About Other jobs
The “other” category on Geekery.io is a deliberate catch-all for the roles that surround software engineering — the technical-but-not-coding jobs that are critical to how UK tech companies ship product and grow. Of the 73 listings currently here, the largest clusters are: sales engineers / pre-sales (engineers who join sales calls and own the technical side of deals), technical product managers (PMs with engineering backgrounds who own roadmaps for technical products), engineering managers (people-managers who own team delivery and culture), solutions architects (engineers who design customer-facing solutions), and technical recruiters (recruiters with engineering knowledge who hire for tech teams).
These roles are a stepping stone out of pure coding for many engineers — and they’re often where the biggest salary jumps happen. A senior engineer moving into engineering management typically sees a 15–25% pay rise; moving into sales engineering can see even bigger uplifts because of the variable comp.
UK salaries: technical PM £10,000–£155,000, engineering manager £30,000–£90,000, expert-level / director £45,000–£70,000, sales engineer no data base + OTE, solutions architect £10,000–£155,000. The “other” median sits around £54,230 because of the mix of entry-level technical recruiter and junior solutions engineer roles, but the experienced median is much higher.
UK “other tech” hiring is heavily concentrated in London because most UK tech companies’ commercial and management functions are headquartered there. Manchester, Bristol, and Edinburgh have growing clusters. Roughly 50% of these roles offer full remote working within the UK, more than the broader tech market.
If you’re an engineer considering your next move beyond IC work, the “other” category is where you’ll find the right pivot. Engineering management is the most common path; product management is second; solutions architecture and sales engineering are third. Each requires a different blend of skills — and the listings below are filtered by recency.
