The UK stands as a prime destination for tech professionals seeking high-paying opportunities. With a thriving tech ecosystem and an economy that increasingly embraces digital innovation, numerous tech positions in the UK offer generous compensation packages. From security architects and cloud engineers to machine learning specialists and data scientists, the demand for skilled tech talent continues to grow nationwide.
We’ve curated a list of high-paying tech jobs in the UK to help you navigate this promising job market.”
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation (£145,000—£157,000)
With 5+ years of experience in applied Deep Learning, coding, and design skills, you would be in charge of designing experiments that push the frontiers of AV simulations, developing metrics that measure the realism of simulated worlds, and training and evaluating large models and integrating them into the simulator and its downstream applications. Your job description also includes helping with the hiring process of outstanding research engineers from diverse backgrounds.
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer (£120k-£150k)
Codat is looking for a Principal ML Engineer responsible for establishing their nascent generative AI models in partnership with their Product team & data scientists. As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, you will join the existing data team to lead the development of new vertical LLM products & capabilities, leveraging their existing deep dataset, expertise, ML, and client base. You must have extensive machine learning engineering experience and LLM experience – tuning foundational models or building from the ground up, alongside experience working as a data scientist and familiarity with the lifecycle of work and technology stack.
- Solutions Architect, National Security & Defence (£91k-£115k)
As a solution architect, this role requires you to have experience working within software development or Internet-related industries, migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud, and working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective. Your job requirements also include having experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics), alongside experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures and expertise in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
- Security Architect (£600 a day)
This role requires you to know and understand how to implement transparent data encryption at the disk level along with a suitable and appropriate key management method for on-prem apps, alongside previous experience working with Infosec teams, implementing Application level encryption for on-prem hosted apps. Your job description includes analyzing the company’s database and schema to determine what datasets need to be encrypted based on the client’s data sensitivity and data protection guidelines to provide a solution for encrypting the data at the database level and a feasible, appropriate key management method for on-prem apps.
- R&D OT Security Architect (£85k-£116k)
Analyze potential attack vectors and vulnerabilities specific to R&D OT systems and environments and map out possible mitigation strategies, develop end-to-end security architectures for OT environments that are resilient to cyber threats while meeting operational needs, identify, handle, and resolve anomalies or deviations from expected behavior in business processes, systems or application aligned to GSK standards and policies about operational technology with expertise in ensuring R&D adherence to OT security policies and standards and prior knowledge in the implementation of security architecture frameworks.
- AWS Cloud Architect (£83k-£110k)
With a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred) and 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS technologies, this role requires you to implement security best practices for data protection, identity and access management, and network security in the cloud, alongside designing and enforcing governance and compliance frameworks, including automation of security checks, monitoring, and audit logging. As a cloud architect, you’ll also lead the design and deployment of AWS cloud environments based on the best scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency practices.
- DevOps Engineer – Asset Management (£600 – £650 a day)
Emagine is seeking a DevOps Engineer with banking/financial services experience who will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and improving their clients’ digital products and technology services. Your key responsibilities include and are not limited to designing, developing, and improving digital products and technology services provided to clients, applying a broad range of software engineering practices to enhance product functionality and efficiency, and ensuring quality, security, reliability, and compliance of solutions by implementing both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Cloud Architect (£101k-£118k)
This role requires you to be a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You must also be ready to learn about technology and understand how things work, thereby influencing positivity by demonstrating the values and behaviors that encourage team members. You are also to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for cloud engineering excellence.
Having experience in the banking & finance industry, experience in ML/AI, and Data tooling in GCP and Agile is also a plus.
- Machine Learning Engineer (£120k-£174k)
With a postgraduate degree in machine learning or a related discipline or commercial experience working on machine learning models at scale, alongside a passion for ML and HPC and a willingness to keep up with the latest trends and developments. Your job requirements include evaluating alternative accelerators for ML workloads, multi-node distributed training to understand trade-offs in networking technology, optimizing model inference to minimize latency or maximize throughput, understanding and optimizing storage technology to maximize bandwidth, and evaluating the latest hardware and software in the machine learning ecosystem.
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer (£111k-£145k)
Training and fine-tuning models to solve customer problems across our chatbot and the bank transaction data behind it, deploying these models into production environments using an in-house ML platform. You’ll also be required to work cross-functionally with backend engineers, data analysts, UX writers, product managers, annotation teams, and others to ship features that improve users’ financial health. To qualify for this role, you need to ehave xperience in industry machine learning roles as a technical leader or principal/staff engineer, excellent knowledge of both Data Science (python, SQL) and production tools, a deep understanding of probability and statistics fundamentals, alongside big picture thinking to diagnose problems and productionising research correctly.
- Software Engineer – Full Stack (£79k-£118k)
This role offers you diverse opportunities to help drive a great engineering culture, build great code, develop broader skills to establish end-to-end products for platforms, and be a member of a wider engineering community passionate about sharing knowledge and learning. As a software engineer, you’re expected to have experience with – Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, HTML, CSS, JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as React js, Redux, Webpack, experience working with container environments, in particular, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm (e.g., GCP, Azure, AWS), OCP, alongside Grasp of system design and scalable architecture.
- Senior Data Scientist – AI CoE (£68,202 – £75,780)
As a senior data scientist, this job requires you to have strong theoretical and applied knowledge of Statistical Modelling and/or Machine Learning techniques, alongside proficiency in Python and the Python data science ecosystem, including how to write modular Python code, familiarity with the core Python data structures and fluency with pandas and other data manipulation and data science libraries. Your job description includes developing experimental models and machine learning applications in Python alongside ML Data Engineers, performing statistical analysis, and interpreting results to identify trends and patterns.
This job requires you to collaborate in multidisciplinary squads and regularly communicate key findings to business partners.
- Software Engineer – Smarter Journeys Lab (£68k-£102k)
Leading the design and development of robust software solutions using modern web technologies, particularly JavaScript (React.js / TypeScript), providing technical guidance and mentorship to software engineers, and encouraging a culture of improvement and innovation. You would also work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality and innovative products, ensuring alignment with business goals while developing modular, testable code and ensuring adherence to standard methodologies in source code management using Git. Having a deep understanding of Git and managing change within a source code management system and extensive experience with modern web technologies, primarily TypeScript / JavaScript (ideally React.js and Node.js), Java with Spring Boot, and knowledge of AI and Algorithms is a plus.
- Cyber Security Architect (£87.53 per hour)
This job requires you to have excellent Security Architect experience with previous defense industry/highly classified environments experience, alongside strong hands-on experience in security applications and/or appliances with a good working knowledge of Firewalls, DevOps, Cloud, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) & Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). You must also have an excellent technical background in Endpoint Detection, hands-on experience with security tooling, and the ability to work closely with CIS admin.
- Cloud Architect (£60 – £65 an hour)
The minimum requirements for this job are 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture or related roles, a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, alongside other requirements such as extensive experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure or AWS, Google Cloud). With expertise in SaaS service architecture and design, knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools, this role requires you to design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions, develop and execute a cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals, evaluate and integrate appropriate cloud services and technologies and implement best practices for cloud security, monitoring, and cost management.
