BT Group

Hiring quality verdict.

BT is running the UK's largest simultaneous workforce reduction and AI build-out: 55,000 roles eliminated by 2030, 1,200 AI engineers added across Ipswich, Bristol, Belfast, and Birmingham — outside the King's Cross corridor that accounts for most UK AI hiring coverage. The Adastral Park campus in Ipswich houses approximately 85–110 ML engineers working on network intelligence systems for the Openreach fibre network, which passes 32 million UK premises; the Bristol Aztec West site carries 65–80 engineers building the production LLM stack for BT Consumer and EE. UK-market total compensation for AI engineers at BT runs £75K–£125K — below London AI lab rates but structured with defined career bands.