Edge Computing Jobs UK 2025: 50 Companies Hiring Now

1. Telecom & 5G Network Edge Operators (1–10)

1. BT Group / EE – London & Ipswich

   • Vacancy: MEC Platform Engineer – AWS Wavelength @ BT Edge

   • Why: BT’s network hosts three Wavelength Zones & a fast‑growing DevOps team.

2. Vodafone UK – Newbury & London

   • Vacancy: 5G Core Engineer – Distributed UPF

   • Why: Rolling out fully virtualised 5G core with AWS Wavelength & Azure MEC.

3. Virgin Media O2 – Reading

   • Vacancy: Edge Compute Architect – Private 5G for Industry 4.0

   • Why: Joint venture targets manufacturing & stadium edge solutions.

4. Three UK – Maidenhead

   • Vacancy: Network Software Engineer – O‑RAN RIC

   • Why: Deploying open RAN edge sites to cut latency for gaming & XR.

5. Boldyn Networks (ex‑BAI) – London & Manchester

   • Vacancy: Edge Infrastructure Engineer – Neutral‑Host 5G

   • Why: Building ultrafast 5G on the London Underground & UK motorways.

6. Cellnex UK – London & Leeds

   • Vacancy: Edge Data‑Centre Operations Manager

   • Why: 11,000 tower sites & a new micro‑data‑centre programme.

7. Freshwave – London

   • Vacancy: Private 5G Solutions Architect – Smart Campuses

   • Why: Delivers shared‑infrastructure edge for hospitals & universities.

8. Dense Air UK – London

   • Vacancy: Spectrum‑Sharing Engineer – Edge RAN Optimisation

   • Why: Neutral‑host small‑cell specialist in 12 UK cities.

9. BAE Systems Digital Intelligence – 5G Labs – Guildford

   • Vacancy: MEC Security Engineer – Classified 5G Edge

   • Why: Secures defence & critical‑infrastructure edge deployments.

10. Quickline Communications – Hull & Leeds

    • Vacancy: Rural Edge Network Engineer – Fixed‑Wireless & 5G

    • Why: Connecting underserved communities with micro‑edge POPs.

2. Cloud, CDN & Hyperscale Edge Platforms (11–20)

1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) – London, Manchester

   • Vacancy: Senior MEC Solutions Architect – Wavelength Zones

   • Why: Three UK regions live; hiring across telco‑edge & GenAI inferencing.

2. Microsoft Azure Edge Zones – Reading & London

   • Vacancy: Principal Edge Engineer – Azure Private MEC

   • Why: Fabric & hybrid K8s drive new low‑latency workloads.

3. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – London

   • Vacancy: Edge Specialist – Anthos @ the Edge

   • Why: Sovereign cloud & telecom partnerships need on‑prem K8s skills.

4. Cloudflare – London & Manchester

   • Vacancy: Distributed Systems Engineer – Workers AI

   • Why: 100+ UK edge PoPs, launching GPU inference at 25 ms round‑trip.

5. Fastly – London

   • Vacancy: Compute@Edge Developer Advocate

   • Why: WebAssembly serverless platform; remote‑friendly team.

6. Akamai – Cambridge & London

   • Vacancy: Edge Platform SRE – Segmented Caching

   • Why: New Linode‑powered cloud regions & edge containers.

7. NVIDIA – Cambridge

   • Vacancy: Edge AI Engineer – Jetson Orin & Metropolis

   • Why: ROI‑driven vision platforms for smart‑city & retail edge.

8. Dell Technologies APEX Edge – Bracknell

   • Vacancy: Edge Solutions Architect – VxRail & EKS‑Anywhere

   • Why: Everything‑as‑a‑service product line needs UK pre‑sales talent.

9. Lenovo ThinkEdge – Basingstoke

   • Vacancy: Hardware‑Firmware Engineer – ARM Edge Servers

   • Why: New manufacturing line for rugged AI edge nodes.

