitHub Copilot42 · 3.9%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  17

  Incidental mention

  4

  Unclassified mention

  20

  Building software

  26

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering30 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure9 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• LLM42 · 3.9%

  Required

  6

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  13

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  17

  Building software

  6

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  20

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering25 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure11 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles1 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Machine learning42 · 3.9%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  10

  Incidental mention

  7

  Unclassified mention

  19

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  25

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering26 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure7 Cybersecurity2 IT support3 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Node.js39 · 3.6%

  Required

  4

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  15

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  17

  Building software

  17

  Supporting scripts

  4

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering26 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure11 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C++31 · 2.9%

  Required

  3

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  22

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  5

  Building software

  21

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering27 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Cursor30 · 2.8%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  20

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  9

  Building software

  27

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering22 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure7 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Rust15 · 1.4%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  8

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  6

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering11 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PHP13 · 1.2%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  8

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  3

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering5 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C12 · 1.1%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  6

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  5

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering11 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Codex10 · 0.9%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  8

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering7 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SAP10 · 0.9%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  4

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering1 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications4 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Ruby9 · 0.8%

  Required

  3

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  6

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  0

  Building software

  3

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering4 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support2 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Salesforce9 · 0.8%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  2

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  2

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering5 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SCADA9 · 0.8%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  4

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering1 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity0 IT support4 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded2 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PLC1 · 0.1%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  0

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering0 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

Beyond a single language

No explicit signal

862

Accepts named alternatives

189

Open to learning or switching

33

Adverts mentioning AI-assisted engineering

177

These are separate signals. A list of languages does not establish language agnosticism, and these observations cannot show that AI caused a change.

Most requested skills by role

Country sample · United Kingdom. Open a role family to see its most requested skills.

• Software engineering Adverts (463)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  C#	100	21.6%
  .NET	87	18.8%
  SQL	45	9.7%
  Azure	26	5.6%
  AWS	24	5.2%
  Java	21	4.5%
  Python	17	3.7%
  JavaScript	14	3.0%
  Kubernetes	11	2.4%
  TypeScript	11	2.4%

• Cloud & infrastructure Adverts (311)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Azure	61	19.6%
  Kubernetes	28	9.0%
  AWS	24	7.7%
  Linux	20	6.4%
  Terraform	20	6.4%
  PowerShell	18	5.8%
  Docker	11	3.5%
  Python	10	3.2%
  SQL	10	3.2%
  Bash	5	1.6%

• IT support Adverts (147)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Azure	9	6.1%
  SQL	9	6.1%
  PowerShell	6	4.1%
  Linux	4	2.7%
  AWS	2	1.4%
  C#	2	1.4%
  Docker	2	1.4%
  JavaScript	2	1.4%
  Ruby	2	1.4%
  LLM	1	0.7%

• IT leadership & projects Adverts (65)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Azure	4	6.2%

• Data & AI Adverts (41)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  SQL	12	29.3%
  Python	9	22.0%
  Azure	6	14.6%
  Kubernetes	2	4.9%
  .NET	1	2.4%
  Docker	1	2.4%

• Business applications Adverts (23)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  SQL	5	21.7%
  C#	2	8.7%
  SAP	2	8.7%
  Azure	1	4.3%
  Python	1	4.3%

• Cybersecurity Adverts (14)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Linux	1	7.1%

• Other roles Adverts (12)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

• Industrial & embedded Adverts (2)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  .NET	1	50.0%
  C#	1	50.0%
  Linux	1	50.0%
  SCADA	1	50.0%
  SQL	1	50.0%

• Product & design Adverts (2)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

Maximum advertised pay by experience

The curves use the upper amount of each stated pay range. Annual amounts and monthly amounts projected over 12 payments are combined across all pay types in one graph. Currency / period: GBP.

The data behind the figures · United Kingdom

Collection and analysis counts update during the day. They refer to current source data and may differ from the published sample.

Collected adverts

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Analyzed adverts

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In current publication

1,084

Awaiting analysis

—

Requiring review

—

Being analyzed now

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Coverage by country

Country samples can overlap; adding their counts does not give a distinct all-country total.

Analysis progress · all markets

Analysis progress is temporarily unavailable

Progress updates during the day. The market tabs show the latest published statistics.

In current publication

Market charts use the latest completed publication. Its sample and data cutoff remain stable until the next publication.

Published statistics cover 20,712 of 20,729 collected adverts across all markets. Remaining adverts await analysis or review.

Complete observation days: 2 · Partial observation days: 0

Results may be limited; trend comparisons are withheld.

Analysis version: codex-observatory-4:gpt-6.1-terra:high

Statistics refresh daily at 03:00 Europe/Rome