The 15 best paying tech companies in the UK
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Despite the temptations of tech startup life, the best place for a highly paid tech job in the UK is still a well-established company.
According to data from jobs site Glassdoor, most of the best paying tech firms in the UK are long-established enterprise software companies like SAP, Infosys, and Oracle. Facebook is one of the few newer companies to make the list.
Interestingly, Apple and Amazon don’t rank among the best paying tech firms. That’s because they employ lots of lower paid retail and warehouse staff, bringing the median salary down.
Here’s the list:
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15. Cognizant Technology Solutions
Median total compensation: £55,250
Median base salary: £55,250
Cognizant is a software and tech consultancy firm, and its UK office is in Paddington, London.
14. HCL Technologies
Median total compensation: £55,250
Median base salary: £55,250
HCL Technologies is an Indian software and IT services firm, operating across different sectors ranging from aerospace and defence to retail.
13. Qualcomm
Median total compensation: £57,550
Median base salary: £52,750
Qualcomm is one of the biggest chipmakers in the world, and also licenses technologies used in devices like the iPhone.
12. Infosys
Median total compensation: £58,000
Median base salary: £56,000
Infosys is another Indian IT consulting firm, headquartered in Bengaluru in India.
11. Wipro
Median total compensation: £59,000
Median base salary: £59,000
Wipro is the third Indian IT and consultancy firm on Glassdoor’s best paying list, and competes with TCS and Infosys.
10. Expedia
Median total compensation: £60,000
Median base salary: £55,000
Expedia is the travel booking giant which lets you book hotels and fares through sites like Expedia.com, Hotels.com, and Trivago.
9. Oracle
Median total compensation: £65,000
Median base salary: £60,000
Oracle is one of the biggest tech firms by market cap, and provides business enterprise software.
8. HP
Median total compensation: £65,000
Median base salary: £60,000
Hewlett-Packard was once an enterprise and hardware company, but split these two businesses in 2015. HP now focuses on the hardware side, selling PCs and laptops.
7. Dell
Median total compensation: £72,000
Median base salary: £63,500
Dell is a major tech hitter, and is mostly now known for selling PCs, tablets, monitors, and other hardware.
6. Google
Median total compensation: £72,000
Median base salary: £64,000
Google is famously a fun, if tough, place to work. Its parent company Alphabet includes businesses spanning search and advertising to self-driving cars.
5. Cisco
Median total compensation: £72,250
Median base salary: £60,000
Cisco makes and sells networking equipment — hardware that keeps the internet running. It also develops standards for new technologies.
4. Microsoft
Median total compensation: £81,010
Median base salary: £70,000
Microsoft pays, on average, better than most of the other big five tech firms except for Facebook. It beats Amazon, Apple, and Google. The company spans a lot of activity, from making tablets to desktop operating systems and cloud software.
3. SAP
Median total compensation: £90,000
Median base salary: £70,000
SAP is a German enterprise software company, and the only non-US firm on this list. It’s the biggest European tech company.
2. Facebook
Median total compensation: £95,600
Median base salary: £72,000
Facebook has beat out Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Apple to be the second-best paying firm in the UK. The social media firm has a current market cap of around $446 billion (£347 billion), and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest men on the planet.
1. Salesforce
Median total compensation: £110,000
Median base salary: £75,000
Salesforce, which sells software that manages companies’ sales, is the only company on Glassdoor’s list to offer six figures as the median total compensation.
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