Best companies to work for: Bain & Company tops Glassdoor rankings
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The UK’s 50 best places to work have been revealed… and most of them are in technology, finance or consultancy: check if your company is on the list
- There are some surprising names on the list of top 50 employers
- Employees ranked their employers against five targets for the Glassdoor list
- Technology companies and consultancies dominated the rankings
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The best places to work have been revealed – and there are some surprising names on a list dominated by technology companies and consultancies.
According to the latest Best Places to Work survey from Glassdoor, a workplace ranking company, consultants Bain & Company is the overall top place to work in the UK.
Bain & Company won after employees praised the company culture, work-life balance and learning opportunities.
A great work culture and a great team are two key components to a great workplace, according to Glassdoor’s findings
Employees said the company “really had some of the best people to work with, smart and empathetic in spades” and an “amazing culture.”
In second place is software vendor ServiceNow, who was the 2021 winner, and then another consulting firm – Boston Consulting Group.
But move further down the list and there are some household names, such as Google, Microsoft, Apple – and even Heathrow Airport.
A total of 21 technology companies made the Best Places to Work list, as did nine financial firms, seven consulting firms and four manufacturing employers.
The top 50 workplaces in 2023
- Bain & Company
- Serve now
- Boston Consulting Group
- Equinix
- Ocado technology
- MasterCard
- Arup
- Sales team
- Version 1
- Gentle cat
- Black rock
- Microsoft
- Adobe
- Novuna
- Imagination Technologies
- Johnson & Johnson
- JUICE
- Wise
- Invent Capgemini
- Bureau of National Statistics
- Cromwell tools
- Moth MacDonald
- SUS
- Cisco systems
- Dell Technologies
- Baringa Partners
- Schroeders
- Bloomberg L.P
- S&P Global
- Syngenta
- Deloitte
- VMware
- Awin
- Diageo
- Apple
- RBC
- Get married internationally
- canoes
- Dishoom
- Goldman Sachs
- Siemens
- NFU mutual
- Avanade
- McKinsey & Company
- Heathrow airport
- Expedia group
- computing center
- accent
- Proctor & Gamble
Glassdoor CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong said: “Last year brought extreme highs and lows for job seekers and employees, but despite an increasingly precarious job market, data from Glassdoor shows that there are still companies that are hyper-focused on creating excellent employee experiences.”
According to separate research from recruiter Hays, electrical engineers, sustainability managers and cybersecurity experts could pocket some of the largest pay packages if they decide to change jobs this year.
More than half of workers plan to look for a new job in 2023, it said, and with more than 1.1 million jobs unfilled in the UK, those looking for a new challenge are likely to find many opportunities to see.
Fields of skills shortages, such as engineering, construction and technology, along with energy and sustainability managers will continue to be in high demand in the coming months as the push for green jobs continues.
The highest salary increases went to salesforce solutions architects, who saw their average annual wages rise by almost 19 per cent to £107,000, along with systems design engineers and product managers, who saw their average wages rise by 18 per cent.
>> These are the jobs with the biggest pay rises in 2022
| Position | Industry | Salary (average 2022) | % salary increase since 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salesforce solution architect | Technology | £107,000 | 18.50% |
| 2 | Engineer system design | Engineering & manufacturing | £65,000 | 18.20% |
| 3 | Product manager | Technology | £71,091 | 16.50% |
| 4 | SAP basic advisor | Technology | £61,800 | 16.20% |
| 5 | Head of talent/resources | HR | £79,000 | 14.90% |
| 6 | Newly qualified lawyer | Legal (private practice) | £67,577 | 14.60% |
| 7 | Aerodynamics engineer | Engineering | £65,000 | 14.50% |
| 8 | Cyber security analyst | Technology | £56,136 | 14.10% |
| 9 | Engineer cyber security | Technology | £73,125 | 13.90% |
| 10 | Constructor/welder | Engineering and production | £32,250 | 13.70% |
| 11 | Clinical Research Associate (Senior Level) | Life Sciences | £54,000 | 13.70% |
| 12 | Data scientist | Life Sciences | £58,750 | 11.90% |
| 13 | Platform engineer | Technology | £60,455 | 11.80% |
| 14 | Marketing analyst / CRM analyst | Marketing | £38,909 | 11.50% |
| 15 | Diversity, equality and inclusion manager | HR | £55,833 | 11.30% |
| 16 | Machine learning administrator | Life Sciences | £81,000 | 11% |
| 17 | Data engineer | Technology | £57,364 | 11% |
| 18 | Engineer working | Engineering & manufacturing | £26,000 | 10.60% |
| 19 | Financial director | Accounting & Finance | £126,042 | 10.60% |
| 20 | Automation engineer | Engineering & manufacturing | £49,500 | 10.30% |
| Source: Hays, based on the analysis of more than 10,000 salaries, in addition to survey data from more than 13,500 employers and professionals. | ||||
How the ranking works
Glassdoor looks at anonymous feedback from employees who rate companies on its website and then finds out which companies are the most popular with the workforce.
The company assessing employees asks about some of the best reasons for working for their employer, any downsides, how satisfied they are with their jobs, and details about the work culture, among other things.
Companies must have at least 1,000 employees to be part of the Glassdoor rankings and must have at least 30 employee reviews.