Jobs of the Future in the UK

A growing share of UK adverts are for jobs that had no name ten years ago. BT hires a chief drone pilot for its fixed network, Skyports runs drone delivery hubs and Tekever builds uncrewed aircraft, while Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Open Cosmos recruit spacecraft and ground-segment engineers. Faculty and Google DeepMind employ AI safety researchers, banks and consumer brands appoint AI governance leads, and software companies from n8n to Seedtag build agentic AI platforms. Oxford Quantum Circuits, Riverlane, Phasecraft and Quantinuum hire for quantum computing, Wayve for robotics and self-driving, Tokamak Energy for fusion, and Genomics England, Oxford Nanopore and Illumina for genomics and bioinformatics. Aira, Hometree and Octopus Energy hire heat-pump installers and engineers, and recruiters fill solar, battery-storage and EV-charging roles across the country.

This page follows the role, not the employer: an advert joins when its own title names one of these jobs, from any company hiring in the UK. Engineering, AI and research roles usually ask for a degree in engineering, physics, computer science or the life sciences, and some defence and space roles need security clearance. The energy trades have routes of their own: heat-pump and solar installers typically need heating or electrical qualifications, grant-funded installations must be carried out by MCS-certified installers, and retrofit coordinators work to PAS 2035. Commercial drone pilots often hold the CAA's General VLOS Certificate. Check each advert for its qualifications, clearance and location.