UK tech hiring in September 2026: salaries, insights and open roles

September Market Update: Salaries, Insights & Jobs. Our long warm UK summer is finally coming to an end… but hiring is still heating up inside the UK tech sector.

We have seen the highest volume of new Executive openings this year landed between May and Aug; a summer surge which has continued through to September. We think this is because of UK April budget cycles, seeing more job roles opening up post the new financial year budgets.

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Open roles - September

• AI Engineer: Agentic Claude Code Healthtech AI £100,000.

• Senior Product Manager: Healthtech AI, £100,000.

• Chief Operating Officer: Healthtech AI: £175,000.

• Marketing Director - B2C Financial Services - remote - £140,000. JD on request.

• VP Sales - AI SaaS Software - remote £150,000. JD on request.

Salary benchmarking in 2026

Salary Benchmarking in 2026

Most suitable for VC/PE-backed scale-ups and challenger brands with 20–250 headcount based in the UK.

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