Salary Insights by Career Role

The broadest technology role in the library. Pay varies most with seniority, specialisation, and whether the employer is a product company.

Overlaps heavily with software engineer, and the title difference often reflects the employer's convention rather than the work.

Breadth across frontend and backend. Common at smaller companies where one person covers the whole feature.

Interface and client side work. Pay tracks framework depth, accessibility skill, and performance experience.

Services, data access, and APIs. Distributed systems experience is the usual driver at the upper end.

Build, deploy, and operate. Sits at the intersection of software and infrastructure, which keeps demand high.

Designing and running workloads on cloud platforms. Certification and platform depth both move the range.

Connectivity, routing, and network security. Pay is strongly influenced by industry and on call expectations.

Keeping internal systems and devices working. Often the entry route into cloud and security specialisms.

Threat detection, response, and compliance. Scarcity of experienced practitioners keeps the senior band wide.

Modelling and inference. The range depends heavily on whether the role is analytical, research, or production focused.

Reporting, metrics, and decision support. Frequently the first step toward data science or analytics engineering.

Building applications on top of models. One of the fastest moving titles, so check the date on any figure.

Training, serving, and maintaining models in production. Combines software engineering with applied statistics.

Original research in industry or institutes. Pay diverges sharply between academic and commercial settings.

Supporting research programmes. Usually an early career role with pay anchored to grant or institutional bands.

Study design and inference. Regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals tend to pay at the upper end.

Applied economic analysis in policy, finance, or technology. Sector choice moves the number more than seniority does early on.

Teaching and research in higher education. Pay follows published institutional scales more closely than most careers.

Owning what gets built and why. Technology sector product roles carry a noticeable premium over other industries.

End to end design of a product experience, usually including research and interaction work.

Research and interaction design. Portfolio strength influences pay more than years of experience alone.

Visual and interface design. Often overlaps with product design, so compare the job description rather than the title.

Delivery, scope, and schedule across teams. Pay varies widely by industry, from construction to software.

Requirements, process, and data driven recommendations. A common bridge between business and technical teams.

Running the day to day machinery of a business. Headcount and budget responsibility drive the range.

Financial record keeping and reporting. Professional qualification is usually the biggest single step in pay.

Internal or external assurance work. Progression in practice firms is highly structured and predictable.

Forecasting, valuation, and performance analysis. Bonus can be a large share of total pay in some sectors.

Advisory work across strategy and operations. Firm tier and bonus structure matter more than title.

Environmental and reporting advisory. A growing specialism where regulation drives demand.

Design and analysis of mechanical systems. Industry choice, from manufacturing to energy, sets much of the range.

Power, electronics, and control systems. Chartered status and sector specialisation both lift pay.

Infrastructure design and delivery. Pay tracks project scale and professional registration.

Process design and operations. Energy and pharmaceutical work typically sits at the upper end.

Process and systems efficiency. Often overlaps with operations and supply chain roles.

Load bearing design and assessment. A licensed specialism where accreditation gates senior pay.

Water, waste, remediation, and compliance. Regulation and public investment drive demand.

Laboratory diagnostics and research. Pay generally follows health service or institutional bands.

One of the most location sensitive careers in the library, with specialisation and shift patterns both affecting pay.

Pay is structured by training stage and specialty, so the range across the career is unusually wide.

Community, hospital, and industry routes pay differently, and the setting matters more than seniority early on.

Musculoskeletal and rehabilitation practice. Private practice and public sector bands differ noticeably.

Functional rehabilitation across health and social care. Pay usually follows published health service scales.

A licensed trade where certification, self-employment, and overtime all change earnings substantially.

Another licensed trade with a wide spread between employed and self-employed earnings.

Heating, ventilation, and cooling installation and service. Certification and call out work drive pay.

Running sites and programmes. Project value and contract type are the main drivers of the range.

Cost management across construction projects. Professional accreditation is a clear step up in pay.

Procurement, logistics, and planning. Scope of spend under management is the usual benchmark.