We listed 38 senior roles in Cardiff from 3 employers in October 2026. 37 of them stated a salary (97.4%). These are the 3 highest-paid of them.
How these 3 were chosen
The highest-paid permanent roles in the city that stated a salary clearing £100,000, on the day this was captured, with at most one role per employer. Not “the most interesting”, which is not a claim anyone could check. A role advertised at an hourly or daily rate is ranked on a full-time-year equivalent so it can be compared with a salary; the advertised figure is always the one shown, never the conversion. Roles with no stated pay cannot appear here at all, which is a limitation of the list rather than of the roles.
2 of these 3 advertise the identical figure, so they share a rank and are marked = rather than numbered. Most often that is the national consultant pay scale, which is one published number rather than an employer's offer — so the roles carrying it are not ranked against each other here, because nothing about their pay would order them.
This page records October 2026. 1 of these 3 roles has since come off the board — filled, expired or withdrawn — and is marked below. For what is open now, see the live board.
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#1 · Monzo
£170,000 to £225,000 a year
Engineering Director, EU
Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)
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=2 · Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
£114,099 to £166,585 a year
Consultant in Oral Medicine
Cardiff CF14 4XY
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=2 · Public Health Wales
£114,099 to £166,585 a year
Consultant Virologist/Consultant Virologist & Infectious Diseases
Cardiff CF14 4XW
No longer listed. We are not linking to it, because the advert has gone.
What changed since September 2026
The two lists were captured 17 days apart, so this is a comparison of two snapshots rather than of two whole months. Over that gap:
- · 2 of these 3 roles were not in the September 2026 list.
- · 1 of the 3 roles in that list is still advertised.
- · We listed 39 senior roles in Cardiff then, against 38 now.
A role leaving the list has not necessarily been filled — it may have expired or been withdrawn, and we cannot tell which. And a role being new to the list does not mean it is newly advertised: it may have been on the board in September 2026 and simply outranked by something that has since closed. What the turnover does show is that a ranking like this describes a week or two, not a season, which is why these pages are dated and kept rather than updated.
What the list does not show
Only 37 of 38 roles stated a salary, so this ranks a minority and says nothing about the rest. The pattern is the one we find everywhere: public-sector and clinical employers publish pay and most private ones do not, so a list ordered by advertised salary tends to fill up with healthcare wherever it is drawn.
All current roles · Roles that publish their pay · Where the £100,000 jobs are