The Met Office has been named one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Tech by Great Place to Work for the fourth consecutive year.
The recognition celebrates the people who develop, operate and support the technology behind our weather and climate science and services. It also reflects feedback from colleagues about their experience of working in technology at the Met Office, including the value they place on purposeful work, professional development, inclusion and collaboration.
Technology supporting public safety
Technology is fundamental to the Met Office’s work and underpins all of our products and services. From supercomputing, cloud platforms and data to software engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning, our teams build and maintain capabilities that support public safety, resilience and informed decision-making.
One example is AI for Weather and Climate Prediction, which brings together scientific, technological, data and operational expertise. This work is exploring how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used alongside established physics-based forecasting models, helping to develop the next generation of weather and climate prediction.
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The Met Office’s new supercomputer came into operation in May 2025, following the largest transfer of locally held Met Office data to the cloud. Operational Suite 47 was the first major science upgrade delivered using the new system and provided the biggest forecasting improvement in more than three years. Development has continued through Parallel Suite 48, turning increased computing capability into operational benefits.
Learning from the wider technology community
Continued learning is essential in a field that changes as quickly as technology. Met Office colleagues contribute to, and learn from, conversations across the wider technology and research communities.
The AI 4 Everyone Seminar Series has brought together technologists, scientists, partners and speakers from organisations including the Alan Turing Institute, ECMWF, Google, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, alongside representatives from academia and the wider AI community.
Colleagues have also shared expertise through events including London Tech Week, AWS re:Invent, Met Office in the Cloud and Tech Show London, as well as within the Met Office itself. These opportunities enable the Met Office to contribute to external discussions, strengthen relationships across the sector and share valuable learning both within and beyond the organisation.
Developing AI responsibly
Innovation is not only about adopting new technology. It also means giving people the knowledge, guidance and confidence to use it responsibly.
AI 4 Everyone, taking place on 3 November this year, brings together learning, tools and communities to help colleagues understand where AI can add value. Its approach places data protection, intellectual property, public trust, human judgement and accountability at the centre of AI adoption.
AI 4 Dev provides more focused support for developers, test engineers, scientists and scientific software engineers. Through peer learning, advice and the evaluation of tools and platforms, the community is exploring how AI could support the software development lifecycle and create more capacity for strategically important work.
Better science and technology through inclusion
A strong technology sector needs a wide range of experiences and perspectives. The Met Office works to make careers in science, engineering and technology more visible and accessible, while encouraging different voices to participate in how new capabilities are designed and used.
Activities linked to International Women and Girls in Science Day, International Women’s Day, Ada Lovelace Day and International Women in Engineering Day provide opportunities to celebrate role models and discuss representation in technology. This includes contributing to wider conversations about the barriers affecting women’s participation and retention in emerging fields such as AI.
Turning complex data into useful services
The award-winning Met Office weather app demonstrates how technology, science and user-centred design can come together in a service used to support everyday decisions.
Its development drew on expertise across digital, product, design, software development, science, communications and partner teams. The result translates complex weather information into an accessible service designed to help people stay safe and thrive.
This latest recognition belongs to the colleagues behind these technologies and services. Their expertise, curiosity and collaboration help the Met Office continue to develop world-leading weather and climate capabilities.
For those interested in joining that work, the Met Office technology careers pages provide more information about roles across software, data, cloud services, networks, supercomputing, AI and machine learning. You can also hear directly from Met Office technology colleagues about their work and careers.
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