The gender pay gap in technology firms has narrowed to a new low in the past year, research by UKTN has found, as industry bosses continue to pursue policies to equalise gender pay despite growing opposition across the pond.
The gender pay gap in the UK technology sector stood at 17.5% in the year to March, the research found, based on an analysis of pay disclosures of 50 of the top technology firms with operations in the UK, who represent more than 100,000 staff in the sector.
The figure represents a fall of 0.2 percentage points compared to last year’s gender pay gap, and a contraction of around three percentage points compared to four years ago. That would suggest progress towards equal gender pay has slowed relative to the average 0.9% year-on-year improvement seen in previous years.
The gap also remains significantly wider than the average across the UK economy, which is thought to be around 10%.
Of the 50 technology firms analysed by UKTN, 29 produced a fall in their gender pay gap compared to 2021, while 21 were responsible for a rise or no overall change.
Among those with narrowing gender pay gaps, Revolut delivered the most consistent improvement, with the gap narrowing year-on-year from 31% in 2021 to 13% in 2025.
Pay figures from GoCardless showed the most marked improvement, from 36% in 2021 to 16% in 2025. The tech firm with the lowest pay gap was Gousto, which fell from 10% in 2021 to just 1% in 2025.
However, some firms have seen a marked deterioration in gender pay gap figures over the past four years. Food delivery app Just Eat saw a five-fold increase in its gender pay gap from 3% in 2021 to 15% in 2025, while Darktrace, one of the only tech firms to have women occupying both the CEO and CFO roles, also went into reverse gear, from 12% in 2021 to 15% in 2025.
The company with the worst gender pay gap was Bytes Technology, which saw a doubling in the gap year-on-year to 46%.
The figures come amid growing pressure on British tech firms to drop DEI policies amid a move away from them in the US under president Donald Trump.
Scores of major American firms, from Mastercard to Palantir, have dropped DEI disclosures or have watered down the language used around the policies.
However, some in the UK have argued that maintaining DEI policies among British firms could be a boon to attracting disaffected female talent across the pond, while other US firms such as IBM have publicly underscored their commitment to diversity in the UK.
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