Technology & Data

CTOs, CPOs, heads of engineering and data leaders for scale-ups, payments firms and established enterprises.

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Technology hires since 2015
264
Median time to shortlist
17 days
Still in post after 12 months
92%

The practice

Our technology practice appoints the people who build and run the systems a business depends on: chief technology officers, product leaders, heads of engineering, data and AI leaders, and the security chiefs who keep it all standing. We work with venture-backed scale-ups, payments and fintech firms, and established companies modernising platforms that are older than some of their engineers.

Technical hiring fails most often when the brief is vague, so we spend the first week getting it precise. What is the architecture today, what does it need to become, and what kind of leader gets a team from one to the other? Our consultants have spent years in the market and can hold a credible conversation about platform migrations, team design and on-call culture, which is why senior engineers take our calls.

We assess for judgement as well as skill. Shortlisted candidates meet a panel that includes a technical assessor from our own network, and every finalist is referenced on delivery: what they shipped, how they handled an outage, how their teams changed under them. Offers in this market move fast and often involve equity, so we model packages early and keep candidates informed at every step. The result is a shortlist in a little over two weeks and hires that last.

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SeniorRS-2043

Senior Data Engineer

Pan-European travel marketplace

  • Remote (UK)
  • Remote
  • Contract

£600–£700/day

C-suiteRS-2039

Chief Technology Officer

Series D payments platform, 600 people

  • New York
  • Hybrid
  • Permanent

$380k–$450k

What these roles pay in London

Base salary bands from offers we negotiated in the last twelve months.

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London base salary bands for Technology & Data roles, in thousands of pounds
RoleMedianYoY
Chief Technology Officer£210k to £310k£250k+5.5%
VP Engineering£170k to £230k£195k+4.8%
Head of Data and AI£150k to £210k£175k+7.2%
Principal Security Engineer£125k to £170k£145k+6.1%
Senior Data Engineer£90k to £120k£105k+3.9%

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Marcus Bell

Partner, Technology & Data

CTOs, product and engineering leaders for scale-ups and fintech

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Grace Tran

Principal, Technology & Data

Data, AI and engineering leaders for UK and European technology firms

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