Hire quantum computing specialists in the UK
Quantum Computing Jobs is the UK board for a small and specific pool: quantum algorithm and software people, hardware and cryogenics engineers, error-correction and control researchers. Advertise a role to them directly and pay a fixed price once.
- What it costs
- From £99 for a 30-day listing. Pay once — no subscription, no recruiter fee, no percentage of salary.
- How fast it goes live
- One working day. A person reads every advert before it publishes, usually within a couple of hours.
- Who reads it
- Physicists and engineers who work on qubits, control electronics, compilers and algorithms — most with a doctorate, many moving between academia and the handful of UK companies building hardware. They read this board because there is nowhere else the whole field is listed.
- What it is not
- A CV database you rent, or an agency taking a fee on the hire. You post the role; candidates come to you.
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Write the advert from scratchNot hiring yet? Start with how to hire quantum engineers in the UK — what the roles are, what they pay, and how to write an advert that gets answered.
There are three ways to fill a Quantum role. We are honest about being one of them.
Quantum is a market measured in hundreds of people nationally, and most of them can be named. That changes which route makes sense. Here is the short version, including where a board is the wrong tool.
A specialist board
You are hereFixed, from £99 per role
You know roughly who you want, the salary is competitive, and you want the applications to land in your own inbox or ATS.
You need someone headhunted out of a named competitor, or the role is confidential.
A generalist platform
Per-click or per-slot, unbounded
Volume roles where reach matters more than fit, and hiring for functions outside engineering at the same time.
Almost everything. The audience for a quantum role on a generalist site is the same few hundred people, diluted by every applicant who has read a popular-science book about it.
A recruitment agency
Typically 15–25% of first-year salary
Named-target searches — a specific group leader, a specific superconducting or photonics background — where the person has to be approached rather than advertised to.
Roles you can attract directly. On a £90k salary the fee is most of a hiring budget.
Who actually reads this board
A small audience, and the right one. People arrive here because they work on quantum hardware, software or theory and want to know which of the UK's labs, spin-outs and national programmes is hiring this month — and whether the role is experimental, theoretical or engineering.
Who we have on the board
Each one opens the live roles for it on Quantum Computing Jobs.
Seniority mix of live roles
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Graduate and entry 7%
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Junior 2%
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Mid-level 19%
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Senior and staff 54%
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Lead and principal 11%
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Head of and director 7%
Where they are
Location pages carry the local salary picture and the companies hiring there.
How the live roles are worked
How the advert reaches them
- Search and Google Jobs
- Every listing is structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board, so it keeps working for the whole run.
- Saved alerts
- Candidates subscribe to a specialism, a salary floor and a location. Matching roles email out as they publish.
- The weekly digest
- One email, curated, read by people who are not actively applying yet — which is where most senior candidates sit.
- The rest of the network
- Add any of the other fifteen boards for +£75 each. Only worth it where the field genuinely overlaps.
Hiring now
Companies with at least one active listing on Quantum Computing Jobs.
What Quantum roles pay in the UK
Built from the salaries stated in live adverts on this board, not a survey — the range employers are advertising, and its midpoint.
Quantum pay is set by scarcity and by the academic-to-industry step: a postdoc considering a first industry job needs to see the number to know the move is real. Adverts that name the band draw applications from people currently in universities; adverts that hide it do not.
All UK Quantum salary benchmarks, coming soon
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Photonics Engineer
Photonics Engineer jobs on Quantum Computing Jobs
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£55k | £72k |
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Quantum Error Correction
Quantum Error Correction jobs on Quantum Computing Jobs
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£90k | £208k |
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Cryogenics Engineer
Cryogenics Engineer jobs on Quantum Computing Jobs
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Quantum Algorithm Engineer
Quantum Algorithm Engineer jobs on Quantum Computing Jobs
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Quantum Applications Engineer
Quantum Applications Engineer jobs on Quantum Computing Jobs
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Quantum Control Engineer
Quantum Control Engineer jobs on Quantum Computing Jobs
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Quantum Cryptography Engineer
Quantum Cryptography Engineer jobs on Quantum Computing Jobs
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Quantum Firmware Engineer
Quantum Firmware Engineer jobs on Quantum Computing Jobs
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From live adverts on this board · rows link to the role
Everything we know about hiring in quantum, written down
How to hire quantum engineers in the UK
The pool is small enough to know by name, and half of it is still in a university. What the roles actually are, who you are competing with, and the specification mistake that empties your shortlist before it starts.
Hiring quantum talent out of academia
Most of the people you want have never had an industry job, and are weighing your offer against a postdoc. What they are actually deciding between, and how to interview someone whose entire record is a thesis.
The other fifteen boards
Cloud, cyber, data engineering, biotech and the rest — where an adjacent board is worth adding and where it is not.
From £99 a role. Paid once.
Three tiers and three durations, priced up front. Extra boards are +£75 each and only worth adding where the field overlaps — we will tell you when it does not.
In every listing, including the cheapest one
- A person reviews the advert before it publishes
- Structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board
- Emailed to matching alert subscribers
- Applications to your inbox or straight into your ATS
- Live for 30 days, extendable
- No subscription and no auto-renewal
If it does not perform
Every listing carries an application benchmark set from the role itself — pay, contract type, working pattern. Come in under it and we extend the run and re-promote the role at no charge. It is in the terms, not a goodwill gesture.
Hiring several roles, or running an agency desk?
Bundles across roles and boards, and automatic ingestion from your ATS or a feed so nothing is re-keyed.
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