UK Treasury seeks CTO for 77,000-pound salary

HM Treasury has opened a search for a chief technology officer and set the top salary at 77,000 pounds a year, a figure that may limit the field for a senior role at the center of UK government technology.

The department will pay between 69,820 pounds and 77,000 pounds for the post, with work based in London, Darlington or Norwich. The civil service will add a pension contribution near 30%, which gives the package more weight than the salary alone.

The hire will support ministers, senior officials, analysts and several thousand staff who rely on secure digital services. HM Treasury also wants the CTO to advise officials across Whitehall, set technical standards, guide architecture and manage strategic suppliers.

The technology brief centers on Microsoft 365, Azure and related security and endpoint tools. HM Treasury describes a multi-supplier operating model, so the new CTO will need to manage contracts as much as code, platforms and architecture.

The role also includes AI. Senior public bodies now expect technology leaders to turn AI interest into controlled use, with clear ownership, procurement checks, security controls and records that auditors can inspect.

A larger systems decision sits nearby. HM Treasury must decide by December whether to move its finance and HR systems from Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to Workday or stay with Oracle and split from the government’s broader shared services plan.

That choice matters because HM Treasury helped approve the government’s 1.7 billion-pound shared services strategy. If officials keep Oracle while other departments align around a different path, the new CTO may inherit integration work, reporting differences and supplier tension from day one.

Compliance teams should read the job through three lenses: operational resilience, supplier control and data governance. The CTO will need evidence that systems stay available, users retain the right access and vendors meet the department’s security expectations.

Procurement teams should also watch the pay band. A senior private-sector CTO with cloud, AI, security and supplier skills can command far more than 77,000 pounds. HM Treasury will need to sell the public mission, pension and policy influence to candidates who could earn more elsewhere.

The practical timeline gives the successful hire little room for drift. HM Treasury needs leadership in place before officials settle the Oracle-Workday decision in December. The CTO will then need to turn that decision into architecture, migration planning, supplier terms and risk controls that hold up across government scrutiny.

The official department profile for HM Treasury sets out its role in public spending and economic policy. The government’s Civil Service Jobs portal carries public-sector vacancies, including senior digital and technology posts.