When thinking about huge tech firms such as Google, Apple, or Facebook, you might think that most of their vacancies will be in the ever-competitive engineering and technology departments.
However, research from Glassdoor suggests that this is not the case – in fact, out of all the open positions at UK tech companies on Glassdoor today, just over half are non-tech roles (54% or approximately 12,200 open jobs). The remaining 46% are tech roles, or almost 10,400 open jobs.
Many non-tech roles were focused on continuing growth – such as recruiters and marketing managers.
Most Common Non-Tech Jobs Being Hired Today by UK Tech Companies
|
Non-Tech Job Title |
Open Jobs on Glassdoor at Tech Companies |
Percentage of Open Non-Tech Roles at Tech Companies |
|
Account Manager |
469 |
3.9% |
|
Operations Manager |
329 |
2.7% |
|
Project Manager |
317 |
2.6% |
|
Account Executive |
315 |
2.6% |
|
Marketing Manager |
276 |
2.3% |
|
Sales Executive |
219 |
1.8% |
|
Support Technician |
212 |
1.7% |
|
Business Development Manager |
199 |
1.6% |
|
Recruiter |
172 |
1.4% |
|
Security Officer |
171 |
1.4% |
Overall, Salesforce was hiring the highest percentage of non-tech roles compared to tech roles, with 83% of their open jobs being non-tech roles. SAP, Oracle and Amazon were also hiring predominately non-tech workers, with over half of the roles on Glassdoor being categorised as non-tech.
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On the opposite end of the spectrum, only 38% of Microsoft’s open roles were for more traditional non-tech jobs, with 62% being for tech jobs. The majority of job postings at Expedia, Apple, Facebook and Google were also for tech roles.
Among Google’s open roles, 48% were non-tech roles while 52% were tech roles. Similarly, Facebook had about 47% non-tech roles and Apple had 53% on-tech roles open out of their total openings.
“As the tech industry is maturing, more jobs are becoming available for non-tech workers, such as those in sales, marketing, operations and finance,” said a Glassdoor Spokesperson. “There is actually a plethora of non-tech job vacancies available, which means that anyone looking to work in tech can find jobs spread across many different titles.
“And with average salaries for non-tech jobs only slightly less than that for tech jobs, it goes to show that job seekers do not have to learn how to code or be a software engineer to be paid well and get the perks and prestige of working for a top tech company.”
