Hire materials science researchers in the UK
Materials Science Jobs is the UK board for people who research, develop and scale advanced materials — polymers, composites, batteries, nanomaterials, metallurgy and coatings. Advertise a role to them directly and pay a fixed price once.
- What it costs
- From £99 for a 30-day listing. Pay once — no subscription, no recruiter fee, no percentage of salary.
- How fast it goes live
- One working day. A person reads every advert before it publishes, usually within a couple of hours.
- Who reads it
- Materials scientists and engineers from university spin-outs, battery and composites manufacturers, and the labs in between — many with a doctorate, most employed, and reading this board to see which companies are scaling a material rather than still characterising it.
- What it is not
- A CV database you rent, or an agency taking a fee on the hire. You post the role; candidates come to you.
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There are three ways to fill a Materials Science role. We are honest about being one of them.
Materials hiring is specific to a class of material and a stage of development, and a route that cannot say which returns people from the wrong field entirely. Here is the short version, including where a board is the wrong tool.
A specialist board
You are hereFixed, from £99 per role
You know roughly who you want, the salary is competitive, and you want the applications to land in your own inbox or ATS.
You need someone headhunted out of a named competitor, or the role is confidential.
A generalist platform
Per-click or per-slot, unbounded
Volume roles where reach matters more than fit, and hiring for functions outside engineering at the same time.
Anything lab- or plant-based. A generalist site cannot tell a battery electrochemist from a polymer chemist, and neither of them is browsing it for work.
A recruitment agency
Typically 15–25% of first-year salary
Heads of R&D and principal scientists, and any search for a specific material background where the handful of people who have it are approached rather than advertised to.
Roles you can attract directly. On a £90k salary the fee is most of a hiring budget.
Who actually reads this board
A small audience, and the right one. People arrive here because they work with materials for a living and want to see who is hiring in batteries, composites, coatings and characterisation this month — and whether the role is discovery, scale-up or production.
Who we have on the board
Each one opens the live roles for it on Materials Science Jobs.
Seniority mix of live roles
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Graduate and entry 7%
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Junior 2%
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Mid-level 27%
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Senior and staff 41%
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Lead and principal 17%
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Head of and director 5%
Where they are
Location pages carry the local salary picture and the companies hiring there.
How the live roles are worked
How the advert reaches them
- Search and Google Jobs
- Every listing is structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board, so it keeps working for the whole run.
- Saved alerts
- Candidates subscribe to a specialism, a salary floor and a location. Matching roles email out as they publish.
- The weekly digest
- One email, curated, read by people who are not actively applying yet — which is where most senior candidates sit.
- The rest of the network
- Add any of the other fifteen boards for +£75 each. Only worth it where the field genuinely overlaps.
Hiring now
Companies with at least one active listing on Materials Science Jobs.
What Materials Science roles pay in the UK
Built from the salaries stated in live adverts on this board, not a survey — the range employers are advertising, and its midpoint.
Materials pay follows the step from academia to industry and the stage of the company. A postdoc weighing a first industry role, or a scientist comparing a spin-out with a manufacturer, needs the number to make that call. Adverts that name the band and the stage get answered by people currently in universities and in plants alike.
All UK Materials Science salary benchmarks, coming soon
| Role | Midpoint | Top salary |
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Materials Engineer
Materials Engineer jobs on Materials Science Jobs
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£47k | £45k |
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Materials Scientist
Materials Scientist jobs on Materials Science Jobs
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£32k | £48k |
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Metallurgist
Metallurgist jobs on Materials Science Jobs
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£42k | £55k |
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Battery Materials Scientist
Battery Materials Scientist jobs on Materials Science Jobs
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Biomaterials Scientist
Biomaterials Scientist jobs on Materials Science Jobs
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Ceramic Engineer
Ceramic Engineer jobs on Materials Science Jobs
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Composites Engineer
Composites Engineer jobs on Materials Science Jobs
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Corrosion Engineer
Corrosion Engineer jobs on Materials Science Jobs
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From live adverts on this board · rows link to the role
From £99 a role. Paid once.
Three tiers and three durations, priced up front. Extra boards are +£75 each and only worth adding where the field overlaps — we will tell you when it does not.
In every listing, including the cheapest one
- A person reviews the advert before it publishes
- Structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board
- Emailed to matching alert subscribers
- Applications to your inbox or straight into your ATS
- Live for 30 days, extendable
- No subscription and no auto-renewal
If it does not perform
Every listing carries an application benchmark set from the role itself — pay, contract type, working pattern. Come in under it and we extend the run and re-promote the role at no charge. It is in the terms, not a goodwill gesture.
Hiring several roles, or running an agency desk?
Bundles across roles and boards, and automatic ingestion from your ATS or a feed so nothing is re-keyed.
Works with your ATS
Send applications straight into it, or let us pull your open roles from it — and send candidates straight back.
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Workable
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BambooHR
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Rippling
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Workday
Not listed? We can usually build a connector in about a week — tell us about your ATS.
Put the role in front of people who make materials for a living.
Paste a link or write it here. Nothing is charged until you publish, and a person reads it before it goes live.