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Everyone complains about the state of the tech market. Layoff trackers count more than 150,000 tech jobs cut in 2026 so far, Amazon alone cut around 16,000 corporate roles in January on top of 14,000 last October, and every week there is a new “AI is taking the jobs” headline.
What nobody mentions is the other side of the same story: how many high-paying jobs are open right now at companies that did not exist before 2020.
So I counted them on the Euro Top Tech board.
What I counted
The Euro Top Tech board tracks around 480 employers that pay well in Europe: big tech, trading firms, well-funded scale-ups, and remote-first companies that hire in Europe. For each posting we show a pay figure, either the range the employer states in the posting or our own estimate for that company, level and city.
For this count I took every posting on the board with a pay figure of EUR 100,000 or more, and kept only the employers founded in 2020 or later:
76 companies founded in 2020 or later
1,139 six-figure postings in Europe, 1,055 distinct roles once you fold the same role posted in two cities
340 of them were posted in the last 30 days
31 of the 76 companies were founded in 2023 or later, and they hold 40% of the roles
For scale: the whole board has 11,683 six-figure postings at 361 employers today, so companies younger than six years already make up one in ten of the six-figure roles we track. In 2020 that number was zero by definition.
The biggest ones
Helsing: 131 roles. Defence AI, founded 2021 in Munich. Most of the Munich total below is Helsing.
Anthropic: 81. Founded 2021, London is its European base, 42 of the 81 are there.
Harvey: 73. Legal AI, founded 2022, 30 roles in London.
Mistral AI: 65. Founded 2023 in Paris.
Humanoid: 53. A London robotics company founded in 2024. All 53 roles are in London.
Sierra: 47. Founded 2023, 36 roles in London.
Lovable: 39. Founded 2023 in Stockholm, and already hiring 22 roles in London.
Omnea: 31. Procurement software, founded 2022 in London.
Isomorphic Labs: 29. Drug discovery, London, founded 2021.
Rogo: 26. AI for investment banks, founded 2021 in New York, 24 roles in London.
Then Perplexity (25), Encord (24), Reflection AI (23), Fractile (21), bunch, Decagon and Wiz (19 each), Normal Computing and OLIX (17 each), Profound (16), Cognition (15), incident.io (14), and another 54 companies with fewer than 14 roles each.
Mistral AI, Sierra and Lovable were founded in 2023. Humanoid, OLIX, Reflection AI, Black Forest Labs and Profound in 2024. Peec AI, Duvo, Ineffable Intelligence and AMI Labs in 2025, and they already post six-figure roles in Europe.
London is back
This is the part that surprised me most.
Across the whole board, London has 39% of the six-figure roles. That is already a lot for one city, but it is the usual London: banks, trading firms, big tech offices.
At the companies founded since 2020, London has 53% of the roles. Take the remote ones out and look only at office and hybrid roles, and London has 61%.
London: 607 roles, 45 companies hiring
Remote across Europe: 141 roles (12%), 38 companies
Munich: 130 (11%), 5 companies, almost all Helsing
Paris: 67 (6%), 8 companies
Berlin: 65 (6%), 11 companies
Dublin: 31 (3%)
Stockholm: 23 (2%)
Amsterdam: 18 (2%)
Zurich: 13 (1%)
Not Paris, not Zurich, not Barcelona, not Berlin. One city is carrying Europe’s post-AI job market, and it is the one everyone had written off after Brexit.
Who is hiring in London? Of the 45 companies with London openings:
24 are American: 300 roles, 49% of the London total. Anthropic, Harvey, Sierra, Rogo, Perplexity, Reflection AI, Decagon, Normal Computing, Cognition, Fireworks AI, Writer, Lila Sciences, Serval and others. London is the landing strip for US AI companies coming to Europe.
14 are British: 239 roles, 39%. Humanoid, Omnea, Isomorphic Labs, Encord, Fractile, OLIX, incident.io, Solve Intelligence, Callosum, Apollo Research and others.
6 are from the rest of Europe: 63 roles, 10%. Lovable, Helsing, Mistral AI, bunch, Taktile and Almedia all have London openings.
So the London boom is half imported and half home-grown. The imported half matters: when a US company picks its first European office, it picks London, and it brings US-level pay bands with it (more on that below).
What the roles are
Not only engineers, and not juniors.
By role family, the 1,139 postings split like this: sales 154, software engineering 149, AI and ML 130, infrastructure and platform 63, marketing and growth 59, security 47, forward-deployed engineering 44, embedded and hardware 43, operations and strategy 38, engineering management 38, product management 36, and the rest spread over finance, legal, design, data and recruiting.
Two things stand out. Sales is the single biggest family, which is what you would expect from companies that raised a lot of money and now have to sell. And forward-deployed engineering, a role that barely existed as a category three years ago, has 44 six-figure openings at these companies alone.
By seniority: 532 mid-level, 287 senior, 192 staff, 74 principal. Entry-level: 5 postings, plus 40 labelled “entry to mid-level” and one internship. New companies hire people who have done the job before. If you are early in your career, the way in is still big tech or a scale-up first.
What they pay
314 of the 1,139 postings (28%) state a pay range in the posting itself. Converted to EUR, the midpoint of those ranges has a median of EUR 170,000, with the middle half between EUR 135,000 and EUR 219,000. In London alone the median posted midpoint is EUR 208,000 across 151 postings.
The top of the market is Anthropic’s London research roles, posted at GBP 260,000 to 630,000, and its staff infrastructure roles at GBP 325,000 to 390,000. At the other end, the six-figure cut-off catches an event marketer at Profound (GBP 60,000 to 75,000) and a business development rep at incident.io (GBP 65,000 to 70,000), which only count because the pound is strong against the euro.
For comparison, the engineers who reported their pay on our data page show a London median of EUR 140,000 pre-tax and EUR 85,000 after tax, across 55 reports. A posted midpoint of EUR 208,000 sits well above that. If you get an offer from one of these companies, check it against the community data before you answer.
What I take from this
The simplest reading of the AI revolution for a tech career in Europe:
Internet-era big tech companies do layoffs.
AI-era companies get born and hire, at six figures, mostly in London.
Three practical things follow.
If you are assessing a relocation for a high-paying tech career in Europe, put London back on the map. It was already the biggest market on the board. For the new wave of companies it is more than half the market.
Munich and Paris are the two credible alternatives, each for one reason. Munich because of Helsing and defence AI. Paris because of Mistral and the French AI scene. Berlin has more companies hiring (11) but fewer roles.
The way into these companies is the experienced hire route. Mid-level and above, with a track record. If you are there, these companies are hiring right now, and they post their pay ranges more often than the old guard: 28% of their postings state a range, against 15% across the whole board.
If you want to work through the list yourself, every company above is on the board. Members can filter by company, by city and by pay tier, and set an alert so the next Anthropic or Lovable role in London lands in your inbox: eurotoptech.com/jobs. The London page is here: eurotoptech.com/jobs/city/london.
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