[shubb]

My experience of UK government and government contractor jobs is that they follow a recruitment standard where they are much more likely to check convictions. Many need some low level security clearance too which would be a problem.

On the other hand for more generic startup jobs in the UK, you might not even be asked about criminal history except "so what is this period on your CV", and they are much less likely to care as long as you tell a good story about why it won't happen again.

I'd lean towards smaller companies as far from government and finance as possible...