Tech Salary Explorer

Senior role. Usually 7+ years experience. Designs the cloud strategy for entire companies. Top 10% of tech salaries.

Newest role on the list. Works with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning. Highest-paid tech role in 2026. Senior AI engineers at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google can hit £500k+ in the US.

Builds and deploys ML models in production. Combines data science with software engineering. AI boom has pushed senior salaries up 30% since 2022.

Created by Google. Keeps production systems running reliably. Demands both ops and coding skills. Highest-paid DevOps niche.

Owns product strategy. Sits between engineering, design, business. Senior PMs at big tech companies are among highest-paid roles in tech.

Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD. Hard to find good ones. Senior salaries top of the dev market.

Defending companies from attacks. Stable, well-paid, recession-resistant. CISSP is the gold-standard cert and adds ~£10-20k to UK salary.

Highest-paid data role. Builds data pipelines with Python, SQL, Spark, Airflow, dbt. Strong programming skills required.

Maths-heavy. Usually requires a STEM degree. Python and machine learning are core. Demand softened slightly post-2022 but still strong for senior roles.

Python, Node.js, Java, Go, Ruby. Pays slightly more than frontend. Specialising in Go or Rust commands premium salaries.

Both frontend and backend. Most common dev role at startups. Senior full-stack devs are extremely versatile and well-paid.

One of the hottest roles. UK salaries lag US by ~40%. Specialising in AWS pays slightly more than Azure in UK; opposite in some EU markets.

Tests systems for vulnerabilities. Legal hacking. OSCP is the most respected entry cert.

React, Vue, Angular, TypeScript. UK market saturated at entry level (lots of bootcamp grads). Senior roles still in demand.

Figma is the industry standard. UX research skills (interviews, usability tests) add value. Market less hot than 2021-22 but solid jobs available.

Manual + automation testing. Often a path INTO development for career changers. Automation skills (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress) pay better.

Bridges business and tech. Translates business needs into technical requirements. Strong domain knowledge + SQL is the magic combo.

Most accessible data role for career changers. SQL + Excel + Power BI/Tableau is the core stack. High demand across every industry.

Traditional ops role. Linux, Windows Server, networking. Slowly being replaced by DevOps but still relevant in enterprise.

Entry point into tech for many people. Easy to start with no degree. Many move on to system admin or cloud engineer within 2 years.