{"id":87,"date":"2026-09-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/the-2026-salary-guide-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:41:38","slug":"the-2026-salary-guide-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/the-2026-salary-guide-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 salary guide: technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What changed this year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salaries for senior engineers have flattened, but the gap between a well-run hiring process and a slow one has never been wider. Offers that take more than three weeks are losing candidates to faster competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The bands we are seeing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior backend engineers in Manchester are landing between \u00a370,000 and \u00a385,000. In London, add around 12 percent. Fully remote roles now pay close to the London rate, which has changed how regional businesses compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to do with this<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publish the band. Every role we advertise with a salary attracts more applications and fewer withdrawals at offer stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What engineers, data people and engineering managers are actually being paid in Manchester, London and remote roles 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.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}