Technology careers

You design, build and maintain the systems software runs on — writing code, reviewing it, and increasingly supervising what AI writes. Degree optional, skills essential.

You turn raw data into decisions — SQL queries, dashboards, and the uncomfortable truth in the numbers. Business-facing, tool-heavy, and where AI hits hardest.

You build models and run experiments that turn data into predictions — part statistician, part engineer, part translator for people who just want an answer. Strong pay, high bar to entry.

You design how software feels to use — research, wireframes, prototypes, and the fight to ship them intact. Portfolio beats degree; taste under pressure is the job.

You decide what gets built and why — prioritising ruthlessly, aligning engineers/designers/stakeholders, owning the outcome. No code required; persuasion is the job.

You defend organisations against attackers — monitoring threats, triaging alerts, hunting for breaches. Certifications beat degrees; the work is genuinely adversarial.

You keep the organisation's technology running — fixing laptops, resetting accounts, escalating what you can't fix. The classic no-degree entry point into tech, and still the busiest.

You build and run the infrastructure everyone else's code lives on — pipelines, cloud platforms, and the 3am alert when it falls over. Rarely a first job, consistently among the best paid in tech.

You break software before users can — designing tests, finding the edge cases, and increasingly writing the automation that does it at scale. A genuinely accessible route into tech, but the manual-only version is shrinking.

You take models out of notebooks and make them run in production — training pipelines, deployment, monitoring, and lately the plumbing behind LLM features. The hottest title in tech, and one of the hardest to enter cold.