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I'm a web developer in the consulting business of a big international IT company. I'd like to be paid more, but if I'm honest with myself, my salary probably is
by J-dawg 11y ago
I'm a web developer in the consulting business of a big international IT company. I'd like to be paid more, but if I'm honest with myself, my salary probably isn't far from market rate.
However in terms of recognition of my skills I feel massively undervalued. The management are business consultants rather than technical people, and there's a pervasive culture that technical work is something to be outsourced/offshored and generally done by the lowest bidder. I was hired as a "Technical Consultant" and yet I've repeatedly had to fight to do technical roles.
I often think about leaving to get a pure web developer role, but I'm still at quite a junior level and junior dev salaries here in London are awful.
- johnward 11y agoI'm kind of in the same position. Consulting is pretty thankless. They just expect you to bill as much time as humanly possible (and sometimes more). You rarely get thanks but you are on the hook when things go wrong. I know my salary is below the average rate even within my own company.
- J-dawg 11y agoIt's good to know I'm not the only one here! Yep, pretty thankless sums it up. Plus having to go through a long appraisal process at the end of every year which is essentially a test of how good you are at networking and self-promotion, rather than what you've actually acheived. I keep thinking I'd be happier in either a startup or a corporate dev team, but I guess the grass is always greener on the other side
- thorin 11y agoIf you think developer salaries in London are bad relative to other careers you probably need to look around a little.
- haack 11y agoDoesn't it make more sense to compare it with other cities rather than other careers?