Teachers and lecturers
Software & Development
The Eight Domains of Software Application Development Capability
Everything for teaching or advising on Software & Development careers in one place: the classroom pack, the career guide and, as employers add them, their articles, videos and resources. The career family has 8 areas of work.
Classroom pack
The Software & Development classroom pack is in development. A pack is published only once it has been built and its sources checked. Until then, the career guide is ready.
See which packs are openCareer guide
Every area of work, how people get in, pay and hiring, skills and where to find out more, built from the TechSkills Career Matrix with sources and dates shown.
From the industry
Resources and articles from employers working in Software & Development. Nothing is published until the TechSkills team has read it, and everything names the organisation that shared it.
Resources shared by employers
The first employer resources are on their way. If you work for an employer with a TechSkills portal account, you can share a resource from your portal and it will appear here once it has been reviewed.
Articles and stories
Policy & Research
What It Takes to Scale the Responsible Adoption of Agentic AI
Drawing on a four-part 2026 workshop series, techUK sets out what it actually takes to move agentic AI beyond pilots - covering technical readiness, organisational ownership, workforce AI literacy and governance - alongside what it wants from government.
People & Stories
Why the UK's Biggest Tech Firms Are Doing Work Experience Together
Cisco, Accenture, Adobe and IBM have pooled resources into a single two-day work experience programme for Year 12 students, on the basis that the UK tech sector's diversity problem is too big for any one company to fix alone.
Industry Insights
Event Round-Up: Future Careers in Emerging Tech
A round-up of techUK's Future Careers in Emerging Tech event, where panellists made the case that routes into AI, quantum, cybersecurity and semiconductors run through far more than traditional STEM degrees - and that soft skills matter just as much as technical ones.
People & Stories
Unlocking Potential: Creating New Pathways Into Tech Careers
North's Helen Sussex describes a pilot mentoring programme built specifically for career changers and ex-forces candidates, on the argument that on-the-job learning with real mentoring often builds stronger engineers than classroom training alone.
People & Stories
Rethinking Pathways Into Tech
UBDS Digital's Katja Fischer argues that the most common route into a tech career, a computer science degree, is no longer the only credible one, drawing on her own move from a Psychology and Business Management degree into a Business Analyst role.
Latest News
Software Engineering For Business Degree Student Work Shadows Telefonica CIO
Nineteen talented undergraduates earned the opportunity to work shadow a digital business leader at the South event for students, universities and employers organised by the Tech Partnership.
Over the coming months this is where employers will add their own articles, videos, lesson ideas and day-in-the-life stories for teachers. Nothing appears here until the TechSkills team has read it and published it, and every piece names the organisation that shared it.