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Nearly one in four UK workers is planning to switch jobs in 2024, according to new statistics from PWC, an 18% jump since this time last year.
These will be the UK’s top-paying tech jobs in 2024
Job satisfaction, work life balance and opportunities for progression are becoming more important to workers and are being cited in research as reasons for moving roles, but money and benefits remain the main reason to look for a new job for 35% of workers.
Within the tech sector, 47% of workers here too have expressed an interest in finding a new role which offers greater financial reward.
Partially attributed to the skill level of tech workers, high salaries are often the result of a talent shortage within the sector, with companies struggling to fill certain roles such as those in software development, cloud engineering and data science– writes Aisling O’Toole, Content Writer, Jobbio.
High paying tech jobs
Recent information from the Office for National Statistics shows that chief executive and senior level roles are the highest paid within the UK.
Functional managers and directors can expect an average salary of £61,139, rising to £72,790 for those managing teams and projects within the tech space as demand far outstrips supply.
Other high paying jobs within the tech sector, according to reports include IT directors (£73,571) and IT business analysts, architects and systems designers (£50,396), which explains why tech companies are some of the highest paying within the UK.
Demand for specific roles is expected to grow for 2024 too, as companies across all sectors––not just traditional tech––are forced to embrace AI, while getting to grips with big data and constant cyber threats resulting in a need for updated software and systems.
This demand across multiple sectors has seen roles such as cybersecurity analyst, data engineer, software engineer, AM engineer and cloud engineer jump year-over-year, meaning workers with those skill sets can earn higher salaries than expected coming into the new year.
Top-paying tech companies
A recent survey shows that of the top 10 highest-paying companies within the UK, four tech firms appear.
Google Cloud is ranked at number five, paying employees and average salary of £99,677; software company Palantir Technologies is ranked at number six, paying employees an average salary of £98,095, while developer data platform MongoDB and software company Pegasystems are ranked at numbers nine and ten respectively, paying salaries of an average of £93,993 and £93,844.
It’s also worth noting that the same survey looked at employee ratings for companies, and once again tech companies remain competitive, with nine tech firms ranked in the top 20, including Google, Microsoft, Ocado Technologies and Imagination Technology.
Many more promising tech jobs can be found on the Payments Cards & Mobile Job Board, which has thousands of current roles at industry giants, such as the three opportunities highlighted below.
Senior Java Engineer, Sainsburys, London
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Finance Business Partner – Audio, BBC, London
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Software Engineer II (Data), Ripple, London
As a Data Engineer at Ripple, you’ll be responsible for developing, tuning, and implementing data pipelines for the company’s in-house reporting solution, using your deep knowledge of SQL, preferably on Hadoop/HBase (Hive, Impala, Phoenix). You’ll work alongside the data architect and front-end developer to surface data, metrics, and insights by building and maintaining a fault-tolerant data pipeline. At least five years in one primary programming language (e.g. Java, Scala, Python) is required, as is SQL. See all the application criteria.
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