Technology Recruitment
Tech recruitment specialists, working with contract, interim and permanent IT professionals across the UK with office located in the main tech hubs: London, Manchester and Leeds.
Tech Recruitment Driving Growth
Creating and nurturing extensive networks with technology professionals across a wide variety of industries is what we do - day in day out. But how does this help you drive business growth, across your career or organisation?
Using our in-depth knowledge, drilling down into niche areas of technology, we provide quality recruitment services and expertise to all our partners - whether you're a candidate struggling to land an interview or a client looking.
Specialisms
We cover key specialisms within technology that help fuel transformation and growth within business.
Skills
Our specialist recruitment consultants work with key skills areas and niche tech communities, building their knowledge, network and experience to deliver excellent service to candidates and clients.
Tech Hiring with Lasting Impact
From our UK Technology Leadership team.
We present a shortlist of qualified candidates as quickly as 2 working days. Hiring a contractor is often faster than hiring a permanent employee, so the complete hiring process, from initial brief to offer acceptance, can take anywhere from 2 days to 4 weeks, depending on the complexity of the requirement. For more specific information visit our contract and permanent hiring solution pages.
Tech recruitment demands genuine technical fluency, not just familiarity with the right job titles. Understanding specific technologies, frameworks and development methodologies is how we tell a strong candidate from a well-written CV. Gravitas consultants stay active in tech communities across Manchester, Leeds, London and beyond, which is how we assess both technical requirements and cultural fit accurately, rather than just matching keywords. Our ‘specialist, not generalist’ recruitment approach means you work directly with knowledge expert in the area you are recruiting with in rather than a generalist consultant whose knowledge is spread overarching across multiple role and disciplines.
We use a multi-layered approach combining technical screening, portfolio review and practical assessments. All recruiters conduct initial evaluations, after which we can arrange technical tests or pair programming sessions based on your requirements.
As a specialist agency, Gravitas fills a higher proportion of hard-to-fill technology roles than generalist recruiters, largely through our deep networks and ability to nurture strong relationships with our candidate networks, resulting in exclusive representation of our specialist candidates. Keeping our candidate relationships at the forefront of our priorities enables you access to passive and exclusive candidates who aren't actively job hunting meaning you get access to a pool of people who aren’t even looking on job boards. The average time to place candidates in hard to fill roles is 30 days.
Our salary data is reviewed regularly and comprehensively updated quarterly to reflect market changes across the United Kingdom’s tech sectors. We pull together salaries from our database of 300K+ candidates and then compare them to our annual big tech surveys (our primary research industry temperature check) and secondary data research to ensure the information we are giving you is a true representation of salaries in our markets. This means you get real-time, market intelligence tailored to your exact requirements when you request our salary surveys.
Candidate Process expectations
From our UK Country Director, Jo Callaghan.
We provide comprehensive role vetting & interview preparation before and throughout all application and consultation processes. We cover:
- Company background & information
- Tech stack details & how your skills meet requirement
- Your lifestyle non-negotiables (onsite vs hybrid working, working patterns etc.)
- Interview format and expectations
- Technical assessment preparation
- Salary negotiation & expectation guidance
Alongside, this we coach our candidates on how best to showcase their skills & talk through their experience - giving our candidates the best possible chance at landing a role based on their skills & experience rather than how well they interview.
We’ll guide you through every stage of your search for a contract or permanent role and keep you informed throughout. The process varies slightly between contract and permanent roles but our general stages are:
Initial screening
- Technical skills analysis & requirements matching
- Cultural fit assessment (for permanent positions)
- Career aspirations alignment (for permanent positions)
- Growth and implementation speed (for contract roles)
- Lifestyle and location preferences consideration
Interview & assessment
- Technical screening
- Cultural fit interviews (for permanent positions)
- Deliverable agreements (for contract roles)
- Practical assessments
- Reference checking
Offer & onboarding
- Package negotiation (for permanent positions)
- Notice period and start date management
- Onboarding coordination
- Follow-up support
- Timesheet and extension management (for contract positions)
Our specialist consultants have niche technical knowledge which focuses on one specific area of their market. For you, this means you will be put forward to roles which only match your skillset, and we automatically rule out unsuitable for your profile, before digging into the specifics like culture & lifestyle fit. Our key tech specialisations are:
- Frontend Development (React, Angular, Vue.js)
- Backend Engineering (Java, Python, .NET)
- Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Data Engineering & Analytics
- DevOps & SRE
- Cyber Security
- AI/ML Development
- Mobile Development
We apply our specialist skill knowledge across all our industries. Our cross-sector experience means you aren’t restricted to one industry, if you have the relevant skills, we can help you land a job across any of our represented sectors, whether your tech specialist working in technology, banking of insurance companies, across public and private sector. Examples of our industries covered are:
- Healthcare Technology
- Financial Services
- Insurance Innovation
- Sustainable Technology
- E-commerce
- Digital Transformation
Adding Value through benchmarking
We offer free tailored benchmarking reports to support your hiring strategies and decision making.
Request Technology Benchmarking
Request our tech benchmarking report, with contract rates and permanent salaries across a variety of roles including C#, mobile, product, data & analytics, software engineering, delivery, javascript, full Stack, back-end and front-end.
