For Candidates
Your next move,
handled with discretion.
The best roles in technology are filled quietly. Be one of the people we call first.
Most of the roles we fill are never advertised.
When a company needs a head of engineering, a security architect or a lead developer they can genuinely rely on, they rarely post it on a job board — they call us and ask who we know.
That's what being on SDL's books actually means. You're not an application in a stack; you're a person whose skills, ambitions and boundaries we understand — approached only when a role genuinely fits, and represented properly when it does. Many of the people in our network have made their last two or three career moves with us. Everything is handled in confidence, always: your CV goes nowhere without your say-so.
What you get
An agent, not an agency.
Unadvertised access
First look at roles that never reach the public market — from fast-growing SMEs to blue-chip technology teams, across permanent, contract and leadership.
Proper preparation
Real briefings before every interview: the team, the politics, the priorities, what good looks like to this hiring manager. Our candidates walk in knowing more than the other shortlists.
The long view
We'd rather tell you to stay put than push a wrong move. That honesty is why people come back to us for their next role — and the one after that.
Where we place
Specialist, senior,
and hard to replace.
Software engineering (C#, .NET, Java, Python, JavaScript) · Cyber security · Data, AI & analytics · Cloud, DevOps & infrastructure · Project, change & business analysis · IT leadership — from first lead role to CTO.
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Send us your CV —
in confidence.
One conversation about where you want to get to. Then we go quiet until there's a role that's actually worth your time.