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October 28, 2025

UK government provokes outcry with £100k job ad error

The role is responsible for ‘making the UK the world’s leading digital government’

The UK government mistakenly posted a job ad for a new CTO this week, which said external applicants could earn around 40% less than their civil service counterparts. 

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Maya Dharampal-Hornby

Maya Dharampal-Hornby is Sifted's editorial assistant and producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .

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