10. Red Hat OpenShift at Edge – Farnborough & remote

    • Vacancy: Edge Kubernetes Consultant – Distributed GitOps

    • Why: Working with telcos & defence on secure K8s at scale.

3. Industrial IoT & Smart‑Manufacturing Innovators (21–30)

1. Siemens Digital Industries – Manchester & Congleton

   • Vacancy: Edge IIoT Engineer – Industrial Edge & Mendix

   • Why: UK factories adopt plug‑and‑play edge apps for predictive maintenance.

2. Schneider Electric UK – Telford & London

   • Vacancy: EcoStruxure Edge Developer – Modbus TCP & MQTT

   • Why: Energy‑optimisation edge platforms for data centres & EV chargers.

3. Rolls‑Royce – Derby

   • Vacancy: Digital Twin Data Engineer – On‑Engine Edge Sensing

   • Why: Trent XWB sensors stream to embedded edge nodes for real‑time health.

4. Dyson – Hullavington

   • Vacancy: Robotics Edge‑AI Engineer – SLAM & TensorRT

   • Why: Home robots rely on on‑board inference under 10 W power draw.

5. Ocado Technology – Hatfield & London

   • Vacancy: Warehouse Edge Computing Engineer – ROS2 & 5G

   • Why: 600 bots per CFC, micro‑data centre in every site.

6. Jaguar Land Rover – Gaydon

   • Vacancy: Edge Analytics Engineer – Vehicle‑to‑Cloud Telemetry

   • Why: New EVA R‑8 platform pushes microservices to in‑car edge.

7. BAE Systems Maritime – Portsmouth

   • Vacancy: Shipboard Edge‑AI Engineer – SONAR & Radar Fusion

   • Why: Vessels get NVIDIA‑based edge racks for autonomy‑ready ops.

8. Hitachi Rail – Newton Aycliffe

   • Vacancy: Train IoT Data Engineer – Edge Kafka & 4G/5G Handover

   • Why: Real‑time diagnostics across UK fleet.

9. JCB Smart Machines – Rocester

   • Vacancy: Embedded Edge Architect – CANbus to AWS IoT Greengrass

   • Why: Heavy‑equipment autonomy & remote‑ops pilot sites.

10. Unilever Port Sunlight Factory – Wirral

    • Vacancy: Smart‑Factory Edge Leader – OPC‑UA & Azure IoT Edge

    • Why: £50 m digital‑twin programme boosts OEE & sustainability.

4. Edge‑AI, Robotics & Autonomous Systems (31–40)

1. Wayve – London

   • Vacancy: Edge Inference Engineer – Low‑FP16 Vision Models

   • Why: End‑to‑end driving brain runs entirely on‑vehicle GPUs.

2. Oxa (Oxbotica) – Oxford

   • Vacancy: Perception Edge Engineer – Sensor Fusion @ 10 Hz

   • Why: Industrial autonomy for ports & mines; ruggedised compute.

3. Five AI (Bosch) – Cambridge

   • Vacancy: AV Toolchain Engineer – Edge Dataset SDK

   • Why: Integrating UK perception stack into Bosch’s global AV platform.

4. Starship Technologies – Milton Keynes

   • Vacancy: Robotics Edge Ops Engineer – Fleet OTA

   • Why: 2 000 delivery robots across 80 UK campuses & estates.

5. Blue Prism RPA – Warrington & remote

   • Vacancy: Intelligent Edge‑Automation Architect

   • Why: Containerised digital workers deploy on 5G MEC for latency‑sensitive tasks.

6. Graphcore – Bristol

   • Vacancy: Edge POP‑L Kernels Engineer – IPU Gateway

   • Why: Bringing Poplar SDK to low‑power inference chips.

7. Imagination Technologies – Kings Langley

   • Vacancy: GPU Compute Architect – Automotive Edge

   • Why: Designing next‑gen ray‑tracing cores for cockpit AI.

