{"id":87,"date":"2026-09-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/the-2026-salary-guide-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:55:18","slug":"the-2026-salary-guide-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/the-2026-salary-guide-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology salaries in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What moved this year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pay for senior engineers has levelled off, but the gap between a well-run hiring process and a slow one is wider than ever. Offers that take longer than three weeks are losing people to quicker rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current salary bands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior backend engineers in Leeds are landing between \u00a368,000 and \u00a382,000. In London, add roughly 15 per cent. Fully remote jobs now pay close to London rates, which has changed how Yorkshire firms compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What this means for you<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publish the band. Every job we advertise with a salary draws more applicants and fewer drop-outs at offer stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What engineers, data specialists and engineering managers are really earning in Leeds, London and remote jobs this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-employers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/aireby-recruitment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}