New Tech United Kingdom January 2026
~1m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~350
Organizations
These insights represent ~1m questions answered from ~350 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Computer Software, Information Technology & Services, Internet, Computer & Network Security, Computer Games
Reported gender breakdown
Male
67%
Female
33%
Non-Binary
0.13%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
66% of New Tech United Kingdom employees are engaged
This is in the top 46% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 9 and is in the bottom 31% compared with the overall average.
How does New Tech United Kingdom compare?
People in New Tech United Kingdom were much more positive than average regarding Wellbeing Culture, Goal Alignment, and Overall Industries (Global) Wellbeing.
On the lower side, people in New Tech United Kingdom had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Transparency, and Social Connection.
People working in New Tech United Kingdom are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in New Tech United Kingdom are less engaged than Middle East > 5000, Financial Services Oceania, Finance Australia, and APAC 1000+.
The highest scoring question for New Tech United Kingdom had 91% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in New Tech United Kingdom were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I believe that my total compensation is fair, relative to similar roles at %[Company]%' with 26% of people disagreeing (+6% above average).
Which questions matter the most?
Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in New Tech United Kingdom organizations.
1 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
2 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
3 Generally, the right people are rewarded and recognized at %[Company]% | Feedback & Recognition |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 22% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 13% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+3% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
2%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
31%
4 to less than 6 years
14%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
13%