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Salary Survey 2018/2019

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Average technology salary in

UK&I reaches over £80,000

Almost 40% of IT professionals

say firms aren’t addressing

diversity

Salary Survey analysis: Overview

Salary Survey analysis: Salaries

Salary Survey analysis: Benefits

Salary Survey analysis Diversity

Salary Survey analysis: Brexit

Salary respondent demographics

Salary Survey 2018/19 UK & Ireland

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Computer Weekly’s 2018 Salary Survey gives us a snapshot of

what IT professionals in the UK&I are getting paid, as well as

their attitudes towards work, training and future prospects.

This year the average pay for technology staff has increased,

but there is still a gap in salary depending on the tech

professional’s seniority and location. As well as this, although

a number of women in the UK&I tech industry believe they have

equal opportunities to their male counterparts, 40% of tech

professionals say they are not aware of any diversity topics

currently being addressed in their firms.

With Brexit threatening to make the talent pool in the UK even

shallower, firms need to focus on hiring skilled workers, and

retraining their current employees to plug skills gaps.

Clare McDonald, business editor


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Average technology salary in UK&I reaches over £80,000


IT professionals in the UK and Ireland (UK&I) earn an average of more than

£80,000 a year, according to the Computer Weekly 2018 salary survey.

Though salary varies depending on region, job role and number of years in the

industry, the research found the average annual salary of tech workers in the

UK and Ireland is £81,116.

This is slightly more than in previous years – in 2017 the average salary for

UK&I IT workers was between £50,000 and £75,000, and in 2016, the average

salary for tech workers in the UK&I was £64,590 a year.

The need for people in specialised roles such as those in cyber security and

data science are on the rise, but because of the lack of people to fill these roles,

it has also pushed up their expected annual pay.

Years of experience paired with the role performed has a significant impact on

average salary. For example, those in an executive vice-president (EVP), senior

vice-president (SVP), vice-president (VP) or associate vice-president (AVP) role


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with more than 30 years of experience make an average of £204,142, whereas

members of the executive team who have more than 30 years of experience

make an average of £96,011.

Those in executive team roles who have between 21 and 30 years of

experience make more than those who have been around a long time – with an

average salary of £205,444 a year.

There appear to be salary gaps between different roles in the UK&I technology

industry, with higher positions such as EVPs, SVPs, VPs and AVPs earning an

average of £183,894 and executive team members earning an average of

£125,192, while other roles, such as managers or architects, will earn no more

than £75,000 on average.

General IT staff are only earning an average of £45,374, and not surprisingly,

this group are more likely to take up an opportunity to move role or company to

earn more money.

Around 45% of IT professionals in the UK and Ireland are not actively looking

for new jobs, but are open to new opportunities.

A focus on mental health in the workplace, as well as the importance of work-life

balance has been increasing over the last few years, especially as people in

tech are being encouraged to be more creative in the wake of job automation.


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For those who are higher up in the picking order, benefits such as workplace

flexibility, a shorter commute or a nicer office are more important, and 50% of

EVPs, SVPs, VPs and AVPs said they would be open to new job opportunities if

it meant an improvement in their work-life balance, alongside 52% of those in a

director role and 23% of those in the C-suite.

There are growing skills gaps in the UK when it comes to digital, with not just a

lack of skilled tech professionals but also a general lack of basic digital skills as

technology evolves the workplace.

A majority of firms expect to face a skills shortage over the next year, and in last

year’s salary survey, almost one-third of IT workers said they need more

training to move forward in their career.

Learning new skills

Around 31% of those in the C-suite said they would move roles or firms if they

had the opportunity to learn new skills, as did 19% of general IT staff and 7% of

directors.

But none of those in EVP, SVP, VP and AVP roles said learning new skills

would be an incentive for them to move role.

Almost half of those who took part in Computer Weekly’s salary survey were in

larger enterprises with more than 1,000 people, but across each role there was


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not a big difference in salary for those working in larger businesses and those

working in smaller businesses.

For those on the executive team, the average salary in smaller firms with fewer

than 100 employees came out at £104,631, whereas those in the same roles in

enterprises averaged £159,022 a year.

Similarly, those working as IT staff can expect to see around the same

difference in salary between larger and smaller businesses, with IT staff

averaging £34,317 a year in a small to medium-sized business and an average

annual salary of £54,502 in a large enterprise.

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Almost 40% of IT professionals say firms aren’t addressing diversity


Almost 40% of IT professionals say firms are not currently addressing any

diversity issues, Computer Weekly has found.

The 2018 annual Computer Weekly salary survey, which asked readers in the

UK and Ireland about their careers in the tech sector, found 37% of respondents

don’t know of any diversity topics currently being addressed in their

organisations.

Out of the diversity topics that are being addressed, talks around the gender

equality gap in firms was the most popular, followed by ethnicity and age.

Overall, 40% of companies believe they have plans in place to help improve the

balance of men and women in the IT remit.

Larger organisations are more likely to be addressing topics related to diversity,

with 47% of those in enterprises of more than 1,000 employees either agreeing

or strongly agreeing that they have plans in place to help improve the gender

balance in their organisations.


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Many industry experts believe that if the diversity gap in the technology industry

closes, the skills gap in the technology industry will start to close too.

Almost 60% of those who answered the survey think that recruiting more

women into the technology industry could help to close the long-standing IT

skills gap.

This is especially true of smaller businesses with fewer than 100 employees,

where 62% agree or strongly agree that more women in the industry would help

to close the skills gap, as do 77% of those in an executive vice-president, senior

vice-president, vice-president or associate vice-president role across all

business sizes.

Cyber security is an example of where experts think women are an “untapped

resource” and that encouraging more women into the specialism could work

towards closing the skills gap.

To begin closing the diversity gap in the technology industry, those at all levels

of organisations think that men, who are predominantly in higher-up positions in

organisations, should be doing their best to help and support women to enter

the industry and rise up the ranks.

Out of those asked as part of Computer Weekly’s survey, 57% agreed that men

should be more involved in trying to help women to into the technology industry,


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and not a single respondent in an executive vice-president, senior vice-

president, vice-president or associate vice-president role job role disagreed.

But a majority of people at all levels in organisations believe that women have

similar opportunities to men in their organisations, and 57% of women who were

asked as part of the survey agreed.

Almost 60% of respondents believe that men and women who have the same

level of qualification are paid equally.

But it has previously been found that in the UK technology industry women can

expect to earn an average of 9% less than their male counterparts. In Computer

Weekly’s 2017 salary survey, it was found that women in the technology

industry are paid less than their male counterparts, regardless of the role they

are in or how much experience they have.

A number of women said they wanted to move to a bigger company, while

others said they wanted to continue their current role but earn more money.

On average, Computer Weekly’s survey found IT teams are made up of 20%

women. Small businesses had the highest percentage overall, with 34% of

small businesses saying women make up 40% or more of their IT teams.

However, the number of women responding to Computer Weekly’s survey has

dropped for the third year in a row – from 18% in 2016, to 17% in 2017, to 14%

in 2018.


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Although many claim the number of women in the technology industry was

higher in the 1980s, the same cannot be said of recent years, and many

initiatives exist to encourage women of all ages into the technology industry to

address this decline.


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