UK Tech Hiring Report
April 2026
Data from 2,318 live job listings across 9 sources and 67 companies, analysed by QuantumCareer's crawl pipeline. Updated daily.
Platform engineering demand up 11% — Kubernetes, Terraform, and ArgoCD are the most requested skills in DevOps/Platform roles across London
AI/ML roles now represent 13% of all tech listings, up from 8% in January 2026. Python + PyTorch dominate, but Go is emerging in ML infrastructure
Hybrid working is the new default at 53% — fully remote dropped from 42% to 37% since Q1, as major employers push return-to-office 2-3 days/week
Fintech hiring is accelerating: Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and Barclays all expanding engineering teams in London. Payments infrastructure is the hottest fintech vertical
Solutions Architecture saw the biggest growth (+22%) as companies bridge the gap between pre-sales and engineering in enterprise AI deployments
Agency-posted roles carry 2.3x higher risk score than direct employer posts — candidates who filter for direct employers see 40% better outcomes
| # | Company | Sector | Open Roles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Spotify | Music/Tech | 187 | |
| 02 | Amazon | Cloud/E-commerce | 91 | |
| 03 | HelloFresh | Food/Tech | 74 | |
| 04 | Databricks | Data/AI | 69 | |
| 05 | Man Group | Finance/Quant | 60 | |
| 06 | Datadog | Observability | 52 | |
| 07 | Cloudflare | Infrastructure | 47 | |
| 08 | OpenAI | AI Research | 43 | |
| 09 | Stripe | Payments | 37 | |
| 10 | Airbnb | Travel/Tech | 36 | |
| 11 | Barclays | Banking | 24 | |
| 12 | Robinhood | Fintech | 24 |
Hybrid is the new default. Fully remote dropped from 42% in Q1 to 37% as major employers push RTO policies.
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Data sourced from QuantumCareer's distributed crawl pipeline across 9 job sources: Greenhouse, Ashby, Reed, Adzuna, Lever, Amazon Jobs, SerpAPI, Remotive, and Arbeitnow. 67 companies monitored across tech, finance, and emerging sectors.
Jobs are canonicalised, deduplicated, and quality-gated (minimum score 0.30 + valid description + title) before inclusion. Seniority and role family are inferred using NLP classification. Only "active" and "reposted" jobs are included — expired listings are excluded.
Report generated from live data. Numbers update daily as the crawl pipeline runs. For questions or enterprise data licensing, contact data@quantumlayerplatform.com.