8. Arm – Cambridge

   • Vacancy: Staff Software Engineer – Linux Edge SDK

   • Why: 250 billion Arm cores shipped; new Neoverse edge roadmap.

9. StreetDrone – Oxford

   • Vacancy: Edge Network Engineer – 5G C‑V2X

   • Why: Autonomous yard trucks & tele‑ops rely on deterministic MEC links.

10. Arrival Elements Studio – Banbury

    • Vacancy: Edge Vision Engineer – On‑Van Quality Inspection

    • Why: Modular factories need in‑situ AI to spot build defects in seconds.

5. Public Sector, Smart‑City & Research Testbeds (41–50)

1. Digital Catapult – SONIC Labs – London & Brighton

   • Vacancy: MEC Integration Engineer – Open RAN Testbed

   • Why: National lab for 5G/6G & edge app trials.

2. Met Office Informatics Lab – Exeter

   • Vacancy: Climate Edge Engineer – On‑Prem HPC to Edge GPU Streaming

   • Why: Extreme‑weather models pushed to edge for aviation & rail alerts.

3. University of Surrey – 5G/6GIC – Guildford

   • Vacancy: Research Fellow – Open Slice & MEC Orchestration

   • Why: Europe’s largest academic 5G/6G R&D hub.

4. Transport for London (TfL) – Surface AI – London

   • Vacancy: Edge Analytics Engineer – Real‑Time Traffic CAMs

   • Why: 20 000 CCTV feeds stream to NVIDIA Jetson clusters roadside.

5. West Midlands 5G – Birmingham & Coventry

   • Vacancy: Smart‑City Edge Developer – Road Sensor Fusion

   • Why: £150 m DCMS‑funded urban‑mobility testbeds.

6. DSTL (Defence Science & Tech Lab) – Salisbury

   • Vacancy: Secure Edge Compute Scientist – Swarm Autonomy

   • Why: Research on trustable AI at the tactical edge.

7. NHS England – Edge Diagnostics – Leeds

   • Vacancy: Imaging AI Edge Architect – Federated PACS Nodes

   • Why: Latency goals for stroke CT triage under 60 s.

8. Orkney Smart Energy Islands – Kirkwall

   • Vacancy: Edge Microgrid Engineer – Kubernetes & LoRaWAN

   • Why: Renewable‑island project balancing wind, tides & EV chargers.

9. City of Manchester – Smart Light Grid – Manchester

   • Vacancy: IoT Edge Developer – Street Lighting Sensors

   • Why: 56 000 lamp‑posts become energy & traffic nodes.

10. UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) – Culham

    • Vacancy: Edge Data Scientist – Fusion Reactor IIoT

    • Why: MAST‑U device streams terabytes/sec to local GPU clusters.

Hiring trends we’re seeing for 2025

• Private 5G + MEC equals jobs. Over half of ads cite AWS Wavelength, Azure MEC or private‑5G kit (Airspan, Athonet).

• GPU at the edge booms. Jetson, IGX & Intel Flex skills now appear in 40 % of roles—especially in vision & GenAI inference.

• Edge‑to‑cloud DevSecOps emerges. GitOps, SBOM scanning & zero‑trust service mesh are common requirements.

• IIoT protocols matter. MQTT, OPC‑UA & Modbus expertise command 15 % salary premiums in manufacturing roles.

• Hybrid beats remote, but labs stay flexible. Telco & factory posts need on‑site work; edge‑platform software roles remain remote‑friendly.

How to maximise your applications

1. Tailor your CV – highlight container orchestration (K3s/OpenShift), 5G core or O‑RAN experience & low‑latency optimisation wins.

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4. Network smartly – attend events like 5G World, Edge Computing Expo Europe, Open UK Edge Day & the O‑RAN Plugfest; many employers above sponsor & interview on‑site.

5. Upskill continuously – master eBPF observability, real‑time Rust, 3GPP Rel‑18 MEC APIs & inference quantisation to stay in demand.

About this Hotlist

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